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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Kreator - Caught on Camera

German thrash metal, British metalcore and American nu metal: all the best bits from Sonic Temple 2026 day 3

Kreator, Architects and Coal Chamber were some of the highlights on another stellar day of metal

Metal Hammer

"There can be more spices – we have a choir on three songs – but the foundation must be secure." 16 albums into a 44-year career, German thrash veterans Kreator are still doing their own thing

Kreator's Krushers Of The World album is out now

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“Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show

Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

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‘We built a castle on stage complete with battlements’: how 80s German thrash bands pushed metal to new extremes

As Metallica et al broke through, Kreator, Sodom and Destruction were forging an even harder sound. They recall gigs in coalmines, sessions in steelworks – and boozing with Slayer

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"We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery

"When we heard Venom, all our songs became satanic."

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“I was in the front row. Everybody was pushing and things got really violent”: This is what it was like watching Metallica on their first European tour, as explained by a fellow thrash metal star

Kreator’s Mille Petrozza was 15 when he saw the future biggest band in metal support Venom at a 3,000-capacity festival in the Netherlands

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The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Kreator, Electric Callboy and Kim Dracula are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Judas Priest, Kreator and Soulfly are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"We’re not just into camels and palm trees." 20 years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing death metal. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene

Rabat's Tricinty Festival is helping put Moroccan metal on the map

Louder

“As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal

The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it

Metal Hammer

“The English press used to call us ‘hate metal’. It fit the music”: How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map

Kreator’s second album, Pleasure To Kill, proved that America didn’t have the monopoly on thrash

Metal Hammer

What links fool’s gold, fluffernutter, pilgrim and Reuben? The Saturday quiz

From Helloween, Kreator and Rammstein to caldarium and tepidarium, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

“He jerry-rigged this insane swamp cooler system... The board could have easily overheated and we would have lost everything”: How Blood Incantation created a cosmic death metal masterpiece as the legendary Hansa Studios headed towards meltdown

Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky takes us back to “the craziest summer ever“, when the cosmic expansion of their sound yielded a landmark of prog death and an air con outage near destroyed it all

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“Everybody thought, ‘Now World War III is gonna come!’” Mille Petrozza reveals which classic Kreator track was inspired by 9/11

Influenced by the confusion and hostility that followed 9/11, Kreator wrote an anarchic thrasher that continued their 2000s comeback

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“We go very deep into the struggles of starting the band, the impact of the tape-trading community back then, and loads of stories and interesting moments that led to the band being where we are today”: A Kreator biography is coming in 2025

Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year

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“They were there in the beginning”: Slayer/Exodus guitarist Gary Holt names the two thrash bands who deserve more credit

“They were ripping these albums apart and killing it before these other bands!”

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Watch thrash legends Testament perform live with 11-year-old on guitar

Guitar prodigy Maya Neelakantan joined Testament onstage in Vegas last week

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“Americans tried to write songs and harmonies. We didn’t care about that. We just wanted to be filthy!”: the snarling, savage story of German thrash

Metallica and Slayer grabbed the headlines, but they couldn’t match Germany’s Kreator, Sodom or Destruction for filthy viciousness

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“These bikers came bursting into our place. I’m sure we would have been killed”: how violence, rocket attacks and the Cold War helped Voivod make 80s prog-thrash masterpiece Dimension Hatröss

The story of Voivod’s ground-breaking 1988 album Dimension Hatröss, the album that helped shaped modern prog metal

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"There's no better catharsis than being at a thrash-metal show, screaming along with the band and banging your head": Scott Ian on why you should still go and watch Anthrax

One of thrash metal’s Big Four bring the noise – plus Kreator and Testament – to Europe in November

Guitar World

“Thrash metal legend unlocks his tonal secrets”: KHDK and Kreator’s Mille Petrozza claim to have created the “perfect overdrive”, the Deathscream – and it could also solve a common digital modeling amp headache

The Deathscream continues the firm’s recent run of signature pedals – and it might be the key to introducing extra warmth to your digital rig

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The 10 best Metallica songs not by Metallica

From Avenged Sevenfold to Evile, many have used the Four Horsemen’s influence to pen some similar yet still-incredible anthems

Louder

From its incredible lineup to its unique and historic location, this is why Poland's Mystic Festival is a must-visit for metal fans around the world

With headliners Bring Me The Horizon, Machine Head and Megadeth, plus Bruce Dickinson, Kreator, Satyricon and many more, you can't afford to miss Mystic 2024!

Metal Hammer

"This is possibly the most irresistible thrash package ever put together." Anthrax, Kreator and Testament announce UK and European tour

An all-time classic thrash metal tour is coming Europe's way this year!

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