Origin: Germany  
Genres: Thrash Metal
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Kreator

Once known as Tormentor, and before that as Tyrant, Kreator rose to prominence in the mid-eighties, joining Sodom and Destruction as the top-ranked German thrash bands of the decade. While albums such as Pleasure To Kill ruled the scene, the nineties found their popularity waning a bit, as albums such as the industrial-tinged Renewal* in 1992 and *Endorama in 1998, met with some critical acclaim but not commercial success, hardened fans seeming to have become disillusioned with straying from the raw, frenetic thrash of their earlier days. But founder Mille Petrozza forged on, and in the new millennium things turned around, with a new lineup in place and renewed vigor and aggression on display on 2001's Violent Revolution, the first of several albums in the 2000's that have found Kreator regaining its place among thrash's elite.

Current Members

Mille Petrozza

vocals/guitars (ex-Voodoocult)

Sami Yli-Sirniö

guitars (Barren Earth, Waltari)

Frederic Leclercq

bass (ex-DragonForce, ex-Heavenly, Loudblast, Menace, guest for Sigh, Sinsaenum)

Ventor (Jürgen Reil)

drums

Former Members/Guests

Jorg Tritze

guitars

Frank Gosdzik

guitars (Assassin, Sodom)

Tommy Vetterli

guitars (Coroner)

Rob Fioretti

bass

Christian Geisler

bass

Joe Cangelosi

drums (ex-Whiplash)


Discography



Endless Pain  
1985 Noise
  1. Endless Pain
  2. Total Death
  3. Storm of the Beast
  4. Tormentor
  5. Son of Evil
  6. Flag of Hate
  7. Cry War
  8. Bonebreaker
  9. Living in Fear
  10. Dying Victims
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor


Pleasure To Kill  
1986 Noise
  1. Intro (Choir Of The Damned)
  2. Rippin' Corpse
  3. Death Is Your Saviour
  4. Pleasure To Kill
  5. Riot Of Violence
  6. The Pestilence
  7. Carrion
  8. Command Of The Blade
  9. Under The Guillotine
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor
1986 Readers' Album #6



Flag Of Hate  EP
1986 Noise
  1. Flag Of The Hate
  2. Take Their Lives
  3. Awakening Of The Gods
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor


Terrible Certainty  
1987 Noise
  1. Blind Faith
  2. Storming With Menace
  3. Terrible Certainty
  4. As The World Burns
  5. Toxic Trace
  6. No Escape
  7. One Of Us
  8. Behind The Mirror
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Jorg Tritze
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor


Out Of The Dark ... Into The Light  EP
1988 Noise
  1. Impossible To Cure
  2. Lambs To The Slaughter
  3. Terrible Certainty (Live)
  4. Riot Of Violence (Live)
  5. Awakening Of The Gods (Live)
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Jorg Tritze
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor


Extreme Aggression  
1989 Noise
  1. Extreme Aggression
  2. No Reason To Exist
  3. Love Us Or Hate Us
  4. Stream of Consciousness
  5. Some Pain Will Last
  6. Betrayer
  7. Don't Trust
  8. Bringer Of Torture
  9. Fatal Energy
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Jorg Tritze
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor


Coma Of Souls  
1990 Noise
  1. When the sun burns red
  2. Coma of souls
  3. People of the lie
  4. World beyond
  5. Terror zone
  6. Agents of brutality
  7. Material world paranoia
  8. Twisted urges
  9. Hidden dictator
  10. Mental slavery
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Frank Gosdzik
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor
1990 Readers' Album #12



Renewal  
1992 Noise
  1. Winter Martyrium
  2. Renewal
  3. Reflection
  4. Brainseed
  5. Karmic Wheel
  6. Realitatskontrolle (Instrumental)
  7. Zero To None
  8. Europe After The Rain
  9. Depression Unrest
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Frank Gosdzik
  • Rob Fioretti
  • Ventor
1992 Readers' Album #42



