Soul Destruction open their debut album with a statement that will make all God fearing *cuks cover their ears, but the great thing about this first track is that the statement is followed by an explosion of sound that will penetrate through the puny hands of the subjected and break their chains... ok so all very melodramatic, suffice to say that Soul Destruction hammer home their message and they do it with some stupendous metal songs.

So lets start again, the first track explodes from your speakers like a 'Lewis Hamilton' with the pedal to the metal while the industrial rap metal beat blast out, a good track to introduce yourself with I thought I as I tuned into the lyrics. When I first listened to this album 'There's No Profit In Truth' I was impressed by the energy behind the songs, they really did have belief in what they were writing and performing . The first three songs hammered home the message of the three evils of today’s world, and ending with the repeating line chorus 'Materialistic, idealistic, materialistic, idealistic' on the third song.

The forth song 'This Disease' spewed forth modern truths to more of the stupendous industrial metal that the band had put together. The album has nine tracks and took a sharp turn in style with 'Internal Therapy' and came up trumps with another way of getting the message across, still ripping out tight industrial riffs the song incorporated the hard/ smooth quick/slow style and the contrasts worked really well, for an easier description perhaps I could say that the scizophenic style suited the band as Mark on vocals showed that he could actually sing and not just roar and bellow, still showing the bands hard/tight industrial metal sound the sixth track 'Modern day Freak show' carried some introspective lyrics, keeping this new found style the seventh song 'Educate' displayed the true schizophrenic side of the band and so far the album has kept me interested enough because I am still writing.

This album ‘There’s No profit In Truth’ is one to defiantly play loud, as loud as you dare and then tweak the knob a bit more, 'Dysfunctional Reality' the penultimate track on the album has a further change of feel with a blend of techno industrial dance beats that took me back to a cafe in Amsterdam in my dim but not to distant past while the final track 'The Sorrow' kept it real with Mark extending his singing voice while the band chewed its way through a heavy riff overlayed with layers of keyboards that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't, while the rounded schizo vocal strain worked well...

A more then decent debut album in a tough genre to shine, but very well written with the band showing a good grasp of their instruments and playing it tight and I see no reason why the band can't increase their fan base because they are certainly better then most and if they can continue to write quality lyrics and tunes like this they will surely grow.

Mark Susans - Vocals and Bass
Simon Gerring - Drums
David Hobbs - Guitars, Cello and B. Vocals


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