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Last Updated on 08:10 PM by Lilliana Tseka
Living in my zone, I had no idea Kreator were giving a free release around the corner that day, but thanks to some good friends, I was notified and offered a list at the last moment to be among the 200 people who would see the band playing live for the first time songs from their upcoming, 14th album called “Gods Of Violence” one month before they come again with Sepultura for their European tour.
Musik und Frieden is a venue of about 400 people with a cool bar upstairs, but a very unpractical stage arrangement, having a column in the middle of the room that blocks the view. Anyway, watching Kreator in a small club sounded interested, it was for free and there was good company, so I went there really curious to see how the night would turn out.
The set up on stage didn’t include amps since it seems that they just brought the necessary and relied on the PA and Ventor’s drum kit would cover half of it, so it wasn’t a big surprise to see Mille and the rest of the axemen leaning towards the crowd the whole time. They kicked off with “Hordes Of Chaos”, which is one of the most raw songs of their latest period and created some fuss from the beginning, since the audience was mostly either young or old die hard Kreator fans who knew all the lyrics and a couple of onlookers. The band played some new songs that were greeted rather warmly from the crowd, a lot of other songs from their current millennium period and only two songs from the glorious past. I haven’t seen them live for many years and I have to admit that although the changes to their sound live up to the expectations of the new generations of metallheads, it really doesn’t work for me, at least for the past years. I liked “Violent Revolution” when it came out and “Hordes Of Chaos” was more rough and brutal so it did also get me, but the others are not so much my cup of tea, although I respect them and like them for what they are. But at a special show, in front of die hards, I expected something more from 50 minutes of set without an encore, which seemed not even as a full setlist rehearsal.
On the other hand, the band played really energetic, Mille seemed comfortable without proper barriers and people’s hands touching him and his guitar like the old days, even one stage dive occurred, and a rather misplaced wall of death that Mille ordered to happen. That was the point where I started considering my age and the good old concert ethos, but the world keeps turning and Kreator along with it.
Here’s the setlist:
- Hordes Of Chaos
- Satan Is Real
- Gods Of Violence
- People Of the Lie
- Total Death
- Phantom Antichrist
- Fallen Brother
- Enemy Of God
- From Flood Into Fire
- World War Now
- Hail To The hordes
I wouldn’t say I was impressed in general neither from the setlist, nor from the whole presence of the band even though “People Of The Lie” and “Total Death” (first played live since 1986) did make my hair raise a bit. I had listened to the new record already, so I wasn’t surprised by the new songs and blended with some of their previous records didn’t seem to add something more than the usual elements in the band’s legacy. At the end only Ventor and his Decrepit Birth t shirt soaked in sweat stayed a bit to greet the crowd in a rather professional appearance in what could have been a much more intimate situation given the circumstances. Kreator was and still is a respected band in the scene, with a lot of followers and I will always care to see what they are up to, even though my personal enthusiasm has ran dry long time ago.
