Album
Birth of Malice
Birth of Malice arrived in March 2025 as the sixteenth studio album from Destruction, the German thrash metal band. It follows Diabolical from 2022 and continues a run of records that also includes Born to Perish in 2019 and Under Attack in 2016.
For anyone tracing the band's story, it sits at the far end of a catalogue that began with Infernal Overkill in 1985. That debut was followed by Eternal Devastation in 1986 and Release From Agony in 1987. It is a record for thrash fans who want to hear how a band from that first wave sounds four decades on.
Birth of Malice: tracklist, credits and charts
12 tracks · 50:38Tracklist
- 1Birth of Malice1:00
- 2Destruction5:23
- 3Cyber Warfare4:24
- 4No Kings - No Masters4:11
- 5Scumbag Human Race4:17
- 6God of Gore4:11
- 7A.N.G.S.T.5:09
- 8Dealer of Death4:56
- 9Evil Never Sleeps4:28
- 10Chains of Sorrow4:12
- 11Greed5:00
- 12Fast as a SharkBaltes, Dirkschneider, Fischer, Hoffmann, Kaufmann3:28
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| German Albums · 2025 | 9 |
| Austrian Albums · 2025 | 12 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2025 | 18 |
| Swiss Albums · 2025 | 23 |
| UK Independent Albums · 2025 | 39 |
| Belgian Albums (Flanders) · 2025 | 144 |
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1987
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1989
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1989
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1995
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How we know the release date wikipedia 2025-03-07 vs 2025-03-05 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 5 March 2025 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 7 March 2025 | |
| Deezer | 7 March 2025 | |
| UK / Europe release | 7 March 2025 | earliest UK or European date |
3 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 March 2025 | JP | AVALON | 4527516024000 | original |
| 7 March 2025 | XW | Napalm Records | 810170320378 | other |
| 7 March 2025 | XE | Napalm Records | 810170320354 | other |
Cover art sources
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| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 1417×1417 | upscaled: minor: best source 1417x1417, upscaled to 1500 (x1.06) |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |