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Rating: 4 years after the magnificent "Enemy Of God", the Teutonic thrashers Kreator, in my personal opinion the best European thrash band, return with a new work titled "Hordes Of Chaos". If the cover may suggest some similarity with the previous album, just listen to the first notes of the title track, significantly placed at the beginning, to realize that something has changed. First of all, the production can be described as very "old school" compared to that characterizing the immediately preceding albums. In fact, the recording was done entirely in analog, and apart from the vocals, it was recorded live!!!!!! This greatly contributes to the impact and aggressiveness of the compositions.
Having said that, let's analyze the musical content of the album. As already mentioned, it starts with the title track, a song that begins very calmly only to burst into a full-throttle track with Mille Petrozza, aided by his faithful companions, particularly drummer Ventor, seeming to take us 20 years back to the good old days of "Extreme Aggression" and "Coma Of Souls". If we then add a solo part that seems to come directly from the legendary twin guitars of the eighties like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Accept, the game is done. Speaking of Ventor, it's the drummer himself who becomes the protagonist of tracks like "Warcurse" or "Radical Resistance", thrash boulders that seem to come from "Pleasure to Kill". In the same (highly toxic) vein are the devastating "Escalation" or "Absolute Misantropy". But just when we might think this is a monolithic album, tracks like "Amok Run", "To The Afterburn", or the concluding "Demon Prince" change our minds, delving into the "experimental" sounds that characterized Kreator's stylistic journey in albums like "Outcast" or the underrated "Endorama".
In short, if it hasn't become clear already, we're facing the best Kreator album since the times of "Renewal". This album serves as an ideal summary of the stylistic journey that has characterized the band for a quarter of a century. It will truly be difficult for Mille Petrozza and company to choose which tracks to leave out from future live setlists, as all these songs are potential killer live songs, and destruction is expected at the upcoming Kreator shows.
They say a good day is seen in the morning, and if this is the morning, then 2009 couldn't have started better!!!!
"Every one against every one, chaos!!!!!!!"
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 RobyMichieletto
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.
Kreator do not give up on their primary characteristic, that is, mutation even in a defined context, which in this specific case is thrash metal.
