Impulse to Destroy

by Blood

Impulse to Destroy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1989
  • Label: Wild Rags
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 34:09
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Ventilator, Taki, Eisen, Blood, Chicken

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pioneering the European deathgrind movement alongside bands like Terrorizer, this incredibly abrasive German outfit unleashed a terrifyingly raw debut album. 'Impulse to Destroy' operates at relentless, blast-beat driven speeds, featuring shockingly guttural vocals and sludgy, chaotic guitar production. It remains a brutally uncompromising and highly revered classic of the extreme underground tape-trading era.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, violence, political, fast, ferocious, noisy, distorted, relentless

Tracklist

  1. Intro (0:10)
  2. Wings Of Declaration (0:40)
  3. Foulmouthed Politicians (0:57)
  4. Dogmatize (2:29)
  5. Spasmo Paralytic Dreams (1:32)
  6. Linear Logical Intelligence (0:57)
  7. Why? (0:26)
  8. The Greed (2:15)
  9. Blood (1:06)
  10. Retrogression (1:13)
  11. Technical Abortion (2:06)
  12. Beyond Time And Space (2:31)
  13. Celtic Compost (0:15)
  14. Jesus Never Lived (2:22)
  15. Economic Cancer (0:57)
  16. Ventilator Integrator (1:25)
  17. A Big Cake (0:36)
  18. Tumor (4:02)
  19. Unsophisticated Sorehead (1:24)
  20. Compulsion (1:07)
  21. Bloody Season (0:48)
  22. Necromancer (1:41)
  23. Skate Is Great (0:33)
  24. No Regret (2:37)

Credits

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