Special Edition re-release of the twelfth full-length album by the legendary German Thrash Metal.
It has been described as their most organic album to date because barring vocals, guitar solos and some melodies, the album was recorded in a live setting on an analog tape recorder with few overdubs. Mille Petrozza noted that this was the first time they have recorded an album this way since “Pleasure to Kill” in 1986. The immediately striking thing about “Hordes Of Chaos” is how wildly aggressive it is compared to the last two albums. While its recent predecessors were undoubtedly punishing, this album is unrelentingly brutal.
From here on out, Kreator lay waste to everything in their path, including those that believed Kreator would never again sound as passionate as they did in their youth. The guitar work is undeniably amazing. The guitar solos are like battles and as each solo winds down, the band take off at lightning speed, hitting the ground running each time with a sinister force and precision that comes only with age.
Overall, this is easily Kreator’s best of the new millennium. For that matter it’s also better than most of what they did during the 90s, when they were experimenting themselves out of the consciousness of metal fans. "Hordes Of Chaos" is a shining example of why tradition is going to force you to pay attention in 2009. This was the first Kreator album to chart in the United States, debuting at number 165 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, with first week sales of approximately 2800 copies.
Steamhammer/SPV, 2009/2010 (SPV 91978 Box). Made in Germany.
Tracklist:
CD:
1. Hordes Of Chaos (A Necrologue For The Elite) 5:04
2. Warcurse 4:10
3. Escalation 3:24
4. Amok Run 4:13
5. Destroy What Destroys You 3:13
6. Radical Resistance 3:43
7. Absolute Misanthropy 3:37
8. To The Afterborn 4:53
9. Corpses Of Liberty 0:56
10. Demon Prince 5:17 Bonus Video:
11. Hordes Of Chaos 5:04
12. Destroy What Destroys You 3:13
BONUS CD:
1. Hordes Of Chaos (Demo Version) 5:13
2. Radical Resistance (Demo Version) 3:49
3. To The Afterborn (Demo Version) 5:57
4. World Without Religion (Demo Version Of "Escalation" - Different Arrangement) 3:50
5. Amok Run (Demo Version) 4:20
6. Alle Gegen Alle (Demo Version - Slime Cover Featuring Nagel Und Thees Uhlmann) 2:49
7. You Are The Government (Demo Version - Bad Religion Cover) 1:11
Special Edition re-release of the twelfth full-length album by the legendary German Thrash Metal.
It has been described as their most organic album to date because barring vocals, guitar solos and some melodies, the album was recorded in a live setting on an analog tape recorder with few overdubs. ..
Remastered re-release of the seventh full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
The album continued the experimentation with Industrial music that band started on previous album, "Renewal", but brought back more of their Thrash Metal sound. It's also the only Kreator's album to feature Joe Cangelosi as the replacement of original drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil, which returned to the band in 1996, as well as the first to feature bassist Christian Giesler, and the last to feature guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik.
In "Cause For Conflict", the charismatic Petrozza steps in familiar paths and rages in a furious output that seems to embody many of Kreator's old features of attitude and abilities. This album is a great reminder of just how angry and creative, Kreator were back in the day, and still are, when they wanted to. "Cause For Conflict" is relentless, heavy and in your face the entire way through. The sound is top notch in comparison to older albums and stands the test of time well. The songwriting is inspired, the riffs are fast and memorable, and Petrozza's lyrics are exceptionally charged. The overall effect has a very 90's feel, but not in terms of melody or catchiness, but more in the sense that Kreator weren't scared to incorporate a subtle vibe of Industrial, Nu Metal, or some Hardcore mashed groove.
Writing and releasing iconic Thrash Metal anthems and extreme sounds, have paved Kreator the way for global success and a near modern Metal god status!
Remastered re-edition features three bonus tracks and 28-page booklet.
Noise Records/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1995/2019 (NOISECD048D). Made in Germany.
