Although need2destroy came together in southern Germany in 2012, their musical roots dig deep and each of the four members bring a wealth of experience to this project. That pedigree became immediately obvious upon hearing their debut EP Genoma and their first album Show which followed in 2019. It was a record that set the bar extremely high, but the band have risen to the challenge and outdone themselves with their sophomore outing, Anti. Featuring a dozen tracks that meld groove, alternative and modern metal, need2destroy are building themselves a bright future.

Attesting to a sense of purpose and urgency, need2destroy don’t have time to waste on fancy introductions or elongated preambles. Like a prizefighter emerging from a corner upon hearing the bell, need2destroy arrive with fists flying and move with a kind of savage grace. ‘Thermometer’ is the opening track and is one that’s hard to ignore; with wrecking ball force, the band swing from speaker to speaker and prove themselves an unstoppable unit. Aided by a full and expansive production that places the rhythm section (Wolle van Hogh, bass and Simon Koesling, drums) centre stage, the band really pack a punch and ensures that every beat lands like a blow to the solar plexus. Guitarist Milan Tajdic has a versatile approach and his shapeshifting style means that no two songs sound the same. However, it is vocalist Diego Carabajal, singing in Argentinian Castellan, who gives the band a unique edge, and when all these various elements congeal into a unified whole, the result is a sound bigger than their constituent parts, meaning that ‘Thermometer’ raises the temperature to boiling point. In fact, when these four musicians lock in together they create the feeling of something so huge and vast, it can’t even be comprehended; it’s the weight of an ocean bearing down upon a shipwreck, or an angry grey sky that’s about to unleash a ferocious storm. Yet, need2destroy are far from one dimensional and their modus operandi affords them a lot of freedom, so when they throw some thrash and funk into the melting pot that is ‘Psicótico’, it makes perfect sense. They also have a good sense of musical dynamics and the white space that is inserted into tracks such as ‘Voces Internas’ acts as a foil to make the heavy sections all the more…heavy. All of these dynamics come into play to make Anti an album that’s a constantly evolving beast, it doesn’t stay in one place for long and subsequently it never becomes staid.

An interlude might seem a strange way to conclude an album (usually we’d expect to find the buried somewhere in the middle), but here ‘Bass Interlude’ closes the album and suggests there’s much more to come from this crew, and personally, I can’t wait.

• Anti is released via Fastball Music on 21st November 2025.
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Track List:

1. Thermometer
2. Zombie
3. Welcome Motherfucker
4. Super Pxrnx
5. Psicótico
6. Preludio
7. Voces Internas
8. Horizonte Sistema
9. Esquizofrénico
10. El Fin
11. El Cielo
12. Bass Interlude