Peer into the intense fury of three decades ago when Malevolent Creation unleashed their powerful fusion of speed metal and percussive death metal, The Ten Commandments (1991). Full of nice meaty riffs cleated to pounding double-bass drumming, this album explored the side of death metal that stayed closer to conventional metal.
Hammerheart Records announced the release of this album and on vinyl and a 2-CD edition which features the remastered album on the first disc, and demos and a live recording on the second.
Tracklist
Disc One
- Memorial Arrangements
- Premature Burial
- Remnants Of Withered Decay
- Multiple Stab Wounds
- Impaled Existence
- Thou Shall Kill!
- Sacrificial Annihilation
- Decadence Within
- Injected Sufferage
- Malevolent Creation
Disc Two
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Demo 1987
- Sacrificial Annihilation
- The Traitor Must Pay
- Confirmed Kill
- Injected Sufferage
- Epileptic Seizure
- Violent Offspring
- Remnants of Withered Decay
- Decadence Within
- Impaled Existence
- Malevolent Creation
- Remnants of Withered Decay
- Darkness Within (The Human Corporation)
- Epileptic Seizure
- Sacrificial Annihilation
- Scout Woman
- Violent Offspring
Demo 1989
Demo 1990
Official Live Tape 1989
You can score your copy from Hammerheart Malevolent Creation page.
Tags: death metal, hammerheart records, Malevolent Creation, Speed Metal
Great record! Glad to see it getting reissued!
A classic sitting back……….. REMASTERED!
This album goes well with English beer and Mexican schwag
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Good to see the vital works staying in print, and it’s great that people can get the second disc full of rarities.
they fucked up the Grotesque reissue, loud as shit, if u have no access to the master tapes just don’t do it.
Too many labels confuse “remaster” with “compression to make the lower end louder.”
What are some of the worst fuckups though? The abysmal Asgardsrei „remaster“, Under the Sign of Hell (a bad album made worse with the 2011 version), …
The Absurd “remaster” has to take the lead. What a travesty.
What is your opinion about the dynamic range reissues? Any significant improvement over the original sound?
they’re worth it when it comes to ’90 releases, loudness war fucked up things around that era.
Most are great. The Carnage one not so much though. The Blessed are the Sick FDR in particular standsout.
Carnage needs no remaster, really. They should just keep the original edition in print.
Blow Draum is the worst remaster hands down
No
I found the Molested remasters to be a bit noisy and peaky. Anyone else?
If I recall correctly, the Cartilage/Altar split reissued by Xtreem Music, had the same issues. And the Infester reissue a couple of years ago
they didnt do shit to infester except make all the tracks the same volume and erase the swaztika
The volume thing strikes me as a massive distraction. No one really cares if some tracks are softer; in fact, it makes sense that quieter tracks have less of a presence. It gives the album a dynamic. Turning it into identical cube-products is no good.
i mean yeah i’d take the original any day, i like that swazi too but at least they didnt really screw anything up for people who want a cd but dont have 100 bucks for it
At least they included the demo on a second disc
Sometimes, I kick myself for missing certain remasters, but then again, I may not be missing out at all.
I’m a real fan of the Blod Draum remix/remaster (it was a full remix, not just a remaster; Oystein went back to the original tapes when he did it). The guitars are much clearer in the new version than the original.
same
Wasn’t “Under the Sign of Hell” a complete re-recoding (C plus record imo btw)
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You‘re right, it was
Pretty much any remaster done between 1999 – 2015 is going to be terrible. The Septic Flesh remasters from 2013 are particularly repellent to me. Their first three albums are very pensive, nuanced, and relatively quiet for metal albums. But now they have the standard headache-inducing modern metal compression to make it sound good coming from your Scion’s stock speakers.
Fortunately it seems the loudness war is winding down. Earache’s FDR reissues were great (even if some didn’t even need it like Altars). Still, before buying a remaster (or even a “reissue” since they often fuck with the original recording without advertising it) it’s a good idea to check the loudness war database. (Google it, Stevens-san is not like links)
One great thing that Youtube has done for music is put an end to the loudness war. Youtube’s algorithms automatically turn down the volume of any video that has an average (note, average, not peak!) volume over a certain level, so if you’ve brickwalled a song and uploaded it to Youtube (which is how most people listen to and find music nowadays), it’s going to sound like absolute dogshit instead of sounding louder.
In a perfect world anyone fucking with the masters (or swazzztikas for that matter) will be put to death by anal penetration.
Well they didn’t remaster the thing, just reissued the worst possible shit-press by Century Media with new flamboyant art. Hard to believe this is the same label Sammath works with.
this album only has 3 good songs; premature burial, multiple stabwounds, and sacrificial annihilation.
Been a while now since last time I put this one in the CD-player, but as far as I remember I think it was quite good material all over. Better than their second effort and much better than their third (only have the 3 first CDs)
The second works in more interesting technical stuff but approaches randomness; I liked their 2000s albums because they were tightly composed, full death metal, and often had some highly idiosyncratic riffs leading to unpredictable but logical songs. Sadly, it seems this is another band who matured into full composition ability after they lost the fire and raggedness that makes for charismatic albums. Like actors, musicians are best when a mess, except at the highest level where absolute mental stillness and control is necessary.
Haven’t followed them since Stillborn, what later works do you recommend?
Envenomed is solid!
Touching on some things earlier, first off, that Molested album is essential but the original recording and remaster both sound like shit. Another good album that also sounds like shit is that Kvist album, you can tell they’re great but they just SOUND LIKE SHIT. Past that, total support for keeping the classics in circulation.