This week I'm ranking the discography of German Thrash Metal legend's Kreator. Hope you enjoy. Cheers #vinylcommunity #musiccommunity #kreator #thrashmetal #mrboulder
I'd need to swap that Renewal box you have broken. I've got no time for a damaged case 😂. Oh I've waited all week to use that joke 😂. You got that Phantom Antichrist a bit low for my tastes. I'd love that Enemy of God on vinyl. That's probably the album I've played most. Enjoyed the video mate.
It's gonna get swapped definitely. 😂 Nice Motorhead joke there Mike. Phantom Antichrist is great, it's just the others before it have a little more quality for me. Cheers mate
I'd heard of Swap Meet as it's the name of a Nirvana song but I didn't know what it meant, thanks for the information 😀 Glad you enjoy the video's and thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers
Great ranking. So many killer albums. Extreme Aggression is an album I need to try again. I guess after Terrible Certainty Kreator becomes very hit an miss for me personally but still, such a killer thrash band. Great video as always James!!
Extreme Agression is an album that's definitely worth revisiting mate, great album. Cheers Steve and I hope you and yours have a great Christmas mate 👍
Great video Mr Boulder. In the minority here, but Violent Revolution is my fav. I remember 2001 well, Sodom released M-16 also that year. It gave me hope again in thrash metal and luckily the genre slowly got back on track
Cheers fella. Violent Revolution is a great album. Yeah it's amazing to think Thrash was on its arse in the late 90's, but by the mid 2000's it was back in a big way
Your dead right about the riff to Total Death, it's very Strike Of The Beast. I'd love to know what Gary Holt thinks! I agree there's no bad albums, even those at the bottom. Here's how I rank em.. 1. Phantom Antichrist 2. Extreme Aggression 3. Violent Revolution 4. Enemy Of God 5. Gods Of Violence 6. Hate Uber Alles 7. Coma Of Souls 8. Pleasure To Kill 9. Terrible Certainty 10.Hordes Of Chaos 11.Outcast 12.Cause For Conflict 13.Endless Pain 14.Renewal 15.Endorama
1. Pleasure to Kill 2. Extreme Aggression 3. Endless Pain 4. Terrible Certainty 5. Coma of Souls 6. Violent Revolution 7. Enemy of God 8. Gods of Violence 9. Hordes of Chaos 10. Hate Über Alles 11. Phantom Antichrist 12. Cause for Conflict 13. Renewal 14. Outcast 15. Endorama
Great ranking! My favorite Kreator album is also Extreme Aggression!. I also really enjoy those 2 EPs from the 80's Flag Of Hate EP (Awaking Of The Gods is KILLER!) and the Out Of The Dark Into The Light EP (Imposible To Cure is GREAT!). Cheers from Lima Perú! \m/
I always knew about Kreator but never gave them a listen. I don't know any Kreator tunes I'm afraid 😅. But since its thrash metal, I think I'll like it. Will give them a listen on Spotify! In any case, great vid per usual James 🤘
Good to hear your thoughts on the albums James. The top 7 are essential metal albums. Violent revolution and enemy of god are up there in quality with those early releases. Cool you have those on vinyl.
Your number 1 is the only one I ever heard. I really got into that one, but Death Metal took over my listening at the start of the 90s & didn't buy Coma of Souls. I think maybe I should have.
Really enjoy watching your ranking videos James I own about half their albums most of which are from the 2000s and beyond I do have coma of souls no doubt I'll pick up the others at some point I'm fine with the 90s output as well thanks for this one mate look forward to more ranking videos!
