The 1986 Listening Post - Destruction - Eternal Damnation

Destruction - Eternal Damnation

#288/1413

July 12 1986

Destruction

Eternal Damnation

Genre: Black Metal

4 out of 5

Highlights:

Curse of the Gods

This is a marked improvement over that last piece of throwaway trash. It shreds with vigor. Make no mistake, if this isn’t your cuppa it isn’t gonna change your mind. These “songs” are just excuses to shred as a unit and for the listener to…bang their head? I don’t know what a fan of this stuff does. Wait. I do. This is the music that a disaffected and angry teenage boy plays in his bedroom at volumes so loud that his parents want to kick the door in and break the record player. 

This is why headphones were invented. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/eternal-devastation/1238152406

The 1985 Listening Post - Destruction - Infernal Overkill

Destruction - Infernal Overkill

#172

May 25 1985

Destruction

Infernal Overkill

Genre: Thrash Metal

2 out of 5

Here’s what I’ve learned: There is a hardcore fanbase for this stuff that will swallow it up as long as its out there. How else can we explain that Destruction is releasing their 14th album THIS year?

There is nothing new here. Nothing exciting. Angry growly vocals over speed metal shredding. 

The shredding is sharp and intense enough to get through Parmigiano-Reggiano, though.

If that’s all you wanna hear, Destruction provides that in spades. If you like, I dunno, songs, you will not find much of that here.

For me the best example of all this is “Bestial Invasion”. Not a song. Lyrics that are worthless. Intense guitar mania. 

Next. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/infernal-overkill/1234092172