A few years into his band’s career, Kreator’s Mille Petrozza learnt an important lesson. The German hellhounds were deep into a hot streak of albums that had helped turn their homeland into thrash metal’s second major stronghold, after the USA. Kreator already played fast, Mille reasoned. But what if they really took the handbrake off?
“I remember there was this one show when we were like, ‘You know what… What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’” he says now. “So I took speed before I went onstage, and yeah, I played faster, but also I played like shit. So I figured that out right away and I never did it again. We were definitely better without the drugs!”
