{"id":93861,"date":"2022-06-10T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=93861"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:55:13","slug":"album-review-kreator-hate-uber-alles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-kreator-hate-uber-alles\/","title":{"rendered":"KREATOR – Hate \u00dcber Alles (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KREATOR
Hate \u00dcber Alles<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNuclear Blast (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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One cannot argue with the fact that Teutonic metalheads Kreator, along with fellow countrymen Sodom, Destruction<\/a> and Tankard, are still going strong and putting out reasonable material.<\/p>\n

I could be one of those people accused of living in the past and dismissing a lot of the albums recorded over the last 25 years by these bands, but they\u2019ve remained as figureheads within the genre. While Sodom and Destruction have attempted to remain thrash, albeit generic and often forgettable at times, there\u2019s no blaming for Kreator who have experimented with their sound and progressed with those Gothic streaks and melodic arrangements.<\/p>\n

Of course, the old fusty die-hard fans snorted in derision at such pallid pathways, demanding another Pleasure To Kill<\/em> without realising that Kreator just aren\u2019t those young lads anymore, and to go back to even attempt to re-create such a legendary thrash opus would be blasphemous.<\/p>\n

So, where do bands go? Well, it\u2019s only natural an outfit like Kreator should experiment \u2013 for better or for worse \u2013 but it will please the thrashier souls to find that this new record is more of a speedier affair at times, which last opus Gods Of Violence<\/em><\/a> hinted at.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are still moments where the band tries something different, such as the tribal dabbling on the introduction to \u2018Crush The Tyrants\u2019. One thing however which remains ever-present in Kreator\u2019s sound is of course the immaculate production and the clean guitar tone which comes to the fore in the raging title track, an out and out thrash holocaust of flailing percussion and Mille Petrozza\u2019s distinctive dry yaps. The chorus is anthemic, something the band has mastered over the decades, but most importantly this is Kreator speeding like it is Extreme Aggression<\/em> again\u2026 well, sort of.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the only time they rattle the bones of the listener, even if at times such thorny structures are angled around more traditional elements such as the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal-tinged \u2018Become Immortal\u2019 or the slower \u2018Strongest Of The Strong\u2019. So you\u2019ll always get different flavours with Kreator because they are just too damn talented to rattle off a straight-up thrash record, but if you want that bristly aggression then look no further than \u2018Killer Of Jesus\u2019 where kudos go to percussive beast Ventnor.<\/p>\n

Kreator remains a clinical, precise metal outfit whatever route they take, but it\u2019s also no surprise then that \u2018Strongest Of The Strong\u2019 is a tad too cheesy and harkening back to some of the band\u2019s more melodically catchy tunes.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pride Comes Before The Fall\u2019 continues the theme, except this time Mille opts for a cleaner approach vocally and I\u2019m not on board. \u2018Midnight Sun\u2019 might also grate on the nerves of those who\u2019ve been critical of Kreator\u2019s all-too often slips into the experimental. The track begins well with cold, clinical hammering, but the female vocals from Sofia Portanet seem intrusive, almost out of place amidst the metallic tirade and better suited to a Cradle of Filth song. Meanwhile, album closer \u2018Dying Planet\u2019, for its seven-minute duration, is just uninspiring, a bland slog in fact.<\/p>\n

With Hate \u00dcber Alles<\/em>, Kreator is still commentating on the abundant injustices bestowed upon the world by crank leaders and the likes, but I was just expecting such retaliation to be angrier. There are many groove-led tracks, a peppering of gang chants and bucket loads of melodious steel, but rarely is the attack full on thrash.<\/p>\n

Die-hard fans will rave about this new album, the band\u2019s 15th, but when all is said and done it\u2019s still pretty much what I expected from these veterans and so to dish out a higher rating would be disrespectful to the back catalogue. Kreator remains solid and creative, but just not gritty enough to make the hate seem genuine.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KREATORHate \u00dcber Alles Nuclear Blast (2022)Rating: 7\/10 One cannot argue with the fact that Teutonic metalheads Kreator, along with fellow countrymen Sodom, Destruction and Tankard, are still going strong and putting out reasonable material. I could be one of those people accused of living in the past and dismissing a lot of the albums recorded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-kreator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93863,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93861\/revisions\/93863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}