Tracklist:
1. Prevail 3:58
2. Catholics Despots 3:58
3. Progressive Proletarians 3:58
4. Crisis Of Disorder 4:18
5. Hate Inside Your Head 3:38
6. Bomb Threat 1:46
7. Men Without God 3:45
8. Lost 3:35
9. Dogmatic 1:27
10. Sculpture Of Regret 2:59
11. Celestial Deliverance 3:14
12. Isolation (+ Hidden Track) 11:55 Bonus Tracks:
13. Suicide Swamps 5:11
14. Limits Of Liberty 1:40
15. State Oppression 1:39 Total playing time: 57:01 min.
Remastered re-release of the seventh full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
The album continued the experimentation with Industrial music that band started on previous album, "Renewal", but brought back more of their Thrash Metal sound. It'..
The fourth full-length video album (and the third full-length DVD) by the legendary German Thrash Metal band.
Those violent revolutionaries of total death and tyranny triumph again causing more conflict and endless pain, spreading the toxic trace of terrible certainty in a newly revised rendition of "Enemy Of God". The tour mentors of the terror zone known as Kreator are alive again on this awesome DVD filmed at Wacken in 2005. This DVD also features four videos and other bone breaking bonuses.
These sententious death survivors save the best for last and always take their live performance seriously; still they have a tempestuous tendency to play many title tracks which eventually evolve into "hits". Kreator verify they are even stronger than before, with no momentum lost, as the camera pans over the now never comatose souls showing a very satiated crowd of Europeans after the reign!
The choice is yours - buy or die!!
0 PAL | 16:9; 4:3 | DVD 9 | Dolby Surround 5.1 | Dolby Digital Stereo | English | 155 mins. approx.
Steamhammer, 2006 (SPV 69848). Bootleg. Used: very good.
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Enemy Of God
3. Impossible Brutality
4. Pleasure To Kill
5. Phobia
6. Violent Revolution
7. Suicide Terrorist
8. Extreme Aggressions
9. People Of The Lie
10. Voices Of The Dead
11. Terrible Certainty
12. Betrayer
13. Flag Of Hate
14. Tormentor
Bonus Performances:
- Kreator Live at the "Rockpalast" Bootleg
1. Reconquering The Throne
2. Renewal
3. Servant In Heaven-King In Hell
Videoclips:
1. Enemy Of God (Extended Terror Version)
2. Dystopia
3. Impossible Brutality
4. Dying Race Apocalypse
The 13th full-length studio album by the legendary German Thrash Metal band.
This album, in 30-year career of the band, is also the fourth long-play released since the band's triumphant rebirth to Thrash in 2001 - a move that coincided almost perfectly with a worldwide genre revival driven by both veteran and rookie ensembles and that, as a result, saw these German survivors enjoying a long-deferred coronation for their almost unrivaled achievements. Now that trend - like all trends - has come and gone, and yet Kreator persist: still displaying, as the new material contained here bears repeated witness, 100% commitment to the original, Metal Thrashing mad raison d'être that launched them in the first place. Filled with fire and fury, indefatigable energy, and truly incensed lyrical bile for men of such middle-aged ripeness - led as always by guiding light Mille Petrozza - the opening title track and "Civilization Collapse" dispense a moshing master class, showing the young ones how it's done, and how it'll continue to be done as weaker, less driven bands young and old inevitably fall by the wayside. Acoustic guitar-augmented cuts like "United in Hate" and "The Few, the Proud, the Broken" prove equally devastating before they're though, and just when more commercially inclined musical considerations appear to threaten Thrash's supremacy, like, say, during the highly melodic parts of "From Flood into Fire", "Victory Will Come" and "Until Our Paths Cross Again", one can rest assured that a pedal-to-the-Metal onslaught lies just around the corner. To wit, both the slower, mildly Arabian-psychedelic bridge of "Death to the World" and the contemplative mood-meets-murmured vocals of "Your Heaven, My Hell" weigh in, passing at Kreator's hit-and-miss experiments of the 1990s before returning to the prevailing mosh-fest, and within that context there really can be no hard feelings - what's past is past. The irony of which should be lost on neither fans nor the bandmembers themselves, since embracing the past clearly paved the way toward Kreator's future by affording them this second lease on life and career. Judging by the evidence available on "Phantom Antichrist", it's not over yet.
It isn’t a shock that Mille and company are at the top of the Thrash heap. They have been there for so many years as a mainstay and proof of the absolute relevance of the genre. The maligned Thrash revival and bastardization of the genre with “Modern Thrash” certainly could use the guidance and wisdom of this tried and true German great. Pretenders step aside, your true master has spoken!!
