In a new interview with Metal Remains, bassist/vocalist Schmier of German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION spoke about the band’s touring plans in support of their upcoming 16th studio album, “Birth Of Malice”, due on March 7, 2025 via Napalm Records. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, we have a lot of plans. We have to see how we’re gonna put them. We wanted to go to America. Also, we wanna do a European tour. We have a lot of festivals coming up. The problem about going to the States right now is that the Trump administration makes everything — everything’s complicated for the immigrants and for the foreigners. We need visas and the visas are more expensive and we might not get the visas on time. So now we have to push back America a little bit and see what else we do first. Maybe we go to Asia first now in May.”
He continued: “So, yeah, we wanted to tour a lot with this album because I think it’s a very strong record. And we also have an anniversary this year, 40 years of [DESTRUCTION‘s debut album] ‘Infernal Overkill’, which also will be some shows, some festival shows this summer, where we’re gonna play exclusively with this material. We’ll be playing the album in its entirety. So it’s gonna be the first time we do this. Yeah, it’s gonna be cool. So we have a lot of stuff ahead. We also wanna go back to Australia. And so I think it’s gonna be basically two years for touring now for [the ‘Birth Of Malice’] album.”
Schmier is the sole remaining member of DESTRUCTION who played on “Infernal Overkill”. He was joined during the recordings by guitarist Mike Sifringer and drummer Tommy Sandmann.
DESTRUCTION 2025 is:
Schmier – Bass, Vocals
Martin Furia – Guitars
Randy Black – Drums
Damir Eskić – Guitars
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