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Destruction - No Kings - No Masters (2024)
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- Title
- DESTRUCTION - No Kings - No Masters (Official Video) | Napalm Records
- Authors
- Napalm Records
- Duration
- 5:00
- Published
- Jun 6 2024
Been a long time since I've listened to much Destruction; used to be a mainstay for me 20 years ago and I do still like a lot of the stuff I listened to at that time.
This is consistent, but feels a bit boring to me and I think that might be down to the time it clocks. 5-minutes is hella long for a thrash song, this has three solos and doesn't really feel like it goes anywhere, they play pretty much the same riff for the entirety and then put three solos in in about a two minute time span.
Anyway, not trying to hate here! I notice that our Metal posts don't tend to get a lot of comments, so I just wanted to throw something down, even if it's not praise. Thanks for posting.
Yeah I need to remember to post and comment on music here more often, but I just don't often think about it.
I do think the main riff in this song goes pretty hard, but you're right that it starts to get a little repetitive, and the whole song just seems a little dated, which I guess is appropriate given how long these guys seem to have been around. I looked them up and they're been around longer than I've been alive, so good on them for still going this hard.
Yikes, making me feel ancient here!
Their older stuff is pretty damn good and still worth listening to. I got to see my favorite song of theirs live back in the early-2000's at a bar they were playing at. I'm going to indulge in a few memories from that particular show:
Standing about 2' from the band. It was a small bar and they were basically on a makeshift stage, so it just happened that you could stand so close you could smell their body odor; weird thing to say, but it was just so cool being this close to these legends. In Europe they play huge shows and festivals and then they come to the US and play in the smallest venues possible.
Pre-show, I'm standing, having a beer (I think Havok might have also been at that show. Kind of stopped following those guys, but that was before they had even released an album) and Schmier (singer/bassist) comes and stands next to me; the dude is just enormous. I'm not a small guy, I'm 6'2" and change and at the time probably around 200lbs and I felt dwarfed by him both in size and girth.
So I'm jamming out next to the stage as Destruction is playing when some dude bullies his way between me and the dude next to me. Fine, whatever, it's a show. Guy has the grossest white guy dreads I'd ever seen and starts headbanging along with the rest of the crowd. As I'm shouting and singing along, I manage to catch one of those gross dreads directly in my mouth. Still no way in hell I'm giving up my spot though...
That's a great story! The song you linked goes pretty hard, I definitely get why you'd be into them.
I am not super well versed in Destruction but their new album popped up and while listening to it I thought it was pretty solid and this was just the song with an official video.
I am listening to it a second time now and it still solid, not groundbreaking. Which ain't a bad description for the band perhaps. I can definitely see that in general many songs are maybe 30-40 second too long. But it seems like the band is just having fun now. The opening track simply named "Destruction" is a solid head banging fest of self celebratory metal.
Fair enough. They're a formative band for me, so I suppose I judge them a little harsher. It's not that this is bad, it's just that I've heard it before and better from them, so it leaves me somewhat unimpressed.