"Phantom Antichrist" sold almost 4,000 copies in its first week in the U.S.
Recommend this to anyone who loves Metal or is trying to get into it! Amazing album!!!
Nuclear Blast GmbH/High Fidelity Ltd./Raven Music, 2012 (NB 2588-2). Made in Israel.
Tracklist:
1. Mars Mantra 1:18
2. Phantom Antichrist 4:31
3. Death To The World 4:53
4. From Flood Into Fire 5:26
5. Civilisation Collapse 4:13
6. United In Hate 4:31
7. The Few, The Proud, The Broken 4:37
8. Your Heaven, My Hell 5:53
9. Victory Will Come 4:14
10. Until Our Paths Cross Again 5:49 Total playing time: 45:25
The 13th full-length studio album by the legendary German Thrash Metal band.
This album, in 30-year career of the band, is also the fourth long-play released since the band's triumphant rebirth to Thrash in 2001 - a move that coincided almost perfectly with a worldwide genre revival driven by b..
The 13th full-length studio album by the legendary German Thrash Metal band.
This album, in 30-year career of the band, is also the fourth long-play released since the band's triumphant rebirth to Thrash in 2001 - a move that coincided almost perfectly with a worldwide genre revival driven by both veteran and rookie ensembles and that, as a result, saw these German survivors enjoying a long-deferred coronation for their almost unrivaled achievements. Now that trend - like all trends - has come and gone, and yet Kreator persist: still displaying, as the new material contained here bears repeated witness, 100% commitment to the original, Metal Thrashing mad raison d'être that launched them in the first place. Filled with fire and fury, indefatigable energy, and truly incensed lyrical bile for men of such middle-aged ripeness - led as always by guiding light Mille Petrozza - the opening title track and "Civilization Collapse" dispense a moshing master class, showing the young ones how it's done, and how it'll continue to be done as weaker, less driven bands young and old inevitably fall by the wayside. Acoustic guitar-augmented cuts like "United in Hate" and "The Few, the Proud, the Broken" prove equally devastating before they're though, and just when more commercially inclined musical considerations appear to threaten Thrash's supremacy, like, say, during the highly melodic parts of "From Flood into Fire", "Victory Will Come" and "Until Our Paths Cross Again", one can rest assured that a pedal-to-the-Metal onslaught lies just around the corner. To wit, both the slower, mildly Arabian-psychedelic bridge of "Death to the World" and the contemplative mood-meets-murmured vocals of "Your Heaven, My Hell" weigh in, passing at Kreator's hit-and-miss experiments of the 1990s before returning to the prevailing mosh-fest, and within that context there really can be no hard feelings - what's past is past. The irony of which should be lost on neither fans nor the bandmembers themselves, since embracing the past clearly paved the way toward Kreator's future by affording them this second lease on life and career. Judging by the evidence available on "Phantom Antichrist", it's not over yet.
It isn’t a shock that Mille and company are at the top of the Thrash heap. They have been there for so many years as a mainstay and proof of the absolute relevance of the genre. The maligned Thrash revival and bastardization of the genre with “Modern Thrash” certainly could use the guidance and wisdom of this tried and true German great. Pretenders step aside, your true master has spoken!!
"Phantom Antichrist" sold almost 4,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. Recommend this to anyone who loves Metal or is trying to get into it! Amazing album!!!
Nuclear Blast GmbH, 2012 (NB 2588-2). Made in Germany. First press.
Tracklist:
1. Mars Mantra 1:18
2. Phantom Antichrist 4:31
3. Death To The World 4:53
4. From Flood Into Fire 5:26
5. Civilisation Collapse 4:13
6. United In Hate 4:31
7. The Few, The Proud, The Broken 4:37
8. Your Heaven, My Hell 5:53
9. Victory Will Come 4:14
10. Until Our Paths Cross Again 5:49 Total playing time: 45:25
The 13th full-length studio album by the legendary German Thrash Metal band.
This album, in 30-year career of the band, is also the fourth long-play released since the band's triumphant rebirth to Thrash in 2001 - a move that coincided almost perfectly with a worldwide genre revival driven by b..
