The influential nature of Teutonic legends Kreator cannot be stressed enough, and are nothing short of thrash metal legends par excellence. Having originally started out as Tyrant, then quickly moving onto Tormentor and soon enough their present name, the raspy screams, percussive insanity and the battering riffs of these disgruntled, ferocity-driven youngsters from the industrial town of Essen would prove to serve as an influence for a legion of the band’s followers across the world, that would in turn further intensify and shatter the artificial stylistic boundaries that had been set in stone and give birth to furthermore intrepid and adventurous styles such as death and black metal. One can quite easily draw a line tracing the conception of several bands and genres back to the musical musings of these German trailblazers, alongside similar innovators of the era. Having released a slew of genre-defining (and defying!) releases across the 1980s all the way until the early 1990s, Kreator thereon embarked on an experimental phase that saw them dabbling in groove/industrial elements. While far from devoid of musical vision, it wasn’t the classic Kreator that the fans had come to love, and the new millennium saw the band make a mighty come back with the incredibly memorable ‘Violent Revolution‘, and went onto release a slew of records with this new found vigor, and the new-age opus ‘Phantom Antichrist‘ was perhaps the solidification of this new-millennium Kreator sound.
Currently gearing up for the release of new album “Gods Of Violence”, Metal Wani’s Editor In Chief Owais ‘Vitek’ Nabi had a chat with KREATOR frontman Mille Petrozza. He discusses the upcoming album “Gods Of Violence”, 5 year long gap between the two releases, his opinion on injecting melody and brutality equally on the new album and why they wanted to write an album that can top Phantom Antichrist and also ‘blows everyone away’.
He also talks about the lyrical aspect of the record which reflects the growing hate among people due to religion which has lead to terror and war worldwide, using soft and harsh vocals on the record with lots of acoustic build ups and ‘secret’ guest musicians i.e. Fleshgod Apocalypse on the album doing Orchestra. He also throws light on working with producer Jens Bogren again, idea behind the song ‘SATAN IS REAL’, why Kreator writes music as a unit instead of one member and upcoming European and North American tour in 2017.
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