review by: Roberto Martinelli

I’ve always been pretty ambivalent about Kreator. German thrash geniuses, no doubt, but I have always been aware while listening to their classic stuff of myself saying, “this is Kreator. I’m supposed to like this.”

So with that in mind, you can get a good idea of how good Live Kreation is when I bestow upon it my (early) pick for live metal album of the year.

And it is really great. The sound of the guitars and drums and vocals is powerful and clear. It’s nearly like listening to a studio album played in front of thousands of lunatic fans. A studio album played with boundless energy, and synergy to boot.

The 2CD, 24 song live set could go off as a seamless, gargantuan marathon of metal passion, but then you realize that frontman Mille Petrozza is addressing the crowd in different languages. So it seems that disk one is from Korea. Disk two jumps from France to Germany to Brazil and back to France again. But if you were a Mongolian Kreator fan who spoke no English you wouldn’t be able to tell.

Also present on this wonderful album are some clips of the upcoming DVD companion release, which we hope to be able to tell you about in the future. In the meantime, pick this up and go mad. (8.5/10 -- as always, on a live album scale)