Ranking the Albums: Kreator 

I love the experimental albums🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

Just got around discovering these guys......wow

Nice to see “Terrible certainty “ getting some well deserved love

Saw them live in 2023. What an amazing show that was! Have to say the first two records are my favourite.

Terrible Certainty,yeah. I remember I was 7 years old when this album came out. Along with Artillery and their ""Fear Of Tomorrow"" debut album,both albums introduced me to metal. Now,I can't imagine living without this music.

I’m seeing Kreator in November

Thanks for hitting the German thrash scene. Is Sodom or Destruction next? 1. Coma of Souls 2. Pleasure to Kill 3. Extreme Aggression 4. Violent Revolution 5. Terrible Certainty 6. Endless Pain 7. Gods of Violence 8. Hate Uber Alles 9. Phantom Antichrist

Super chuffed to see my fav Kreator album "Terrible Certainty" as your number 1! Great rundown of their discography too.

Thanks pete this will help me fill in the kreator cd's i still want to get love this band after i saw them i had to get some albums they slayed live !!!!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

I love Renewal espicailly Winter Martyrium- There I said it.

My favorites: 1. Pleasure To Kill (1986) 2. Coma Of Souls (1990) 3. Phantom Antichrist (2012) 4. Enemy Of God (2005)

I had Extreme Agression on cassette back in the day. Was SUCH a shock to my system. Raw, extreme, edgy, angular.thrash! Still amazing! ❤#Kreator

The first five on top, the modern albums after that and the 90's albums down the bottom. :)

Saw them on the Enemy of God tour…blew me away!

Coma of Souls at #10 is also surpising. A lot of Kreator fans would name it their favourite album, it doesn't deserve to be that low on the list. Classic album, probably a perfect mix of melody and brutality they ever had.

Legendary band. Extreme Aggression is my favorite album by them. I remember the first time I saw the music video for Betrayer and it blew me away.

My ranking for the Kreator albums would be🤘 15. Cause For Conflict 1995 14. Renewal 1992 13. Endorama 1999 12. Outcast 1997 11. Endless Pain 1985 10. Hate Uber Alles 2022 9. Violent Revolution 2001 8. Phantom Antichrist 2012 7. Gods Of Violence 2017 6. Terrible Certainty 1987 5. Hordes Of Chaos 2009 4. Enemy Of God 2005 3. Pleasure To Kill 1986 2. Extreme Aggression 1989 1. Coma Of Souls 1990

One of my favorite Death-Thrash Metal bands from the 80's. My Top 5 ranking is: 1. Endless Pain 2. Pleasure To Kill 3. Extreme Aggression 4. Coma Of Souls 5. Violent Revolution

Hi Pete! Please rank Virgin Steele! My favorite band! They aren't talked about enough!

Great video! I love the great Kreatorrrrr!!! 🤘🏼

"Hordes of Chaos" has a rawer sound because Moses recorded the basic backing tracks live with the band playing together in the live room. Those are all live takes, only vocals and guitar solos were overdubbed.

Violent Revolution

Well done I had a few of their albums in the 90's. I bought them Used.

Sami Yli-Sirniö is also playing in another great band called Waltari. It´s a Finnish very excentric cross over band. I recommend everybody to check them out. Their album So Fine! from 1994 is a good starting point.

Very good ranking of the albums. Terrible Certainty is an excellent classic thrash-metal album. No downers, just pure rage from start to end. Love it! :)

Due to the large discography/ couldn’t put in as many spins. LOL. Couldn’t really do proper 1-15. However, for NOW anyway my top 5. 1- Extreme AGGRESSION/8️⃣9️⃣. 2-Pleasure to KILL/8️⃣6️⃣. 3- Gods of VIOLENCE/ 1️⃣7️⃣. 4- Coma of SOULS/9️⃣0️⃣. 5-Terrible CERTAINTY/8️⃣7️⃣. Obviously, with more time & spins this can 💯 change. Thanks Pete again for these album rankings 👍💯

About time German Thrash got the recognition it definitely deserves. Any chance you could do a list of the 'best of the rest' show, bands like Assassin, Living Death, Necronomicon, etc.. smaller discographies but there are some real gems tucked away. Excellent show btw, can't wait for Sodom & Destruction

My Top 3: Extreme Aggression, Pleasure to Kill and Renewal. Great catalogue. Cheers.

