𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐘𝐏𝐓𝐒 - 𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 & 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐋…
July 22, 1997 — Kreator released their eighth full-length studio album, Outcast via G.U.N. Records. (Listen)
Background:
While Outcast features much of the Industrial influences that began on the Renewal album, and continued with their album Cause For Conflict, it also contains a Gothic element not present before this release, and features less of the earlier Thrash Metal aesthetic from the bands earlier releases. Outcast is also Kreator's first album to feature drummer Jürgen "Ventor" Reil since 1992's Renewal, and the first to feature then-former Coroner guitarist Tommy Vetterli.
Promotional videos were filmed for the songs Leave This World Behind & Phobia. The video for Phobia features live footage of the band.
(𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝙱𝚎𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎)
In March 2018, German record label Noise Records released a remastered edition of the album and made it available on CD and vinyl and as digital download. The release contains a live performance of Kreator at Dynamo Open Air in 1998 and liner notes.
Critical Reception:
Outcast was a misunderstood release, as well as an under-appreciated gem from these Thrash legends. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics at the time of its release and in retrospect.
In his retrospective review for AllMusic, Loudwire’s Eduardo Rivadavia stated;
“The unexpected arrival of former Coroner six-string genius Tommy Vetterli into the Kreator fold, there to spar with founding mastermind and resident blazing Thrash guitar specialist Mille Petrozza, seemed like one of the oddest stylistic pairings in Metal history. Needless to say, observers expected one of two options: absolute fireworks, or a complete and utter failure to communicate. Ironically, they didn't really get either one, for not only was 1997's Outcast conspicuously scarce on virtuoso guitar solos, but it also stuck with recent Kreator history in exploring sonic territories far beyond the legendary German group's once dependably strict diet of pure Thrash Metal. In fact, though it thankfully coalesced the chaotic ideas scattered all over 1995's Cause for Conflict into a more cohesive whole, the album resurrected some of the industrial elements first heard on 1992's Renewal with questionable results, and focused predominantly on mid-paced arrangements that hardly approached the hyper speed of yore.
As a result, despite offering some quality songwriting via first-half highlights like Leave This World Behind, the pounding Phobia, and the claustrophobically slow Black Sunrise, the bulk of Outcast is barely recognizable as a Kreator LP. And even if approached as a brand new entity, the material (particularly second half yawn-fests such as the title track) is nowhere near groundbreaking either, never mind -- God forbid -- exciting. In short, whatever artistic headway purportedly made here was rendered null and void by the commercial rejection that met its release, although Kreator would take one final stab at this direction before reverting to the band's trusty old ways.”
Notice: Any reviews shared here are for historical reference. The views and opinions expressed within are not always supported (in full or in part) by Into the Wells. — E.N. Wells
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