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Terrible Certainty

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After destroying eardrums worldwide with Endless Pain and Pleasure to Kill, Kreator unleashed Terrible Certainity, a record which quite possibly is Germany's quintessential thrashterpiece. All elements are represented here... chaotic drumming, precise riffage, apocalyptic lyrics and Mille's razorblade vocal delivery... not to mention great cover art and excellent songwriting.

Much more refined and smoothed over than previous releases, Terrible Certainity still remains caustic, with songs like Storming With Menace and the title track thrashing hard enough to rip any wayward metalhead a new one. The fretwork is technical without being pretentious and every song is a keeper.

Basically this album sums up what late 80s thrash is all about and belongs in any professed metalhead's collectin.

I'd never heard of Kreator when I bought "TC" in 1989. Hell, I liked the jacket artwork. A couple spins of the vinyl was all it took to make me a devote to this day. This is a non-stop procession of speed, skill and unbridled metal prowess, withering anything by hair bands of that era ie. "Poison", "Def Leppard" (yawn), etc. Kreator's driving, menacing product paints an intricate picture across a canvas of civil unrest, environmental disaster and political corruption. Listen to "Toxic Trace" and I dare you not to bang your head. Go deeper into "No Escape" and "One of Us" and you may be ready for a fist-fight. The record never lets up with its angular guitar progressions, thundering, fluttering kick-drumming and Mille Petroza's harsh, spitting vocals. If thrash and thunder are your bag, you can not go wrong here. A defining moment in thrash/speed.

Kreator's early beginnings showed the band as a reckless musical unit, inspired by dark groups like Venom and Mercyful Fate, and heavy fast rock acts like Motorhead. their first few albums were crude, but showed a great technical skill and a flair for writing some pretty cool riffs. well, one listen to Terrible Certainty and it becomes perfectly clear why this band has earned it's place in the pantheon of classic thrash! this album is full of non-stop blistering songs that attack the listener with calculated speed and plenty of whiplash tempo changes. the vocals sound fierce and fit the flow of the speed perfectly. the band sounds tighter than ever before and the production is great! the guitar solos are still kind of raw and don't always add the kind of depth and melodic drama that most of their American contemporaries would pull off; but the Terrible Certainty solos sound a little bit better than on past albums. one thing i have also always loved about this album is the creepy cover art, showing two rows of skeletal religious figures along a bridge that leads to a towering demon figure with glaring eyes. awesome concept and this cover was the main reason why i bought this album in the first place (well...it was a cassette tape when i first bought this back in the day). this was actually the first Kreator album i ever bought and it remains my favorite to this day. a totally essential and monumentally inspiring thrash album of very high calibur!

"Terrible Certainty" is a landmark thrash metal cd. A death-defying display of speed, anger and adrenaline, Kreator's savage style was indicative of the new breed of thrash bands coming out of Germany (i.e Destruction, Sodom). The disc starts off with the thrash masterpiece "Blind Faith" and rips along with a frightening intensity and establishes a new level of malevolence matched only by Slayer's "Reign In Blood". If there is one drawback to this ferocious disc is the production. It severely weakens the disc in overall power, but the band manages to rise above it with their sheer rage and destructive velocity. "Toxic Trace", "Behind The Mirror", "One Of US" and the moshpit classic "As The World Burns", obliterate with riff after riff of blazing ferocity. Kreator's next cd's were more restrained, more accessible and better produced, but the fire power they display here, makes this their best work ever. One of the 10 Best Thrash Metal albums of all time. BUY OR DIE!!!

This album is raw, catchy, fast, furious, more raw than the album after "Extreme Aggression" Mille's bark on this one is frightning, and rules, theres not much to say about this one, every song is a keeper, not one bad tune, 36 minutes of pure mayhem, buy it!

i've known kreators music since 89s "extreme agression" & liked it enough to buy "coma.." which i also like very much.that was as far as my kreator kollection got for many years.one day i pulled my head out of my ass & sampled some stuff off this one(after reading the wonderful reviews)here on amazon.i was floored !had to have it!! plan to eventuly own em all!!!sorry didn't mean to yell at you.but this is a serious matter,if you're a fan of this kind of music you should purchase it or steal it before you die or lose your hearing!!!!!!!!

Just about any list of the best late 80's/early 90's thrash probably includes: Sepultura - Beneath The Remains, Any Metallica Before the Black Album, Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption, SOD - Speak English or Die, Slayer - Reign in Blood/South of Heaven, and Kreator - Terrible Certainty.

The best way to describe Kreator's tracks are pure agression. Heavy riffs are pointless without good arrangement - and Kreator comes close to Metallica in arrangement for maximum impact. Mille's terse, growling, staccato vocals sound almost demonic. They even write some catchy lyrics.

Kreator's style of brutal, in-your-face thrash is at its peak on Terrible Certainty. This album is pure adrenaline, my friends! Growling, snarling vocals backed by frenetic gituar chops and machine-gun drumming pound you through this record. The sound is much cleaner than earlier Kreator efforts (e.g., Flag of Hate, Pleasure to Kill); the heretofore muddied drum tracks are now crisp and the album is very well produced. For the uninitiated, it will require a few listenings while your brainwaves readjust to the blistering pace of the music; for musical speed freaks, this is one of the best releases of the 1980's.

Kreator's strongest collection of songs, and their second best album. Tighter and more complex than 'Pleasure to Kill', but retaining the same claustrophobic energy. The crisp production stifles some of the bludgeoning, Neanderthal extremity, but allows the rhythmic structure and the song-writing subtleties to shine. The galloping momentum of 'Storming with Menace' and 'One of Us' fit perfectly with the frenzied chaos of 'Behind the Mirror'. Vital extreme thrash.

When this album came out, I had no idea what they were. I was listening to a lot of Sanctuary, Celtic Frost, Sepultura, etc. and then i heard this unadulterated piece of tight, i mean tight, spit in your face, fierce aggression.I think I listened to it nonstop for an entire three years until it fell into a friends hands and never fell back. Toxic Trace and Blind Faith will push your desk away and make you bang your head like it was 1989.You'll wish you had a pair of high top black Reeboks and a Slayer backpatch. Before you buy anything else in this genre, GET THIS ALBUM.