Extreme Aggression - Kreator

This album is a thrash metal classic, featuring a band at their creative best, firing on all cylinders. Led by guitarist / vocalist Mille Petrozza, Germany's Kreator were one of the more important bands to emerge from the 80s metal scene in general. And now some 20 years later, this album still sounds fresh and exciting. The title track album opener sets the tone perfectly, with the furious vocal delivery and frantic riffs that make you start air guitaring and headbanging instantly. This pretty much continues all the way through to the end, though if I had to pick out a couple of favourites it would have to be the catchy "Love Us Or Hate Us" and the ...  Read the complete review

Kreator were one of the most significant European thrash bands, taking the American style and twisting it to harder, more violent and more despicable climes along with their contemporaries such as Celtic Frost and Bathory. The band's early albums are widely revered as classics among the thrash metal scene, but their fourth release 'Extreme Aggression' marks a disappointing lull that seems to find the band struggling for ideas. The vocal yells and down-tuned guitars sound like a primordial version of death metal, but the songs themselves are often lacking in energy, slowing down too often when a faster tempo would be more appealing. Opener 'Extreme Aggression' ...  Read the complete review