She Said Destroy, a blasting metal juggernaut from Norway, released their debut album Time Like Vines in April 2006 to much critical acclaim.
Drawing influences from noise rock, thrash, death metal and black metal alike, this unit has through both live performances and recorded material been prying the eyes and ears of whoever crosses their path open.
Through the course of 2006 they have become a sought after support act for heavyweights in the extreme metal ecosystem.
She Said Destroy are currently working on material for their sophomore album.
Press:
SHE SAID DESTROY
@ THE ASTORIA, LONDON OCT 28 (SUPPORT FOR EMPEROR)
"...She said destroy do their best to take the room apart with a short savage set that confirms that Norway's rich supply of ground-breaking music is far from depleted. With a sound that recalls the shape-shifting muscularity of Mastodon, albeit possessed by black metal's bleak and hateful spirit, they're an impossibly intense proposition ; occasionally obtuse, consistently challenging but oddly accessible. Great things await them, assuming that they don't scare everybody too much."
DOM LAWSON, Kerrang Magazine (UK) November 2006
Recorded material:
SHE SAID DESTROY - TIME LIKE VINES (CANDLELIGHT)
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YET ANOTHER SHIT HOT NORWEGIAN METAL BAND
IT SEEMS insane, but this incredible, audacious and ground-breaking album has garnered some curiously vitriolic reviews from certain quarters. It seems that not everyone wants their extreme metal to take risks, but for those who like a challenge, this twisted hybrid of death metal, grind, art rock and blackened melancholy is a sublime piece of caustic shape-shifting. If the crazed interplay between guitarists Anders and Snorre doesn't jar your bones then their nightmarish dual vocal attack will, and with an air-tight rhythm section and more smart ideas than a philosophers' convention, She Said Destroy could well be the black metal Mastodon. Yes, "that" good.
DOWNLOAD: 'Becoming The Morningstar'
FOR FANS OF: Death, December, Mastodon
DOM LAWSON, Kerrang Magazine (UK) April 2006
At a mere three tracks, last year's demo from Oslo's She Said Destroy
was nonetheless astounding. Showing an invention, a sense of purpose and an awareness of its own capabilities, the music contained on that brief taster threaded several strands of metallic attack into a whole that was jarring, immediate and undeniably mature. So it is then that the release of their debut album not only confirms these initial estimations but surpasses them. Opener 'Armageddon Anyone?', despite the somewhat quaint title, sums up succinctly just why this band are so essential: its cataleptic rhythms, scalding, infuriated speed, and mountainous crescendos somehow fuse 'Through Silver In Blood'-era Neurosis , 'Human'-era Death and even Akercocke circa 'Choronzon' into a work of compelling insistence. Rest assured that these are in no way referenced lightly; the comparisons are real and verifiable. As good as the accomplished riffing is, their boon point is however their ear for the grand. As the title track and the noxious 'Swallow My Tongue' demonstrate, this band is a self-assured and creative force begetting totemic, sophisticated extreme metal. Buy or die.
[8.5/10] Ciarán Tracey, Terrorizer Magazine(UK), March/April 2006