For me "Coma of Souls" is the best album, a true masterpiece.

All the times I saw Kreator live, it was the best sound of a thrash band alive. The sound engineer is amazing. And of course, just to remember, all the members are excepcional musicians.

Endless Pain, Pleasure to Kill, Terrible Certainty, Extreme Aggression and Coma of Souls are my personal favorites. Awesome albums!

"Enemy of god" is pure masterpiece.

“If Kreator was a beverage, it’d be called Kreator Lite… heh, heh, heh.” I love it 🤣

The lyrics to Riot of Violence and Pestilence were deeper and more prophetic than people realize

Kreator, the band that mastered pure thrash. No other can thrash like them. ‘Pleasure to Kill’ is one of the highlights of the 80s for me as it was such a contrast to the colorful glam that prevailed the decade. It could come out today and blow away and/or shock the general population. ‘Endless Pain’ is absolutely amazing too; Mille pretty much started black metal style vocals in that debut.

I love that one day you had the thought “I should do a video ranking my favorite Kreator records…” and then did an awesome job at it. Your channel rooooooolz and I’m stoked you have a Spotify. Keep up the klllrrr work!

Terrible Certainty is one of my hands-down favourite albums of all time. Not just metal album, but album in general. Those riffs are pure mastery. If only Voivod's Kiling Technology had this production quality.

one of my favorite things about Pleasure to Kill is that the drums in PtK have a really unique and brutal sound. I'm loving every seconds of this album.MASTERPIECE.

Extreme Aggression was my favorite metal album for a while back in 89/90 until I started listening to more death metal. I still remember hearing Pleasure To Kill for the first time after diving into the thrash scene and it blew my head clean off!!!!

Actually Hordes Of Chaos is pretty good album and would have deserved a much higher ranking

Pleasure to kill was my intro to Kreator back in the 80s. I agree with your ranking, well done. I discovered Destruction first with their Sentence of death EP.

Hard to argue with Pleasure... and Extreme... both masterpieces. Looking forward to when you rank Destruction

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard a song from Extreme Aggression….in a classroom waiting for everyone else to finish their test lol plenty of time to catch up on that masterpiece of an album

I discovered Kreator when Endless Pain was released. To this day, it is my favorite by them. I prefer the original vinyl where the first few seconds of each track wasn't cut out. Pleasure to Kill is also immense. Sadly, they lost me with the release of Extteme Aggression. It was just missing something for me. Keep the videos coming. Love em!

"Endless Pain" is easily my favorite. Never got as much out of the rest of the discography.

No gothic, no punk, no rock, no groove and other very interesting influences... Just the pure metal in every song. This is another typical CLASSIC album ranking just like any other one does. Every time just the pure metal thing without my counted influences boreds my to death

For me, Pleasure to Kill has something magical that no other Kreator albums have. I should like their other 80s Kreator classics, but after listening to Pleasure to Kill, it all sounds boring in comparison (except for Endless Pain and Flag of Hate EP). Similar to what Bonded by Blood did to me with Exodus. There's something inherently captivating about cave man thrash that no 'advanced' production or musicianship can create. Listening to this record is like seeing a train run off the rails. They are playing so fast beyond their own capacity, up beats become down beats, solos are sloppy as hell, but it's so great and perfect. I think 'fast' and 'heavy' in music isn't objective aesthetics, it's the musician's attitude and emotions. And they have ton of attitude here.

1) Extreme Aggression 2) Coma 3) Violent Revolution 4) Gods Of Violence 5) Pleasure To Kill 6) Phantom Antichrist 7) Terrible Certainty 8) Enemy Of God 9) Endless Pain 10) Endorama 11) Renewal 12) Outcast 13) Hordes Of Chaos 14) Cause For Conflict

I totaly agree: 1. pleasure to kill (extreme chaos and terror) 2. extreme aggression (fast and furious) 3. terrible certainty (tame pleasure to kill)

I love Endorama! Within the context of Kreator, it ranks very low, but outside for me it's a 10/10 album. Here's my rank: 1. Pleasure to Kill 10/10 2. Coma of Souls 9/10 3. Enemy of God 9/10 4. Violent Revolution 9/10 5. Terrible Certainty 8/10 6. Extreme Aggression 8/10 7. Hordes of Chaos 8/10 8. Endless Pain 7/10 9. Phantom Antichrist 7/10 10. Gods of Violence 7/10 11. Endorama 6/10 in Kreator's context, 10/10 for what it is. 12. Outcast 6/10 13. Renewal 4/10