Hi James!!! So cool to hear your thoughts about Kreator career and ranking their albums.... I'm super late to this party because back in the day this type of thrash was a little bit to harsh for what i was listening and then the 90's appeared and all when down the drain, lol.......Now i'm "discovering" most of the german thrash bands and adding them to my endless wantlist, lol. cheers and be well
I own Outcast, Renewal, Endorama and Cause for Conflict on vinyl and I would happily give them away for a vinyl copy of Enemy of God😝 great ranking man, my top 3 would change on a monthly basis
I didn't realise Enemy of God was difficult to come by on vinyl, great album. Any of those top 3 could have easily been my number 1. Cheers mate as always 👍
Excellent Kreator ranking, James! I heard about Kreator a lot but I've only scratch the surface on them. I know they've had mostly great albums but haven't gotten around to checking them out. Coma of Souls & Outcast are literally the only Kreator albums I have 😅.
Great ranking! Personally, I consider Extreme Aggression the best thrash metal album ever recorded. I know I am in the minority, but I really love the album!
Love the vids man👍👍 did you ever think about doing like a top ten guitarists for each genre type video so like one video is top ten thrash guitarists or glam guitarist or hard rock
Great Kreator ranking James! I've had a love hate relationship with Kreator, I haven't heard everything by them. When I heard the first 2 albums I couldn't get into it, the guitars were pretty crap I thought. The newer stuff I kind of like, some of it is good but they have really meh choruses that are not needed. The late 90's stuff I haven't listened to, but I'm not really interested to honestly. Cause for conflict however I might try out. But my favourite era is Terrible certainty - Coma of souls, to me the production and musicianship is perfect! Those albums got me into Kreator, and now I would like to try their other stuff. But you're right, their early albums are the best. Nice one James! 😊🤘🤘
I've never had a problem with the guitars on the first 2 albums, some of their best stuff is on those records. The late 90's stuff is definitely worth giving a listen. They were still delivering quality songs and riffs. Cheers Josh
@@mrboulder9714 Ah ok that's fair enough man, that's cool. I just thought the guitar solos were rubbish, compared with Terrible certainty and Extreme aggression they're night and day. But I'll have to revisit those first 2 albums. Ok that's cool, I might try them out eventually, but honestly right now they're not high on my priority list. Cause for conflict I might give a try though. You're welcome mate 😊🤘
Good to hear your thoughts on Kreator's output. I'm fine with them experimenting a bit in the 90s. I mean a lot of thrash bands were left scratching their heads trying to figure out where to go next. "People of the Lie" might be my favorite of theirs.
Man I'm very jealous, been a fan of these guys for ever and just got back into vinyl collecting. I was able to track down a few but, violent, enemy and hordes are stupid expensive, those are some of my favorite albums. Hoping for another re-release. BTW I saw some UK seller on EBAY has renewal and outcast on vinyl.
Great ranking. I kinda lost interest sfter Phantom Antichrist, they got too melodic and lost the viciousness that I loved about them. Extreme Aggressions fucking rules. Great video James!!
I never could get into 'Outcast' or 'Endorama'; I think they strayed too far from their core values on those. 🤔 Strangely enough, I like large parts of 'Renewal', though.. go figure.. 🤗 My favorite is hands down 'Pleasure to Kill'; the ONLY album that could rival Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' for pure thrash brutality back in 1986.. 🤘🤘 Speaking of brutality, my favorite Kreator track is 'Impossible Brutality' though; that one is so insanely catchy! 👌👌
The 90's output is not perfect, but there's plenty of good stuff on those albums. Yeah agreed that Pleasure To Kill can match the brutality of Reign In Blood. Thanks for watching and commenting
My list would be more mixed between the different periods. I don't have them ranked in groups of 90s experimental, later albums and classic albums. But if I would use your list as a springboard I would first move 'Terrible Certainty' way down the list. Mediocre production and songs. There is a reason they hardly play those songs live. I would move 'Hordes of Chaos' to the very top of the list. It's the album I keep returning to. It's a brutal album that stays away from the Gothenburg sounding stuff you get on most of the other later album. It's relentless in how song after song just keep kicking ass. When you have the first couple of songs out of the way, and you think they are about to slow down a bit, you get a song that is actually called 'Escalation' as if to tell you "Nope, we are not going that route on thus album. We'll just keep ramping it up!". As opposed to you I think Mille's voice is more powerful and brutal on the later albums. He has a boyish yelping tone to his voice on the early stuff. On 'Hordes' you hear none of that whining sound. I would also move 'Renewal' up. It's a very solid album with a unique style in both songwriting and in production. It has some slow parts but it also has burners like 'Europe after the rain' that just thrashes everything. I think it's a classy album. About 'Violent Revolution' and 'Enemy of God': I feel those albums are a bit overrated. My opinion on them have changed over the years. I was blown away when 'Violent Revolution' came out. 'Reconquering the Throne' was such a statement. Kreator was back! But take away that song and you mostly have leftovers from 'Outcast'. Most songs are rather dull. And the title track annoys me as it has such a monotonous chorus and that they insist on playing it on every show. Overall though: I love Kreator and I love the way the new albums sound even if I generally prefer the songs on the early albums.
