Sold Date: January 26, 2024
Start Date: January 20, 2024
Final Price: $70.00 (USD)
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This is the original 1986 US vinyl record album by Combat Records. The vinyl is in very good condition and plays perfectly. The inside paper sleeve is split on two sides. It came from a private collection. The front cover does have some light edge and corner wear and a sticker in the upper right corner, as the previous owner had them graded. See pictures for condition. Please check out my other items, as I will be listing many other Heavy Death Metal records and will combine shipping to save. Pay shipping for first record and only $1.00 for each additional record. Thanks!
From Loudwire: In 1985, Essen, Germany trio Tormentor changed their name to Kreator and released their debut Endless Pain, joining Sodom and Destruction as holders of the Teutonic thrash flame. But it on was Nov. 1, 1986 that Kreator made metal history with the blistering, brutal Pleasure to Kill. Released about eight months after Metallica’s Master of Puppets and a month after Slayer’s Reign in Blood, Pleasure to Kill upped the ante on both in terms of speed, simplicity and raw aggression. Sure, Metallica wrote better riffs and Slayer had better arrangements, but Pleasure to Kill was an overdose of pure adrenaline that compensated for any off-tempo beats, erratic guitar work or rudimentary production by going straight for the jugular with every song and being entirely unrepentant about any of its shortcomings. To date, Pleasure to Kill’s title track remains one of the best and most vicious examples of German thrash and the ferocity with which Petrozza attacked his instrument throughout the record paved the way for the nascent death metal scene.