Metal Anarchy

Kreator have announced two new releases. The first is a new documentary, “Kreator – Hate & Hope,” which will premiere at the Munich International Film Festival on July 2 before receiving a theatrical release on September 4. The second is frontman Mille Petrozza’s new autobiography, “Your Heaven, My Hell – Mein Leben, Heavy Metal Und Wie Das Alles Passieren Konnte,” which will be released on August 28.

The following was said about the documentary:

“To their fans worldwide, they are gods, but their music seems possessed by the devil — more aggressive, faster, and more uncompromising than others. The German band Kreator has long since reached the pinnacle of the thrash metal scene. The film ‘Kreator – Hate & Hope’ tells the forty-year history of the celebrated metal band for the first time, from their founding as a school band in 1982 in the Ruhr area to the grand international stages of their current world tour. Then as now, they stand against the hatred and the abysses of our society. Shrill tones, virtuosic guitar riffs, and energetic drumbeats process the turmoil in our civilization with tremendous willpower and creativity. Between Hannah Arendt quotes and headless corpses, emerges a well-crafted poetry of chaos full of symbols of horror — a musical Molotov cocktail against evil with a cathartic effect.

For her new documentary, director Cordula Kablitz-Post (‘Die Toten Hosen – You Only Live Once’) goes on tour with the legendary thrash metal band from the Ruhrpott for a year: Wacken Open Air, Tokyo, Osaka, Bangalore, Los Angeles and finally ‘Klash Of The Ruhrpott’ in Gelsenkirchen, where Germany’s metal greats gather. With private archive recordings and exciting interviews (Scott Ian / Anthrax, Chuck Billy / Testament, Bela B. / Die Ärzte, guitarist Phil Demmel / formerly Machine Head, Maik Weichert / Heaven Shall Burn, Nergal / Behemoth, Lars Eidinger, Andy Sneap) they embark on a very honest and humorous journey into the wildly beating heart of German music history.”

The following was said about the book:

“The Ruhr region in the 1970s: Mille Petrozza grew up as the son of a hard-working family in the Altenessen district of Essen. His mother was a refugee from the GDR, his father a guest worker from Calabria, and he worked underground. In the multicultural melting pot of the Ruhr region, the subcultures of the time collided with structural change: the closure of mines, violence, alcoholism, and the sniffing of scum. Heavy metal simply crashed into the mix: after a Kiss concert, Mille became part of an internationally networked grassroots movement. Through heavy metal, he emancipated himself from the drinking youth gangs. His first guitar gave him superpowers: with his band Kreator, Mille unexpectedly became an international thrash metal star. In his autobiography, Mille Petrozza tells for the first time the incredible story of his early years, how his mother signed the first record deal and how a heavy metal clique in the Ruhr region subsequently became one of the most internationally important and longest-running thrash metal bands of all time.”