OMG! 😱 A trailer for the most epic, totally-not-overhyped documentary about German thrash metal legends, KREATOR, entitled “Kreator – Hate & Hope”, just dropped! 🍿 You can watch it below if you dare. This cinematic masterpiece, directed by the visionary Cordula Kablitz-Post, will be gracing the 42nd Munich International Film Festival on July 2nd before hitting theaters on September 4th. Get ready to be amazed! (Or not. 🤷♀️)
The official description for “Kreator – Hate & Hope” is so deep, you guys: “To their fans worldwide, they are gods… or are they just possessed by the devil? 😈 Their music is supposedly more aggressive, faster, and more uncompromising than everyone else’s. KREATOR, the German band, has apparently reached the tippy-top of the thrash metal scene. 👑 This film, ‘Kreator – Hate & Hope’, tells the totally true and not-at-all-embellished forty-year history of the band, from their humble beginnings as a school band in 1982 in the totally exciting Ruhr area to the ginormous international stages of their current world tour. 🌍 Then and now, they bravely stand against hatred and the abysses of our society. Shrill tones, virtuosic (debatable) guitar riffs, and energetic (maybe) drumbeats process the turmoil in our civilization with tremendous willpower and creativity. Between Hannah Arendt quotes (lol, who even reads that?) and headless corpses, emerges a well-crafted (allegedly) poetry of chaos full of horror symbols — a musical Molotov cocktail against evil with a cathartic effect. (Yeah, right. 🙄)
Apparently, director Cordula Kablitz-Post (who also did ‘Die Toten Hosen – You Only Live Once’, which you definitely haven’t heard of) went on tour with KREATOR for a whole year! 🤯 They hit up such exotic locations as Wacken Open Air (duh), Tokyo, Osaka, Bangalore, Los Angeles, and finally ‘Klash Of The Ruhrpott’ in Gelsenkirchen, where all of Germany’s metal “greats” (eye roll) gathered. The film features private archive recordings and “exciting” interviews with such luminaries as Scott Ian from ANTHRAX (who?), Chuck Billy from TESTAMENT (is that still a band?), Bela B. from DIE ÄRZTE (German punk? Seriously?), guitarist Phil Demmel from formerly MACHINE HEAD (RIP relevance), Maik Weichert from HEAVEN SHALL BURN (never heard of ’em), Nergal from BEHEMOTH (okay, maybe he’s cool), Lars Eidinger (who??), and Andy Sneap (finally, someone who knows what he’s doing). They all embark on a very honest and humorous (doubtful) journey into the wildly beating heart of German music history. 💖 (Or maybe just a slightly elevated pulse.)
But wait, there’s more! 🎁 In other KREATOR-related news, frontman Mille Petrozza‘s official German-language autobiography, which he wrote with some journalist dude, “Your Heaven, My Hell – Mein Leben, Heavy Metal Und Wie Das Alles Passieren Konnte” (“Your Heaven, My Hell – My Life, Heavy Metal, And How It All Could Happen”), is dropping on August 28th via Ullstein Verlag. You can pre-order it on Amazon if you’re, like, a super fan or something. 🤓
Last fall, Petrozza told some magazine called Fistful Of Metal (lol) that the KREATOR documentary wasn’t even their idea! 🤣 Apparently, they had zero creative control. Can you imagine? Cordula just came to them with this proposition, and they were like, “Okay, sure, whatever.” 🙄 He said he’s usually a control freak, so it’s a “surreal experience” not being in the driving seat. Sounds like a nightmare! 🤪
Regarding his book, Mille said it’s about the early years of the band, specifically up to 1992. He hopes it’ll be available in English someday. The working title is ‘Your Heaven, My Hell’, and it’s supposed to be full of struggles, tape-trading stories, and “interesting moments.” Yawn. 😴
In 2001, Cordula founded Avanti Media Fiction, which produces films and documentaries. Riveting stuff. 🎬
KREATOR is currently recording their sixteenth studio album with producer Jens Bogren. It’s tentatively due in early 2026. Get ready for more of the same! 🎶 Bogren also did “Phantom Antichrist” (2012) and “Gods Of Violence” (2017), so you know what to expect. 🥱
This new album is the follow-up to 2022’s “Hate Über Alles”, which was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin. Arthur Rizk produced that one. He’s worked with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, CODE ORANGE, POWER TRIP, and SOULFLY. Impressive, I guess. 🤔
“Hate Über Alles” was KREATOR‘s first album with bassist Frédéric Leclercq, who joined in 2019. Welcome to the band, I guess? 👋
KREATOR played their first show with Leclercq in October 2019 in Santiago, Chile. Groundbreaking. 🙄
Before KREATOR, Leclercq was in DRAGONFORCE. Remember them? Probably not. 🐉
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