Maybe a Razor or Exciter ranking would be a cool video

I love all era's of Kreator 1 - Endless Pain 2 - Terrible Certainty 3 - Pleasure to Kill 4 - Hordes of Chaos 5 - Violent Revolution 6 - Extreme Aggression 7 - Gods of Violence 8 - Outcast 9 - Coma of Souls 10 - Endorama 11 - Phantom Antichrist 12 - Enemy of God 13 - Cause for Conflict 14 - Renewal

Not sure if you're a Savatage or Iced Earth guy, but would love to see those bands ranked.

I actually enjoyed the modern Kreator albums from Violent Revolution onwards. Albums like Phantom Antichrist, Gods of Violence, Violent Revolution, and Enemy of God are what I consider among their finest; their best for me while Hordes of Chaos is just good in it's own right. I admit I like the Gothenburg sound. For their classics, sure Pleasure To Kill is awesome, but for some reason I like Coma of Souls. Then the rest are Extreme Aggression, Terrible Certainty and Endless Pain. For their "experimental age", I'm definitely not fond of them, although there are a little good stuff from Renewal, Cause for Conflict and Outcast. Songs like Renewal, Phobia, Nonconformist, Prevail and Catholic Despot are the few songs I like from them. Endorama is the worst for me. Pretty much these experimental albums are the lowest Kreator albums for me.

Greetings from Australia, I'm glad to hear you see Kreator's discography in 4 periods. I too see this. It makes Kreator's work from the 90s easier to listen to when combined in a "best of" play list. I'm appreciating that period now at 47 than i did in my 20's. Love your work. Keep it up! Cheers

PLEASURE TO KILL!!

Yeah here we are, the German thrash bands. Kreator is first and next and upcoming bands to rank is Destruction and Sodom.🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

Yep Kreator ! Not easy to rank, because I like most of their albums. But ok my top 3 is : - Coma of souls - Pleasure to Kill - Violent revolution

Yes! I've been waiting big time for this one! My most anticipated video from you ever! 😃 Kreator is one of my favorite band, and my favorite thrash band! Watching/listening now!

Pretty much perfect ranking for the Top 6, all those albums are classic. I do have a soft spot for Renewal, so would put it a little higher, but also agree with the bottom two; could never get into those albums. You could argue on which is the best Kreator album with the top 3 maybe, any of those three have been a favourite at one time or another.

1. Terrible Certainty 2. Pleasure to Kill 3. Extreme Aggression The only three albums that I really care for from Kreator top 10 thrash band of all time no question Terrible Cetainty is full of amazing tracks, a really underrated Kreator album

You ranked that perfect! The TORMENTOR demos are great as well!

Your reviews always make me want to check out certain albums and give stuff I’ve overlooked a chance. Really appreciate you brother!

for me gods of violence its underrated, perhaps its cause it was my first introdution to kreator, but it has a nice balance between melodic and extreme side of kreator

Endorama and Outcast, as well Renewal, are so underrated, being actually the most creative works of the band. There's no reason to be narrow minded.

I love early Kreator and remember thinking when I first heard PTK as a 13yo - yes, I am that old - that metal couldn't get more extreme than this. On most of the songs it sounds almost as if they're playing right on the ragged edge of their speed and it could all fall apart at any moment. They were 18yo when they recorded it and it has all the ferocity only teenagers can manage. Awesome record!

Kreator slays !!!!!!!!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟 Thanks for covering them !!!!

So I had always heard that Kreator was a great thrash band and I had tried to listen to them many times, specifically in their mid 80s/beginning of the 90s heyday, but something just didn't click UNTIL I listened to Enemy of God and I was ENRAPT in spinning that album for a WHILE. As I now went back and appreciated the first Rainbow effort from your recommendation of the last video, I will do the very same with your Number 1 here on this video. Thanks as always for this great content and your thoroughly educated metal opinion!

I always preferred Ventor's voice to Mille's - it's deeper and more powerful. Riot Of Violence was my favorite song on Pleasure To Kill. Too bad he stopped singing after that album.

