Extreme Aggression

Studio album by Kreator

Released

19 June 1989

Recorded

January-February 1989 in Hollywood, California

Genre

Thrash metal

Length

37:28

Label

Noise Records/Epic Records

Producer

Randy Burns

Kreator chronology

Out of the Dark ... Into the Light (EP)
(1988)

Extreme Aggression
(1989)

Coma of Souls
(1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Extreme Aggression is the fourth studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator released in 1989. While the band had already gained a sizeable following in the US due to their 1987 tour with the crossover thrash band D.R.I., this album introduced many American fans to Kreator, primarily through heavy rotation of the "Betrayer" music video on MTV's Headbangers Ball, which was partly shot at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. This album was their first issued in the US by Epic Records. The album was also available on picture disc vinyl.

The album's original artwork was a monster-like creature painting a picture of a cannibal eating a person's head. However, it was quickly replaced with a new artwork, depicting an image of the band in front of an orange background.^[2]

Reception and Awards

Extreme Aggression was ranked at number three on Loudwire's top ten list of "Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4".^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Extreme Aggression"	4:44
2.	"No Reason to Exist"	4:37
3.	"Love Us or Hate Us"	3:42
4.	"Stream of Consciousness"	3:53
5.	"Some Pain Will Last"	5:39
6.	"Betrayer"	3:59
7.	"Don't Trust"	3:43
8.	"Bringer of Torture"	2:15
9.	"Fatal Energy"	4:57
Total length:		37:28

Personnel

Kreator

Mille Petrozza - lead guitar, lead vocals
Jörg "Tritze" Trzebiatowski - lead guitar
Rob Fioretti - bass guitar
Jürgen Reil - drums

Production

Martin Becker - photography
Randy Burns - producer, engineer
Edwin Letcher - lyric adaptations
Greg Saenz - background vocals
Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - executive producer
Recorded from January to February, 1989 at the Music Grinder studio in Hollywood, California. Additional recording at E.Q. Sound and Cherokee Studios.

References

↑ Anderson, Jason. "Extreme Aggression - Kreator". Allmusic. Retrieved December 14th, 2010.
↑ http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Kreator/Extreme_Aggression/417562
↑ "Top 10 Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4". Loudwire.com. October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.

External links

Kreator Terrorzone: Extreme Aggression

Kreator

Mille Petrozza Jürgen Reil Christian Giesler Sami Yli-Sirniö Michael Wulf Jörg Trzebiatowski Rob Fioretti Andreas Herz Frank Godszik Joe Cangelosi Tommy Vetterli

Studio albums	Endless Pain Pleasure to Kill Terrible Certainty Extreme Aggression Coma of Souls Renewal Cause for Conflict Outcast Endorama Violent Revolution Enemy of God Hordes of Chaos Phantom Antichrist Gods of Violence

EPs & singles	Flag of Hate "Behind the Mirror" Out of the Dark ... Into the Light "Isolation" "Lost" "Leave This World Behind" "Chosen Few"

Compilation & live	Scenarios of Violence Voices of Transgression – A 90s Retrospective Past Life Trauma (1985–1992) Live Kreation Dying Alive

Videos	Live in East Berlin Hallucinative Comas Live Kreation: Revisioned Glory Enemy of God Revisited At the Pulse of Kapitulation: Live in East Berlin, 1990 Dying Alive

"The Big Teutonic Four"	Kreator Sodom Destruction Tankard

Related articles	Discography Teutonic thrash metal

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