KREATOR: Pro-Shot Footage Of Entire RESURRECTION FEST 2014 Performance

Professionally filmed video footage of KREATOR‘s entire July 31, 2014 performance at at last year’s edition of the Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain can be seen below.

Speaking to Metal Master Kingdom last fall, KREATOR guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza stated about the band’s plans for the follow-up to 2012’s “Phantom Antichrist” album: “I think the next album’s just gonna be… I don’t know what it’s gonna be yet. But I hope it’s gonna be as strong as ‘Phantom Antichrist’.”

He continued: “We wanna write songs that… The longer the band is existing, we feel like we are able to create something that lasts… If we write songs now, they need to last for the next decade or whatever. Because we’re constantly touring and we’re stuck with these songs. So songs like ‘Hordes Of Chaos’ and ‘Enemy Of God’, those are songs that will always be in the setlist from now on. And I hope we can write some more of these. And that’s something that we focus on. And the more songs that have that quality, the better the album gets.

“I have a little bit of a concept for the album, like lyrical concept — what it’s gonna be like — and I need to sit down with the band and explain it to them. We need to go into the rehearsal room, because we’re very old school when it comes to that; we don’t send files around, we don’t rehearse on Skype… even though we could, but we don’t. I think that’s when the songs really come about. That’s when everything is being developed and everything will fall into place.”

Asked why it was taking so long to come up with new material, Mille said: “Before this [most recent North American] tour [with ARCH ENEMY], I was so in songwriting mode and then I had to go on tour. Not that… I love being on the road — don’t get me wrong — but I’m not the kind of person… I know so many musicians that just can knock out an album between two tours. They write the album in a week and then they go into the studio and next month they release it. I’m not like that. I need at least a year to make everything right, write the right words for it, come up with some… think about the next step of the band. And I think that’s just very essential. If we put out another album that’s just not as good as ‘Phantom Antichrist’, we won’t release it. It needs to feel the same way, and it needs to feel like it’s just as strong, if not stronger, so before we don’t have that, there will be not another KREATOR album.”

He continued: “There’s no rush, and there’s no pressure from anyone. Of course, you shouldn’t overthink it and you shouldn’t be too ambitious sometimes. Sometimes just trust your instincts, so to speak, but I’ve got a pretty good sense for when something’s right. And I know that if we take the next year off and we write until the end of the year, there’s a huge possibility that we’ll get something done.”

“Phantom Antichrist” sold 3,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at No. 1 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.