Formed in Essen, Germany in 1982, Kreator are arguably the most influential and successful European thrash metal band ever; like many of their European speed metal brethren, Kreator fused Metallica's thrash innovations with Venom's proto-black metal imagery. Often referred to as one of the "Big 4" of Teutonic thrash metal, and they are often credited with helping pioneer death metal and black metal by containing several elements of what was to become those genres.
The band has achieved worldwide sales of over two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them one of the best-selling German thrash metal bands of all time. The band's style has changed several times over the years, from a Venom-inspired speed metal sound, later moving in to thrash metal, and including a period of transitioning from thrash to industrial metal and gothic metal throughout the 1990s.
In the early 2000s, Kreator returned to their classic thrash sound, which has continued to the present. With hindsight, and a sense of history, 'Outcast' is certainly one of Kreator's most inventive and important albums. The German gargantuan-watt gladiators' eighth studio release was different to anything they'd done in the past, during a time when metal was in turmoil due to the grunge and Nu Metal explosions.
The title 'Outcast' was appropriate for how the band felt in the late 1990s and when 'Outcast' was released in July 1997 it wasn't a huge selling album; nonetheless it proved they were still an exciting, individual and focused band.
Deluxe 2CD mediabook version
Tracklisting
CD1:
1. Leave This World Behind (2018 Remaster)
2. Phobia (2018 Remaster)
3. Forever (2018 Remaster)
4. Black Sunrise (2018 Remaster)
5. Nonconformist (2018 Remaster)
6. Enemy Unseen (2018 Remaster)
7. Outcast (2018 Remaster)
8. Stronger Than Before (2018 Remaster)
9. Ruin of Life (2018 Remaster)
10. Whatever It May Take (2018 Remaster)
11. Alive Again (2018 Remaster)
12. Against the Rest (2018 Remaster)
13. A Better Tomorrow (2018 Remaster)
CD2: 'Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998'
1. Intro: Dr. Wagner, Part 3 (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
2. Terror Zone (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
3. Lost (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
4. Leave This World Behind (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
5. Phobia (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
6. Black Sunrise (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
7. Choir of the Damned (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
8. Pleasure to Kill (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
9. Whatever It May Take (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
10. Extreme Aggression (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
11. Renewal (Live at Dynamo Open Air 1998) [2018 Remaster]