Cause For Conflict  
1995 GUN
  1. Prevail
  2. Catholic Despot
  3. Progressive Proletarians
  4. Crisis Of Disorder
  5. Hate Inside Your Head
  6. Bomb Threat
  7. Men Without God
  8. Lost
  9. Dogmatic [Authority]
  10. Sculpture Of Regret
  11. Celestial Deliverance
  12. Isolation
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Frank Gosdzik
  • Christian Geisler
  • Joe Cangelosi
1995 Readers' Album #47



Scenarios Of Violence  
1996 Noise
  1. Suicide in Swamps
  2. Renewal
  3. Extreme Aggressions
  4. Brainseed
  5. Lost
  6. Ripping Corpse (Live)
  7. Tormentor (Live)
  8. Some Pain Will Last
  9. Toxic Trace
  10. Isolation
  11. Depressive Unrest
  12. Agents of Brutality
  13. Europe After the Rain
  14. Limits of Liberty
  15. Terrible Certainty
  16. Karmic Wheel
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor


Outcast  
1997 GUN
  1. Leave This World Behind
  2. Phobia
  3. Forever
  4. Black Sunrse
  5. Nonconformist
  6. Enemy Unseen
  7. Outcast
  8. Stronger Than Before
  9. Ruin Of Life
  10. Whatever It May Take
  11. Alive Again
  12. Against The Rest
  13. A Better Tomorrow
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Tommy Vetterli
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
1997 Readers' Album #53



Endorama  
1999 Drakkar
  1. Golden Age
  2. Endorama
  3. Shadowland
  4. Chosen Few
  5. Everlasting Flame
  6. Passage To Babylon
  7. Future King
  8. Entry
  9. Soul Eraser
  10. Willing Spirit
  11. Pandemonium
  12. Tyranny
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Tommy Vetterli
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
1999 Readers' Album #47



Voices Of Transgression  COMPILATION
1999 GUN
  1. Lucretia (My Reflection)
  2. The Chosen Few
  3. Isolation
  4. Leave This World Behind
  5. Golden Age
  6. Bomb Threat
  7. Phobia
  8. Whatever It May Take
  9. Renewal
  10. Lost
  11. Hate Inside Your Head
  12. Inferno
  13. Outcast
  14. State Oppression {unavailable}
  15. Endorama
  16. Black Sunrise
  17. As We Watch The West


1985 - 1992 Past Life Trauma  COMPILATION
2000 Noise


Violent Revolution  
2001 Steamhammer/SPV
  1. Reconquering The Throne
  2. The Patriarch [insturmental]
  3. Violent Revolution
  4. All Of The Same Blood (Unity)
  5. Servant In Heaven/King In Hell
  6. Second Awakening
  7. Ghetto War
  8. Replicas Of Life
  9. Slave Machinery
  10. Bitter Sweet Revenge
  11. Mind On Fire
  12. System Decay
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
2001 Readers' Album #4



Live Kreation  LIVE
2003 Steamhammer/SPV
  1. The Patriarch
  2. Violent Revolution
  3. Reconquering The Throne
  4. Extreme Aggression
  5. People Of The Lie
  6. All Of The Same Blood
  7. Phobia
  8. Pleasure To Kill
  9. Renewal
  10. Servant In Heaven, King In Hell
  11. Black Sunrise
  12. Terrible Certainty
  13. Rite Of Violence
  14. Lost
  15. Coma Of Souls
  16. Second Awakening
  17. Terrorzone
  18. Betrayer
  19. Leave This World Behind
  20. Awakening The Gods
  21. Golden Age
  22. Flag Of Hate
  23. Tormentor
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor


Enemy Of God  
2005 Steamhammer/SPV
  1. Enemy Of God
  2. Impossible Brutality
  3. Sucide Terrorist
  4. World Anarchy
  5. Dystopia
  6. Voices Of The Dead
  7. Murder Fantasies
  8. When Death Takes It's Dominion
  9. One Evil Comes - A Million Follow
  10. Dying Race Apocalypse
  11. Under A Total Blackened Sky
  12. The Ancient Plague
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
2005 Readers' Album #5



