The Destroyer is an album by electronic artist Alec Empire

Alec Empire

Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...

, his first on his own record label Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...

, released in 1996 in Europe and a revised version in 1998 in USA. Destroyer is also the name given to a series of EPs by Empire released two years before. Unlike his previous albums for Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...

, The Destroyer had a much heavier sound more akin to that of his band Atari Teenage Riot

Atari Teenage Riot

'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...

, and is considered as one of the earliest examples of a breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

 record.

1996 European CD pressing

1. (untitled) - 0:21
2. "We All Die!" - 7:07
3. "Suicide" - 4:54
4. "Bang Your Head!" - 5:37
5. "Don't Lie, White Girl!" - 4:35
6. "Fire Bombing" - 4:17
7. "I Just Wanna Destroy" - 4:51
8. "Bonus Beats" - 4:03
9. "Nobody Gets Out Alive!" - 5:34
10. "My Body Cannot Die" - 4:25
11. "The Peak" - 3:54
12. "Heartbeat That Isn't There" - 3:08
13. "I Don't Care What Happens" - 5:11
14. "My Face Would Crack" - 6:46
15. "Pleasure Is Our Business (Live!)" - 7:42
16. (untitled) - 0:07

1998 USA CD pressing

The 1998 pressing, released in USA, included tracks from previous releases.

1. "Hard Like It's a Pose" - 5:49 (previously released on Funk Riot Beat
   Funk Riot Beat
   -CD:#"Down With the Shit"#"Crystal"#"The New World Order"#"Hard Like It's a Pose"#"Beating Up the B's"#"Rip Your Brain Out"#"Moon Explosion"#"Don't Mess Up With Me"#"The Trace of Soul "#"The Trace of Soul "#"Slow Hinduism"#"Rippin Up"*...
   
   )
2. "What Are You Talking About" - 5:01 (previously released on No Safety Pin Sex E.P.
   No Safety Pin Sex E.P.
   -CD:#"You Lose Your Soul" - 0:29#"What Are You Talking About?" - 5:01#"Fuck It Up For Everybody!" - 3:58#"Deep And Black" - 2:27#"Don't Talk About The Shit Over The Phone" - 4:50#"She Is Not Finished Yet" - 2:39#"I Want Action" - 7:28...
   
   )
3. "Down With The Shit" - 4:51 (previously released on Funk Riot Beat)
4. "We All Die!" - 7:07
5. "Suicide" - 4:54
6. "Bang Your Head!" - 5:36
7. "Heartbeat That Isn't There" - 3:06
8. "Nobody Gets Out Alive!" - 5:33
9. "Fire Bombing" - 4:16
10. "The Peak" - 3:56
11. "Bonus Beats" - 4:03
12. "I Don't Care What Happens" - 5:11
13. "My Face Would Crack" - 6:47
14. "Pleasure Is Our Business (Live)" - 7:39

External links

• The Destroyer CD at Discogs
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• The Destroyer LP at Discogs
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• Official Digital Hardcore Recordings site