Coma Of Souls is definitely my favorite. I saw them live last year and got to meet them through doing VIP.

Nice, love Kreator especially the 80s , Coma of Souls, and the more recent years since Violent Revolution

Great band and excellent ranking Pete, love your comments. In all honesty I never heard a single album between "Coma of Souls" and "Violent Revolution", so I'm just going to leave them out of my ranking. It's a tough discography to rank, with many albums I go back and forth, except for my #1, that one is set in stone. :) So, this is the list I'm currently comfortable with: 11. Pleasure to Kill 10. Hate Über Alles 09. Gods of Violence 08. Hordes of Chaos 07. Enemy of God 06. Terrible Certainty 05. Extreme Aggression 04. Endless Pain 03. Coma of Souls 02. Phantom Antichrist 01. Violent Revolution

My Top 5 5. Extreme Aggression 4. Pleasure to kill 3. Phantom antichrist 2. violent Revolution 1. Coma of souls

1) Pleasure To Kill 2) Extreme Aggression 3) Endless Pain 4) Terrible Certainty 5) Coma Of Souls Don't care much for the rest

1. Extreme Aggression 2. Violent Revolution 3. Pleasure to Kill 4. Coma of Souls 5. Endless Pain 6. Terrible Certainty 7. Enemy of God 8. Renewal

AWESOME PICKS PERFECT ORDER !!!

Love Kreator, one of my all time favourite bands period. My ranking: 15: Endorama 14: Renewal 13: Outcast 12: Cause for Conflict 11: Phantom Antichrist 10: Endless Pain 9: Gods of Violence 8: Hate Uber Alles 7: Hordes of Chaos 6: Enemy of God 5: Violent Revolution 4: Extreme Aggresion 3: Coma of Souls 2: Pleasure to Kill 1: Terrible Certainty

Finally watched this. Great ranking Pete. My top 3 are: Pleasure To Kill, Enemy of God and Violent Revolution. Love the guitar of Sami. He's also in the progressive metal band Barren Earth who are well worth following.

"Renewal" is one of the most unique sounding Metal albums I know. Vocals are very very bad on this one and the production is bizarre. But since I like those more experimental albums from big Metal bands, it's an album I sometimes return to. "Cause for conflict" is great and very aggressive. Totally underrated album!

Terrible Certainty has always been my favorite also. It never gets picked number one on lists. Pleasure To Kill is such a classic it always gets number 1. It is my number 2.

Nice, my top three are exactly in that order as well, with number one being for the same reason!

I have to admit that I only know 5 or 6 albums by kreator. So I take this ranking to make me more familiar with Petrozzas troop.

Top Five: 1) Extreme Aggression 2) Enemy Of God 3) Coma Of Souls 4) Hordes Of Chaos 5) Violent Revolution

I like Renewal a lot

I absolutely love this band and here is my top five: 1. Extreme Aggression 2. Pleasure to Kill 3. Terrible Certainty 4. Hordes of Chaos 5. Enemy of God

Terrible Certainty is my favorite also!!🤘🖤

The first 5 albums are legendary. "Violent Revolution" and "Enemy Of God" are also great. I"m disappointed in their more recent albums as they sound like a typical Euro-power metal band but with harsher vocals. I'd love to hear a complete remix of "Renewal" as I feel there are some great songs buried under the poor production.

Awesome, my top 3 are: 1.) Pleasure to Kill 2.) Endless Pain 3.) Terrible Certainty And, as a German, I’m looking forward to your Sodom & Destruction ranking!! ⚡️🤘

Personally I love Endorama, I think Tommy Vetterli is brilliant! However my favorite is Renewel from 1992.. Cheers MS

Unpopular opinion I actually prefer Kreator’s recent output more than their 80s and early 90s stuff. From Enemy Of God up to Hate Über Alles are perfect to almost perfect albums IMO. The last 2 made my end of the year top 20 list and Phantom Antichrist was my favorite album of 2012.

