247 - Kreator Impossible Brutality 2005

Kreator's astounding return to form via 2001's "Violent Revolution", following over a decade of "wilderness study" in non-thrash terrain. As well as revitalizing the band's career the album clearly helped main man Mille Petrozza make peace with his past, and set the stage for his band's wisely retro-minded direction going forward into the new millennium. Cue 2005's Enemy of God: not only Kreator's next shot at revitalizing old-school thrash metal for modern generations, but a necessary building block to sustaining their unexpected renaissance. As always Mille rasps and howls really angrily through his very good and above all critical lyrics. And on the second guitar he crafts an incredibly hard slab with colleague Sami. "Impossible Brutality" was the first single release from the album.