Thrashcast Episode 1: Kreator's 1986 album "Pleasure To Kill"
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Show Notes:
Episode One: Kreator's Pleasure to Kill (1986). The second studio album released in November 1986 by Noise Records. The album is widely considered a landmark thrash metal classic and played a considerable role in the development of many extreme metal subgenres, and death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse cite the album as an influence.
As discussed in episode one, the album's lyrical themes are about death, horror and the macabre. Some consider this release to be a proto-death sound. Many critics cited this album to be even louder, faster and more brutal and was a critical and commercially successful release. The superior material found on this release propelled the band into the status of the big three, along with Destruction and Sodom.
In 2017, Pleasure to Kill was remastered and reissued, charting for the first time in 31 years after the initial release. It peaked at number 99 on the German album charts.
Fun Fact: Varg Vikerness of Burzum was wearing a Pleasure to Kill t-shirt after getting his clothes bloody when killing Mayhem's Euronymous. He found the shirt in a back of the car he escaped in after committing the murder.
Kenneth Gallant, HMS
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