Kreator - Enemy Of God (2005)

 

 Enemy of God is the eleventh studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released on 10 January 2005. The Gothenburg influences of the band's previous album, Violent Revolution, became more prominent on this album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 -Tracklist:

Disc 1:

Side A
1. Enemy of God     05:43
2. Impossible Brutality     04:31
3. Suicide Terrorist     03:29

Side B
4.     World Anarchy     03:55
5.     Dystopia     03:41
6.     Voices of the Dead     04:33

25:52

Disc 2:

Side A
1. Murder Fantasies     04:50
2. When Death Takes Its Dominion     05:39
3. One Evil Comes - A Million Follow     03:20

Side B
4. Dying Race Apocalypse     04:41
5. Under a Total Blackened Sky     04:28
6. The Ancient Plague     06:58

29:56

 

-Line up: 

• Mille Petrozza : Vocals, Lyrics, Guitars, Songwriting
• Christian Giesler : Bass
• Ventor : Drums
• Sami Yli-Sirniö : Guitars.

 

 

Label: Steamhammer – R20-0024609 2LP

 Recorded at Backstage Recordings in Nottingham, England on May / July 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kreator - Extreme Aggression Tour 1989-'90 (1990)

 

 The band was formed as Metal Militia in 1982 in Essen, Germany and then Tyrant. Later they used the title Tormentor until 1984, when they changed to its current name Kreator. The original lineup featured lead vocalist and guitarist Mille Petrozza, drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil, and bassist Rob Fioretti. Kreator recorded their debut album, Endless Pain (1985), in just ten days. The band hired then-future Sodom guitarist Michael Wulf for the album's tour to play lead, while Petrozza switched to rhythm guitar.

Wulf was in the band for a few days but, contrary to the liner notes, he never played on the band's second album, Pleasure to Kill (1986), which is widely considered a thrash classic and a big influence on the death metal genre. It would not be until 31 years after its release that Pleasure to Kill entered the German album charts. Produced by Harris Johns (Sodom, Helloween, Voivod), the album showed the band growing in talent and technical ability. The song "Flag of Hate" became a concert standard, and the band became one of the most promising up-and-coming European metal acts. The band started their first tour ever (before the release of Pleasure to Kill, they had only played five gigs total); they played their first shows outside of Germany during the fall of 1986, supporting Destruction and Celtic Frost, and during the spring of 1987, they toured North America for the first time, opening for Voivod on their Killing Technology tour.

 

 

 

 -Tracklist:

 01. Some Pain Will Last
02. Extreme Aggression
03. Under The Guillotine
04. Toxic Trace
05. Bringer Of Torture
06. Pleasure To Kill
07. Flag Of Hate
08. Drum Solo
09. Terrible Certainty
10. Riot Of Violence
11. Love Us Or Hate Us
12. Behind The Mirror
13. Betrayer
14. Awakening Of The Gods
15. Tormentor

01:20

 

-Line up:

• Rob Fioretti : Bass
• Jürgen Reil : Drums
• Frank Gosdzik : Guitar
• Mille Petrozza : Guitar, Vocals.

 

 

 

 

 Label: Fotodisk Video – NFV 107

 Live concert filmed on March 4, 1990 at Werner Seelenbinder-Halle in Berlin.

Management: Klaus-Dieter Rentel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kreator - Out Of The Dark... Into The Light [ep] (1988) [CD] (1992)

 

Originally named Tyrant and then Tormentor, Kreator were founded in 1982 by vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza, bassist Rob Fioretti, and drummer Jürgen Reil (aka Ventor) in the industrial capital of Essen, Germany. They were still known as Tormentor when their first two demo tapes, one fittingly named Blitzkrieg (1983), and the other End of the World (1984), fell into the hands of thousands of heavy metal fans engaging in the era's bustling underground tape-trading network. Positive word of mouth soon attracted the attention of Germany's own metal start-up, Noise Records, which signed the newly re-christened Kreator to a deal and immediately put them to work on their first album. Recorded in just ten days at Berlin's Musiclab Studios, 1985's Endless Pain was a savage debut, but its crude thrashing quickly had the underground metal world abuzz with excitement. A second guitar player, Wulf, was hired for touring purposes, and with Kreator's reputation preceding them, lucky fans within the band's modest touring radius were soon clamoring for tickets.

