Key facts
- Also known as
- Knight of Demon (1982–1984)
- Origin
- Weil am Rhein , Germany
- Genres
- Thrash metal black metal (early)
- Works
- Discography
- Years active
- 1982–present
- Labels
- Profile Steamhammer Nuclear Blast AFM Napalm
- Members
- Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer Randy Black Damir Eskic Martin Furia
- Past members
- Mike Sifringer Ulf Kühne Tommy Sandmann Harry Wilkens André Grieder Oliver Kaiser Thomas Rosenmerkel Christian Engler Michael Piranio Sven Vormann Marc Reign Wawrzyniec Dramowicz
- Website
- destruction .de
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Encyclopedic overview
Destruction is a German thrash metal band formed in 1982. They have been credited as one of the "Big Four" of the German thrash metal scene, alongside Kreator, Sodom and Tankard.
In addition to helping pioneer black metal, Destruction was part of the second wave of thrash metal in the mid-to-late-1980s, along with US bands Testament, Sacred Reich, Death Angel and Dark Angel. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic stated that the band "fell under the spell of the emergent New Wave of British Heavy Metal as classic metal met the D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, then evolved into thrash metal." Frontman Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer has expressed the personal opinion that metal music "should stay underground".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Destruction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.