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Kreator Live Video And Photo Footage From Sydney Gig And Interview Posted

PyroMusic have posted over 40 minutes of video footage from Kreator's sold-out Sydney show along with over 100 photos of the band doing what they do best right here. The video is available in high, medium or low quality, all viewable with Quicktime. Also posted, at this location, is an interview with Kreator's vocalist and guitarist, Miland Petrozza, on everything from past albums to future albums, touring and metal in general. A few excerpts follow;

Pyro: Now, for possibly the most predictable question I will ask. When can we expect a new Kreator album?
MP: I honestly don't know.

Pyro: Have you started writing any material for it yet?
MP: No. The be honest we've been touring for 'Enemy Of God' so much that we haven't really had the time to sit down and write some new material yet. For me it's important to wait for the right moment to really be inspired before I start writing. We definitely want to top that album so we don't want to put out an album that's not as intense as 'Enemy Of God'. We want it to be just as good.

Pyro: Are any other releases such as another DVD or live album planned?
MP: We're doing a DVD version of 'Enemy Of God'. It's almost finished. It's going to have several video clips and some interview footage and a 5.1 mix of the album. Its not a full-blown DVD, it's kind of a mix of DVD and album.

Pyro: Sweet. Looking back into the middle-section of Keator's career and albums such as 'Renewal', 'Cause For Conflict', 'Outcast', 'Endorama'...honestly speaking, now that you can look back on them, do you feel they are weaker than other Kreator offerings or are you personally really happy with how they turned out?
MP: Lyrically, yes. Those were very experimental albums too. Maybe they could have had better production, but other than that I'm quite happy with the fact that we did these albums. We had to get them out. We started when I was like 16 years old and the first album, I was quite young when we went into the studio to record and our music never had a chance to progress early on. There was no time to explore so that's what we did with those albums. I think it was necessary to get where we are now.

Pyro: What's your view on the current state of the metal scene?
MP: Well over here in Germany there's a couple of cool bands coming out. Newer stuff like Maroon and Heaven Shall Burn. They're pretty good. There's always really cool stuff, it just depends what you're into. The scene is definitely still huge.

Pyro: Do you have any stand-out memories, good or bad, whilst on the road with Kreator?
MP: I have a lot of them. Especially bad memories. Like when I have to wait 8 hours for my connection flight at the airport. Stuff like that is definitely bad. It's mostly the traveling that gets on my nerves. I don't like being on planes, I don't like being on a tour bus, they just get on my nerves but the shows always make up for it. They're great and I would never complain about this. Sometimes it can be a little bit stressful but the fans and shows are great and I have a lot of good memories too. The shows and fans are what matterrs, not the waiting around and the boring stuff.

Pyro: I've noticed a lot of melody crept into the recent Kreator releases. Would you say that was influenced by other bands you had been listening to or was it a natural progression for Kreator?
MP: I would say it was just a progression. I've heard this a lot and also stuff like "Oh you've been influenced by Swedish metal." and I'm like "No, they've been influenced by us, sorry" [laughter]. If you listen to 'Coma Of Souls' you can hear it there already and that's before those bands were even around. I respect a lot of the stuff that comes out of Sweden. There's some great stuff played there and some amazing musicians.

Pyro: Just a quick question. Will Ventor be doing vocals on any forthcoming material at all?
MP: Not on albums, but live yes. He doesn't like singing.

Pyro: Ok. There are a number of fans who believe some of the tracks he has done vocals for are among the best Kreator have written. For example 'Riot Of Violence'.
MP: Well, we'll still be doing that live, but not in studio.

Pyro: What the future hold for Kreator? Say in 5 years, do you plan on being writing, recording and playing live?
MP: In 5 years? Of course.

Pyro: That's good to know. It's great to see so many of Germany's Thrash metal bands still kicking and pumping out material.
MP: Well to be honest, it's not about being part of a certain genre. it's all about being a musician. If you have the chance to be able to record yourself and write new stuff and go on tour, you do it. It's a way of expressing yourself and I think that'd very important. Once you decide to become a musician and work at a creative level, and work as an artist, it's something that just has to come out of you. It's more like an inner drive to come up with new ideas and new albums.

Pyro: Do you try and push yourself with each successive release to come up with better lyrics, better riffs etc?
MP: Yes. Otherwise I wouldn't do it. I always have to top the previous album. That's why we take our time and will continue to take our time for the new album (which will probably come in in 1 or 2 years). Otherwise, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense to do something you're not 100, no, 150% happy about. It's got to be the best you can possibly do. I take my own music way, way too seriously to come up with a release that's just mediocre. We want the new album to be more brutal and more intense than the previous.

Pyro: I think most of the Aussie shows are at venues with capacities of 400-850. Hopefully they'll all sell out but we'll see. Any clues as to how long your sets will be on the Aussie tour?
MP: An hour and a half. Maybe some will be a little longer.

Pyro: What material can we expect? Perhaps a bunch of tracks from the killer early albums up to 1990, then one or two odd tracks before the more recent stuff from 'Violent Revolution' and 'Enemy Of God'?
MP: Yeah. Pretty much. A bit of everything.

Source: PyroMusic