Another great ranking Mr. B. Watching your rankings is always enjoyable and never a chore. Endless Pain was my 'in', ordered it blind in '85, like i did with all the Noise releases back then. Didn't care what the name of the band was, I loved everything i bought on that label, I used to pick my next orders from the inner sleeve of my latest aquisition. cost me a small fortune, £5.99 per LP i was charged. All those early ones i got had a little red sticker on the front. "Not For Sale In Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Licensed For Export Only". Obviously they became cheaper when Noise International came about. The first 5 Kreator albums are all at number 1 with me, can't decide and i have tried many times down the years to do so. These guys have been my favourite band since that first album and they are STILL turning out fantastic albums.
Cheers Neil, much appreciated fella. Good to hear of your history with the band, those first 5 albums are definitely untouchable. Thanks for watching fella
Extreme Aggression rules. Betrayer blew me away on first listen and I fell in love with the entire album 🤘
Yeah, that album is amazing. I loved it from the very first listen
Cheers
Trying to get most of the non remastered albums !!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟
KREATOR !!!!!!!!
SAW THEM at the end of 2022 !!!!!!
Yeah i saw them a few years ago and they were fantastic. Seeing them later this year with Testament and Anthrax, gonna be excellent. Cheers fella 👍
@@mrboulder9714 wiked I didn't see that tour date ??!??!??!
I'd need to swap that Renewal box you have broken. I've got no time for a damaged case 😂. Oh I've waited all week to use that joke 😂. You got that Phantom Antichrist a bit low for my tastes. I'd love that Enemy of God on vinyl. That's probably the album I've played most. Enjoyed the video mate.
It's gonna get swapped definitely. 😂 Nice Motorhead joke there Mike. Phantom Antichrist is great, it's just the others before it have a little more quality for me. Cheers mate
We call a car boot sale the swap meet out here in California 🤣🤟🏼 (many awesome finds there over the years) love your videos Mr. Boulder! ❤
I'd heard of Swap Meet as it's the name of a Nirvana song but I didn't know what it meant, thanks for the information 😀 Glad you enjoy the video's and thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers
Great ranking. So many killer albums. Extreme Aggression is an album I need to try again. I guess after Terrible Certainty Kreator becomes very hit an miss for me personally but still, such a killer thrash band. Great video as always James!!
Extreme Agression is an album that's definitely worth revisiting mate, great album. Cheers Steve and I hope you and yours have a great Christmas mate 👍
@@mrboulder9714 merry Christmas james!!
Great video Mr Boulder.
In the minority here, but Violent Revolution is my fav.
I remember 2001 well, Sodom released M-16 also that year. It gave me hope again in thrash metal and luckily the genre slowly got back on track
Cheers fella. Violent Revolution is a great album. Yeah it's amazing to think Thrash was on its arse in the late 90's, but by the mid 2000's it was back in a big way
Your dead right about the riff to Total Death, it's very Strike Of The Beast. I'd love to know what Gary Holt thinks! I agree there's no bad albums, even those at the bottom. Here's how I rank em..