14- Endorama 13- Gods Of Violence 12- Phantom Antichrist 11- Endless Pain 10- Terrible Certainty 09- Enemy Of God 08- Cause For Conflict 07- Pleasure To Kill 06- Extreme Aggression 05- Renewal 04- Outcast 03- Hordes Of Chaos 02- Violent Revolution 01- Coma Of Souls

Another great vid, I’ll be seeing kreator live in the winter 🤘🏻

My intro to Kreator was “Out Of The Dark, Into The Light”. I’ve loved them ever since! But I still gotta say Coma Of Souls was their number one. I think all the stars aligned at that moment, from the composition to the production, even the marketing. Or maybe I was just 19 when I heard it and we all are stuck with our tastes from when we were young!

terrible certainty is very underrated 🤘🏽 great list

I'm agree with pour ranking except for Renewal . Renewal is one of m'y favourite album. Number 2 for me after Pleasure

Awesome, I asked for it, so thank you very much. I've got all their albums on vinyl except Endorama(which will be rereleased soon). I was late to Kreator(and the German thrash bands in general), so I first heard their recent albums, which I love. I really like the early ones, but I honestly haven't had enough time with each to properly rank them. I essentially learned all of their catalogue at once other than the last record. I do like different styles, so I don't hate the 90's stuff. But it's clearly not their strong suit. Thrash bands either hid, or altered their sound in that period, for the most part.

Iv been waiting for this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

The 90's were filled with drastic changes in styles by so many once great metal bands trying to fit into the modern scene and "Renewal" was one of those. Going from "Coma of Souls" to "Renewal" was definitely a shock to the system.

I had the Flag of Hate e.p. added on to Endless Pain. Omg..US only release. A perfect album

Extreme aggression was probably the first album i listened to fully i remember just remember listening To it while going for a walk with my family

Thats what i was waiting for

Very good review 🤘next worst to best I want The god father's of black metal BATHORY

I like Chaos A.D. , but of course earlier albums are better, the problem with it is it's like pantera - music is not "bad" in terms of thrash, but it inspired a lot of nu-metal and etc. stuff, that came later

Waited for it haha great vid great Band great Guy

My first Kreator concert was in 1989, and had the chance to meet Mille after the gig and get an autograph, he could barely speak English back then. I have never missed them live since . Great review, I agree on the picks.

