KREATOR TRIVIA
Trivia
Kreator headlined Thrash Domination 2016 and played on both of its days. The festival's own timetable page announced in advance that they would play partly different sets on 9 and 10 January and that neither night was to be missed. It was held at Club Citta' in Kawasaki, doors at 15:00 and music from 16:00, 10,800 yen in advance with a 500 yen drink charge, with Destruction and Dark Angel on the bill.
Thrash Domination 2016 came with two related shows in Osaka, Destruction alone on 11 January and Kreator alone on the 12th. The festival's site called them DAY-1 and DAY-2 and sold a limited combined ticket covering both at 10,800 yen. Kreator played Umeda Club Quattro, doors at 18:00 and on stage at 19:00, with a single-night ticket at 6,800 yen in advance.
For Thrash Domination 09 in 2009 the band played one night in Osaka and one in Nagoya besides the two in Kawasaki. The organiser framed both as head-to-head bills, naming the Osaka night of 17 September at BIGCAT "Testament vs Kreator - Full Set Battle in Osaka" and the Nagoya night of the 18th at Club Quattro "Exodus vs Kreator - Full Set Battle in Nagoya", with each band playing a full set.
The Kawasaki dates of Thrash Domination 09 moved between the announcement and the event. Blabbermouth and BraveWords both announced 19 and 20 September at Club Citta' in April 2009, while the organiser's own history page, written afterwards, gives 20 and 21 September. All three agree exactly on the Osaka and Nagoya dates, so the Kawasaki pair is the only thing that changed. This site follows the organiser's own record.
The band played Loud Park 14 on its second day, 19 October 2014. The festival's own timetable puts them on the ULTIMATE STAGE at 18:45, on a day that also carried Periphery, the GazettE, Belphegor, Thunder, The Haunted, Riot, Within Temptation and Death Angel, with Dream Theater closing. The site's lineup page heads its two days "10.19 sat" and "10.20 sun", which are the previous year's dates left in a reused template; the timetable images read "2014.10.18 Sat." and "2014.10.19 Sun." and are the ones to go by.
When Loud Park returned for one year only in 2023, Kreator played both of its days. The official site gives Osaka, 25 March at Intex Osaka, as a five-act bill with Pantera, Nightwish, Stratovarius and Bleed from Within, doors at 12:30 and music from 13:30 at 15,000 yen. Tokyo the next day, at Makuhari Messe halls 9 to 11, added Carcass, Amaranthe, Outrage, H.E.R.O. and Jason Richardson & Luke Holland, with Bridear and Phantom Excaliver opening, doors at 10:00 and music from 11:00 at 19,000 yen.
Kreator Japan Tour 2017, in September, was three nights with the Polish band Vader as special guest. The promoter SMASH gives them as Ebisu Liquidroom on the 13th, Nagoya Electric Lady Land on the 14th and Umeda Trad on the 15th, all with doors at 18:00 and on stage at 19:00, all standing, 8,000 yen in advance with a drink charge extra, on sale from 10 June. The Tokyo night sold out.
The visit of January and February 2024 was a co-headline tour with the Swedish band In Flames, billed as Klash of the Titans. The promoter Creativeman gives three nights — Zepp Namba on 30 January and EX Theater Roppongi on 1 and 2 February — all with doors at 18:00 and on stage at 19:00. Standing tickets were 12,000 yen in advance and reserved seats 14,000, both with one drink included, on sale from 4 November 2023.
The current line-up is Mille Petrozza on vocals and guitars, Sami Yli-Sirniö on guitars, Frédéric Leclercq on bass and Jürgen "Ventor" Reil on drums. Those are the four the band themselves credit on the Bandcamp page for Krushers Of The World in 2026, and the member list on this site takes them from there. The official site is a store front that carries no line-up, and the label's artist page names only Petrozza.
Nuclear Blast, the band's label, tells their story through their placings on the German album chart — from number ninety-nine for Pleasure to Kill in 1986 to number one for Gods of Violence in 2017. The same introduction notes that Mille Petrozza published a book, Your Heaven, My Hell, in 2025.