The bookclub that I'm in, In The Void, has been doing a quarterly theme this year. For the 3rd quarter, the challenge was to read a handful of books around the theme of Destruction. Occasionally I'll be excited enough over the books that I've selected to read for the prompt, throw them together in a photo and post it up on Instagram. This time around, I wanted to pair the books with some records from the band Destruction, for obvious reasons... but the only problem was, I didn't own any. Still, I was committed to the idea, so the only solution was to head to Discogs to buy some albums.
Picking up old records from Tim's collection this year has definitely brought my attention back to some 80's thrash and I've been listening to it a bit this year, so I didn't need much of a push to hunt down some Destruction vinyl. The band were big for me when it came to 80's thrash. They are still going strong, and even released a new album this year, but for me, it is obviously all about the classics. Their album, Release From Agony, was always a favorite for me back in the day. The songs are so great and abrasive, and the album cover art is iconic. I needed it.
I have a soft spot for 80's metal records on colored vinyl. It feels like the vast majority of metal albums were just on the standard black vinyl at the time, so when I see that a record had a colored vinyl pressing, I need to own it. Release From Agony on white vinyl looks so good.
Only one Destruction record wasn't going to cut it as I was shopping for records for my Instagram book post, and once I noticed that the Mad Butcher EP was on colored vinyl too, I obviously needed to get that too.
Man, it has been fun revisiting these records. There is something about finally buying the vinyl for those old 80's metal records that I only owned on CD as a kid... I get such a charge from it.
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