No sooner had they come off the road than Kreator were heading right back to Musiclab Studios, this time with producer Harris Johns (Helloween, Voivod) to record their second album, Pleasure to Kill. Unleashed in 1986 and still considered the band's first "classic" album, Pleasure to Kill raised the bar with more diversity of tempos and greater attention to technical execution while losing nothing in terms of ferocity or speed. The band closed out the year with the Flag of Hate EP (named after a re-recorded version of their earliest hit), and there seemed to be little doubt that Kreator, along with fellow Germans Helloween and Switzerland's Celtic Frost (with whom they toured the U.K. a year later), were fast becoming Europe's top extreme metal contenders. Recorded at Hanover's Horus Studios with English producer Roy Rowland, 1987's Terrible Certainty did nothing to dent this perception, since, for once, Petrozza and company actually had a little time to work out the songs beforehand. The ensuing tour further established their reputation as dedicated road warriors and saw Kreator beefed up to a quartet once again with the addition of guitarist Jörge Trebziatowski. Profits from these concerts would help finance yet another EP (product being something Noise never stopped asking for) titled Out of the Dark, Into the Light, released in August 1988.

 

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 -Tracklist:

 1. Impossible to Cure     02:41
2. Lambs to the Slaughter (Raven cover)     03:34
3. Terrible Certainty (live)     05:19
4. Riot of Violence (live)     05:49
5. Awakening of the Gods (live)     07:13
6. Flag of Hate (live)     04:02
7. Love Us or Hate Us (live)     03:57
8. Behind the Mirror     04:45

37:20

 

-Lineup: 

• Mille Petrozza : Vocals, Guitars
• Roberto Fioretti : Bass
• Ventor : Drums
• Tritze : Guitars.

Label:  Noise Records.

Recorded and mixed at Musiclab in Berlin in May 1988 and live at Dynamo Eindhoven May 31 1988.

 Mixed at Sky Trak Studio in Berlin. 

Mastered at Studio Nord in Bremen.

 Mixed by Harris Johns.

 Produced by Harris Johns & Kreator.

Front cover painting by Phil Lawvere.

 Cover concept by Schubert K.

 Photography by Buffo Schnädelbach & Manfred Eisenblätter.

Tracks 6, 7 & 8 live in East Berlin, 4 March 1990.

 

 

 

 

 

Nile + Morbid Angel + Kreator 09.11.2012 Sala Chanteclair, Valga, Pontevedra (Spa)

 

 

 

 

 

-Setlist:

01. Sacrifice Unto Sebek
02. Defiling the Gates of Ishtar
03.Kafir!
04. Hittite Dung Incantation
05. Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame
06. Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld
07. Sarcophagus
08. Ithyphallic
09. Supreme Humanism of Megalomania
10. Black Seeds of Vengeance

Kafir!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 -Setlist:

Immortal Rites
Fall From Grace
Rapture
Maze of Torment
Sworn to the Black
Existo Vulgoré
Nevermore
Lord of All Fevers and Plague
Chapel of Ghouls
Where the Slime Live
Blood on My Hands
Bil Ur-Sag
God of Emptiness
World Of Shit (The Promise Land)

Rapture

 

 

 -Setlist:

Mars Mantra  - Intro
Phantom Antichrist
From Flood Into Fire
Enemy of God
Phobia
Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite)  
Civilization Collapse
Voices of the Dead
Extreme Aggression
People of the Lie
Death to the World
Coma Of Souls/Endless Pain
Pleasure to Kill
The Patriarch  
Violent Revolution
United in Hate
Betrayer
Flag of Hate
Tormentor

Enemy of God

 

 

Kreator - Extreme Aggression (1989)

 

 Extreme Aggression is the fourth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator released in 1989. While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1988 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbangers Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The beginning of the song "Love Us or Hate Us" was used in an early 1990s promo ad by the Los Angeles radio station KNAC. This was their first issued in the US by Epic Records. The album was also available on picture disc vinyl.

