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To grasp the intrinsic meaning, not only literal and tied to the lyrics but also sonic, of the new album by the immense Kreator, it is sufficient to list the titles of the ten tracks: "Hordes Of Chaos (A Necrologue For The Elite)", "Warcurse", "Escalation", "Amok Run", "Destroy What Destroys You", "Radical Resistance", "Absolute Misanthropy", "To The Afterborn", "Corpses Of Liberty" and "Demon Prince".
Images of devastation, proud assertion and protest, relentless revolt and fight against all forms of abuse, control and arrogance of the (few) strong over the (many) weak or those unaware of their condition, because they are clouded by a society that has reduced them to slaves of consumption and nothingness. Four years after "Enemy Of God", the band of Mille Petrozza and Jürgen "Ventor" Reil (founding members, twenty-seven years ago), here supported by Sami Yli-Sirniö on guitar and Christian "Speesy" Giesler on bass, return more determined and ferocious than ever, and a piece like the title track positioned at the beginning has the task of explaining what the album's content will be.
Although the work marks a return to a less manipulated and more direct studio recording, in order to achieve a result close to what will be the impact of the tracks live, Kreator do not give up on their primary characteristic, that is, mutation (which at the absolute peak led them to compose "Renewal") even in a defined context, which in this specific case is thrash metal.
Thirty-eight minutes and thirty-two seconds of barbaric musical assault with a dynamic and tight sound, ready to strike the listener with unheard ferocity to tear them apart, among blistering instrumental accelerations, granite and steel groove, definitive riffs, and structural changes that break through! Unmistakable and unique, they once again present themselves as undisputed leaders.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite) (05:04)
Violent chaos haunting me
Mirror of countless human tragedies
Times of horror, constant lies
Totalitarians autocracy's demise
Fake peace a necrologue for the elite
Brutality among the weak
While children die for Armageddon victory's breed
This necrologue for the elite
Like raging beasts among the sheep
While flags are waving everywhere
They scream
Hordes of chaos
Hordes of chaos
Everyone against everyone - chaos
Hordes of chaos
Hordes of chaos
Everyone against everyone - chaos
Brutal riots left and right
Out to destroy, willing to die
Honour killing in blood is shed
A cruel reality in empires built in sand
Dark war, more gruesome then ever before
Supports this decadence galore
A tyrants feast on shoulders
Of the poorest of the poor
The necrologue for the elite
The rise of the heartless bourgoise
While flags are waving
Everywhere they scream
Hordes of chaos
Hordes of chaos
Everyone against everyone - chaos
Hordes of chaos
Hordes of chaos
Everyone against everyone - chaos
Ultra riot!
Ultimate crimes
Ultimate hate
Ultimate war
Ultimate fear
Ultimate pain
Ultimate terror
Ultimate death
Ultimate sin
Ultimate scorn
The ultimate control of masses of everyone
Now scream!
Now scream!
Everyone against everyone
Chaos
Everyone against everyone
Chaos
Everyone against everyone
Chaos
Everyone against everyone
Everyone against everyone
Everyone against everyone
Everyone against everyone
Everyone against everyone
Everyone against everyone
Against everyone
Against everyone
Against everyone
Against everyone
Against everyone
Hordes of Chaos!
04 Amok Run (04:12)
You have pushed me to this hell
Put this cancer in my head
Raped my soul and vandalised my heart
Now this conflict deep inside
My hate I can no longer hide
For today this end will have a start
My anger aims
At a different target now
I could have left, I could have fled
For now my name
Will forever be remembered
I am the bringer of light
To the living dead
I cannot take it anymore
My sight, my view becomes distorted
My martyrdom has now begun
Watch me today you'll see me
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
Face me on this my glorious day
I bring torment and decay
For the scars you branded
Deep inside my soul
Kill all the victims I can score
Viscous bloodlust, give me more
This is punishment that nothing
Can control my final
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
Pain I have lived in endless pain
Now I pay it back in spades
Burning panic, ice cold fear is in their eyes
Blood is the last thing that I see
Sacrifice and agony
On my final day you'll have
To die with me for now I
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
Run amok run
This is my amok run
Violence climac so pure
This is my amok run
Bloodbath total massacre
For now I touch the hand divine
Walking straight into the light
This is where it all must end, my friends
Today I'll die like Jesus Christ
10 Demon Prince (05:16)
Thrown into sorrow
Raised into fear
Shadows of heartless commandments
Wasteland of zombies
That never lived
A ghetto grey and grey
A future so black
A past so extreme
A boy in a shell
The chains around your wings
To block your integrity
Before they will be amputated
Amputated!
Where the dogmatic
Ignorant rule
The spirit must agonize
Empire of Satan
Realm of the damned
Here in the Kingdom of Lies
This is out time
This is out war
A world wide collective
You won't walk alone
Passing out weapons
To future generations
Disobey the Oppressor
Refuse Demon Prince
Disobey The Oppressor
Forever Demon Prince
[Solo: Mille]
Disobey the Oppressor
Refuse Demon Prince
Disobey The Oppressor
Forever Demon Prince
Now in the burning embers
Conspiracy is born
The captive will remember
Sow the wind, harvest the storm
And from the ancient ashes
A brand new force is born
To liberate the masses
Sow the wind, harvest the storm
Disobey the Oppressor
Refuse Demon Prince
Disobey The Oppressor
Forever Demon Prince
[Solo: Sam]
Demon Prince
Demon Prince
AAAAARGH!
Kill Demon Prince
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By Psycroptic
The recording was done entirely in analog, and apart from the vocals, it was recorded live!!!!!!
We’re facing the best Kreator album since the times of 'Renewal'.
