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Title: Pleasure to Kill
Artist: Kreator
Label:Noise Records
Release Date: 1986

Rating: 5 Skulls
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    • Death's Review:
    In my opinion, Pleasure to Kill is perhaps one of the most underated underground metal albums of the 1980’s. The technicality, the brutality, the catchiness, the bile-spitting Mille vocals, the riffs – it added up to a milestone album in the development of the extreme metal underground. Was death metal invented by Kreator? No, but Pleasure to Kill is important as Kreator were definitely one of the early missing links between thrash and death. Melodic and technical riffs are mixed inside otherwise brutal tracks on classics such as “Riot of Violence.” It’s funny how many bands are singing in the Mille style nowadays. It’s even funnier to listen to this record and think about how much things have come full-circle – today’s melodic technical death metal movement is foreshadowed by Kreator on Pleasure to Kill. Even better, it’s a great listen in its own right. Anthemic songs, great riffs, headbanging fury, total heaviness. If you you’re up for some classic early extreme German technical speed/thrash, then check out this album. And if you like this, move on to Terrible Certainty and the Flag of Hate EP, which are also absolutely essentially thrash records, in my humble opinion Still, I think Pleasure to Kill is the best one of them all.
    5 out of 5
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