Them Not Me

There’s a reason if Destruction don’t consider this EP a part of their discography: it sucks. Without Schmier Destruction passed through a quite long period of crises that brought them to release weak efforts and Them Not Me is the maximum expression of this crappy moment. The only original member in the line up is the mythical guitarist Mike Sifringer that now plays horrible funky, nu- metal riffs…but let’s go in order in analysing this CD.

The production is good and pounding with his volumes and the guitars distortion is truly heavy with a lot of treble distortion on it. The same thing can be said for the drums, that are well recorded. The new singer is completely crap. This is the classic singer that doesn’t fit in thrash metal with that half groove tonality that follows directly the terrible songs in this EP. They are full of stopped chords parts, strange arpeggios on the electric guitars during the stop and groove riffs.

Sometimes it’s like listening to Korn on metal, especially during the first, boring “Scratch The Skin”. The following “Live To Start Again” is a bit more speed but not thrash at all! It’s terrible to hear how a thrash metal legend sounded bad during the period of crises. The vocals, anyway, are the thing that really gets on my nerves during the whole length. I don’t know why Mike continued with this shit under the moniker of Destruction…it would have been better to form a new band to play a different style, but probably our foxy German pal understood that the moniker attracted more people than an another by a new group. It’s a business matter. It’s all about the money and this makes me puke.

There’s nothing you can save here, apart from the good production. Here you can find the lowest Destruction’s point in their career. No up tempo, no thrash riffs, no bad ass vocals. Pure crap from a band that would have been again great in the near future, fortunately. Thrashers, avoid this complete waste of plastic.