1. Phantom Antichrist
2. Extreme Aggression
3. Violent Revolution
4. Enemy Of God
5. Gods Of Violence
6. Hate Uber Alles
7. Coma Of Souls
8. Pleasure To Kill
9. Terrible Certainty
10.Hordes Of Chaos
11.Outcast
12.Cause For Conflict
13.Endless Pain
14.Renewal
15.Endorama
Glad you picked up on that similarity too fella. Excellent ranking too, thanks for sharing it. Cheers mate
1. Pleasure to Kill
2. Extreme Aggression
3. Endless Pain
4. Terrible Certainty
5. Coma of Souls
6. Violent Revolution
7. Enemy of God
8. Gods of Violence
9. Hordes of Chaos
10. Hate Über Alles
11. Phantom Antichrist
12. Cause for Conflict
13. Renewal
14. Outcast
15. Endorama
Killer ranking, very similar to mine. Cheers for watching and sharing your ranking fella 👍
Killer ranking mate. Extreme Aggression is my fav album by Kreator as well. Cheers mate.
Thanks Mark. Yeah Extreme Agression is a beast of an album. Cheers as always for watching mate
Coma of souls is a favourite of mine by these guys
It's a great album. People of The Lie is such an amazing song. Thanks for watching and commenting
Great ranking! My favorite Kreator album is also Extreme Aggression!. I also really enjoy those 2 EPs from the 80's Flag Of Hate EP (Awaking Of The Gods is KILLER!) and the Out Of The Dark Into The Light EP (Imposible To Cure is GREAT!). Cheers from Lima Perú! \m/
Great first choice and yes those 2 EP's are very good. Thanks for watching and commenting 👌
Really great video, did enjoy it. Kreator is one of my favorite bands of all time.🤩🤘🙌
Kreator is excellent. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment
I always knew about Kreator but never gave them a listen. I don't know any Kreator tunes I'm afraid 😅. But since its thrash metal, I think I'll like it. Will give them a listen on Spotify! In any case, great vid per usual James 🤘
Plenty of good stuff for you to discover Kenan. Cheers mate as always 👍
Good to hear your thoughts on the albums James. The top 7 are essential metal albums. Violent revolution and enemy of god are up there in quality with those early releases. Cool you have those on vinyl.
Cheers Grant. A band with a very solid discography with no bad albums at all.
Your number 1 is the only one I ever heard. I really got into that one, but Death Metal took over my listening at the start of the 90s & didn't buy Coma of Souls. I think maybe I should have.
I'd recommend Coma of Soul's and the one's that came before Extreme Aggression. Cheers for watching and commenting fella 👍
Really enjoy watching your ranking videos James I own about half their albums most of which are from the 2000s and beyond I do have coma of souls no doubt I'll pick up the others at some point I'm fine with the 90s output as well thanks for this one mate look forward to more ranking videos!
Cheers Robert. The 90's output is decent but the 80's output is amazing. Glad you enjoyed the video fella 👍
Hi James!!! So cool to hear your thoughts about Kreator career and ranking their albums.... I'm super late to this party because back in the day this type of thrash was a little bit to harsh for what i was listening and then the 90's appeared and all when down the drain, lol.......Now i'm "discovering" most of the german thrash bands and adding them to my endless wantlist, lol. cheers and be well
Cheers Cristian. Plenty of good stuff in this discography for you to discover.
Terrible Certainty is No 1 for me. Love it.
Agreed. An amazing album. Thanks for watching and commenting
I own Outcast, Renewal, Endorama and Cause for Conflict on vinyl and I would happily give them away for a vinyl copy of Enemy of God😝 great ranking man, my top 3 would change on a monthly basis
I didn't realise Enemy of God was difficult to come by on vinyl, great album. Any of those top 3 could have easily been my number 1. Cheers mate as always 👍
Excellent Kreator ranking, James! I heard about Kreator a lot but I've only scratch the surface on them. I know they've had mostly great albums but haven't gotten around to checking them out. Coma of Souls & Outcast are literally the only Kreator albums I have 😅.
