Terrible Certainty
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| Studio album by Kreator | ||||
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Publication |
October 1987 |
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| Label (s) | Noise Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
8 13 (remastered version) |
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running time |
35:39 |
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Roy Rowland |
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Studio (s) |
Horus Studio, Hanover |
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Terrible Certainty is the third studio album by the German thrash metal band Kreator . It was released on Noise Records in October 1987 and was also released as a limited edition on red vinyl . In 2000 it was re-released as a remastered version with the songs from the EP Out of the Dark ... Into the Light as bonus tracks.
style
After the tours to Pleasure to Kill , Kreator presented themselves more well-rehearsed on the third LP than before, the songwriting became a bit more differentiated and more breaks and mid-tempo passages were used. Vocally, like its predecessor, the album is shaped by Mille Petrozza's aggressive shouting . Toxic Trace criticizes environmental pollution , a topic that other bands in the genre subsequently also took up with Testament ( Greenhouse Effect from Practice What You Preach ) or Sacred Reich ( Crimes Against Humanity from The American Way ). There was also a music video for this.
reception
Frank Trojan, editor of Rock Hard , gave Terrible Certainty a nine out of ten. Even back then, he described Kreator as “European Thrash Band No. 1”. Due to the better interaction and more “thought-out” songwriting , he saw Kreator able to “appeal to broader layers than just die-hard Kreator fans.” Allmusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five. The weak production was criticized on the website www.metal-observer.com. The album is essential "for every Thrash fan". The rating was 9.5 out of ten. Marius Mutz from metal1.de sees the record as being between Pleasure to Kill and Extreme Aggression “a bit lost”, although the album is “in no way behind ”. He scored nine out of ten points.
Others
To date, Blind Faith is the only song sung by Mille on the originally released version of the album that has never been played live. Lyrically the song deals with the blind faith of the Christians, to which they fell victim during the Christian persecution by the Romans. The figure in the middle on the right side of the cover with the Roman helmet obviously alludes to this song. There are also the sung by drummer Ventor As the World Burns and the original on the EP Out of the Dark ... Into the Light published Impossible to Cure two more pieces that never found use as a live version.
The record cover is reminiscent of the work Würzburger Totentanz, created by Wolfgang Lenz in 1970 .
Track list
- Blind Faith - 4:07
- Storming with Menace - 4:26
- Terrible Certainty - 4:29
- As the World Burns - 3:50
- Toxic Trace - 5:33
- No Escape - 5:01
- One of Us - 4:00
- Behind the Mirror - 4:34
- Impossible to Cure - 2:39
- Lambs to the Slaughter ( Raven Cover) - 3:35
- Terrible Certainty (live) - 5:29
- Riot of Violence (live) - 5:40
- Awakening of the Gods (live) - 7:14 am
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b rockhard.de: Review Terrible Certainty by Frank Trojan
- ↑ allmusic.de: Terrible Certainty
- ^ Metal-observer.com: Review Terrible Certainty by Ralf
- ↑ metal1.de: Review Terrible Certainty by Marius Mutz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.sacredmetal.de: Covers that look like other covers .
Web links
- Terrible Certainty at Allmusic (English)
- Terrible Certainty on MusicBrainz