Violent Revolution

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Product Description ------------------- In the sixteenth year of their career, Kreator continue to assert their long-standing position as spearheads of the German th metal scene. Kreator aren’t what you’d 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 ------ 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 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist ---------------- 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 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 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 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 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). See more ( javascript:void(0) )