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Kreator – Love Us Or Hate UsLabel: BMG - Noise Records ReissuesFormat: CD Released: 2016 Reviewed By: Rich Catino Rating: 8/ 10 |
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In the early 80s, while Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Overkill, and Exodus were creating Thrash Metal in America, the Germans were also - Kreator, with Sodom, Destruction, and Tankard. Kreator released their first album in 1985, only to be pre-dated by Destruction with the E.P. “Sentence of Death” and Sodom’s “In The Sign of Evil” in 1984. Tankard soon followed with their debut “Zombie Attack” in 86’. Kreator (as with Destruction, Sodom, and Tankard), had more in common with the harsher, more aggressive, at times faster sounds of Slayer and Exodus, Motorhead, with a more brutal voice, lacking melody and dynamics, to which would later influence to Death Metal. For those who never really heard Kreator because their albums were only available as limited numbers of imports, the Noise years cover the albums “Endless Pain” (1985), “Pleasure to Kill” (1986), “Terrible Certainty” (1987), “Extreme Aggression” (1989), “Coma of Souls” (1990), and “Renewal” (1992). |
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The first three songs on this compilation come from the debut “Endless Pain”, and you can really how they had much Death Metal in their sound and arrangements before the genre was created. Yet, while still heavy and fast, the beginning of ‘Behind The Mirror’ (off “Terrible Certainty”) shows the inclusion of melodic clean guitar melody and a tempo change. So early in their career Kreator knew the importance of pulling in melody and dynamics, which would show up more and more with each album. Title track, to one of my favorite albums, “Coma Of Souls”, demonstrates Kreator’s use of switching up a couple different tempos and grooves in one song, while ‘Karmic Wheel’ and the title track of “Renewal”, show their (failed) experimental period which started with this album and carried on through the album “Endorama”. These are the editions available in America which are only a single disc, and have about a song or two from almost every one of the band’s albums. While you get a good smathering of their music, and several often played in concert, it is better to get the two disc edition because you get more tracks, and get to hear more of the bands range of songwriting.
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