The album's original artwork was that of a man standing in front of a bathroom mirror looking at the reflection of his face falling off, exposing Kreator's mascot demon underneath. However, it was quickly replaced with a new artwork, depicting an image of the band in front of an orange background.

Extreme Aggression was initially recorded in Germany, but these tapes were abandoned, with lead vocalist Mille Petrozza expressing frustration with the band's guitarist Jörg "Tritze" Trzebiatowski. Petrozza shifted the project to Los Angeles, replacing Tritze with Sodom's guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik. Tritze was credited as guitarist on Extreme Aggression but his contributions were not included on the album, and he left the band after its release. Blackfire left Sodom and joined Kreator, playing the Extreme Aggression Tour to support the album.

Coinciding with the 2017 remastered issue, Extreme Aggression charted for the first time 28 years after its release, and peaked at number 90 on the German Charts. The remastered edition of the band's 1986 album Pleasure to Kill charted on the same day.

 

 

 

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-Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Extreme Aggressions     04:43
2. No Reason to Exist     04:34
3. Love Us or Hate Us     03:40
4. Stream of Consciousness     03:51

Side B:
5. Some Pain Will Last     05:35
6. Betrayer     03:58
7. Don't Trust     03:43
8. Bringer of Torture     02:15
9. Fatal Energy     04:54

37:13
 

 -Line up:

 • Mille Petrozza : Guitars, Vocals
 • Jörg Tritze : Guitars, Vocals (backing)
 • Rob Fioretti : Bass, Vocals (backing)
 • Ventor : Drums.

 

 

Censored original cover poster

 

 Label: Noise Records.

 Recorded Jan.-Feb. 1989 Hollywood CA.
Tracked and mixed at the Music Grinder.
Additional recording at E.Q. Sound and Cherokee Studios.

Co-produced by Karl-U. Walterbach

Produced by Randy Burns.

"Stream Of Consciouness" inspired by the book: "Seth speaks: The Eternal Validity Of The Soul".
"Bringer Of Torture" inspired by the song "My God, Father" by The Kermits.
Backing vocals on "Don't Trust" and "Betrayer" by Greg and Dan from Excel.
Special thanx to Edwin Letcher for lyrical editing and correction.
Recorded Jan.-Feb. 1989 Hollywood Ca.
Tracked and mixed at the Music Grinder
Additional recording at E.Q. Sound and Cherokee Studios.

 

Kreator - Terrible Certainty (1987)

 

The band was called Tormentor in the old days (1982-1984). Both demos were released under that name. The first line-up was Mille, Rob, and Ventor. A few guitarists were tried before Jörg Tritze joined after the Flag of Hate EP. Michael Wulf was in the band for a few days and didn't play on Pleasure to Kill, despite his getting credit.

With Tritze the band started their first tour ever (before the release of Pleasure to Kill they had only played five gigs total). In 1989, German director Thomas Schadt made a documentary about Kreator (focusing on the social aspect of heavy metal in the Ruhr area) titled Thrash Altenessen (named after the band's hometown, a suburb of Essen).

Terrible Certainty is the third studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator released in 1987 through Noise Records. It was released on cd, cassette, black vinyl, and as a limited edition red vinyl. The remastered version of 2000 contains the tracks of the 1988 Out of the Dark ... Into the Light EP as bonus tracks. A remastered version was released on June 9, 2017.

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-Tracklist:

A1. Blind Faith     4:04
A2. Storming With Menace     4:23
A3. Terrible Certainty     4:26
A4. As The World Burns     3:48
B1. Toxic Trace     5:30
B2. No Escape     4:58
B3. One Of Us     3:59
B4. Behind The Mirror     4:31

 

-Line up:

- Mille: Vocals, Guitars
- Tritze: Guitars
- Rob: Bass
- Ventor: Drums, Vocals (track 4) 

 

 

 

Label: Noise Records.

Released without printed inner sleeve.
Recorded and mixed at Horus Studio, Hannover.
 Mastered at Studio Nord, Bremen
Marketed By I.D. Records.
Manufactured by Revolver.
Distributed by The Cartel. 

 Management: Drakkar Promotion
Photography by Buffo Schnädelbach
Producer by Roy Rowland.