The 1986 Listening Post - Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

#129/1294

April 1 1986

Kreator

Pleasure to Kill

Genre: Death/Thrash Metal

4.25 out of 5

Highlights:

Riot of Violence

Carrion

Command of the Blade

Someone with a better historical understanding of what this is should probably comment. For a while, all I heard was an auger, a machine gun and the screams of a character I expect to find in a dungeon in Gloomhaven. (Gloomhaven shout out!) But once I got those AirPods in and really let it wash over me I gave myself to it. 

From what I understand this is an important album in the genre and, if your ears can tolerate it, it’s really a huge improvement over that first one. 

Get to that second side and that will melt your face. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/pleasure-to-kill/1144260432

The 1985 Listening Post - Kreator - Endless Pain

Kreator - Endless Pain

#414/1049

October 1985

Kreator

Endless Pain

Genre: Black Metal

2.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Flag of Hate

Bonebreaker

Here’s your reminder that this is just 30 years removed from “Rock Around the Clock”, 20 years from The Beatles’ “Help” and 10 years after “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

This kind of makes me want to go back in time and give young John Osbourne a hug. Take him out to a ball game. Buy him a piece of pie and maybe take him out in the sunshine. 

So, then he might not have helped create the genre that eventually gives us this. 

I am so fucking tired of speed metal. And that’s weird cuz I love love loved Anthrax’s record. This is pointless, though. It’s all that medieval garbage and they couldn’t afford Boris Vallejo so they got a 3rd rate hack version of him to do the cover. 

The fingers are fast, the vocals are Halloween scary, the drums pound at freight train speed. If you love Bathory, this is your jam. Depending on my mood, it either is or it isn’t. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/endless-pain/1219491470