The Ten Commandments (Malevolent Creation album)

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The Ten Commandments
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ReleasedApril 8, 1991
Studio Morrisound Recording, Tampa, Florida
Genre Death metal  · thrash metal [1] [2]
Length38:17
Label Roadrunner
Producer Scott Burns
Malevolent Creation chronology
The Ten Commandments
(1991)
Retribution
(1992)
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The Ten Commandments is the debut studio album by American death metal band Malevolent Creation. It was produced and engineered by Scott Burns.

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Bret Hoffmann and Phil Fasciana

No.TitleLength
1."Memorial Arrangements"2:38
2."Premature Burial"3:17
3."Remnants of Withered Decay"3:55
4."Multiple Stab Wounds"3:34
5."Impaled Existence"3:25
6."Thou Shall Kill!"4:31
7."Sacrificial Annihilation"3:24
8."Decadence Within"4:21
9."Injected Sufferage[ sic ]"3:41
10."Malevolent Creation"5:31
Total length:38:17

Personnel

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References

  1. "PRE-ORDER "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS" FROM MALEVOLENT CREATION NOW!". HAMMERHEART.COM. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  2. "The Ten Commandments: Celebrating 25 Years Of Malevolent Creation's Death Metal Classic - Worship Metal". WORSHIPMETAL.COM. 2014-04-24. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  3. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r12254
  4. Dome, Malcolm (May 15, 1991). "Albums". Raw . No. 70. EMAP. p. 44.