Country of origin: Germany
Location: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Status: Active
Formed in:1984
Genre: Thrash Metal
Lyrical themes: Death, Evil, Politics, War, Anti-fascism, Liberation, Rebellion
Current label: Nuclear Blast Records
Years active: 1982 (as Metal Militia), 1982 (as Tyrant), 1982-1984 (as Tormentor), 1984-present

Kreator is a German thrash metal band from Essen. Their style of music is similar to their compatriots Destruction, Sodom and Tankard, the other three German thrash metal bands. Along with those three bands, Kreator has been referred to as one of the "big four" of Teutonic thrash metal, and they are often credited with helping pioneer death metal and black metal by containing several elements of what was to become those genres.

They originally performed a speed metal style with Venom influences. Kreator's work began in the vein of thrash metal but ventured into Industrial metal and Gothic metal from 1992 to 1999, before eventually returning to their classic thrash sound to date.

Kreator has released thirteen studio albums, two EPs, one live album and three compilation albums. The band released its debut album Endless Pain in 1985. Although many of their previous albums, including Pleasure to Kill (1986), were quite popular in the United States, Kreator did not experience major American commercial success until the 2009 release of their twelfth studio album, Hordes of Chaos, which peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 16 on the Media Control Charts. Hordes of Chaos was followed three years later by Phantom Antichrist, which was also successful and peaked at higher chart positions in many countries. Kreator has been working on a new album, which is due for release around 2017.

Rehearsal - Demo 1985
Endless Pain - Full-length 1985
Flag of Hate - EP 1986
Pleasure to Kill - Full-length 1986
Behind the Mirror - Single 1987
Terrible Certainty - Full-length 1987
Sounds Waves 1 - Split 1988
Out of the Dark... into the Light - EP 1988
Extreme Aggression - Full-length 1989
Live in East Berlin - Video 1990
Thrashing East - Split video 1990
Doomsday News III - Thrashing East - Live Split 1990
Coma of Souls - Full-length 1990
Renewal - Demo 1991
Hallucinative Comas - Video 1991
Renewal - Full-length 1992
Cause for Conflict - Full-length 1995
Scenarios of Violence - Compilation 1996
Leave This World Behind - EP 1997
Outcast - Full-length 1997
Voices of Transgression: A 90s Retrospective - Compilation 1999
Endorama - Full-length 1999
Chosen Few - EP 2000
1985-1992 Past Life Trauma - Compilation 2000
Violent Revolution - Full-length 2001
Live Kreation - Live album 2003
Live Kreation - Revisioned Glory - Video 2003
Enemy of God - Full-length 2005
At the Pulse of Kapitulation - Live in East Berlin 1990 - Video 2008
Hordes of Chaos - Full-length 2009
Terror Prevails - Live at Rock Hard Festival - Live album 2010
Phantom Antichrist - Single 2012
Terror Prevails - Live at Rock Hard Festival, Pt. 2 - Live album 2012
Phantom Antichrist - Full-length 2012
Civilization Collapse - Single 2012
The Big Teutonic 4 - Split 2012
Kreator / Legion of the Damned - Split 2013
Dying Alive - Video 2013
Iron Destiny - Single 2014
Iron Destiny / Breaking the Law - Split 2014
The Big Teutonic 4 - Part II - Split 2015

Current
Ventor - Drums (1984-1994, 1996-present), Vocals (1984-1986)
See also: ex-Tormentor, ex-Ninnghizhidda
Mille Petrozza - Vocals, Guitars (1984-present)
See also: ex-Tormentor, ex-Voodoocult
Christian "Speesy" Giesler - Bass (1995-present)
See also: ex-Darkness
Sami Yli-Sirniö - Guitars (2001-present)
See also: Barren Earth, Waltari, ex-Kyyria, ex-Brainwash, ex-In Rags

Past
Rob - Bass (1984-1992)
See also: ex-Tormentor
Tritze - Guitars (1986-1989)
Wulf - Guitars (1986)
(R.I.P. 1993) See also: ex-Sodom
Frank Blackfire - Guitars (1989-1996)
See also: ex-Mystic, ex-Sodom, ex-Wortmord, ex-Widia
Andreas Herz - Bass (1992-1995)
See also: ex-Slasher, In Rags, ex-Flaming Anger
Joe Cangelosi - Drums (1994-1996)
See also: ex-Cerebral Hemorrhage, ex-Death Corps, Brooklyn Militia, ex-Whiplash, ex-Massacre, ex-Moondog
Tommy Vetterli - Guitars (1996-2001)
See also: 69 Chambers, Coroner, ex-Clockwork

Past (Live)
Bogusz Rutkiewicz - Bass (1988)
See also: Turbo, ex-Gotham, ex-Doctrine X
Marco Minnemann - Drums (2009-2010)
See also: Aeonsgate, Painstyle, Vindictiv, ex-Ephel Duath, ex-Marco Ferrigno, Mike Keneally Band, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani (live), ex-Nathan Frost, ex-Illogicist, ex-Necrophagist

http://www.kreator-terrorzone.de/
http://myspace.com/kreator
https://www.facebook.com/KreatorOfficial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreator
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Kreator/157
http://www.discogs.com/artist/139308-Kreator
http://www.last.fm/ru/music/Kreator