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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER: 'We're Able To Make A Living From What We Do, And How Many Bands Can Say That?'

Mark Kadzielawa of 69 Faces Of Rock recently conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. 69 Faces Of Rock: It's been almost two years since your last studio album, "Spiritual Genocide", came out. H...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Talks To Metal-Rules.com (Video)

On March 25, Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION in Austin, Texas. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was released on November 23, 2012 via Nucle...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Talks To MetalMasterKingdom.com (Video)

Alex Stojanovic of MetalMasterKingdom.com conducted an interview with bassist/vocalist Schmier of German thrashers DESTRUCTION on April 12 at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was rele...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Interviewed By CAPITAL CHAOS TV (Video)

Capital Chaos TV conducted an interview with DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Schmier on April 1 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, California. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was released on November 23, 2012 via Nuclear Blast Records. The...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Speaks To SPIRIT OF METAL (Video)

On March 29, The Age Of Metal conducted an interview with singer/bassist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION in Anaheim, California. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was released on November 23, 2012 via Nuclear Blast Recor...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Speaks To THE AGE OF METAL (Video)

On March 27, The Age Of Metal conducted an interview with singer/bassist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION in Phoenix, Arizona. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was released on November 23, 2012 via Nuclear Blast Records....

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Discusses His New Side Project Featuring ACCEPT Members (Audio)

On March 12, singer/bassist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION was interviewed by Nick Perkel (a.k.a. Japan Nick),a contributing writer for The Aquarian Weekly and host of "Japan Nick's Rock And Metal Pandemonium" on Montclair State University's WMSC 90.3 radio station. Asked about...

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DESTRUCTION's SCHMIER Says He Is Collaborating With ACCEPT Members On New Project

"Met Al Metal" — Israel's metal radio show hosted by brothers Lior and Niv Peleg — recently conducted an interview with DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Schmier. During the chat, which can be streamed using the audio player below, Schmier reveals that he is currently working on a new side project with m...

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DESTRUCTION To Play Special 'Best Of 30 Years' Show In Germany

German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION will celebrate "30 years of total destruction" with a special headlining show on November 15 at Helvete in Oberhausen, Germany. Support at the gig will come from Polish thrash outfit WAR-SAW and Swedish retro rockers YEAR OF THE GOAT. Commented DESTRUCTION vo...

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Swiss Thrashers POLTERGEIST Are Back

Cult Swiss thrashers POLTERGEIST are officially back! V.O. Pulver (guitar),André Grieder (vocals) and Marek Felis (bass) reunited at V.O.'s rehersal room in August 2013 to jam a few songs from the past. Sitting behind the drum kit at the session was Sven Vormann, who is no stranger to the thrash co...

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DESTRUCTION Joined By KRISIUN For Cover Of VENOM Classic (Video)

Brazilian death metallers KRISIUN joined German thrashers DESTRUCTION on stage on Sunday, September 22 at the Rock In Rio festival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil to perform a cover version of the VENOM classic "Black Metal". Video footage of the performance can be seen below. Said DESTRUCTION vocalist/ba...

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KREATOR, SODOM, DESTRUCTION, TANKARD: 'The Big Teutonic 4' Perform At Germany's BEASTIVAL

At the inaugural installment of the Beastival festival — which took place from May 30 to June 1 in Geiselwind, Germany — "The Big Teutonic 4", the legendary quartet of German thrash metal bands that shaped the European heavy metal scene like no other since the '80s and established "thrash made in Ge...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman Interviewed At Finland's STEELFEST OPEN AIR (Video)

Vocalist/bassist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer of veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION was interviewed by Kaaos TV at the Steelfest Open Air 2013, which was held May 24-25 in Hyvinkää, Finland. You can now watch the chat below. DESTRUCTION's 30th-anniversary album, "Spiritual Genocide", was released on...

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The Bloodshed Summoning

Because SACRED STEEL has been around so long and because they're fundamentally adept at thrash and power metal, they've been able to keep a steady course despite having one of the most bizarre and frequently off-putting vocalists the genre's ever seen. When Gerrit P. Mutz sticks to his harried death...

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DESTRUCTION Frontman: 'We Are Not Just Copying Our Own Work From The Past'

Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of GuitarWorld.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer of veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. GuitarWorld.com: Your new album, "Spiritual Genocide", came out in North America in Fe...