Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION are currently working on the material for their next studio album, tentatively due in 2005. Following the completion of the album's touring cycle, the band plan on taking "a little creative break," according to a posting on the group's web site. "I mean, we could go on like this forever, but it's good to take a deep breath for another powerful twenty years....hahaha!" DESTRUCTION bassist/vocalist Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer said in a statement. "We don't want you to get tired of the DESTRUCTION overflow in the last years... even if we had to keep the high pace cause we have missed nine fuckin' years getting' over the fuckin' split and fightin' bullshit!

"We will sign a new label contract soon, also we will have a new management company workin' for us," Schmier added.

DESTRUCTION have launched a poll on their official web site to determine the musical direction of the next album. "YOU are the ones that pushed DESTRUCTION to be one of the most succesfull thrash metal band in the world, so join this poll to kick even more ass in the future!" Schmier said. "You motherfuckers rule — stand up, don´t be just another face in the crowd!"

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