At The Pulse Of Kapitulation  VIDEO
2008 Steamhammer/SPV


Hordes Of Chaos  
2009 Steamhammer/SPV
  1. Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite)
  2. Warcurse
  3. Escalation
  4. Amok Run
  5. Destroy What Destroys You
  6. Radical Resistance
  7. Absolute Misanthropy
  8. To the Afterborn
  9. Corpses of Liberty
  10. Demon Prince
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
2009 Readers' Album #4



Terror Prevails - Live At Rock Hard Festival  LIVE
2010 Nuclear Blast
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor


Phantom Antichrist  
2012 Nuclear Blast
  1. Mars Mantra
  2. Phantom Antichrist
  3. Death To The World
  4. From Flood Into Fire
  5. Civilisation Collapse
  6. United In Hate
  7. The Few, The Proud, The Broken
  8. Your Heaven In My Hell
  9. Victory Will Come
  10. Until Our Paths Cross Again
  11. Iron Destiny (Japan exclusive)
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
2012 Readers' Album #2



Dying Alive  VIDEO
2013 Nuclear Blast


Love Us Or Hate Us - The Very Best Of The Noise Years 1985  COMPILATION
2016


Gods Of Violence  
2017 Nuclear Blast
  1. Apocalypticon
  2. World War Now
  3. Satan Is Real
  4. Totalitarian Terror
  5. Gods Of Violence
  6. Army Of Storms
  7. Hail To The Hordes
  8. Lion With Eagle Wings
  9. Fallen Brother
  10. Side By Side
  11. Death Becomes My Light
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor
2017 Readers' Album #1



Live At Dynamo Open Air 1998  LIVE
2019 Dynamo
  1. Dr. Wagner, Part 3
  2. Terrorzone
  3. Lost
  4. Leave This World Behind
  5. Phobia
  6. Black Sunrise
  7. Choir of the Damned
  8. Pleasure to Kill
  9. Whatever It May Take
  10. Extreme Aggression
  11. Renewal
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Tommy Vetterli
  • Christian Geisler
  • Ventor


For The Hordes  EP
2019


London Apocalypticon - Live At The Roundhouse  LIVE
2020 Nuclear Blast
  1. The Four Horsemen / Choir of the Damned
  2. Enemy of God
  3. Hail to the Hordes
  4. Awakening of the Gods
  5. People of the Lie
  6. Gods of Violence
  7. Satan Is Real
  8. Mars Mantra
  9. Phantom Antichrist
  10. Fallen Brother
  11. Flag of Hate
  12. Phobia
  13. Hordes of Chaos
  14. The Patriarch
  15. Violent Revolution
  16. Pleasure to Kill
  17. Apocalypticon


Bootleg Revolution  LIVE
2022 Nuclear Blast
  1. Violent Revolution (Live in Brazil)
  2. Reconquering the Throne (Live in Brazil)
  3. Extreme Aggression (Live in Korea)
  4. People of the Lie (Live in Korea)
  5. All of the Same Blood (Live in Korea)
  6. Phobia (Live in Korea)
  7. Pleasure to Kill (Live in Korea)
  8. Renewal (Live in Korea)
  9. Servant in Heaven, King in Hell (Live in Brazil)
  10. Terrible Certainty (Live in Korea)
  11. Riot of Violence (Live in Korea)
  12. Terror Zone (Live in Brazil)
  13. Betrayer (Live in Brazil)
  14. Lost (Live in Brazil)
  15. Coma of Souls (Live in Brazil)
  16. Flag of Hate (Live at Wacken)
  17. Tormentor (Live at Wacken)


Hate Über Alles  
2022 Nuclear Blast
  1. Sergio Corbucci Is Dead
  2. Hate über alles
  3. Killer of Jesus
  4. Crush the Tyrants
  5. Strongest of the Strong
  6. Become Immortal
  7. Conquer and Destroy
  8. Midnight Sun
  9. Demonic Future
  10. Pride Comes Before the Fall
  11. Dying Planet
  • Mille Petrozza
  • Sami Yli-Sirniö
  • Frederic Leclercq
  • Ventor



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