The Ten Commandments

Artist: Malevolent Creation
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016861936129
EAN: 0016861936129
ASIN: B000000H81

Release Date: 1991-05-01

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Tracks:

Memorial Arrangements
Premature Burial
Remnants of Withered Decay
Multiple Stab Wounds
Impaled Existence
Thou Shall Kill!
Sacrificial Annihilation
Decadence Within
Injected Sufferage
Malevolent Creation

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Customer Reviews:

Underrated By The Death Metal Community, Overrated By Amazon Reviewers.......2006-07-14

Ok, so I only gave it four stars, but wait!!! Before all you death metal heads decide to impale me on an inverted cross, know that I believe The Ten Commandments is really good stuff and I totally recommend it to lovers of extreme metal. I just don't give out five stars as easily as many others do. Here's the deal: this album gets an A+ for production and an A+ for performance. My gripe? For an album released in 1991, it has just a bit too much of a "been there, done that" feel to it. Had I never heard albums such as Reign in Blood, Darkness Descends and Pleasure to Kill, I would probably consider this the holy grail of metal history. Alas, that is not the case. But again, don't get me wrong!!! This is a great album that deserves a place in every 'bangers collection. The speed is great, and that drummer is PHENOMENAL!!! Personal favorites: "Thou Shall Kill," "Sacrificial Annihilation" and "Malevolent Creation."

The "R" is right.......2006-04-12

To quote from him:

"Malevolent Creation are definitely one of the most underrated death metal bands in the history of the genre. I don't know what it is that causes some people to say negative things about this band. I think it could be one of a few things; people have not heard the correct "era" of the band (Brett Hoffman). People think they have heard them because of their somewhat generic sounding name, or people are generally cretins who think they know a whole hell of a lot more than they know. I feel it could be a well rounded mix of all of the previous three elements.

Don't think of me as biased in my opinion that Hoffman is the best of the three Malevolent singers. It's simply factually true. Symons is not even second as Blachowitz does a better job than the Hateplow vocalist. It is simply ridiculous when I hear a review of Warkult and how people like Symons generic growls more than the screams and groans that Hoffman emits on the 5 albums on which he appears.

More to the point, Hoffman kills it on the first two releases and has his moments on the third, not to mention, comes back to form on Envenomed and Fine Art. This album is definitely worth your first purchase, but Retribution gives it a run for it's money. The speed and death combo on this album is brutal and the playing is tight. The riffs played create a wall of sound that is thick, fast, and heavy, making for a cool twist on typical death metal.

Lyrically, Hoffman is awesome. I feel he has had some of the best lyrics in death metal. What is cool is that he incorporates sophisticated wordplay without getting too technical. I find the lyrics are very impersonal ala Slayer (another band who is lyrically unmatched). He has the ability to describe as a spectator what he is lyrically conveying. While he is not talking about anything you have not heard before, it is really cool that it is not a forum for the opinions of the band and rather a situation being unemotionally described by a nonplussed and unaffected bystander. I find that some statements are to be made with music, but often, death metal may not be the correct circuit on which the sentiment should travel. Hoffman is at his best when he groans for apparently no reason during a breakdown, or screams a hook at the top of his lungs. He sounds totally pissed!

It is a shame that Hoffman has had so much trouble with his drug and alcohol addictions in his life. They led to his being a shell of his former self and his eventual firing as Malevolent's lead singer. He does have a band currently called Down the Drain (possibly a reflection on his career?) which has a site and demos for sale online. But, while I have not heard it, I can bet it is not as Malevolent as his previous vocal exploits.

If finding the first two albums is too hard, pick up the Best of as it is very very good (the Roadrunner, not the other one). Oddly though, Deron Miller of the band CKY (who SUCKS!!!) does the liner notes for this as wells as other roadrunner "Vault Series" albums. He must have done research because it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone who listened to music as good as this (especially when it first came out) to play music as bad as they do. I just have to say it again C gay Y SUCK!!! It's a testament to the fact that if your brother gets on TV (he's on TV grabbing men's balls half naked during creepy homoerotic exploits no less. Man, you guys should have gotten that out of your system while you were on the high school football team!) your garbage band can get play for it. In the words of Curt Cobain "that makes me sad" (wait a second maybe it was Morrisey, or maybe it was Thom Yorke, or was it Keith Caputo? aw hell I don't know).

Anyway, this album is great, and you definitely should buy it."

You're 100% absolutely right about this album, this band, and its history. Brett Hoffman is the best vocalist of the 3 of this band and MC is an underrated but highly talented and superb Death Metal band. I hate it when critics cry hell upon Brett's voice and decide that either Blachowicz's or Symons' voice is better. Either they don't appreciate MC's earliest material or they're just idiots who like the monotone and unimpressive low death grunts that is albeit still predominantly used by most Death Metal bands and the Death Metal bands as of today (yes, that means you Deathz head). Any Metalhead who doesn't like Brett Hoffman's voice is not a true fan of Malevolent Creation.

