continuing drummer Oliver Kaiser. The first recording was the self-titled Destruction EP in 1994, followed by the Them Not Me EP in 1995 and the album The Least Successful Human Cannonball in 1998. In 1999, the line-up was disassembled and Schmier rejoined with the addition of new drummer Sven Vormann, returning Destruction as a trio. They signed a record deal with Nuclear Blast and released three new albums; All Hell Breaks Loose in 2000, The Antichrist in 2001, and Metal Discharge in 2003, with Marc Reign replacing Vormann. The second live album Alive Devastation was released on 26 March 2003, followed by the release of a live DVD titled Live Discharge: 20 Years of Total Destruction on 4 March 2004. Reign was temporarily arrested on 24 May 2004 following the band's performance in Brescia due to the stage accessories, which was confiscated as a result. Destruction would then sign with AFM Records and release Inventor of Evil on 22 August 2005. That album was followed a compilation album titled Thrash Anthems on 19 January 2007, featuring re-recorded material, and the next studio album D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. on 29 August 2008. The third live album The Curse of the Antichrist: Live in Agony was released 25 September 2009, followed by the second DVD release A Savage Symphony - The History of Annihilation on 29 January 2010. Drummer Marc Reign would leave the band in 2010 and be replaced by Polish drummer Wawrzyniec "Vaaver" Dramowicz. On 18 February 2011, the twelfth album Day of Reckoning was released. The band's thirteenth studio album Spiritual Genocide was released on 23 November 2012. Their next album Under Attack was released on 13 May 2016. Through an exclusive PledgeMusic campaign, Destruction released the sequel album to Thrash Anthems titled Thrash Anthems II on 18 July 2017, featuring more re-recordings of classic songs. On 23 January 2018, Vaaver left Destruction "for family reasons", according to Schmier. He took time off in 2015 to be with his family following the birth of his second child. Randy Black would temporarily replace him until the band finds a "worthy successor". He was later announced as the band's new drummer. On 28 February 2019, Swiss guitarist Damir Eskic joined the band. This new lineup recorded the fifteenth studio album Born to Perish, which was released on 9 August 2019. It is rooted in their traditional style of thrash metal and received good reviews.