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German excessive metallic titans KREATOR have unveiled “Midnight Solar”, the third single from their upcoming fifteenth studio album, “Hate Über Alles”. The eagerly anticipated full-length is a robust album-of-the-year contender in addition to a worldwide assertion towards hate and the division of society. Earlier than its arrival subsequent month, KREATOR offers you one other deal with within the type of probably the most uncommon track “Hate Über Alles” has to supply. “Midnight Solar” manages to couple heavy guitar shredding and charming groove metallic with a melodramatic, larger-than-life refrain together with feminine backing vocals, impressively showcasing KREATOR‘s continued evolution of the style they helped create.
KREATOR frontman Mille Petrozza feedback: “‘Midnight Solar’ is one thing a little bit new for us, our first time collaborating with a feminine artist.
“Once I was writing the track, I might hear this Oracle-type voice over the pre-chorus and refrain and I instantly reached out to my gifted good friend, Sofia Portanet, who’s an rising artist right here in Germany. Sofia added precisely what I used to be in search of and provides the track a very darkish, ethereal vibe.
“The video is the second manufacturing we shot with Tom Schlagkamp and his staff. The idea was drawn up from the track’s lyrics which I envisaged to happen throughout a ritual sacrifice. Director Tom got here again with an thought loosely based mostly on Ari Aster‘s ‘Midsommar’ which has highly effective visuals, excellent for a killer metallic music video.”
“Hate Über Alles” shall be launched on June 10 through Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2017’s “Gods Of Violence” was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany. Helming the classes was Arthur Rizk, who has beforehand labored with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, CODE ORANGE, POWER TRIP and SOULFLY, amongst others.
Relating to the “Hate Über Alles” album title, Petrozza beforehand mentioned: “‘Hate Über Alles’ displays the time we’re dwelling in. Every part is admittedly loud and aggressive. The best way we talk has modified, because of social media. It causes plenty of imbalance. The world is in a state of disrepair. Life just isn’t harmonic proper now, it is disharmonic… that is the place I used to be going with the title.”
The “Hate Über Alles” cowl art work was created by Eliran Kantor, who has beforehand labored with HATEBREED, SOULFLY, TESTAMENT, ICED EARTH and SODOM, amongst others.
“Hate Über Alles” monitor itemizing:
01. Sergio Corbucci Is Useless
02. Hate Über Alles
03. Killer Of Jesus
04. Crush The Tyrants
05. Strongest Of The Sturdy
06. Grow to be Immortal
07. Conquer And Destroy
08. Midnight Solar
09. Demonic Future
10. Pleasure Comes Earlier than The Fall
11. Dying Planet
Final yr, Petrozza instructed the official podcast of Italy’s Metalitalia.com in regards to the musical path of the band’s new LP: “It is positively totally different. It is arduous for me to explain, however I feel it is positively extra thrash once more. It has plenty of melody, and it has plenty of conventional elements, and it has plenty of elements of the final 4 or 5 albums. Nevertheless it additionally has some very old-school moments. I feel it is positively the following step.”
“Hate Über Alles” marks KREATOR‘s first album with bassist Frédéric Leclercq, who joined the group in 2019.
In September 2020, KREATOR guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö described the classes for the band’s new album to Italy’s Poisoned Rock as “plenty of enjoyable,” including that the “temper” within the band “is nice. And the overall vibe and the environment is superb,” he mentioned. “[These are] artistic instances for KREATOR in the mean time.”
In March 2020, KREATOR surprise-released a brand new single, “666 – World Divided”. The track was produced by Andy Sneap and Markus Ganter and was recorded at Hansa Tonstudios.
The music video for “666 – World Divided” was created beneath the path of Jörn Heitmann, who was chargeable for the music movies for “Radio” and “Ausländer” by RAMMSTEIN.
KREATOR performed its first present with Leclercq in October 2019 in Santiago, Chile.
Earlier than becoming a member of KREATOR, Leclercq rose to fame with U.Okay.-based excessive energy metallers DRAGONFORCE for whom he dealt with bass duties from 2005 till August 2019.
KREATOR‘s beforehand introduced “State Of Unrest” European tour with LAMB OF GOD has been rescheduled for November/December 2022 within the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
KREATOR launched a brand new dwell set, “London Apocalypticon – Stay At The Roundhouse”, in February 2020 through Nuclear Blast. The trouble was professionally filmed and recorded on December 16, 2018 on the Roundhouse in London, England.
