Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose (2000)^{Release ID: 3010}

Well, it looks like longtime thrash act turned groove act Destruction learned their lesson.  Two EP's and one album into the groove scene, and it was obvious to them that groove was just not what the classic Destruction fans wanted.  They needed to get back to the pure Teutonic thrash that made them one of the big three in that scene.  And this, the pure return to form named All Hell Breaks Loose was formed.  Of course, I never thought the early sounds of Destruction were that clever, and thus, this return to form is just about as good as what we got before.  In fact, it sounds so much the same that even the fans of this band's earlier works admit that, while the Destruction fanbase gave a big fat "thank you" to the group for doing so, it's not like this album was anything new either.  This is largely due to the fact that the group got the classic members back together.  It kind of reminds me of Metallica's shift from radio stuff back to thrash during the switch from alt-metal album St. Anger to Death Magnetic.  I mean, yeah it sounds cool enough.  In a way, the extra heaviness and better production values give it some form of an edge in this vein, but there's the originality department that needs to be considered.  So while this is a much more fun album that what we've been getting before, and further proof of their ability to produce and mix well enough for their raw power, it's also pretty obvious that the raw power takes the helm while thick writing still needs some work.  Thankfully, there are a COUPLE interesting tracks, like the more proggy World Domination of Pain, but that happens halfway through (again).  But in the second half, the five-minute tracks tend to get overlong (again).  So in other words, this is a Destruction album (again).  So I'll put this in the same league as the first two albums.

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