Kreator is a Thrash Metal band from Germany. They are very influential, along with slayer, Possessed and the other two Teutonic terrors for the creation of Extreme Metal. Their first studio album, Endless Pain, is a wild ride through the kingdom of Thrash Metal!
Band - Kreator
Album - Endless Pain
Year - 1985
Genre - Thrash Metal
Country - Germany
The record kicks off with the title track. The drummer and guitarist both sing on this record. Ventor, the drummer does lead vocals on this tune. Lots of great riffs in this tune, along with plenty of time changes as well. Great start to a solid thrash album. Next up is Total Death. This time Millie, the guitarist is on vocals. They switch between each song so this will be the last time I make note of it. Another great head banging tune! I prefer Millie’s vocals personally. Next is Storm of the Beast. It starts with a sweet drum intro and goes into some midpaced riffing. Then it kicks into high gear! The tune slows down again for a cool bridge section and speeds up once again for some awesome shredding! Lots of great riffs as always in this tune. Next is Tormentor. Its fast and relentless and very evil sounding, especially during the chorus where the vocals are downright demonic! Actually scratch that, the whole song is demonic! Son of Evil comes next and with it more speed! Very punky vocals on this tune and a more Speed Metalesqe riff. At the midway point it becomes more midpaced just to speed up again for more relentless thrashing! Wild solo in this tune as well. Flag of Hate comes in with some more badass riffing and more evil vocals from Millie. Awesome song as usual. Cry war starts off slow and heavy, but as usual that never lasts long… It quickly goes into the usual blazingly fast pace and as usual its awesome. They switch back to the slow and heavy as well throughout the song which is great, it makes you anticipate the ball breaking, hand banging fast pace! Another crazy solo in this one as well, this album is a bit of a shred fest not much in the way of melodic guitar playing, but really who gives a shit! Next up is Bone Breaker, and guess what! It kicks ass! Oh and the next two songs? They kick ass too! Living in fear has a pretty epic, heavy intro then goes into, you guessed it fast, heavy riffing with lots of riff changes to keep it interesting! Finally we get to Dying Victims which actually starts with clean guitar! Its odd, but then the sweet riffing truly begins, then the evil ass vocals that Millie always delivers.
I sort of got tired of saying basically the same this for every song, I mean really this is just simply awesome Thrash Metal. Every song here is great. It’s all fast, heavy, evil and has lots of great shredding solos. It’s really everything a good Thrash album should have. The riffing is top notch, lots of different riffs throughout, plenty of riff changes in each song. Soloing is great, bass is decent drumming is top notch. Both vocalists are awesome in their own way. Millie is very harsh, rasp and evil sounding. His vocals are almost black metal sounding at times. Ventor on the other hand, sings slightly cleaner and has a somewhat punky, American thrash sounding style. Both compliment the songs they sing on perfectly. Overall, this is an amazing Thrash album. If you like Thrash then this album is pretty much essential. Get Pleasure to kill as well while you’re at it.
Here are four tunes (Two Millie fronted and two Ventor fronted) for you to check out
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