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Created by: Blackcrowe | 07.04.2024


1. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
1986 Pleasure to Kill is widely considered a landmark thrash metal classic, along with Master of Puppets by Metallica, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? by Megadeth, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Eternal Devastation by Destruction and Darkness Descends by Dark Angel, all released in 1986.
2. Kreator - Extreme Aggression
1989 Awesome production and sound but The frontman Mille Petrozza expressing frustration with the band's guitarist Jörg "Tritze" Trzebiatowski. Petrozza shifted the project to Los Angeles in the US, replacing Tritze with Sodom's guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik.
3. Kreator - Terrible Certainty
1987 Terrible Certainty is the third studio album by the band, Kreator is still a power trio.
4. Kreator - Coma Of Souls
1990 To compare Kreator with Metallica and Nuclear Assault on those years can be noted lyrical topics: "Songs targeting environmental crisis, war-mongering, and renascent Nazism in band's native land [...] Ecodisaster number 'When The Sun Burns Red' is excellent first course.
5. Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
2009 The album it s maybe 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.
6. Kreator - Violent Revolution
2001 The record it’s considered to be the catalyst of the early 2000s thrash metal revival … and is the band's first album to feature lead guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö. After almost a decade of musical experimentation with their metal sound (starting with Renewal), with this album the band returned to their 1980s thrash metal style.
7. Kreator - Endless Pain
1985 The Debut album from Kreator, The album combines elements of black metal and thrash metal, ultimately creating a black-metal influenced thrash sound inspired by bands like Venom, Mercyful Fate, and Bathory.
8. Kreator - Enemy Of God
2005 The Gothenburg influences of the band's previous album, Violent Revolution, became more prominent on this album.
9. Kreator - Gods Of Violence
2017 It was the band's first studio album in almost five years since 2012's Phantom Antichrist, marking the longest gap between two studio albums, until Hate Über Alles broke this record in 2022.
10. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
2012 The album has a more progressive and melodic sound than previously explored by the band and was generally well received by critics and fans.
11. Kreator - Hate Über Alles
2022 3 months after the release of Gods of Violence, M Petroza said : "Maybe we should work with a different producer. Maybe we should go to a different country to record the album. Maybe we should write a more metal or more full-on thrash metal. Whatever we feel, first and foremost, that is the most important thing. Time will tell.
12. Kreator - Outcast
1997 This album featured more gothic and industrial influences than earlier Kreator, retaining little of the thrash metal from previous years. Outcast is also Kreator's first album to feature drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil since 1992's Renewal, and the first to feature then-former Coroner guitarist Tommy Vetterli.has
13. Kreator - Endorama
1999 The gothic metal influences were the most prominent on this release and Lacrimosa frontman Tilo Wolff provided guest vocals on the title song.
14. Kreator - Cause For Conflict
1995 This was also the only Kreator album to feature Joe Cangelosi as the replacement of original drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil, who would return to the band in 1996. This is the only Kreator album to not feature Ventor. This was also the band's first album to feature bassist Christian Giesler and the last to feature guitarist Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik.
15. Kreator - Renewal
1992 It's their first "experimental" album, as in this release Kreator incorporated industrial music influences in their songwriting. It is also the last album to feature original bassist Rob Fioretti. The song "Karmic Wheel"


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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09.04.2024 - 04:43
Guib
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Came in here expecting to argue and I'm not gonna tbh. I think this ranking is mostly spot-on.

Just gonna say this though, when you say ''landmark thrash metal classic'' concerning Pleasure To Kill but leave out, Exodus' Bonded By Blood, Testament's The Legacy and Anthrax's Among The Living, I die a little inside. I know, I know, they weren't released in 1986 but hey! That's a personal problem I have really.
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09.04.2024 - 05:11
Blackcrowe
Yes your right but those records are not from 1986
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09.04.2024 - 08:59
Cynic Metalhead
Ambrish Saxena
Rankings are fine, God's of Violence in last half? Nah, it's a brilliant album. It should have been in top 5.

You could have swapped Hordes Of Chaos and Enemy of God with Violent Revolution and Endless Pain with God's of Violence comfortably sitting at #5
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09.04.2024 - 09:21
John doe
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09.04.2024 - 10:33
John doe
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 09.04.2024 at 08:59

Rankings are fine, Gods of Violence in last half? Nah, it's a brilliant album. It should have been in top 5.

Not a top 5 album, the ranking is fine as far as that album goes.
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09.04.2024 - 14:43
Blackcrowe
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 09.04.2024 at 08:59

Rankings are fine, God's of Violence in last half? Nah, it's a brilliant album. It should have been in top 5.

You could have swapped Hordes Of Chaos and Enemy of God with Violent Revolution and Endless Pain with God's of Violence comfortably sitting at #5

Yes its a very good album but a little over produced in my opinion
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09.04.2024 - 14:46
Blackcrowe
Written by John doe on 09.04.2024 at 10:33

Written by Cynic Metalhead on 09.04.2024 at 08:59

Rankings are fine, Gods of Violence in last half? Nah, it's a brilliant album. It should have been in top 5.

Not a top 5 album, the ranking is fine as far as that album goes.

Gods of violence is great but over produced
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09.04.2024 - 14:57
Cynic Metalhead
Ambrish Saxena
What does that mean?!

I felt it was aptly produced with superb punches that drive the songs. At least, it sounded better than mentioned in Hordes and Enemy.
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09.04.2024 - 18:59
Blackcrowe
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 09.04.2024 at 14:57

What does that mean?!

I felt it was aptly produced with superb punches that drive the songs. At least, it sounded better than mentioned in Hordes and Enemy.

It means that in my opinion the production uses too much effects that make this particular record not so rude than the other of the band. The record its great it is one of their best records but lost in the atmosphere of too much reverb vocals with too much effects at the end the record loss their power in the final production. Millle Petrozza said something very similar when their release the record

Thank you for your appreciation
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