Scuzz rockers' career retrospective
Pow! That's Killmusic 666.
Pow! That's Killmusic 666.Volume One: Revision
CD by Destructors666
POW! That’s Killmusic 666. Volume One: Revision is some title for an album.
But Destructors666 don’t believe in doing things by half. Over the last three years or so, the band have single-handedly filled a shelf on my CD cabinet with albums, the odd single and their series of split releases.
Recorded in late 2005, Plus Ca Change Pour La Meme Chose began the band’s legacy of strange titles and sharing their CD bed with fantastic bands, both local and national.
The first EP saw the band unite with Peterborough horror punks The Ruined – the only band to be honoured with two splits with Destructors666. Two of those tracks appear on this compilation release.
The split singles’ history is comprehensively documented in the CD booklet, as only the cover versions are left out.
There are a few new tracks thrown in to prove that the band are as prolific as ever, despite a lack of live shows.
In fact, one of these new tracks, Scuzz Rock Accelerator, is named after a review from yours truly of one of the band’s rare live outings – a gig supporting Stiff Little Fingers here in Peterborough.
If you want to go right back to the beginning you have to mention the original Destructors, Peterborough punk legends with whom Allen, Destructors666 vocalist and lyricist, played bass, and which also featured Gizz Butt on guitar.
The Destructors’ first single was released in 1982 at the height of the punk explosion, which proved that anyone really could be in a band.
A few years ago, the Captain Oi label put out a couple of Destructors albums on CD – Exercise The Demons Of Youth and Punk Singles Collection – to remind people how good they were.
Allen has re-recorded many of their songs with Destructors – some which are featured on the latest release – but has added the “666” to mark them out as a band in their own right.
During its lifetime, the band has also featured (all represented on this CD) Dave Colton, Steve Rolls, Ian Stapleton, Steve Crosby, Rob Baylis and Lee Reynolds.
They completed splits with the likes of Eastfield Dirty Love, Radicus and White Clouds And Gunfire, giving local bands a valuable opportunity to get their music recorded and giving Destructors666 a chance to share disc space with some of their favourite current bands.
Pow! isn’t a swansong, it doesn’t mean Destructors666 are going away, it’s a way of catching up with what they’ve done so far, and preparing yourself for the next chapter in their scuzz rock history.
by Paul Benton
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