Customer Ratings & Reviews

This seems to be Destruction's most overlooked album. After some very influential albums in the mid 80's, this one must have just gotten lost in the shuffle, so to speak. This was also the last album with Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer on vocals before the millennium reunion. This is a very good album and can absolutely compete with their earlier accolades. Okay, after the intro "Beyond Eternity", you have the first highlight in the title track. This is a completely balanced song. The galloping, mosh inducing tempo and riffs mix perfectly with the catchy and more melodic refrain. Schmier is absolutely amazing here and throughout and is instantly recognizable. "Dissatisfied Existence" has some very technical riffs and tempo changes and continues the onslaught the last song started; a great, very melodic lead too. "Sign of Fear" is more mid-paced, with more odd, schizophrenic timings and some great oriental sounding acoustic solos that follow the melodic patterns. A very catchy song and Schmier's falsetto shrieks at the end just own. "Unconscious Ruins" is another great song, plenty of speed and heavy galloping riffs. The riffs they go through are just amazing with some awesome stops and breaks. It has a great break in it then a solo that is really technical without resorting to wankery. "Incriminated" is a mid-paced type song but the bass drum is restless and the way that it just stops and starts is really cool. The solos are great too and the backing parts are genius, also some nice lyrics. "Our Oppression" starts out kinda strange but the riffs that follow are some of the best on the whole album. The riffs after the first break are some of the greatest thrash riffs ever and there are so many tempo changes, this song has to be heard. "Survive to Die" is the closer and is probably the catchiest thing on here. It has such a great chorus and the riff between "Survive!" and "To DIE!” is sick. The ending is so funny too, you won't believe it when you here it. This is definitely a highlight of Destruction's career and I really don't know why it's so overlooked. Every thrash metal fan owes it to themselves to check this album out because it really doesn't get the praise it so deserves.

This is a masterpiece, if you like 80's thrash metal than you need to get this...Along with all their other 80's albums