Extreme Aggression was and still is to me, a masterwork. “Love Us or Hate Us”, we felt heard as angry young teens. We loved our metal and didn’t care what our teachers and the popular kids thought. I only found out a few years about that Mille was a member of the vegan community. 🤘🌱

My Ranking of Kreator 1. Pleasure to Kill 2. Endless Pain 3. Extreme Agression 4. Coma of Souls 5. Terrible Certainly 6. Gods of Violence 7. Renewal 8. Violent Revolution 9. Enemy of God 10. Hordes of Chaos 11. Hate Uber Alles 12. Phantom Antichrist 13. Cause of Conflict 14. Outcast 15. Endorama

I loved endorama, lol. I thought it refreshing to hear different ( more mature? ) Kreator. Only a couple songs kinda sound like my dying bride. I agree with Pete 99% of time, love sea of tranquility. As I never spent much time with Endorama, I find myself loving this album in 2024. Kreator held back a touch, more in control. I don't mind more polished at all, if songs are good. Most of these songs sound really good to me. Peace!

The title track from Endorama is a badass tune. Should have been on another album. Shouldn’t be overlooked though.

My rank: 1 Pleasure to Kill 2 Extreme Aggression 3 Terrible Certainty 4 Endless Pain 5 Enemy of God 6 Coma of Souls 7 Phantom Antichrist 8 Hordes of Chaos 9 Violent Revolution 10 Gods of Violence 11 Endorama 12 Hate Über Alles 13 Renewal 14 Cause for Conflict 15 Outcast

The vocals are the one thing I couldn't get away with this band. I tried for years but couldnt get into them, Terrible Certainty was good though.

Lesgoo, that's what we've been waiting for! This band is special to me (maybe even in my top 5) and they're one of the few thrash bands that revamped their style and still put out classics! My list: 15) Renewal. I can't stand it, have never been able to sit through more than a few songs. Mille's vocals are awful, production's annoying. 14) Cause for Conflict. Only slightly better, but still not worth anyone's time. 13) Endorama Again, interchangable. Even with all the whispers & vocal nonsense, it's more passable to me. 12) Outcast Well, Phobia is a live staple (pretty solid for only 3 riffs), some other industrial stuff here, almost Rammstein-esque. It's just there. 11) Hate Uber Alles Their worst album in decades. Production is super uneven, choruses lazily dumbed down. I love the title track, but that's it (Demonic Future & Killer of Jesus are OK). 10) Terrible Certainty From here on I think these are good albums. If they re-recorded this one with modern production, I'd place it higher. Behind the Mirror, title track are great. All songs sound a bit... Clunky. 9) Hordes of Chaos The title track is a classic. Like Demon Prince, War Curse, other stuff is just meh, but still a decent album. Has a "live sound" to it, like Maiden's Final Frontier. 8) Enemy of God Violent Revolution 2.0 with some better songs, but less consistency. Highlights: Title track, Suicide Terrorist, Impossible Brutality, Under a Blackened Sky. 7) Violent Revolution I think they did better albums in this style, but it's a strong album. Reconquering the Throne, title track, Ghetto War, All of the Same Blood, Second Awakening, System Decay are great! 6) Extreme Aggression I actually don't care for half of the songs here, but the rest is fantastic! Title track, Betrayer, Fatal Energy... Great production, drumming , some stone cold classics, but some albums are even better! 5) Endless Pain Banger fun, even if some songs aren't that memorable or strong, I'd still spin this whole album. Flag of Hate is my favorite Kreator song. Ventor vocals are fun, Mille sounds black metal here! 4) Coma of Souls This one I keep revisiting, because even the less known tracks are great! The 1st half virtually perfect, 2nd half has Agents of Brutality & Material World Paranoia, so still killer! 3) Pleasure to Kill Their most memorable record, I just don't feel the need to re-listen to it. The production is so cool, feels like Ventor is playing with skeleton bones instead of drumsticks! Album cover is perfect! 2) Gods of Violence Yes, I actually prefer this to Pleasure to Kill now, it's just more fun to revisit, has more variety, memorable solos, great hooks (albeit simple). And it got me into Kreator. 1) Phantom Antichrist Bonus track version is a must with Wolfchild & Iron Destiny! I just love pretty much every song here. YOUR HEAVEN... MY HELL!!!