Plenty of great stuff for you to discover with these guys Tony. Cheers mate 👍
Awesome kreator ranking video my favorite is pleasure to kill and just got done listening to Abysmal Dawn From Ashes 2006 cd
Pleasure to Kill is a beast. I'll have to check out Abysmal Dawn. Cheers fella
Solid position for Pleasure to Kill - was the first Kreator I heard.
That's a beast of an album, was the first one I heard too
Great ranking! Personally, I consider Extreme Aggression the best thrash metal album ever recorded. I know I am in the minority, but I really love the album!
Thanks. It's an amazing album, packed with great songs. Definitely my number 1. Cheers for watching and leaving a comment
Pleasure to kill has always been my number one. But can't argue with extreme aggression being at the top
Both excellent albums that deserve to be at the top of the discography. Thanks for watching and commenting
Love the vids man👍👍 did you ever think about doing like a top ten guitarists for each genre type video so like one video is top ten thrash guitarists or glam guitarist or hard rock
Hey fella. Yes I have had this idea, I'll probably do some of these videos next year. Cheers
Thanks for the vid👍👍
Your welcome fella
Violent revolution and phantom antichrist is probably my top two modern kreator albums
Both good albums with amazing songs on. The song Phantom Antichrist is an absolute beast. Cheers for watching and commenting
Great Kreator ranking James! I've had a love hate relationship with Kreator, I haven't heard everything by them. When I heard the first 2 albums I couldn't get into it, the guitars were pretty crap I thought. The newer stuff I kind of like, some of it is good but they have really meh choruses that are not needed. The late 90's stuff I haven't listened to, but I'm not really interested to honestly. Cause for conflict however I might try out. But my favourite era is Terrible certainty - Coma of souls, to me the production and musicianship is perfect! Those albums got me into Kreator, and now I would like to try their other stuff. But you're right, their early albums are the best. Nice one James! 😊🤘🤘
I've never had a problem with the guitars on the first 2 albums, some of their best stuff is on those records. The late 90's stuff is definitely worth giving a listen. They were still delivering quality songs and riffs. Cheers Josh
@@mrboulder9714 Ah ok that's fair enough man, that's cool. I just thought the guitar solos were rubbish, compared with Terrible certainty and Extreme aggression they're night and day. But I'll have to revisit those first 2 albums.
Ok that's cool, I might try them out eventually, but honestly right now they're not high on my priority list. Cause for conflict I might give a try though. You're welcome mate 😊🤘
@JoshKeech Cause of Conflict I would highly recommend from that period mate
@@mrboulder9714 Ah nice that's great, I'll definitely check that one out! Cheers 😊🤘
Great ranking James, Extreme is my favorite too…there’s quite a few of these I haven’t heard for some strange reason
Excellent video Mate 🤘
Yeah Extreme Agression is a beast, so many great songs. Cheers mate as always 👍
Good to hear your thoughts on Kreator's output. I'm fine with them experimenting a bit in the 90s. I mean a lot of thrash bands were left scratching their heads trying to figure out where to go next. "People of the Lie" might be my favorite of theirs.
Their 90's period is decent, I don't dislike any of those albums. With you on 'People of The Lie' such an amazing song. Cheers Kim
I love kreator , I can’t really decide my top 5 as it changes all the time , maybe terrible uncertainty
It's so close at the top of the pile. My number 3 could have easily been my number 1. Cheers for watching fella 👍
For some reason I'm always curious to see where people rank renewal.
It's quite low down my ranking but I enjoy it, it's a good album. Cheers
Hi there.TUOMO FROM FINLAND.Tpp 5 Creator albums:
1.Extreme Aggression
2.Terrible Certainty
3.Hordes Of Chaos
4.Phantom Antichrist
5.Pleasure To Kill
Cheers Tuomo. Killer top 5 ranking. Thanks for watching and commenting
Thought for sure pleasure was gonna be 1. My fav is coma of couls
Coma of Souls has some of my favourite Kreator songs on it. Thanks for watching and commenting
Man I'm very jealous, been a fan of these guys for ever and just got back into vinyl collecting. I was able to track down a few but, violent, enemy and hordes are stupid expensive, those are some of my favorite albums. Hoping for another re-release. BTW I saw some UK seller on EBAY has renewal and outcast on vinyl.
