When first released in 1987 via Steamhammer, Destruction's third full-length album “Release from Agony” scored a 9 out of 10 in the German Rock Hard Magazine, where it was even called “the best Destruction-LP of all”. And yes, many people would agree that this album is the most ambitious and most controversial of the first studio albums, with a more technical and much darker approach. It went further down a path that Destruction had paved with “Mad Butcher”. Putting aside the protoblack brutality of the first effort, the band turned their eyes to the more technical and riff-oriented thrash and the result is a personal, passionate and twisted record that stands as a piller of Teutonic thrash!