I think ranking Kreator is kinda hard, because their gift and their curse is how insanely consistent they are. They're somehow able to sell you the same album over and over yet it never gets old - its genuinely impressive, but it also makes it very hard for individual tracks to stand out from everything else. Very broadly speaking, I think you're gonna have two camps: the people who rate Coma very highly and by extension enjoy the 2000s era a lot more, and the people who rate Pleasure to Kill very highly and by extension enjoy the 80s era a lot. My first introduction to the band was Gods of Violence, so naturally I side with the former. Having now listened to almost everything at least three times over, I feel informed enough to give an opinion, even if unpopular as it typically is. S tier * Coma of Souls: This album does everything the 2000s era's albums do, but with that killer 80s sound and without feeling as formulaic. Compared to the rest of the 80s albums, the production value and songwriting is just miles ahead. A tier * Enemy of God, Violent Revolution: These two are roughly equivalent to one another IMO, it's just a matter of how aggressive you feel/what specific songs you feel like listening to that day. They are far from perfect of course - the lack of solos in general is kinda shameful, and they were made in the 2000s which simply cannot compare with the sound quality of Coma - but otherwise both of these are solid experiences all the way through. On the one hand I can see through the formula but on the other hand I don't really care, lol. There's stand out tracks of course, but really you could pick pretty much any song from either album and I'd be totally in it. * Gods of Violence: Very likely biased on this one, but in terms of iconic melodies and songwriting I really do think this is a step above the stuff below. There's only three songs in the entire record I don't like, which is definitely above average in my book. Really memorable stuff all around. B tier - a.k.a. you could've cut any of these in half and ended up with an amazing EP * Phantom Antichrist, Hordes of Chaos: Again, these two are roughly equivalent to one another IMO. The title tracks for both of these are iconic in my mind. Overall, half the songs in each of these are memorable while the other half kinda get muddled up with the overall formula. * Extreme Aggression: I can see myself getting a bit more attached to this over time, but IMO the songwriting just hasn't matured enough yet at this point and some of the lyrics make me cringe. Great energy, but I'd rather listen to any of the albums above with their more polished songwriting. C tier * Cause for Conflict: This was probably the biggest surprise for me personally when going through everything. For how much people shit on this album, I really don't think it's that bad. The songwriting is about as unpolished as anything before Coma, with practically the same level of energy and aggression, and while I can see people hating the 90s production style, personally I don't mind the improved audio quality and the minimal but tasteful use of digital effects (before they went off the deep end in the next album). This album even gave us a look at what Mille's voice would sound like in the 2000s era, which I thought was kinda pleasant to hear. I guess my only complaint would be that its way too long for what it is, but I wouldn't mind revisiting this occasionally. I really do think this was a step in the right direction after they went off the rails with Renewal. * Endless Pain, Terrible Uncertainty: Everything I said about Extreme Aggression applies here, just one step lower down the ladder. Maybe worth the occasional visit - I do think you have to listen to these all the way through if you're going to - but I'd rather listen to future releases where their songwriting and musicianship feels more solid. F tier - a.k.a. I don't want to listen to any of these ever again * Pleasure to Kill: I've listened to this four times in its entirety, and its just too much for me to handle all at once, to the point where its just not fun to listen to. Riot of Violence and Take Their Lives are stand out tracks, but overall it just all becomes noise after a while. * Renewal: This was just straight up boring, but I probably would've been furious had I actually paid for this back when it had just released. From the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, you'd think it wouldn't get worse than this. * Endorama: This is an improvement on Outcast, but that's really not saying much. The first two tracks are alright and then I progressively cringe more the longer it goes. The vocals in this album make my skin crawl, and not in a good way. * Outcast: Jesus fucking christ, what happened here. This is probably the only instance where I seriously considered quitting halfway through and not even finishing. Which was kinda worth it cause the second half is miles better, but overall its just not worth it.

Started playing the drums and I just learned how to play "Phobia" killer song. Heard it on one of your other videos, thanks

Extreme Aggression was my first Album from Kreator. I love the drum - Sound.

German thrash greatness. Great work, as always. Stay heavy!

Pleasure to Kill the Brutal Death Metal classic will always be my favorite. I also like Coma of Souls for their authentic Thrash Metal period . I hate their 1990s albums, but all their Thrash Metal Revival albums are not terribly awful, but I think everything from Endless Pain to Coma of Souls is incredibly great.

I like all era's of this band but I''m honestly blown away by the more recent albums, so for me those are the best Kreator albums on the whole... 1 Phantom Antichrist 2 Violent Revolution 3 Enemy of God 4 Gods Of Violence 5 Terrible Certainty 6 Hordes Of Chaos 7 Outcast 8 Extreme Aggression 9 Coma Of Souls 10 Cause For Conflict 11 Endless Pain 12 Pleasure To Kill 13 Renewal 14 Endorama

Firstly, great video and thanks for making it. I think you got the best and second best albums in the wrong order. Tack och tja från Australien 🤘🏻

Thanks, Ruthless, one of my favorite bands. You rule! And I mostly agree with your list, other than: 1. Extreme Aggression 2. Pleasure to Kill 3. Terrible Certainty 4. Coma of Souls 5. Endless Pain Good one, Ruthless. I'm breathlessly waiting for Destruction, however, lol.

Gods of violence is a fucking masterpiece Satan Is real alone is one of the baddest songs ever not to mention army of storms

I kinda relate their latest period with Maiden, a bit melodic stuff with catchy choirs for the hordes to sing along at the shows, not bad for 3 or 4 albums... but it's turning a bit repetitive now. I have the feeling they will continue with the same formula.

I am on board with your assessment 100% :)

Finally got to this ranking! My list is the exact same. Only switch Terrible Certainty and Coma Of Souls. Cheers!

"Outcast" is an absolutely great album. No solos(!), but very sticky and viscous atmosphere. Masterpiece.

Terrible Certainty is number one for me. It has a "hollow" sound similar to Killing Technology which, paradoxically sounds big. Great writing too of course...Extreme Aggression is a close second. I saw them in 1989 & they were great.