First re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
Set ablaze two years after its predecessor, “Renewal” took point as the face of Kreator and their next chapters in their career. Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida, it is the first Kreator’s "experimental" album, introducing noticeable elements of Industrial and Hardcore.
The strong will for a change can beat any obstacle in one’s path, whether for personal fulfillment or mainly a purpose just to show that it can be done. After piercing the skin with the iconic “Coma Of Souls” (1990), starting the 90s with an iron fist, unanimously it was decided in the band that right after attain such a formidable status, it was time to break away and set course into a different world. Such a world that in the end might not be overly far from their beastly habits, yet much more dark, mysterious, even charmingly gothic, filled with ounces of pain, misery and dismay due to society’s crumble and the human condition. Not bashing up skulls as used to in the past, Kreator proved that “Renewal” has its rougher edges, some of them even sharp and can shed blood at will. Even with mid-tempo, and on a few occasions slow tempo thrusts, the horrific past, present and future of the social structure is no less mortifying.
Maybe the need for change wasn’t because the band wanted it but also because the market demanded it as it changed as well. On the other hand, Kreator were never sellouts and remained true to their strong beliefs. “Renewal” is the band’s successful debut step outside of the Thrash Metal boundary, a marker that would eventually remain throughout the band’s 90s era!
Remastered re-edition features three bonus tracks and 28-page booklet.
Noise Records/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1992/2018 (NOISECD047). Made in Austria.
Tracklist:
1. Winter Martyrium 5:43
2. Renewal 4:35
3. Reflection 6:15
4. Brainseed 3:17
5. Karmic Wheel 6:05
6. Realitätskontrolle 1:22
7. Zero To None 3:11
8. Europe After The Rain 3:18
9. Depression Unrest 5:05 Bonus Tracks:
10. Winter Martyrium (Rare Version; Live) 6:13
11. Trauma 5:12
12. Europe After The Rain (Remix) 3:14 Total playing time: 53:30 min.
First re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
Set ablaze two years after its predecessor, “Renewal” took point as the face of Kreator and their next chapters in their career. Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Flori..
First re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
Set ablaze two years after its predecessor, “Renewal” took point as the face of Kreator and their next chapters in their career. Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida, it is the first Kreator’s "experimental" album, introducing noticeable elements of Industrial and Hardcore.
The strong will for a change can beat any obstacle in one’s path, whether for personal fulfillment or mainly a purpose just to show that it can be done. After piercing the skin with the iconic “Coma Of Souls” (1990), starting the 90s with an iron fist, unanimously it was decided in the band that right after attain such a formidable status, it was time to break away and set course into a different world. Such a world that in the end might not be overly far from their beastly habits, yet much more dark, mysterious, even charmingly gothic, filled with ounces of pain, misery and dismay due to society’s crumble and the human condition. Not bashing up skulls as used to in the past, Kreator proved that “Renewal” has its rougher edges, some of them even sharp and can shed blood at will. Even with mid-tempo, and on a few occasions slow tempo thrusts, the horrific past, present and future of the social structure is no less mortifying.
Maybe the need for change wasn’t because the band wanted it but also because the market demanded it as it changed as well. On the other hand, Kreator were never sellouts and remained true to their strong beliefs. “Renewal” is the band’s successful debut step outside of the Thrash Metal boundary, a marker that would eventually remain throughout the band’s 90s era!
Remastered re-edition features three bonus tracks and 28-page booklet.
Noise Records/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1992/2019 (NOISECD047D). Made in Austria.
Tracklist:
1. Winter Martyrium 5:43
2. Renewal 4:35
3. Reflection 6:15
4. Brainseed 3:17
5. Karmic Wheel 6:05
6. Realitätskontrolle 1:22
7. Zero To None 3:11
8. Europe After The Rain 3:18
9. Depression Unrest 5:05 Bonus Tracks:
10. Winter Martyrium (Rare Version; Live) 6:13
11. Trauma 5:12
12. Europe After The Rain (Remix) 3:14 Total playing time: 53:30 min.
First re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by legendary German Industrial/Hardcore/Thrash Metal band.
Set ablaze two years after its predecessor, “Renewal” took point as the face of Kreator and their next chapters in their career. Recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Flori..