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Violence & Destruction is the debut studio album by American nu metal group, Islander. The album was produced by Cameron Webb and released on July 8, 2014, by Victory Records. It is the only album from the band to feature Andrew Murphey, Chris Doot and Erik Fraizer on guitar, bass and drums, respectively.

Islander are a four-piece group from Greenville, South Carolina, whose first release was the EP Pains. (2013).

Violence & Destruction was recorded in early 2014 in studios in Southern California: Maple, in Orange County, and NRG Recording in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Producer Cameron Webb had worked with such acts as Kelly Clarkson, Motörhead, Pennywise, Silverstein, Weezer and Alkaline Trio.

The album was released on July 8, 2014, through label imprint Victory Records. To promote the album the band toured on the Mayhem Festival 2014, playing on the Victory Records Stage with label mates Emmure, Ill Niño and Wretched.

Critics compared the album to P.O.D. (The Fundamental Elements of Southtown) and the Deftones (Around the Fur) for its "different" sound. Singer Carvajal has been compared to Chino Moreno and Sonny Sandoval; while critic Rob Houston appreciated the vocals, some felt putt off because of his "shameless, and almost smarmy sounding" performance, especially the "'woos'".Big Cheese notes "this four-piece blends the atmospheric musicality of Deftones with the rap rock attitude of Fred Durst, with powerful results."Rock Sound says "Despite sounding like the odds are stacked against them, Islander stand a good chance of survival with their 100 per cent accurate nu metal recreations." They went onto write Islander "exhumed P.O.D.'s corpse (or did it rise from the dead itself?) with forensic precision and mated it with Chino Moreno's haunting croon."

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