Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos (Ltd. Ed. CD/DVD)
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Free Music Review: the german slayer
Hit: 5 Stars
These guys rip. This new album is in fact chaotic from the beginning. I have listened to it countless times because it is that good. If you are a fan of slayer, testament, or exodus. Even old metallica this is for you for sure!Free Music Review: Flawless Thrash Power!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is classic thrash all the way. Kreator always blows me away. This album is a thrash masterpiece, thank you KREATOR, you Kreate the best music.Free Music Review: excellent album
Hit: 5 Stars
this cd/dvd played automatically on my very picky samsung, the music was awesome, and we are very happy with it!Free Music Review: Nice Follow Up, RAW
Hit: 4 Stars
It is well recorded, and was recorded more or less 'Live' as portrayed in the DVD, with all the musicians playing the base of the songs together. It isn't nearly as crisp and clear as 'Enemy of God'. But it works. It sounds a little looser and I will say the riffs are nothing new, but very well executed. I love this bands sound, especially in the 'Extreme Aggression' , 'Coma of Souls' era. Therefore, the sound on this disc is to my liking as well as the flow of the disc. Has a good punch.
The tracks themselves line up well with 'Enemy of God'.. If you like Kreator overall you will like this CD. Nothing you haven't come to expect. The best tracks are 'War Curse' and 'Absolute Misanthropy'. Contagious riffs. 'Escalation' is very catchy, great riffing. Just a killer track as well. 'Destroy what Destroys You' is the most accessible song on here, but it is excellent nonetheless. The others fit with the rest of Kreator's catalog. Nothing brand new, They stay in their comfort zone. Mid paced thrash with a solid foundation. Though they do thrash it up in spots pretty hard. Almost (very) Slayer-esque in the Guitar Solo's and vocal delivery. especially on 'Destroy...' The 3-4 minute length of most songs makes them even more lethal. Not much room for the over-melodic stuff.
The reason for the 4 stars? The vocal! Very raw and at times annoying. Mille really gets to the bottom of his gut on this CD. I like it for the most part, but sometimes it just hits those notes that make you shriek! Uncomfortable almost. Sounds like he went for the 'Tom Araya' style with the yelling choruses. I will say I am curious as to why he opted to take this tone throughout 80% of this disc. Makes for a more difficult listen.
But I am a seasoned Kreator fan and other than the vocal, its an A+.
There is a lot of energy. The DVD is decent as well. Shows behind the scenes of the making of this CD. Just a bit tough to keep track of the subtitles! A great value for the price.. Don't pass it up.
Free Music Review: Fails to live up to the brilliant "Enemy of God"...
Hit: 3 Stars
2.5 Stars
Shockingly inferior to the nearly *perfect* (there's literally nothing that can be criticized) "Enemy of God," probably the best thrash album since the 1980's, "Hordes of Chaos" is basically nothing more than rehashed, "chaotic" riffs thrown together that accomplish very little in the way of melody, structure, or harmony, and unfortunately there's not a whole lot more than can be said about it. It simply sounds like a warmed over retooling of their earlier work, subtracting any songwriting effort while "adding" vocals the poor quality of which Kreator has never before managed, and there isn't a single track on the album I remember after giving it three listens (and you're not going to find them memorable, either, no matter how hard you try). Additionally, the "live" studio production (basically a gimmick to add an incentive to these very unworthy tracks) does very little to aid the "image" the album is trying to present (apparently, it's supposed to be an "attack," the intention of which I still can't decipher), and simply masks the obvious fact that the band didn't put a trace of effort into the songwriting (in comparison to "Enemy of God," one wonders whether or not these tracks were even "written" by the same people). There's simply nothing on this album that's going to grab your attention, and you'll be rolling your eyes at its banality by the fourth track. Boring, rehashed riff meets boring, rehashed riff, and this goes on and on until it's over, after a measly thirty minutes (give or take), and by the end, you'll simply be *stunned* that it was produced by the same incredible band that created "Enemy of God." I don't know what went wrong, or why they devoted such little effort to the songwriting process this time around, but there's little excuse for it, given that it's been four years since their last album (which was released five years after "Violent Revolution," and the extra time, in that case, was highly beneficial, as the band was able to construct twelve standout tracks and compile them into "Enemy of God" (any one of which is far superior to anything on "Hordes of Chaos")).
Ultimately, I doubt that even diehard fans (minus the very small percentage that will inevitably chime in here) of this band will find anything here that validates their devotion to the group (*publicly* defend it as they might (though actually not listening to it more than once or twice)), and will likely find this to be one of the band's least impacting albums (and I'd be surprised if anyone listens to it more than two or three times before forgetting about it entirely). That said, it's probably near par with the average modern thrash album (garbage), but below par for the band, especially after their (again) phenomenal prior release (which completely, single-handedly reestablished thrash as *the* superior sub-genre of metal). We knew that matching "Enemy of God" would prove to be impossible, but the bottom line, again, is that much more effort could have put into the songwriting on this release, and I've got to state that this album isn't merely a letdown, but an insult to their finally-proven talent. My advice to Amazonian metal-heads: forget this album, and buy Kreator's 2005 masterpiece if you don't already own it...it's a truly brilliant album that *must* be acknowledged as such by any true thrash devotee.