Metal Reviews

I have to make an honest confession: this is my favorite Kreator album. Old-school thrash metal brought into a new millenium, with pretty much everything a fan could ever ask for: awesome guitar riffs, wonderfully cheesy lyrics, and blistering Slayer-like speed. My favorite songs are Reconquering The Throne, the title track, Servent In Heaven - King In Hell, Ghetto War, and Bittersweet Revenge. But pretty much every song on this album is a winner (Metalreviews' oddly low rating for it notwithstanding).

Some good tunes, a "commercial" return to thrash metal, an awful production. Insult me but I prefer Endorama.
Miss for me.

miss,too. and i prefer Endorama too(but i prefer not being insulted for that), a pretty good experimental album. VR has some good songs, like Replicas of Life,the title track and Recoquering the Throne, but i hate Andy Sneap's modern production, and i find this album lacking in the attitude department. and by the way, please don't tell me THIS is old school thrash; Endless Pain is old school thrash; this is NOT.

i like it the band experiments a little more with melody and the final product is still a fine kreator album

On the whole, definitely a miss.

I'll admit that was probably a bit of a stretch. VR is about as "old-school" as Tempo Of The Damned. Both albums have an obvious classic thrash metal influenc, but also contain fairly modern production values and occasional Pantera-like grooves (especially TOTD).

Compared to what Kreator released this year, VR sucks pretty bad. And compared to what has done in the past VR sucks real bad. So I say a big miss, with a few good tunes.

i would apply that more to Exodus though, if you heard Shovel headed kill machine that album is more groove with occasional thrash moments. Kreator tended to experiment more with melody with VR and Enemy of God. Granted I haven't heard Hordes of Chaos and I don't know if theyve kept up that streak

Both with Andy Sneap at the helm, wow such coincidence. And then Kreator release the best of their three post-millenium albums without his help this year. Hmmmm.

Bring back Sabbat and leave producing albums alone.

I dread to think what a new Sabbat album would be like with Sneap's 'modern' take on what an album should sound like.

I'm worried enough that the Hell album will just sound like Dimmy.

That's why he should just play guitar and let Martin and the others do the rest.

WTF this record is an absolut HIT and nothing else. The beste Kreator album since, maybe, Pleasure to Kill.

Doesn't Sneap produce most of Nevermore's work? As the unremastered Enemies Of Reality demonstrates, NM's one band that NEEDS polished production.