Modern Invasion Music 1997
1.Genesis to Genocide
2.Australian and Anti-Christ
3.Satan's Hammer
4.Tyranny of the Inevitable
5.Six Curses from a Spiritual Wasteland
6.Rome Wasn't Destroyed in a Day/Unchain the Wolves
7.Damnation's Pride
8.Onward to Arktoga...
"The name Deströyer 666 isn't exactly brilliant, and I thought it would turn out to be some rather generic extremist black or death band, but it is anything but. The music of Destroyer 666 is a lupine chimera of the best elements of classic black, death, and thrash metal. It transcends metal genres and blends them all without hitting a lowest common denominator, and really embodies the spirit of metal.Unchain the Wolves leans a bit to the black side of metal, but isn't recognizable as such, or really anything else that has been defined so far. The production is quite raw and grim, but it doesn't obfuscate any of the elements and makes this album feel particularly savage. The vocals are raspy, and the guitar is reminiscient of early Bathory at times, but mostly goes in all kinds of new directions, blending thrashiness and melodicism, tying them together with wild, dissonant solos. The drumming is great, and the basswork is bruising.The songs don't fall into the hypnoticism of black metal, the chaos of death metal, or the relentlessness of thrash, but are laid out in a more epic manner. Nevertheless, they manage to have some excellent, classic anthemic moments as well. The lyrics are barbaric in sentiment, yet are intelligently and creatively written. They're blatantly offensive to all followers of slave morality, praising the avatar of Satan in tableaus of blasphemous evil and lashing out at both the church and modern politically correct egalitarian dogma, with lines proclaiming such things as "I'm not ashamed to be white!" There are too many quotable lines in the album, and I'm afraid if I listed one, which I'm tempted to, I'd have to list many more.This album is undoubtedly an overlooked legend. If you're a fanatic of thrash, black, or death, or just metal in general, you must get this, it is a necessity."
