KREATOR! KREATOR! Happy Friday, please enjoy some badass thrash from Germany’s own Kreator. These guys have been shredding as long as I’ve been a person, so I have to imagine they have tinnitus and a sore back. Oooh their bassist is Frédéric Leclerq, which is one of the hockey-est names I’ve read in a while. Aside from a little part in the 90s, they’ve had the same drummer the whole time, which kinda pokes a hole in Spinal Tap’s claim that drummers explode randomly and frequently.

The song kicks off with some great dueling guitarmonies and big bombastic drumming before getting into gear. The drums are relentless, pushing the kind of tempo that would get a runner breaking land speed records. A double guitar solo of noodly proportions takes us into the final chorus. At four minutes and change, they don’t waste much time, but there’s enough breaks where I could see this being stretched out live for solos and crowd interaction and whatnot.

The video itself is a live show from 2017. You know it’s a good show when you see plenty of battle jackets and a teeming mass of a pit. I think they have pictures of family members blown up real huge behind them too. That’s sweet of them. It’s like they have giant Aura frames showing off their cheeky cousins and uncles and stuff. I dig that the vocalist sets his mic up similar to Lemmy, with it like pointing down at him from on high. Like he’s shouting at a giant.