Metal Discharge

Metal Discharge
Studio album by Destruction
Released	September 22, 2003[1]
Studio	Little Creek Studio, Gelterkinden, Switzerland
Genre	Thrash metal
Length	39:12
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Destruction, V.O. Pulver
Destruction chronology
The Antichrist (2001) Metal Discharge (2003) Inventor of Evil (2005)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Exclaim!	not favorable[3]
Rock Hard	9.5/10[4]

Metal Discharge is the eighth full-length album by German thrash metal band Destruction, released in 2003.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Schirmer and Sifringer, except where noted. 

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Ravenous Beast"		3:09
2.	"Metal Discharge"		3:26
3.	"Rippin' the Flesh Apart"		5:01
4.	"Fear of the Moment"		3:34
5.	"Mortal Remains"		4:11
6.	"Desecrators of the New Age"		3:42
7.	"Historical Force Feed"		3:36
8.	"Savage Symphony of Terror"		3:51
9.	"Made to Be Broken"	Destruction	3:45
10.	"Vendetta"		4:51
Total length:			39:12

Bonus disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Killers" (Iron Maiden cover)
2.	"Whiplash" (Metallica cover)
3.	"U.S.A." ("Fuck the U.S.A.", The Exploited cover)
4.	"Bestial Invasion" (Demo version 1999)
5.	"The Butcher Strikes Back" (Demo version 1999)
6.	"Nailed to the Cross" (Demo 2001)
7.	"Metal Discharge" (Demo 2003)

Personnel

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.^[5]

Destruction

• Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer – bass, vocals
• Mike Sifringer – guitar
• Marc Reign – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• V.O. Pulver – guitar solo on "The Ravenous Beast"; backing vocals
• Andre Grieder – backing vocals
• Inga Pulver – backing vocals
• Franky Winkelmann – backing vocals
• "Tschibu" – backing vocals

Production

• V.O. Pulver – production, engineering, mixing, mastering
• Destruction – production
• Frank Winkelmann – engineering, mixing

References

1. Staff writer(s); no by-line. "Metal Discharge by DESTRUCTION - info and shop at Nuclear Blast - Nuclear Blast". www.nuclearblast.de. Nuclear Blast. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
2. Metal Discharge at AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
3. Ayers, Chris. "Destruction Metal Discharge". exclaim.ca. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
4. Pöpperl-Berenda, Robert. "RH #197". www.rockhard.de. Rock Hard. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
5. Metal Discharge (liner notes). Destruction. Nuclear Blast. 2003.

External links

• Metal Discharge at AllMusic
• Metal Discharge at Nuclear Blast