Kreator

01. Kreator - Endless Pain, 1985 CD Album Remastered Reissue      Noise Records USA - N 0025-2ux , Compilation      Reissue from 2000 - Includes End Of The World demo (as Tormentor - 1984) - Contains 14 songs by: Tormentor, Kreator 02. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill / Flag Of Hate, 1986 CD Compilation      Noise International - N 0037-3      Reissue from 1988 03. Kreator - Terrible Certainty, 1987 CD Album      Noise International - N 0100 04. Kreator - Extreme Aggression, 1989 CD Album Reissue      Noise International - N 0129-2 05. Kreator - Extreme Aggression, 1989 Vinyl LP Album Picture Disc      Noise International - N 0145-9 06. Kreator - Coma Of Souls, 1990 CD Album      Futurist - 9086-11043-2 07. Kreator - Renewal, 1992 CD Album      Noise International, Noise International - N 0193-2, NO193-2 08. Kreator - Cause For Conflict, 1995 CD Album      Noise Records, CBM - N 0260-2 UX, N 0260-2 UX 09. Kreator - Outcast, 1997 CD Album      F.A.D. Records - N0287-2ux 10. Kreator - Endorama, 1999 CD Album      Pavement Music - 76962-32331-2 11. Kreator - Violent Revolution, 2001 CD Album Promo      Steamhammer - SPV 085-72542-P CD 12. Kreator - Live Kreation, 2003 CD Album x 2      Steamhammer - SPV 089-74542 DCD 13. Kreator - Live Kreation, 2003 CD Album x 2      Steamhammer - SPV 089-74542 DCD 14. Kreator - Enemy Of God, 2005 CD Album Enhanced      Steamhammer - SPV 085-69842 CD-E 15. Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos, 2009 CD Album      Steamhammer - SPV 91972 CD 16. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist, 2012 CD Album      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 2588-2, 27361 25882 17. Kreator - Gods Of Violence, 2017 CD Album      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 3916-2, 3916-2 18. Kreator - Live Antichrist, 2017 CD Album Promo      Metal Hammer, Nuclear Blast - none, none Unbelievably, this is the first actual Kreator post in 11 years of Zer Churching. If you do not know who Kreator are and what kind of noise they make, you are too young, too drunk or too Martian. Kreator is a pillar of the Teutonic thrash metal industry, one of the four biggest acts with Sodom, Destruction and Tankard - a very large icon of 80s thrash. And like their ancient colleagues, they are still alive and  prolific. There is no bad album in their discography, even the 90s experiments (Outcast, Renewal, Endorama) are very good, these ones not being the usual raging thrash mania they developed during their first decade, which is natürlich my favorite segment of their output. My über favorite entry is of course Pleasure To Kill: Endless Pain was no match to Hell Awaits or Infernal Overkill, but Pleasure To Kill corrected this instantly. My teenage self was floored by such a level of brutality and this record immediately entered the sacred pantheon of ultimate thrash right along Darkness Descends, Party With God and Reign In Blood. An EZTT thrash classic for sure! The past twenty years saw Kreator getting back to the recipe of virulent thrash metal with a much less raw, more melodic approach than in the 80s. All albums since Violent Revolution are good and great: fast, heavy, crunchy with more twin guitars and other subtleties, less barbaric than the boss Pleasure To Kill . I have a preference for what Sodom did during the same period: less refinements, more bulldozing in the Sodom camp. Probably a consequence of Kreator having the Waltari guitarist in their ranks. Kreator never disappoint, their live performances are killer and they shall remain a large foundation of the thrash metal scene until the end of the zeriverse! Remove brackets and unzip: [pleazer to grill] !ZER Kreator ZER!