1) Endless Pain 2) Extreme Aggressions 3) Pleasure to Kill 4) Terrible Certainty 5) Coma of Souls 6) Violent Revolution 7) Enemy of God 8) Phantom Antichrist 9) Gods of Violence 10) Hordes of Chaos 11) Hate Uber Alles 12) Renewal 13) Outcast 14) Cause for Conflict 15) Endorama

1: Extreme Aggression 2: Coma of Souls 3: Endless Pain 4: Terrible Certainty 5: Pleasure to Kill 6: Cause for Conflict 7: Phantom Antichrist 8: Hordes of Chaos 9: Enemy of God 10 Gods of Violence 11:Hate Uber Alles 12: Violent Revolution 13 Renewal 14 Outcast 15: Endorama

They are really great in Europe since 80' T -shirts everywhere , girls also wear a lot

Nice ranking Pete, I'm mostly with you but here's my top Five 5 - Enemy of God (that Andy Sneap production is just massive) 4 - Hordes of Chaos (to have so much raw aggression on their 12th album???) 3 - Coma of Souls (a thrash classic I got when I was 16) 2 - Extreme Aggression (ditto 15) 1 - Terrible Certainty (saw the video for Toxic Trace when I 14 instant fan for life!) Love Kreator, except Endorama, its not good...

1. Flag of Hate ( Take Their Lives was a masterpiece) 2. Pleasure to Kill ( Death is Your Savior more Slayer than Slayer) 3. Endless Pain ( Tormentor) 4. Terrible Certainty ( Behind the Mirror ) 5. Coma of Souls ( Terror Zone) 6. Extreme Agression ( Some Pain Will Last) Don't like anything beyond these albums. I especially like the albums that featured Ventor on Lead Vocals on some of the tracks. They should have continued that tradition. It offered some variety.

1. Flag of Hate ( Take Their Lives was a masterpiece) 2. Pleasure to Kill ( Death is Your Savior more Slayer than Slayer) 3. Endless Pain ( Tormentor) 4. Terrible Certainty ( Behind the Mirror ) 5. Coma of Souls ( Terror Zone) 6. Extreme Agression ( Some Pain Will Last) Don't like anything beyond these albums. I especially like the albums that featured Ventor on Lead Vocals on some of the tracks. They should have continued that tradition. It offered some variety.

1. Flag of Hate ( Take Their Lives was a masterpiece) 2. Pleasure to Kill ( Death is Your Savior more Slayer than Slayer) 3. Endless Pain ( Tormentor) 4. Terrible Certainty ( Behind the Mirror ) 5. Coma of Souls ( Terror Zone) 6. Extreme Agression ( Some Pain Will Last) Don't like anything beyond these albums. I especially like the albums that featured Ventor on Lead Vocals on some of the tracks. They should have continued that tradition. It offered some variety.

I actually really like "Renewal" and "Endorama". They're different, but absolutely not bad in my opinion.

Kreator is one of my favourite thrash metal bands, they have a very consistant catalogue which I usually divide into 3 parts: the classic thrash period 85-90, the experimental period 91-99, and the modern period 2000-present day. I prefer the most recent era because their music has become more complex and has more melody. The early albums are fine but too extreme for me, except Coma of Souls which is great and more accessible. The 90's era is just horrible, I don't even rank those albums. And the last one from 2022 I haven't heard yet. So here's my list: 1. Enemy of God 2. Violent Revolution 3. Coma of Souls 4. Phantom Antichrist 5. Gods of Violence 6. Terrible Certainty 7. Pleasure to Kill 8. Endless Pain 9. Extreme Aggression 10. Hordes of Chaos

100% agreed on your #1

I enjoy their mid-to-late-'90s output a lot. I feel they were oddly adept at goth- or industrial-adjacent metal, lol. But I recognize this is a minority view. Great ranking video as always.

