KREATOR — Pleasure to Kill (review)

KREATOR — Pleasure to Kill album cover Album · 1986 · Thrash Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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After a terribly primitive debut album Endless Pain; Kreator released one of their fan favorite albums Pleasure To Kill in 1986, which was a ferocious and biting mixture of all out speed with all out aggression that subsequently went on to become one of the band’s best known works, hugely influential and a classic album of Thrash Metal in general.

Pleasure To Kill contains several of the band’s best known and best loved songs; such as the title track, as well as ‘Riot Of Violence,’ and ‘Under the Guillotine.’ At first listen, people may write Kreator off as pure speed, but upon closer inspection you will find a great deal of variety, complexity and strong musicianship. The band mix in creative riffs of varying tempos and vocal patterns you wouldn’t hear anywhere else, which separates them from some of the lesser bands in the speed-arms-race.

The production on Pleasure To Kill isn’t as polished as on later releases, the lyrics are fairly straightforward and unpolitical and Jürgen ‘Ventor,’ Reil’s drumming style is unusual, but all of that could be taken as good or bad depending on which styles of thrash you enjoy the best.

The albums which followed would expand the band’s scope, with more acoustic sections, longer more complex songs and a technical approach. If however you just want the raw aggression and power then give Pleasure To Kill a listen If you do like nasty, heavy music full of thumping drums, harsh vocals and plentiful guitar solos then Pleasure To Kill is certainly an album you should consider trying out. If you are a full on Kreator fan already however, Pleasure To Kill is an absolutely essential purchase.

If you can, I’d advise buying the version with the Flag Of Hate EP as bonus tracks, which adds three excellent tracks from the same era to the proceedings, two of which are over six minutes long.
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