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DESTRUCTION To Enter Studio In January

Due to the fact that their current record label negotiations have taken longer than expected, German thrashers DESTRUCTION have postponed the projected release date of their new album to late summer 2005. "But the new label will be announced in the next weeks, latest at beginning of the next year,"...

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DESTRUCTION Hard At Work On New Material

Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION are currently working on the material for their next studio album, tentatively due in 2005. Following the completion of the album's touring cycle, the band plan on taking "a little creative break," according to a posting on the group's web site. "I mean, we could...

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DESTRUCTION: SCHMIER's Stage Jacket Stolen, Reward Offered

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer had his stage jacket stolen after the band's performance at the Metal Camp festival in Slovenia this past weekend. "This jacket is very valuable to Schmier and is a real personal loss to him," reads a posting on the group's web site. "If you can...

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DESTRUCTION Deny Having Cancelled U.K. Tour

German thrashers DESTRUCTION have issued a statement refuting reports that they have cancelled a planned U.K. tour in March. Says DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer: "This tour was never down on paper with us. It was the Metallysee Agency who offered us a U.K. tour but they have...

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DAVE GROHL Responds To ZAKK WYLDE's Threat

Former NIRVANA drummer/current FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl has responded to Zakk Wylde's infamous 2001 quote in which the OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist threatened to "kick [Grohl's] ass" because he wrote this cheese-dick song for OZZ that Zakk had to play on during the recording sessions for OSBOURNE...

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DESTRUCTION Speak Out Against 'Money-Hungry' European Record Stores

German thrashers DESTRUCTION are continuing to receive complains from fans who are being asked to pay double-CD prices for the special-edition "Metal Discharge" double-CD — an album originally intended by the band and their label (Nuclear Blast) to be sold for the price of a single-CD release. Comme...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman: 'I Love The American Way Of Life'

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer recently spoke to ElectricBasement.com about the negative feedback the band received over their decision to make available for download their version of THE EXPLOITED's "Fuck The U.S.A." at the height of America's war with Iraq (see previous cov...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman Slams European Record Stores For Ripping Off Fans

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer has issued a statement slamming record stores in Europe who have chosen to sell their recently released limited-edition double-CD version of their latest CD, "Metal Discharge", for a much higher price than originally intended. Says Schmier, "Thi...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER: 'War Was Never A Solution'

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer has issued a statement via the band's official web site in an attempt to clarify the group's reasons for posting their cover version of THE EXPLOITED's "Fuck The U.S.A." as a protest against the U.S.-led war on Iraq. "This war is touching all o...

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DESTRUCTION/KREATOR Russian Date Cancelled, SCHMIER Throws A Fit

DESTRUCTION and KREATOR's co-headlining show at Dynamo Sports Hall in Moscow, Russia on March 29 was cancelled by the Russian promoter because of problems with the venue. Commented DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer: "This is ridiculous. Our German agent, All Access, will work no...

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DESTRUCTION, ATROCITY, THEATRE OF TRAGEDY Members To Appear At Ludwigsburg Club

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, ATROCITY frontman Alex Krull and wife Liv Kristine (THEATRE OF TRAGEDY) will appear in person at Chartnight at Rockfabrik in Ludwigsburg, Germany on Thursday, Dec. 26. ...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman Defends KREATOR's MILLE Over BUSH Remarks, Explains Hand Injury

DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer has come to the defense of KREATOR mainman Mille Petrozza over the latter's remarks in a recent interview in which Mille publicly expressed his disapproval for the foreign policy of the Bush administration, going so far as to call Bush "an idiot...

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DESTRUCTION Cancel UK Tour

German thrashers DESTRUCTION have officially cancelled their participation in the "Hell Comes To The UK" tour with KREATOR due to a broken hand suffered by bassist/vocalist Schmier. The band hope to make up the dates in early 2003. "[The members of DESTRUCTION] feel terribly bad about the circumstan...

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DESTRUCTION On Verge Of Canceling UK Tour

DESTRUCTION's UK tour appears to be on the verge of cancellation after bassist/vocalist Schmier's hand injury — suffered a couple of weeks ago during the group's American trek — was deemed more serious than originally thought. "This situation really sucks!" Schmier wrote on the band's official web s...

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Kindless

If we were to label ETERNAL GRAY's Kindless the Master Of Puppets of modern-day death metal, you'd suspect we were talking from the wrong orifice. And whilst on the surface it may appear to be wildly off-the-mark comparing one of the most epic and invigorating thrash albums of the eighties with a de...