Renewal (Kreator album)

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Renewal
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Studio album by
Kreator
Released26 October 1992 (1992-10-26)
RecordedAugust and September 1992
Studio Morrisound Studios (Tampa, Florida)
Genre
Length38:53
Label Noise
Producer Tom Morris, Kreator
Kreator chronology
Coma of Souls
(1990)		Renewal
(1992)		 Cause for Conflict
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]
Rock Hard 9.5/10 [3]
Under the VolcanoFavourable [4]

Renewal is the sixth album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in 1992. It's their first "experimental" album, as in this release Kreator incorporated industrial music influences in their songwriting. [1] It is also the last album to feature original bassist Rob Fioretti. The song "Karmic Wheel" contains audio samples from the suicide of R. Budd Dwyer. [5]

Contents

A music video was made for the title track.

Release

In March 2018, German record label Noise released a remastered edition of the album and made it available on CD and vinyl and as digital download. The release contains three bonus tracks and liner notes. [6]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mille Petrozza; all music is composed by Kreator

No.TitleLength
1."Winter Martyrium"5:43
2."Renewal"4:36
3."Reflection"6:15
4."Brainseed"3:17
5."Karmic Wheel"6:06
6."Realitätskontrolle"1:22
7."Zero to None"3:12
8."Europe After the Rain"3:19
9."Depression Unrest"5:05
Total length:38:53
2018 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
10."Winter Martyrium (Rare version)"6:13
11."Trauma"5:12
12."Europe After the Rain (Remix)"3:14
Total length:53:37

Personnel

Kreator

Production

  • Kreator – producers
  • Tom Morris – producer, engineer, mixing
  • Mark Prator, Brian Bonscoter – engineers
  • Karl Ulrich Walterbach – executive producer

2018 reissue production

  • Steve Hammond – compilation
  • Andy Pearce, Matt Worthams – mastering
  • Thomas Ewerhard, Jan Meininghaus – art and design
  • Holger Stratmann, Markus Müller – additional photos
  • Malcolm Dome – sleeve notes

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References

  1. 1 2 Rivadavia, Eduardo. Kreator: Renewal at AllMusic. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 234. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
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