Album
All Hell Breaks Loose
All Hell Breaks Loose is the sixth studio album by the German thrash metal band Destruction, released in April 2000 on Nuclear Blast. It also arrived with a cover of Metallica's "Whiplash", a fitting nod from a band rooted in the same fast, aggressive tradition.
The record marks a real turning point in the band's story. It was their first official album since Cracked Brain, and it brought Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer back on vocals and bass for the first time since Release from Agony in 1987. Destruction were also a three-piece again. If you know their 1980s records and lost track of them along the way, this is the one that picks the thread back up, and it opened the run of albums that followed, beginning with The Antichrist in 2001.
All Hell Breaks Loose: tracklist, credits and charts
12 tracks · 45:21Tracklist
- 1Intro0:43
- 2The Final CurtainSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann4:26
- 3Machinery of LiesSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann3:41
- 4Tears of BloodSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann4:03
- 5Devastation of Your SoulSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann4:09
- 6The Butcher Strikes BackSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann3:07
- 7World Domination of PainSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann4:05
- 8X-Treme MeasuresSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann4:53
- 9All Hell Breaks LooseSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann5:40
- 10Total Desaster 2000Schmier, Sifringer, Sandmann3:07
- 11Visual ProstitutionSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann3:50
- 12Kingdom of DamnationSchmier, Sifringer, Vormann3:37
- Produced by
- Destruction, Peter Tägtgren
- Recorded at
- The Abyss (Pärlby, Sweden)
- Recorded
- December 1999
- Engineered by
- Destruction, Peter Tägtgren
- Label
- Nuclear Blast
- Length
- 45:21
Line-up
- Schmier · bass guitar, lead vocals
- Mike Sifringer · guitar
- Sven Vormann · drums (drum set)
- Peter Tägtgren · electric guitar, vocals, guitar · guest
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| German Albums · 2000 | 67 |
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia 2000-04-25 vs 2000-09-21 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 21 September 2000 | ignored lone early release dated 2000-05-30 |
| Wikipedia infobox | 25 April 2000 | |
| Wikidata | 2000 | |
| US release | 30 May 2000 | earliest US date |
7 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361649418 | other |
| 2000 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361649425 | other |
| 2000 | DE | Nuclear Blast | 727361649494 | other |
| 30 May 2000 | US | Nuclear Blast America | original | |
| 21 September 2000 | JP | METAL FRONTIER | 4988003250751 | other |
| 31 August 2003 | US | — | other | |
| 13 July 2010 | PL | Metal Mind Productions | 5907785035966 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |