Formed in Essen, Germany in 1984, Kreator is arguably the most influential and successful European thrash metal band ever, like many of their European speed metal brethren, Kreator fused Metallica's thrash innovations with Venom's proto-black metal imagery. Often credited with helping pioneer death metal and black metal by containing several elements of what was to become those genres. The band has achieved worldwide sales of over two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them one of the best-selling German thrash metal bands of all time. The band’s style has changed several times over the years, from a Venom-inspired speed metal sound, later moving into thrash metal, and including a period of transitioning from thrash to industrial metal and gothic metal throughout the 1990s.
Boxset Information:
German thrash metal legends Kreator have just announced a massive retrospective box set, Under the Guillotine, which unites the six albums they released under Noise Records and a lot more.
Each of Kreator's first six records — Endless Pain (1985), Pleasure to Kill (1986), Terrible Certainty (1987), Extreme Aggression (1989), Coma of Souls (1990) and Renewal (1992) — have been newly pressed onto unique colored vinyl in splatter, swirl and half/half design variants.
In addition to these six records, the set includes a live DVD, a reproduction of the End of the World demo recorded under the moniker Tormentor before the group changed their name to Kreator in 1984, a 40-page hardcore book loaded with photos and more, as well as a USB drive containing MP3 files of all the tracks featured in the box set.
— Endless Pain - (Swirl vinyl with original artwork & inner sleeve)
— Pleasure To Kill - (Splatter vinyl with original artwork & inner sleeve)
— Terrible Certainty - (Splatter vinyl with original artwork & inner lyric sleeve)
— Extreme Aggression - (Half/half vinyl with original artwork & inner lyric sleeve)
— Coma Of Souls - (Splatter vinyl with original artwork & inner lyric sleeve)
— Renewal - (Swirl vinyl with original artwork & inner lyric sleeve)
— Some Pain Will Last DVD containing From The Vault mini-documentary, plus two previously unreleased audio live concerts and an Andy Sneap remix of Live In East Berlin 1990
— 12” x 12”, 40-page hardback book of photography, quotes, and lyrics from the first decade of the band's existence. Contains rare and previously unseen photos from the era
— Reproduction End Of The World demo cassette
— Demon figurine USB drive containing MP3 audio of all the expanded editions of all the albums.
— All encased in an executioner's guillotine box.