Great ranking. I kinda lost interest sfter Phantom Antichrist, they got too melodic and lost the viciousness that I loved about them. Extreme Aggressions fucking rules. Great video James!!
Gotta love the rawness of the early albums. Extreme Agression is indeed a beast. Cheers as always Dave my friend
@mrboulder9714 Your top 5 were very close to what mine would be really. Good to see you James!!
I never could get into 'Outcast' or 'Endorama'; I think they strayed too far from their core values on those. 🤔 Strangely enough, I like large parts of 'Renewal', though.. go figure.. 🤗
My favorite is hands down 'Pleasure to Kill'; the ONLY album that could rival Slayer's 'Reign in Blood' for pure thrash brutality back in 1986.. 🤘🤘
Speaking of brutality, my favorite Kreator track is 'Impossible Brutality' though; that one is so insanely catchy! 👌👌
The 90's output is not perfect, but there's plenty of good stuff on those albums. Yeah agreed that Pleasure To Kill can match the brutality of Reign In Blood. Thanks for watching and commenting
My list would be more mixed between the different periods. I don't have them ranked in groups of 90s experimental, later albums and classic albums. But if I would use your list as a springboard I would first move 'Terrible Certainty' way down the list. Mediocre production and songs. There is a reason they hardly play those songs live. I would move 'Hordes of Chaos' to the very top of the list. It's the album I keep returning to. It's a brutal album that stays away from the Gothenburg sounding stuff you get on most of the other later album. It's relentless in how song after song just keep kicking ass. When you have the first couple of songs out of the way, and you think they are about to slow down a bit, you get a song that is actually called 'Escalation' as if to tell you "Nope, we are not going that route on thus album. We'll just keep ramping it up!". As opposed to you I think Mille's voice is more powerful and brutal on the later albums. He has a boyish yelping tone to his voice on the early stuff. On 'Hordes' you hear none of that whining sound.
I would also move 'Renewal' up. It's a very solid album with a unique style in both songwriting and in production. It has some slow parts but it also has burners like 'Europe after the rain' that just thrashes everything. I think it's a classy album.
About 'Violent Revolution' and 'Enemy of God': I feel those albums are a bit overrated. My opinion on them have changed over the years. I was blown away when 'Violent Revolution' came out. 'Reconquering the Throne' was such a statement. Kreator was back! But take away that song and you mostly have leftovers from 'Outcast'. Most songs are rather dull. And the title track annoys me as it has such a monotonous chorus and that they insist on playing it on every show.
Overall though: I love Kreator and I love the way the new albums sound even if I generally prefer the songs on the early albums.
Cheers for watching and commenting. The experimental 90's period is definitely decent it must be said
Satan is Real is a great title/song.
Song is good. Not so keen on the title. Cheers for watching fella
Kreator ' Extreme Agression' or Slayer ' Decade of Agression?'??
Extreme Agression for me
Another great ranking Mr. B. Watching your rankings is always enjoyable and never a chore.
Endless Pain was my 'in', ordered it blind in '85, like i did with all the Noise releases back then. Didn't care what the name of the band was, I loved everything i bought on that label, I used to pick my next orders from the inner sleeve of my latest aquisition. cost me a small fortune, £5.99 per LP i was charged. All those early ones i got had a little red sticker on the front. "Not For Sale In Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Licensed For Export Only". Obviously they became cheaper when Noise International came about. The first 5 Kreator albums are all at number 1 with me, can't decide and i have tried many times down the years to do so. These guys have been my favourite band since that first album and they are STILL turning out fantastic albums.
Cheers Neil, much appreciated fella. Good to hear of your history with the band, those first 5 albums are definitely untouchable. Thanks for watching fella