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"Violent Revolution" Kreator |
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Some might say with this album, Kreator was quick to see the err of their ways… and they'd be, well, right. "Reconquering The Throne"
is an immediate and merciless onslaught of a song from the opening seconds
and signaling beyond doubt that Kreator's return is upon us in a flurry Not that "Endorama," their 1999 predecessor was a particularly bad album, judged solely upon content, but it wasn't a "true" Kreator album with all its Gothically inspired overtones. Kreator's been at it far
too long to one day throw away years and years of faithful followers and
with the unleashing of "Violent Revolution," they're quick to
acknowledge their Thrash Metal roots-"Reconquering The Throne,"
"Violent Revolution," "All Of The Same Blood," "Second
Awakening," to name but a few, all embark on a caustic Few were there at the beginning of the German Thrash scene as was Kreator, and to have survived in tact all the years since. Theirs has been a long, arduous odyssey marked by revolving band members, stylistic deficiencies and tough knocks and through it all, some eighteen or twenty years later, they emerge unscathed and as brutal as ever. "Violent Revolution"
amalgamates the bands' history from the earliest days of "Pleasure
To Kill," to "Extreme Aggression," to "Outcast"
and beyond, "renewing" rather than reinventing their style,
a fact never better exemplified than on this contemplative yet Released by SPV: http://www.spv.de/ Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] |