In a brand new interview with Kris Peters of Australia’s Heavy, KREATOR frontman Mille Petrozza was requested how he thinks the band’s targets and imaginative and prescient have modified within the 4 a long time since KREATOR‘s inception. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “In fact we progressed as musicians. I believe the perspective remains to be the identical. We like to play excessive metallic. We like to discover new music. Each time we launch an album, it is necessary for us that we do one thing that we’ve not accomplished earlier than and that we push ourselves and put in new parts and check out new issues each time we launch an album. However the perspective remains to be the identical.

“I believe over time we established our personal model and we wanna progress as musicians and we wanna give you new stuff, thrilling stuff,” he continued. “We wanna hold our music thrilling, and that is why we typically take 5 years between albums, typically three, 4, however we by no means simply put out one thing for the sake of it.”

Requested how KREATOR‘s sound has advanced for the reason that launch of the band’s debut album, “Countless Ache”, in 1985, Mille stated: “Like I stated, we have progressed as musicians. We’re extra assured. We’re extra skilled, clearly. However sound-wise, the know-how is so totally different these days, although on [KREATOR‘s latest album, 2022’s] ‘Hate Über Alles’, we went to an old-school studio known as the Hansa studio [in Berlin, Germany], a studio the place David Bowie labored within the ’80s, U2 did some albums there, DEPECHE MODE labored there. So we hold it old skool to some extent as a way to hold sound-wise, sonically, simply hold a number of the parts from the early days. However I might misinform you if I might say we aren’t utilizing computer systems. In fact, all people’s utilizing computer systems these days. We’re not blocking out this new know-how and the probabilities of these days recording strategies. So it is a good combine. However I believe so long as the perspective is identical, and I believe that is referring to your query, we nonetheless have the identical power we put into the music and we work very exhausting on protecting it contemporary and thrilling.”

This previous Could, KREATOR launched a music video for the track “Conquer And Destroy” from “Hate Über Alles”. The efficiency footage was filmed on March 4, 2023 in entrance of 6,000 of KREATOR‘s mighty hordes of their religious house of Essen.

KREATOR‘s fifteenth studio album, “Hate Über Alles” was launched in June 2022. The follow-up to “Gods Of Violence” was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany. Helming the classes was Arthur Rizk, who has beforehand labored with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, CODE ORANGE, POWER TRIP and SOULFLY, amongst others.

The “Hate Über Alles” cowl art work was created by Eliran Kantor, who has beforehand labored with HATEBREED, SOULFLY, TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH and SODOM, amongst others.

“Hate Über Alles” marks KREATOR‘s first album with bassist Frédéric Leclercq, who joined the group in 2019.

In March 2020, KREATOR surprise-released a brand new single, “666 – World Divided”. The track was produced by Andy Sneap and Markus Ganter and was recorded at Hansa Tonstudios.

KREATOR performed its first present with Leclercq in October 2019 in Santiago, Chile.

Earlier than becoming a member of KREATOR, Leclercq rose to fame with U.Ok.-based excessive energy metallers DRAGONFORCE for whom he dealt with bass duties from 2005 till August 2019.