Pleasure to Kill

Studio album by Kreator

Released

November 1, 1986

Recorded

Musiclab in Berlin, Germany, 1986

Genre

Thrash metal, death metal

Length

38:42 (original)
56:38 (re-release)

Label

Noise Records

Producer

Harris Johns, Ralf Hubert

Kreator chronology

Flag of Hate
(1986)

Pleasure to Kill
(1986)

Terrible Certainty
(1987)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Pleasure to Kill is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in November 1986 by Noise Records. The lyrical themes follow those found on their first album Endless Pain. Many death metal bands cite this album as an influence.Pleasure to Kill is widely considered a thrash classic. It is also considered a landmark album in the history of thrash metal along with Master of Puppets by Metallica, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? by Megadeth, Reign in Blood by Slayer, Eternal Devastation by Destruction and Darkness Descends by Dark Angel, all released in 1986.

Pleasure to Kill was well received by the public. On Rate Your Music the album has an average rating of 3.85 of 5, based on more than 2,600 ratings, and on Sputnikmusic the album has an "excellent" average rating of 4.2 of 5, based on more than 700 ratings.

AllMusic writer Jason Anderson gave the album a rating of four stars out of five, and wrote, "Many in the underground metal scene were already paying special attention to the German outfit's proto-death sound, but the cult status was shed after this critically and commercially successful sophomore effort hit record-store shelves. As fierce and unyielding as the group's debut, Endless Pain, was, Pleasure to Kill provides double the sonic carnage and superior material."

Coinciding with the 2017 remastered issue, Pleasure to Kill charted for the first time 31 years after its release, and peaked at number 99 on the German Charts. The remastered edition of the band's 1989 album Extreme Aggression charted on the same day.

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