Too bad you couldn't include the awesome Take Their Lives and Awakening of the Gods and Impossible To Cure etc. from the EP's. But awesome all the same. 1st 2 albums and Phantom Antichrist are my faves. Terrible Certainty 4th.

Pete have you listen to Hyades album And The Worst Is Yet To Come? I think it's a pretty underrated album. IDK why you never hear anyone talk about it. Also it's got a pretty sick cover.

I suppose my top 3 would be Terrible Certainty, Extreme Aggression and Coma of Souls. I remember the first time I heard Renewal, thinking, "WTF is going on?!" Lol.

Not in any order.. These are the 5 albums i know most by them.. -------> Kreator - Phantom Antichrist Kreator - Pleasure To Kill Kreator - Extreme Aggression Kreator - Coma Of Souls Kreator - Terrible Certainty (the statues on the cover may have inspired the band GHOST.. LOL..) Great but i forgot Hate uber alles..

Hey, I love Endorama 😂

I listened to them all a couple of years ago, as well as all of the ones from Sodom, Destruction, and Tankard. I definitely will not be doing a thorough ranking right now - as I haven't spent a whole lot of time with most of them yet. I do agree that most of their '90s albums are not up to the par, but this is typical of many thrash bands all over the world. Most of them had badass music earlier in their careers, as well as more recently - with their mid- period stuff (late '90s/early 2000s) being mediocre. I really dig their first four albums, as well as everything they've done in the 21st Century so far. I actually own their last two, Gods of Violence and Hate Uber Alles. My favorite, though, is actually their 1990 album Coma of Souls!

For some reason I enjoy Endorama a lot. I'd rank it way higher than GoV for example. That one seemed more of the same

Moses Schneider, who produced Hordes of Chaos, is known for producing all-analog. I guess the album benefited from that.

1 Pleasure to Kill 2 Extreme Aggression 3 Endless Pain 4 Terrible Certainty 5 Coma of Souls 6 Enemy of God 7 Gods of Violence 8 Violent Revolution 9 Phantom Antichrist 10 Hordes of Choas 11 Hate Uber Alles 12 Cause for Conflict 13 Renewal 14 Outcast 15 Endorama

top 5 1. Terrible 2. Extreme 3. Coma 4. Phantom 5. Violent

1.Plesure to kill 2. extreme agression 3 endless pain 4. coma of souls 5. terrible 6. Gods of Violence 7.Hordes of Chaos 8.Phantom Antichrist 9.Cause for Conflict 10.Violent Revolution 11.Hate über alles 12.Enemy of God 13.Renewal 14.Outcast 15.Endorama

Everything Between Coma Of Souls & Violent Revolution Was Terrible But everything Before 1992 & After 1999 Is Pure Gold In My Opinion 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Best move Fredric made leaving Dragonforce

15 Endorama 14 Renewal 13 Hate über alles 12 Outcast 11 Cause for Conflict 10 Hordes of Chaos 9 Enemy of God 8 Gods of Violence 7 Violent Revolution 6 Phantom Antichrist 5 Extreme Aggression 4 Endless Pain 3 Coma of Souls 2 Terrible Certainty 1 Pleasure to Kill

HELL YEAH KREATOR!!! woah first

Compared to: - Scorpions' "Pure Instinct" and "Eye II Eye" - Helloween's "Chameleon" - Accept's "Eat The Heat" - Metallica's "Load", Endorama is not that bad.

The singer Milli, wasn’t he one half of Milli Vanilli?

Did you mean Mille tried to sound on Renewal (1992) as Metallica on The Black Album instead? because Load was released in 1996. Although I think he was trying to go more for the hardcore vocals during that era. I have been a fan since Please to Kill but I will take the middle era over the last few albums., which sounds boring and super clean. Cheers !

