Enemy Of God by Kreator
January 30, 2007 by Jo Minor
German thrash metal legends Kreator released Enemy Of God, an album chock full of finely-crafted, truly memorable thrash tracks, in 2005. I got my hands on a copy when the imported CDs and tour posters were given away at the door during the band’s monumental performance in The Backroom, Kuala Lumpur in September of the same year, as part of their world tour supporting the album.
Enemy Of God is the release after the highly acclaimed Violent Revolution, which was a superb album - laden with creative riffs and impressionable songs.
A total of twelve tracks make up this monster of an album, and once you hit the play button there is no end to the barrage of good heavy metal - the constant battering of Ventor’s drums and the formidable guitar works are truly majestic.
The best tracks are located - I don’t know if this was intentional or otherwise - at the very beginning from the album. The brilliance starts from the intense title track, and is carried on - without any signs of slowing down - through to the second track, Impossible Brutality (perhaps the best track in the entire album) and right down to the terrorizing third track Suicide Terrorist.
Then, the songs slow some signs of being lackluster fillers - until the brutality picks up again in the ninth track One Evil Comes - A Million Follow. A few more tracks after this and the album reaches its end.
So, is Enemy Of God an album worthy of the Kreator name? Hell yeah!
Ventor’s drumming has just gotten better, and frontman Mille Petrozza’s screams and deep singing voice hasn’t faltered at all. Enemy Of God seems to be a decent follow up to Violent Revolution, although I would definitely proclaim the latter as being the better one. By all means, Enemy Of God can stand, comfortably, among the band’s earlier material - but by no measure is this a second Pleasure To Kill!
If there are any weaknesses in this album, then I would have to say that there should’ve been lesser tracks - usually, ten tracks per album works fine - but who am I to tell the mighty guys of Kreator what to do! I would have been happier if there were ten or lesser tracks - with each of the tracks given more focus - I can only imagine the result of having the pleasure of listening to ten fantastic songs that have the same quality as the first three songs present in Enemy Of God!
A great listen, and should appeal to all fans of extreme metal.
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