So we've long had this punchline about how the most metal guy ever was an air-drumming two a.m. Denny's patron in a Kreator tee, but since we could never remember where this joke came from or why we brought it up in the first place we always lumped this Deutschlandic thrash band in with all those shitty high-top groups like Overkill and Vio-lence. But last month when we had to close out our eMusic subscription and when we saw 2003's Live Kreation right there on our screen and realized how an onstage audio document of twenty-five years of heavy metal blood, sweat, and tears could be both ours and super fucking cool we figured, hey, why in the hell not and promptly clicked "download all."And, mother of god, we had no idea Kreator was so darn cooooool! Every song has a "Hellion" intro and a Master of Puppets breakdown and a guy with a weird Euro name screaming about paranoia, and by the time they get to the wanky Charvel solo we're already sore from all our headbanging that we're halfway through our Coors Light tallboy and have some Hot Pockets in the microwave. This is some serious metal for ya, and not in some postured spikey armband way or full of phoney "I can't fucking hear you" stage rap ploys. No sir, this is real deal heavy metal played by middle aged guys who couldn't do anything else if they tried.
Heavy Duty hereby simultaneously names Kreator the Motorhead of Thrash and the best of what Germans do best. They've been around since '82 and 2001's Violent Revolution is so outstanding it's like the band's Painkiller! (Hey, wait....the time between Priest's debut and Painkiller and the time between Kreator's debut and Violent Revolution was about the same....could we have stumbled on a significant metal factoid purely by accident???? Whoa!) Here's a live version of VR's title track as it was performed to 2005's hometown Wacken crowd. We especially like all the waaaay emo crowd shots and the Flying V bass!
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