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Pleasure to Kill is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in March 1986 by Noise Records.[1]

Pleasure to Kill
Studio album by Kreator
Released	March 1986
Recorded	1986
Studio	Musiclab (Berlin, Germany)
Genre	Thrash metal death metal
Length	38:42
Label	Noise
Producer	Harris Johns, Ralf Hubert
Kreator chronology
Flag of Hate (1986) Pleasure to Kill (1986) Terrible Certainty (1987)

Pleasure to Kill is widely considered a landmark thrash metal classic,[1][2][3][4] along with Master of Puppets by Metallica, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? by Megadeth, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Eternal Devastation by Destruction and Darkness Descends by Dark Angel, all released in 1986.[5] The album 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.[6][5][7]

The lyrical themes follow those found on their first album Endless Pain, containing descriptions of macabre scenes of death and horror. Just like that album, Kreator were a three-piece band during the recording of Pleasure to Kill; on some early pressings, guitarist Michael Wulf, who was briefly a member of Kreator, was erroneously credited as a band member in the liner notes.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[8]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10[9]
Metal Hammer (GER)	5/7[10]
Rock Hard	8.0/10[11]

In a contemporary review, Oliver Klemm of the German Metal Hammer called Kreator "the best death metal band in Europe after Celtic Frost" and described the album as obviously inspired by Possessed's Seven Churches, but "even louder, even faster, even more brutal".[10] Rock Hard reviewer found the album very similar to Endless Pain and, despite the opaque drum sound, quite good by hardcore standards.[11]

In a modern review, AllMusic writer Jason Anderson wrote that "many in the underground metal scene were already paying special attention to the German outfit's proto-death sound, but the cult status was shed after this critically and commercially successful second effort hit record-store shelves. As fierce and unyielding as the group's debut, Endless Pain, was, Pleasure to Kill provides double the sonic carnage and superior material."[8] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff acknowledged the importance of the album in "propelling the band into the trinity of the genre next to Destruction and Sodom", but was not very pleased by the "tech-thrash ugliness" of the music.[9]

Commercial performance

Coinciding with the 2017 remastered issue, Pleasure to Kill charted for the first time 31 years after its release, and peaked at number 99 on the German album charts. The remastered edition of the band's 1989 album Extreme Aggression charted on the same day.[12]

Accolades

Pleasure to Kill was ranked at number four on Loudwire's top ten list of "Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4".[13]

Legacy

• Varg Vikernes of Burzum was wearing a shirt of the album after the killing of Øystein Aarseth because his clothes were bloody.[14]
• In the German Netflix series Dark, character Ulrich Nielsen is a fan of the band as a teenager, the lyric 'My only aim is to take many lives / The more, the better I feel' from "Pleasure to Kill" leading police officer Egon Tiedemann to suspect he may be a Satanist.

Track listings

Personnel

Kreator

• Mille Petrozza – guitars, vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 9)
• Rob Fioretti – bass
• Ventor – drums, vocals (3, 5, 8)

Production

• Harris Johns – producer, engineer
• Ralf Hubert – producer
• Maren Layout – design
• Fred Baumgart, Kreator – photography
• Phil Lawvere – cover artwork
• Mille Petrozza – remastering
• Karl-Ulrich Walterbach – executive producer

2017 re-release

• Andy Pearce, Matt Wortham – mastering
• Thomas Ewerhard, Jan Meininghaus – art, design
• Malcolm Dome – sleeve notes

Charts

Chart (2017)	Peak position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[15]	99

References

External links

• Kreator Terrorzone: Pleasure to Kill

На других языках

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[de] Pleasure to Kill

Pleasure to Kill ist das zweite Studioalbum der deutschen Thrash-Metal-Band Kreator. Es erschien im März 1986.

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- [en] Pleasure to Kill

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[es] Pleasure to Kill

Pleasure to Kill (Placer de Matar), lanzado en 1986, es el segundo álbum de la banda Kreator. Este es el álbum donde Kreator se consolidó como una banda sólida en el thrash metal underground. Los temas de sus letras siguen la misma dirección que en su primer álbum, Endless Pain, aunque con mejor calidad en las guitarras y arreglos. Varias bandas de death metal citan este álbum como una gran influencia. También es considerado como un hito en la historia del thrash metal por su sonido brutal, junto con Reign in Blood de Slayer y Darkness Descends de Dark Angel, todos lanzados en 1986.

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[ru] Pleasure to Kill

Pleasure to Kill (рус. Удовольствие убивать) — второй студийный альбом немецкой треш-метал-группы Kreator, записанный на Noise Records. Был выпущен 1 апреля 1986 года[1].

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