Placing “Bestial Invasion” and “Thrash Attack” in the middle stops this album from becoming a perpetual downhill jam. The track ordering – boy, that is one comfy cushion to lessen the blow with. These songs tend to run together – or they would if they all played one after the other. A riff can sweep you off your feet with virtuosic precision, but find itself getting knocked down itself by dragging or repeatedly using about the same technique it knocked you down with before. Others, sadly, never get that far off the ground. Some, like “Death Trap”, stop the fairly middling thrashing at just the right time to keep it from becoming completely monotonous as they bust out a quick breakdown before Mike shreds some mad solos like a crazy cunt. Granted, there’s a variable amount of bite to the songs. The problem is that they come across less crawling and more plodding. They do come across rather ambitiously with a slightly more progressive veneer – aiming more for growing melodicism with their crawling, technical riffing. Mike riffs like a man possessed and his solos soar like the eagle in The Rescuers Down Under, but that’s about where the positives begin and end. there’s a good reason that those three tracks are the ones best remembered from this album a good reason why it is that they’re the ones on Live Without Sense and not the rest. These tracks stand tall as some of the finest the subgenre has to offer and definitely helped Destruction become something of a household name, even if a relatively more underground one compared to their contemporaries.īut I have to be real with you guys. The instrumental “Thrash Attack” does particularly well to showcase Mike’s riffing prowess, building up from a crawling passage of riffs to a… well, thrash attack. That being said, the riffs themselves stay grounded in a more thrash-like setting. It’s these properties that really give the songs more lift than you’d expect, even 36 years removed from its release. Said riffing leans a little more towards 80s power/speed metal tropes like a quicker but still more overtly melodic structure and more soaring solos than your typical thrash riffs. The former two joints are veritable thrash classics with some genuinely face-melting riffing. What makes Infernal Overkill pop after all these years is the triple triad of “Invincible Force”, “Bestial Invasion” and “Thrash Attack”. Infernal Overkill is like this more technical take on it that half nails it and half… has an interesting approach that it doesn’t quite nail. I mean, their prior EP, Sentence of Death, certainly had a more Bay Area sound to it, albeit harder hitting and yet with a strangely trad/NWOBHM influence to it – it’s actually quite unmistakable how much it soared, with Schmier providing ample contrast via those pounding harsher vocals. Where Sodom started off as a Venom/Hellhammer-styled thrash band and Kreator wanted to push sonic boundaries, Destruction were more about these precision-strike riffs and warped takes on a more American sound. Tech thrash? Give me a break, this is nothing more than bargain bin material.Out of the Teutonic three, Destruction is definitely the odd duck. Metallica sold out? Well these guys sold out at the very beginning. The fact that some people praise this but hate Metallica goes to show their hypocrisy. Deathrow, Paradox, Mekong Delta, Sieges Even, Holy Moses, Exumer, and Darkness are way more interesting and engaging than this abortion of an album. I'm being serious when I say that this album is shit. To think that people prefer this over Metallica shocks me. This is nothing more than an abortion of black metal posing as thrash. This band is the most overrated in all of thrash. I could make better use out of 39 minutes by throwing rocks at a wall. If this is considered Germany's finest, then I'd rather listen to Lulu on repeat. This album would of been better off instrumental, the vocals are just giving me a major headache when Schmier is constantly shouting "BESTIAL INVASION"! Aside from the god awful lyrics, the music is tolerable. The only track that is somewhat decent is "Bestial Invasion". Watchtower and Toxik are technical, this just sounds like a messy mix of Venom and Slayer. Technical my ass! This is nowhere near technical, it is not even close. Some people claim this to be "technical". It sounds like a 6 year old having a temper tantrum. It is so boring and redundant that it makes me want to just stop listening within the first minute. "Invincible Force" is the most cliche song on this record. Is this the best lyrics they could come up with? Oh god. Where are the thought provoking lyrics about political issues/war/society? These lyrics sound as edgy as a 11 year old edgelord. The lyrics are so generic too, it puts me to sleep. We do we begin with this abortion? Well first thing I want to say is that the vocals from Schmier are extremely generic, he tries too hard.
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