Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. Their style of music is similar to their compatriots Destruction, Sodom and Tankard, the other three big German thrash metal bands. All three bands except Tankard are often credited with helping pioneer death metal, by containing several elements of what was to become the genre. The band formed in 1982 with no name, but decided on Tormentor in 1984. They originally performed a speed metal style with Venom influences. Kreator's work began in the vein of thrash metal but ventured into Industrial metal and Gothic metal from 1992 to 1999, before eventually returning to their classic thrash sound to date. Kreator has released thirteen studio albums, two EPs, one live album and three compilation albums. The band released its debut album Endless Pain in 1985. Although many of their previous albums, including Pleasure to Kill (1986), were quite popular in the United States, Kreator did not experience major American commercial success until the 2009 release of their twelfth studio album, Hordes of Chaos, which peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 16 on the Media Control Charts, the band's highest ever chart position in Germany. In June 2012, Kreator released their thirteenth studio album, Phantom Antichrist, which has been well received.

Let there be darkness
Let there be blood tonight
Let there be riots
Come start the fires tonight
Can't you see, our people have got no choice
But to fight them back
Can't you see, the change of consciousness
Demands a total attack
Total attack
Total... attack!
Finally they're swarming in a long forgotten youth
The cause of inequality, a paradise for few
Superior, inferior, a vast insanity
When justice is tyranny
Anarchy is breaking out, destruction marks its way
Burning temples turning into dark crypts of decay
The mighty are the fallen now, the weak are on the hunt
Battle on many fronts
There will be darkness
There will be blood tonight
Now let the riots begin
Convulsed by protest
And civilisation collapse
Monumental terror spreading like a pestilence
From suburbs to the center of colossal arrogance
Cascade of aggression merely harvest seeds of hate
Storming the barricades
Cities of inception burn into the ashes in one night
Imperators crying at this grand historic sight
Entering a death spiral, tonight they see their fate
Doomed to reincarnate
There will be darkness
There will be blood tonight
So let the riots begin
A social unrest
And civilisation collapse

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