"Reconquering The Throne" is an immediate and merciless onslaught of a song from the opening seconds.  This one signals beyond doubt that Kreator's return is upon us in a flurry unlike anything we've heard in recent records. Not that "Endorama," their 1999 predecessor was a particularly bad album, judged solely upon content, but it wasn't a "true" Kreator album with all its Gothically inspired overtones. 

Kreator's been at it far too long to  throw away years and years of faithful followers and, with the unleashing of "Violent Revolution," they're quick to acknowledge their Thrash Metal roots.  

"Reconquering The Throne," "Violent Revolution," "All Of The Same Blood," "Second Awakening," to name but a few, all embark on a caustic crusade born of a freer attitude and an admitted return to roots by the mastermind behind the mania, Mille Petrozza, originator and… creator behind the chaos. 

Few were there at the beginning of the German Thrash scene as was Kreator, and fewer have survived intact all the years since.  Theirs has been a long, arduous odyssey marked by revolving band members, stylistic deficiencies and tough knocks.  Through it all, some eighteen or twenty years later, they emerge unscathed and as brutal as ever.