Kreator

I listened to Endless Pain for the very first time, and other than Extreme Aggression, I'm not familiar with their other works. But, as far as Endless Pain goes, I really liked Storm of the Beast, Cry War, and Dying Victims. What are your thoughts on their first album?

As I hear more Kreator albums, I'll post my opinions on them.

Endless Pain is okay...but they really hit their stride with Pleasure To Kill and Terrible Certainty. The brutality factor was still there...but they became much more polished in their execution.

One of the best thrash bands of the 80's.

I would rank Endless Pain as my 4th fave Kreator album after Coma Of Souls, Extreme Agression and Pleasure To Kill. And they are one of the best thrash bands ever.

they are all good, even their more experimental releases.

mc666 wrote:

they are all good, even their more experimental releases.

I lost track of them for most of the 90s but I was pleasantly surprised to hear how well the older releases stand up and also that they managed to branch out and try some new things (Endorama, etc).

Coma Of Souls was one of my favorites from the old days...especially the track "Terror Zone".

Great band, I love almost all of their stuff

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spectrefate wrote:

Hey look! I found a guy who is selling Kreator discs on the cheap on EBAY! I've never seen them priced so inexpensively!

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/vengeance_rising

spectrefate wrote:

Hey look! I found a guy who is selling Kreator discs on the cheap on EBAY! I've never seen them priced so inexpensively!

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/vengeance_rising

spectrefate wrote:

Hey look! I found a guy who is selling Kreator discs on the cheap on EBAY! I've never seen them priced so inexpensively!

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Beware of the seller. I heard he does weird things with the discs before he ships them.

Endless Pain is good, but Pleasure to Kill and Extreme Aggression are my faves by them.

thrasher

Is that what you did to those kreator discs?

spectrefate wrote:

thrasher

Now THAT'S an emoticon we need added to the forum!

I got some cds from that same seller once and they were all brown. He said they were some kind of russian imports or something and thats how he got them. Im still a little skeptical

Why the smear job, folks? I'm just an honest man trying to make a little more bread for beer money. Is that too much to ask?

Kreator is awesome. I got into them only cause they were from Germany and I thought they were going to sound like Helloween lol. When my friend finally gave me a copy of one of their albums I think it was Terrible Certainty I was surprised that they sounded nothing alike haha. I did like the band though and they grew on me. Loved the song Toxic Trace. When I picked up Endless Pain for the first time I was surprised to hear it was the same band cause it was horrible and Mille wasnt even the vocalist at the time. I only had it for a short time then ended up getting rid of it. A while back Locky had one up for trade and I ended up getting it again to just complete my Kreator collection. Listening to it again I still dont think its that great but its not as bad as I had first thought.

Im glad they ended up changing the vocals on Pleasure to Kill because that album is probably one of my all time favorites. So if you havent heard that one yet it is a must buy. They really dont have too many band albums. Theres a couple experimental ones which arent so bad but now their putting out albums that you would expect them to do and they have been great. Cant wait for the new one to be finished.

spectrefate wrote:

Why the smear job, folks? I'm just an honest man trying to make a little more bread for beer money. Is that too much to ask?

Get outta here you drunk! Yes buy Specs cds you wont regret it!

Loved Coma Of Souls but haven't had/heard it in over 8 years. Kreator is on the long list of great thrash bands whose albums I keep an eye out for at the used stores-haven't had much luck with that.

I love Extreme Aggression. I have Pleasure to Kill, but the production isn't all that great, although that's part of the mystique for some folks. A few years ago I picked up a compilation of Kreator's 90s material, and I thought it was pretty bad, considering the fact that I was accustomed to the 80s sound. However, I purchased the "new" album Enemy of God, and it's absolutely amazing. I hate to use the phrase "return to form", but I think it's pretty appropriate for this latest album. Although I was reluctant to buy it at first, because of the title, I ended up getting it after I discovered that this album was not at all antiChristian in nature. Fantastic work by these fellas!

I just listened to Pleasure to Kill. It's a little better than Endless Pain. If I had to choose any favorites, they would be Riot of Violence and Carrion.

Sword Of The Heretic wrote:

I just listened to Pleasure to Kill. It's a little better than Endless Pain. If I had to choose any favorites, they would be Riot of Violence and Carrion.

The best version of "Riot Of Violence" (my favorite Kreator song) is on the "Out of the Dark, Into The Light" EP, it's one of the live tracks.

stevegarveyfan wrote:

I love Extreme Aggression. I have Pleasure to Kill, but the production isn't all that great, although that's part of the mystique for some folks. A few years ago I picked up a compilation of Kreator's 90s material, and I thought it was pretty bad, considering the fact that I was accustomed to the 80s sound. However, I purchased the "new" album Enemy of God, and it's absolutely amazing. I hate to use the phrase "return to form", but I think it's pretty appropriate for this latest album. Although I was reluctant to buy it at first, because of the title, I ended up getting it after I discovered that this album was not at all antiChristian in nature. Fantastic work by these fellas!

that is a great cd, pure thrash brutallity

With each listen Enemy Of God becomes my favorite Kreator disc.

Actually Violent Revolution was a great return to form after those experimental albums.Enemy of God is a great album though.But Extreme Agression is my nostalgic favorite.