10 Awesome Thrash Metal Bands With One Terrible Album

The fact that the band themselves have disowned this 1998 tonal catastrophe should tell you a lot about what you're in for.

The final LP of Thomas Rosenmerkel's run as frontman and the 'Neo-Destruction' phase of the Teutonic cult heroes is a major low point. The ludicrous lyrics (something telegraphed by the oddball album title) are blessed by the merciful fact that the vocals are incomprehensible. It's an odd state of affairs where one major problem is actually a relief for listeners...

There's some interesting riffs and punchy beats here but, overall, many of the tracks sound like members of different bands, performing different songs, slapped together by an inebriated producer one night.

Considering the hectic thrills and spills of thrash classics like 'Eternal Devastation' and 'Release From Agony', the group's groove-inspired experiment here is almost unrecognisable. Ultimately, the biggest issue here lies in Rosenmerkel's just plain unpleasant approach to vocals. Screeching and squawking incoherently and out of tune to the instrumentals around him, he serves as an iceberg to the band's ship. Any wonder the rest of the line-up at the time cast him aside and disavowed his period on top.