In the sixteenth year of their career, Kreator continue to assert their long-standing
position as spearheads of the German thrash metal scene. Their music is brutal
and direct, their attitude remains totally authentic in 2001 - after all the band originate
from the predominantly working class environment of Germany’s Ruhr Area. Here,
where money was earned mainly down the mines for many years and the sun had to
struggle through sooty smog every morning, vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza has been
hitting the world of heavy metal over the head with his metallic dreams. At the same
time, Kreator aren’t what you’d call a purely German phenomenon, they are a prime
Teutonic export article with an impressive track record: over one million albums sold
world-wide, tours through France, the UK, Scandinavia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain,
Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Greece, Israel, Japan, America
(seven times !!), Chile,
Mexico, Australia, and Brazil. After a temporary foray into more melodic fields, band
mastermind Mille Petrozza and his recently restructured group present an up-dated v
ersion of their metallic origins on their new album Violent Revolution: thrash metal,
forged with as much precision as you can get in 2001. The tracks on Violent Revolution
sound like the album title: unyielding, rigorous, powerful.
The return to harder sounds was accompanied by a line-up change: guitarist Tommy
Vetterli
(ex-Coroner) bid his farewells and was replaced by Sami Yli-Sirnio, who used
to play with Waltari and In Rags in the Nineties and is no novice to the Kreator camp:
when Tommy Vetterli had to be temporarily replaced due to an inflamed tendon in the
late Nineties, the group enlisted the help of the Finnish guitarist for the up-coming
festival season. Now Yli-Sirnio has returned as a permanent member, playing his guitar
as if there had never been a Kreator line-up without him.
Mille Petrozza describes Violent Revolution as ”... back to the roots, with today’s
experience. A kind of new version of Kreator with the insights of the past years, from
Pleasure To Kill and Extreme Aggression to Coma Of Souls, Outcast and Endorama.
” He is referring to numbers like the opener ‘Reconquering The Throne’ or ‘Second
Awakening’, which, in this or another shape, wouldn’t have been out of place on Coma
Of Souls. ‘All Of The Same Blood
(Unity)’ and ‘Replicas Of Life’, with their powerful
guitars and Petrozza’s haunting voice, are reminiscent of the old Pleasure To Kill days.
‘Slave Machinery’, on the other hand, quotes the Outcast phase, while the intro to
‘Replicas Of Life’ surprises with some basic Endorama tendencies. ”You can feel that
we went about the production with a greater sense of freedom this time around, with
much more energy,” Petrozza explains the surprising move to another record label.
”Our new record company allow Kreator to be ourselves. Nobody expects any world-wide
hits, no outsider suddenly wants to be part of the group. At long last you can hear
Kreator again in our most original form.”
This liberating move, a kind of personal revolution against existing conditions, is the
lyrical subject of the new album. The material is about personal experiences, supported
by parallels, as they are described in George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, for example.
”Sometimes you get to a point where you have to use a crowbar to free yourself,”
Mille reckons. Violent Revolution is a kind of concept album, although there’s no
chronological order to the lyrics but the songs are linked by a central theme. The
sleeve artwork, designed by Andreas Marshall
(Blind Guardian among others) and
realized by photographer Dirk Schalpmeier, is a successful visual translation of the
subject matter. Violent Revolution was recorded at the Backstage Production studios
in Nottingham and the Area 51 studios in Celle, Germany, with Andy Sneap
(Machine
Head, Pissing Razors among others) at the helm. After various festival appearances
this summer, Kreator are scheduled to embark on another major European tour
starting this coming November
(co-headliner: Cannibal Corpse).
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