German thrash metal veterans
KREATOR will release a new single,
"Hate Über Alles", tomorrow (Friday, February 4) at 10:00 CET / 1:00 a.m. PST / 4:00 a.m. EST. A short teaser for the song's official music video is available below, along with the single cover artwork, which was created by
Eliran Kantor, who has previously worked with
HATEBREED,
SOULFLY,
TESTAMENT,
ICED EARTH and
SODOM, among others.
KREATOR will release its new album in the summer of 2022. The follow-up to 2017's
"Gods Of Violence" was recorded at
Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, Germany. Helming the sessions was
Arthur Rizk, who has previously worked with
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY,
CODE ORANGE,
POWER TRIP and
SOULFLY, among others.
Last year,
KREATOR frontman
Mille Petrozza told the official podcast of Italy's
Metalitalia.com about the musical direction of the band's new LP: "It's definitely different. It's hard for me to describe, but I think it's definitely more thrash again. It has a lot of melody, and it has a lot of traditional parts, and it has a lot of ingredients of the last four or five albums. But it also has some very old-school moments. I think it's definitely the next step."
KREATOR's next album will mark the band's first with bassist
Frédéric Leclercq, who joined the group in 2019.
In September 2020,
KREATOR guitarist
Sami Yli-Sirniö described the sessions for the band's new album to Italy's
Poisoned Rock as "a lot of fun," adding that the "mood" in the band "is great. And the general vibe and the atmosphere is very good," he said. "[These are] creative times for
KREATOR at the moment."
In March 2020,
KREATOR surprise-released a new single,
"666 - World Divided". The song was produced by
Andy Sneap and
Markus Ganter and was recorded at
Hansa Tonstudios.
The music video for
"666 - World Divided" was created under the direction of
Jörn Heitmann, who was responsible for the music videos for
"Radio" and
"Ausländer" by
RAMMSTEIN.
KREATOR played its first show with
Leclercq in October 2019 in Santiago, Chile.
Before joining
KREATOR,
Leclercq rose to fame with U.K.-based extreme power metallers
DRAGONFORCE for whom he handled bass duties from 2005 until August 2019.
KREATOR's previously announced
"State Of Unrest" European tour with
LAMB OF GOD has been rescheduled for November/December 2022 in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
KREATOR released a new live set,
"London Apocalypticon - Live At The Roundhouse", in February 2020 via
Nuclear Blast. The effort was professionally filmed and recorded on December 16, 2018 at the Roundhouse in London, England.
