KREATOR: Live Album To Be Made Available With Germany's ROCK HARD Magazine

The December issue of Germany's Rock Hard magazine will feature an exclusive KREATOR live CD which will not be available in stores. "Terror Prevails - Live At Rock Hard Festival" is an outstanding recording of an awesome, smashing live performance the thrash quartet delivered this past May at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater in Germany. "Now, KREATOR have reached the top of their career so far. Their last three albums were placed #1 in our readers’ charts, and internationally, KREATOR hold the fort, being second to none less than SLAYER in their genre," Rock Hard publisher Holger Stratmann said in a statement.

Rock Hard and KREATOR go back a long way, having been pals since their early years. This fact — and the band's 25th anniversary, of course — is celebrated by the mag with an extensive cover story (11 pages!),many exclusive, historical pics, and a fresh photo session done in the Ruhr Museum in Essen, a very prominent location of the current capital of culture, Ruhr.2010. In the story, guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza offers some insight into the early days of KREATOR and his private history.

"Mille is a typical immigrant kid of the Ruhr — who has come to make a living with his music and now is one of Germany's most impressive musical representatives," says Stratmann.

The digipak CD (which is the first part of a double live album) will feature the following track listing:

01. Choir Of The Damned (intro)
02. The Pestilence
03. Hordes Of Chaos
04. Phobia
05. Enemy Of God
06. Impossible Brutality
07. Endless Pain
08. Pleasure To Kill
09. Terrible Certainty

"Hordes Of Chaos" audio stream:

The second part will also be made available exclusively via Rock Hard — the release date to be announced later.

"The album is of outstanding quality and, in my humble opinion, a genre classic even now. It marks a highlight in the history of Rock Hard," Stratmann states.

Adds Mille Petrozza: "After 25 years, I want to give something back to the fans, especially the Rock Hard readers. This CD is meant as a 'thank you' for all their great support. Rock Hard Festival was one of our best performances this year, and we had planned to do something with the recordings anyway — the reactions to the gig were simply too enthusiastic."

The December issue of Rock Hard will be made available on November 17 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with a circulation of 75,000 copies.

To order the magazine, write to [email protected].

Professionally filmed video footage of KREATOR's performance at this year's installment of the Rock Hard festival — which was held May 21-23, 2010 at the Amphitheater in Gelsenkirchen, Germany — can be viewed below. (Note: The footage originally aired on WDR's [German public TV] series "Rockpalast".)