Cool list. My two faves are Coma of Souls and Violent Revolution.

Hi, I totally agree with you with the ranking...! Greetings from Greece.

I don't think Kreator aged as well as Sodom.

I actually loved Renewal even tho it was different, but extreme aggression was unreal! Rank nuclear assault next!

Awesome kreator album ranking my favorite kreator is pleasure to kill and 2nd is endless pain

You mentioned sepultura. Sounds like a good one to me 🤘as always thanks for the video

Extreme Aggression is my favorite album. I also really like Pleasure To Kill, Coma Of Souls and Terrible Certainty. When Renewal came out I first hated it...but now it's my 2nd favorite album after Extreme Aggression 😉😜

Morbid Angel next please. They have released a few absolute stinkers.

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Solid list R.M.! For me Terrible Certainty is number one namely because that was the album that first hooked me. I played my vinyl copy out and then moved to cds. I was also fortunate to catch them live on this tour with D.R.I. and Holy Terror at the legendary Storyville Jazzhall in the summer of 1988. A most memorable show.

Renewal is one of those records almost everybody seems to hate but I love. Anyway my fave album by them is Coma of Souls.

Their best are Extreme Aggression and Coma of Souls !!!

Great video and ranking! A Sepultura Rank 'em all would be cool. Cheers!

Man I do respect your opinion highly maybe I shouldn't even be on here but whatever Kreator has done I have liked that's far extreme aggression hooked me on this band and I am one who loves Phantom Antichrist.

Pleasure to kill is also my favourite album of Kreator.

Great show!. Love Kreator. My fave album is Endless Pain.

I live ca 20 miles(25km) from their Hometown Essen in Nord- West Germany My favorite Album is "Pleasure to kill" Kreator are the "Slayer of European" Pleasure to kill is a Masterpiece

Lured me in with Testament.....hooked me with Kreator! ❤️🤘

Yes, I would put Coma and Extreme as my 1 and 2, and I am also think that Kreator managed to mix their sound with Gothenburg approach quite successfully, especially on (Arch)Enemy of God :)

Extreme Aggression and Terrible Certainty stand at the top for me

1 - Terrible Certainty 2 - Endless Pain 3 - Extreme Aggression 4 - Pleasure to Kill 5 - Coma of Souls 6 - Violent Revolution 7 - Hordes of Chaos 8 - Enemy of God 9 - Phantom Antichrist 10 - Gods of Violence 11 -Cause for Conflict 12 - Renewal 13 - Outcast 14 - Endorama

Here's how I would rank the Kreator albums: Top Kreator Albums: 1 Terrible Certainty 2 Coma of Souls 3 Pleasure to Kill 4 Extreme Aggression 5 Endless Pain 6 Violent Revolution 7 Phantom Antichrist 8 Enemy of God 9 Hordes of Chaos 10 Gods of Violence 11 Cause for Conflict 12 Outcast 13 Renewal *unranked: Endorama

La mejor época de estas bandas es los ochenta, cuando empezaron, ya da igual el orden del ranking de los cinco primeros álbumes, pero mi favorito es el Extreme Aggression. Un saludo.

Grab the first five, six or seven places, re-shuffle them and you still get a killer list - applying the same shuffling works on the last five positions, too. To nitpick, I'd swap #1 and #2 - but considering these two records are both great, it's rather pointless. BTW coincidentally, last Friday, a CD of a 2005 remaster of 'Endless Pain' that I have ordered finally arrived - and all I have to say it really put new life to that record. Sounds fuckin' awesome.

Irony: Not that familiar with post 80s Kreator. Then you mentioned Hordes of Chaos having a Gothenburg influence and something about Manowar...just saw the video and I love it! How metal, how glorious!!!

Kreator rules. Some álbuns are masterpieces, but no one are bad.

Can you do a Carcass or Entombed Ranking ?

I toggle with the top two. Depends on the day. Depends on my favourite. My only change would be cause for conflict up to 6th position. I fuckin love that album. Yeah, the production is weak but the songs - the ones worth listening to - are brilliant.

I’ve never heard Kreator. Gonna have to check them out. They seem pretty badass.

After watching several of these, I have to wonder how much therapy you needed to get through the 90s.