1. Phantom Antichrist 2. Extreme Aggression 3. Violent Revolution 4. Enemy Of God 5. Gods Of Violence 6. Hate Uber Alles 7. Coma Of Souls 8. Pleasure To Kill 9. Terrible Certainty 10.Hordes Of Chaos 11.Outcast 12.Cause For Conflict 13.Endless Pain 14.Renewal 15.Endorama

I'm really big fan of their 2001-present period. My top 10: 1. Hordes of Chaos (2009) 2. Phantom Antichrist (2012) 3. Violent Revolution (2001) 4. Gods of Violence (2017) 5. Enemy of God (2005) 6. Coma of Souls (1990) 7. Extreme Aggression (1989) 8. Hate über Alles (2022) 9. Terrible Certainty (1987) 10. Pleasure to Kill (1985)

Totally agree with your bottom choices.. It is those awful albums that turned me off and why i don't know much cept for ones i mentioned..

Thanks Pete. Today i saw some cheap-shit Kreator albums at a record store. Will check again tomorrow.

1. Pleasure to Kill 1986 2. Violent Revolution 2001 3. Hate Uber Alles 2022 4. Endless Pain 1985 5. Extreme Aggression 1989 6. Gods of Violence 2017 7. Enemy of God 2005 8. Terrible Certainty 1987 9. Endorama 1999 10. Coma of Souls 1990 11. Phantom Antichrist 2012 12. Hordes of a Chaos 2009 13. Outcast 1997 14. Renewal 1992 15. Cause for Conflict 1995

Pete when you were reading the names we were going who ? Who ? Who ? ......who ?

Those albums like Renewal and Cause for Conflict and Endromada did nothing for me though Outcast had Phobia so it’s good for that one song at least. The 85-90 era was top notch and as far as the “comeback” period goes I really liked Violent Revolution but everything after was just okay or in the case of their past few sounded a bit too Gothenburg for me. Protector (also from Germany) keeps getting better but Kreator is sounding more like Arch Enemy which I’m not too fond of. My ranking from worst to best Endromada Renewal Cause for Conflict Outcast Hate Uber Alles Gods of Violence Hordes of Chaos Phantom Antichrist Enemy of God Violent Revolution Coma of Souls Extreme Aggression Terrible Certainty Pleasure to Kill Endless Pain

Endorama was a little different, I don't hate it though.

Seems to me they adopted some of the tropes of power metal on later albums with the “epic” chorus’s. Not digging that vibe at all. The vocals are a big turn off nowadays. I miss that aggressive screeching he used to be the master of. I agree that some of the middle period albums are a bit wonky sounding although I really enjoy Renewal for the bleak atmosphere. Surprisingly I really loved Endorama. I f’n love the riffing on Shadowland. I’ve always been a huge fan of Coroner so Tommy joining was a big deal to me but it seems the wasted his talent. There is a new wave vibe I have a soft spot for. Surely not a popular opinion but it is what it is. The cream of the crop for me is Terrible Certainty, Extreme Aggression and Coma of Souls. The early albums were great for the time but didn’t age well for me.

Toxic traaaccce!

I had high hopes for Outcast with Tommy from Coroner on guitar! What a waste!

Finally something for me 1. Coma of Souls 2. Extreme Aggression 3. Terrible Certainty 4. Pleasure to Kill 5. Cause for Conflict 6. Endless Pain 7. Renewal 8. Violent Revolution 9. Phantom Antichrist 10. Outcast Btw Ventor is not on every Kreator album. Mille is the only member of this band that's on every band's release. btw Renewal doesn't sound awful,if you want polished sound go and listen to bon jovi.

Back in the 80s I definitely didn't like the vocals. Over the years I've come around on harsher vocals, but I just don't like this guy's voice. That being said, they were good when I saw them open for Mercyful Fate in 2022.

They make Metallica look like kids in the garage…great band!

Terrible Certainty. Nice.