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Kreator - Enemy Of God Audio CD

A fair review of the Kreator "Enemy Of God" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Kreator reviews here, or go back to the Kreator tabs.

Kreator Band: Kreator
Title: Enemy Of God
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Release Date: 2005-01-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Enemy Of God 2: Impossible Brutality 3: Suicide Terrorist 4: World Anarchy 5: Dystopia 6: Voices Of The Dead 7: Murder Fantasies 8: When Death Takes Its Dominion 9: One Evil Comes - A Million Follow 10: Dying Race Apocalypse 11: Under A Total Blackened Sky 12: The Ancient Plague 13: Impossible Brutality (enhanced video clip)

great kreator return to form of thier classic style
this cd is one of their best cd back to classic 80's form with the newer recording sound but messess well with their classic albums from the early kreator catalog a must have cd.


Holy smokes...


But this resurgence in metal has me digging around to see what's being put out lately, and this album blows the doors off of most of the albums from even my favorite acts. I've been a metal fan since 1986, but I was never really into Kreator back in the day, preferring the Bay Area thrash scene, along with Anthrax and Overkill. Don't get me wrong, the latest Exodus album (Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A) is some of their best stuff (same for Testament's Formation of Damnation), but neither one of them instantly had me banging my head from the get-go and feeling the intensity throughout.

I am so happy to be thrashing again to some really superb metal.


Ain't Heard Metal This Good Since "Rust in Peace"!
are capable of and show on the Enemy of God, how bands like Slayer, Metallica and Megadeth may have had some good running in the 80s and early 90s, but Kreator, who originated around the same time, is eternal in awesome quality of music they keep delivering. What can I say about this flawless disk that others have not said already? Mille and co. EOG is the Countdown 2 Extinction meets Reign in Blood meets Master of Puppets equivalent of the masterpiece thrashmetal record of the 2000s. The songwriting is so good, I am having a hard time picking favorites or songs to put on repeat. This is just awesome metal. I think if I let this play in my car, it will completely take over and bar anything else from coming in. I have not enjoyed a thrashmetal CD this much since Rust in Peace, period. . . Anyway, Kreator is scheduled to enter the studio early next year to record a follow up. . . I can hardly wait, and I will be willing to pay any money to wrap my Polak paws on it as soon as it comes out. Phenomenal work from a seasoned band of geniuses who show their peers how its done in the 21 century.


Enemy of mediocre thrash albums.
For me, I have been listening to the Gothenburg Melodic Death movement for ten years so the alleged influences from that genre I don't mind as much as others. Yeah, some people are mixed on this album. Some elitists at Metal-Archives like to bash this album because of that alleged influence. Do I hear it? Sort of. I think that Coma of Souls had some melodic parts thrown in (they have put in more and more melodic parts as time has gone on over the years). So I think its a continuation of that if anything. The thrashier parts are just as aggressive as the albums of yesteryear, if not more ferocious at times, and the melodic parts make things more interesting and they aren't often enough to get annoying.

So the hype is well warranted. This is definitely one of the best thrash albums of the new millenium. The title track, totally Klassic Kreator, like Betrayer, Coma of Souls, any first track from the eighties. Suicide Terrorist, and Impossible Brutality chug along at a ferocious pace. The whole album is devoid of filler (pretty much). The only bummer I would say, is some of the production is a little stunted. I think Andy Sneap has a very homogenized style with regards to producing. A lot like Roy Z and others, his albums tend to sound samey and stale. He gets the job done, but Flemming Rasmussen or Neil Kernon he is not.

This is especially eminent in the drum recording, which sounds too processed. Its not as bad as on the new Megadeth (eww) but its apparent that he needs to lay off the effects when recording drums. Ventor gives an excellent performance though. So the verdict is in- this album is a great release and is closer to the classic Eighties thrash than many people give it credit for. .


supreme metal album
Also the best thrash metal CD so far I have listened to. I agree with most of the rest that Enemy of God is the best Kreator CD before Violent Revolution. I reckon earlier Kreator CD's are brilliant too but with current production.
For the metal fan it is a joy an album this good to surface- all tracks just scream with power, speed, and intense. They should be included in Guitar Hero instead of those shabby and dull 'guitar anthems'.
Cannot wait for a next release studio album. .


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