AWESOME-GREAT SPEED DEATH MIX - HARD TO FIND BUT WORTH THE SEARCH.......2006-01-13

Malevolent Creation are definitely one of the most underrated death metal bands in the history of the genre. I don't know what it is that causes some people to say negative things about this band. I think it could be one of a few things; people have not heard the correct "era" of the band (Brett Hoffman). People think they have heard them because of their somewhat generic sounding name, or people are generally cretins who think they know a whole hell of a lot more than they know. I feel it could be a well rounded mix of all of the previous three elements.

Don't think of me as biased in my opinion that Hoffman is the best of the three Malevolent singers. It's simply factually true. Symons is not even second as Blachowitz does a better job than the Hateplow vocalist. It is simply ridiculous when I hear a review of Warkult and how people like Symons generic growls more than the screams and groans that Hoffman emits on the 5 albums on which he appears.

More to the point, Hoffman kills it on the first two releases and has his moments on the third, not to mention, comes back to form on Envenomed and Fine Art. This album is definitely worth your first purchase, but Retribution gives it a run for it's money. The speed and death combo on this album is brutal and the playing is tight. The riffs played create a wall of sound that is thick, fast, and heavy, making for a cool twist on typical death metal.

Lyrically, Hoffman is awesome. I feel he has had some of the best lyrics in death metal. What is cool is that he incorporates sophisticated wordplay without getting too technical. I find the lyrics are very impersonal ala Slayer (another band who is lyrically unmatched). He has the ability to describe as a spectator what he is lyrically conveying. While he is not talking about anything you have not heard before, it is really cool that it is not a forum for the opinions of the band and rather a situation being unemotionally described by a nonplussed and unaffected bystander. I find that some statements are to be made with music, but often, death metal may not be the correct circuit on which the sentiment should travel. Hoffman is at his best when he groans for apparently no reason during a breakdown, or screams a hook at the top of his lungs. He sounds totally pissed!

It is a shame that Hoffman has had so much trouble with his drug and alcohol addictions in his life. They led to his being a shell of his former self and his eventual firing as Malevolent's lead singer. He does have a band currently called Down the Drain (possibly a reflection on his career?) which has a site and demos for sale online. But, while I have not heard it, I can bet it is not as Malevolent as his previous vocal exploits.

If finding the first two albums is too hard, pick up the Best of as it is very very good (the Roadrunner, not the other one). Oddly though, Deron Miller of the band CKY (who SUCKS!!!) does the liner notes for this as wells as other roadrunner "Vault Series" albums. He must have done research because it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone who listened to music as good as this (especially when it first came out) to play music as bad as they do. I just have to say it again C gay Y SUCK!!! It's a testament to the fact that if your brother gets on TV (he's on TV grabbing men's balls half naked during creepy homoerotic exploits no less. Man, you guys should have gotten that out of your system while you were on the high school football team!) your garbage band can get play for it. In the words of Curt Cobain "that makes me sad" (wait a second maybe it was Morrisey, or maybe it was Thom Yorke, or was it Keith Caputo? aw hell I don't know).

Anyway, this album is great, and you definitely should buy it.

R

Their best..........2005-08-28

This band combines thrash and dm together realy well and its damn brutal. Highly recommended. Malevolent creation's "the ten commandments" is a show of blasphemous and evil purely and should be in every true dm fans collection !

Fred Dursts Numba One Fann = Scum.......2005-05-19

This pathetic idiot doesn't know about true music, obviously. He said this: "Look people, listen to all the good innovative bands that get no exposure, those killer technical bands are Limp Bizzkit, KoRn, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Staind, Drowning Pool, Mushroomhead, Endo, Nonpoint, Shuvel, E-Town Concrete, Blink 182, Green Day, Good Sharlit, Simple Plan and the intelligent yet brutal Green Day!!" Most of those bands get a LOT of exposure (I do listen to some of them, except for Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and those 4 other poser punk bands listed), and he recommended Green Day twice! I hate Green Day now.

Now that I took care of that, I'll get to the CD. I don't own this, as it is out of print, but I have the best of Malevolent Creation (the one Roadrunner issued out) and enjoyed many of the songs on there. "Sacrificial Annihilation" is the title track on this rarity, and the 5 second bass solo is addicting at about 20 seconds throughout the track. This is my favorite song off there. I also enjoy "Multiple Stab Wounds", "Premature Burial" and "Remnants Of Withered Decay" as well. This CD stands out from other death metal releases, because the vocals are cleaner and you can follow along with it more easily, despite the results I've had when listening to Deicide and Mortician. I am far from being a death metal purist. I listen to all types of rock music, but this is a CD you should be lucky to own. If not that, purchase "The Best Of Malevolent Creation" for 6/10 of the CD, along with tracks from "Retribution" and "Stillborn".

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