Product Description
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In the sixteenth year of their career, Kreator continue to
assert their long-standing position as spearheads of the German
th metal scene. Kreator arent what youd call a purely
German phenomenon, they are a prime Teutonic export article with
an impressive track record of over one million albums sold
worldwide, their touring history includes seven tours in the US !
After a temporary foray into more melodic fields, band mastermind
Mille Petroz and his recently restructured group present an
up-dated version of their metallic origins on their new album
Violent Revolution: th metal, forged with as much precision
as you can get in 2001. The tracks on Violent Revolution sound
like the album title: unyielding, rigorous, and powerful.
Review
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It is now time for Kreator to recapture their throne, and a
violent revolution is all that's needed. -- Unrestrained!
Magazine Issue #17 Sept 2001 A. Ristia -9.5 out of 10-
This is TH!!! -- From, Metal-Rules.com September 2001 Rating:
5/5 | Reviewer: EvilG
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About the Artist
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In the sixteenth year of their career, Kreator continue to
assert their long-standing position as spearheads of the German
th 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
Germanys 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 arent what youd 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 version of their metallic origins on their
new album Violent Revolution: th 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-Sirniö, 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-Sirniö has returned as a permanent member, playing his guitar
as if there had never been a Kreator line-up without him.
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 Orwells 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 theres 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 Schälpmeier, 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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