Kreator HORDES OF CHAOS

Kreator: Mille Petrozza (vocals, guitars); Sami Yli-Sirni? (guitars); Christian Giesler (bass instrument); J?rgen Reil (drums).Personnel: Jeff Collier (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Colin Richardson.Recording information: KKS Studios, Essen, Germany; Transporterraum, Berlin, Germany; Tritonus Studios, Berlin, Germany.Editor: Ben Lauber.Photographer: Harald Hoffmann.Arrangers: Kreator; Mille Petrozza.On HORDES OF CHAOS, the third album since Kreator's 2001 career renaissance, VIOLENT REVOLUTION, the German thrash group arguably hits harder than ever, pulling back only for the minute-long dirge "Corpses of Liberty," and some acoustic strumming that rapidly descends into the full-on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallop of "Amok Run." That HORDES OF CHAOS sounds like it could have been recorded in the mid-1980s is to the credit of Kreator mastermind and vocalist/guitarist Mille Petrozza. This is thrash the way it was meant to be played: hard, fast, angry, and dark as hell. Format: CD R