Hello everybody, I’m BrutalN00dle, and this is Thrash Thursday, a weekly serial post that started a month or two ago on reddit.com/r/metal . Graciously invited by tekhammer to bring the good-word over to this site.

To celebrate this development, here’s the mighty Kreator, with the final song off of Terrible Certainty “Behind the Mirror”.  Kreator was a nigh-unstoppable force in the mid-80s, with five absolutely crushing albums, increasing in quality right up to 1990′s magnum opus “Coma of Souls”. Unless you’ve been living under a rock that was hidden by other rocks, you are aware of the phenomenally influential “Pleasure to Kill”, but less discussed outside of thrash circles are the two efforts following it. Following “Pleasure…” Kreator discarded their wild violence and focused into a razor-sharp, technical thrashing assault.

The song itself starts off with a clean intro, then into a riff that is undeniably Kreator. Mille’s unique voice comes in with lyrics that are based around personal reflection, the subject of the song enters a new mental plane of existence, but finds an apocalyptic realm rather than a tranquil paradise. Then a solo that Kerry King wishes he had the forethought to write, and Kreator finishes their third LP with a bang.

Kreator would go on to release two more incredible albums, then the dreaded dark-ages of thrash metal came about. Though the German scene fared better than the American one, Kreator finally returned to form in the 21st century with the release of Violent Revolution, Enemy of God, and the recent Hordes of Chaos.