Coma Of Souls

Cool to find out that it has a bonus live disc of 15 extra songs to boot. I will be using this disc set for my personal consumption. Kreator at the time sound more like the German band: Sodom. There's a few good songs on this one nothing to pass up. Awesome artwork, too on the cover including on the two discs. It is also recommended. 🤘😎🤘

classic thrash release. It takes a second play to really get into it. One of the last great thrash releases from year 1990. This is likely one of Kreator's very best in this style post their early bm days. Coma of Souls is straight of arcadey thrash. No thick sound, very thin. But the album bangs. Complex while seeming unintricate the first time around. Held up as a classic for a reason.

First of all, let me say that Kreator is a spectacular band that ought to be considered one of the best thrash bands ever. They bury alot of the early American thrash. I have come to favor Kreator even over Slayer. In fact only Canada's own Sacrifice can top Kreator's best efforts in my honest opinion. With that being said, this album is one of those efforts. Some people complain that there might be less speed on this album than previous ones. This is just barely true, but one would be hard pressed to complain against the vast harmonies that now intermittenly mingle with Kreator's staple of speed. To put it plainly, when they aren't playing a million miles an hour they are producing brilliant melodic harmonies. Sometimes, if you listen closely, they are doing both. This album, in retrospect, was a template for the most recent stuff that they have released. Which to me, is probably the best stuff. It's still fast as hell, but now there's a little more going on. If you are a fan of early Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Testament or the like and you haven't heard Kreator before... do yourself a favor and pick this up or one of their latest albums. Not to discount the early stuff which is mind blowing, it's just that these albums are a little more immediately accessible.

While Coma of Souls isn`t as good as Enemy of God in my opinion, it is still good enough to add to my heavy metal collection lol.I bought COS after buying Enemy of God, which I love."People of the Lie" is my personal favorite though the others are good.If you like Kreator get COS to add to your collection!

Excellent

Great album!! had to add to my collection, Brings back the good ole days. a must have for my collection!!

One of my favorite albums by Kreator. Great old school thrash metal. Can't go wrong. I don't have my vinyl with me anymore, so I had to buy the mp3's...

Recommended 100%... The bluray is excellent, I've complete my collection...All this, Because is Kreator!!!!!!!And for today...'Nuff Said

Not a bad album but not as heavy as others and less of a melodic feel.i like violent revolution with its crunching sound but melodic tone.its still a good album and although the tracks are shorter worth buying.

5/5

Great thanks

New second guitarist actually being recorded on the album plus the quality of the remaster (not just all EQ's pulled up into what looks like a giant block on a spectrograph) by Noise Records and the bonus live CD from a 1990 performance brings extra shine to this great and maybe most accessible classic-era Kreator album, it is still very intense and heavy, but some more conventional heavy metal elements in it make it extra catchy and not as strange as Terrible Certainty, just as interesting for sure, as this is still Kreator.The next album after this one opens up a new period like so many thrash metal bands did in the 90's except for a few (Slayer, Overkill), but the one following this one is still pretty good, Mille has more hardcore punk vocals, Max Calavera style and was included in the classic Kreator remasters by Noise. But before you get anything from the 90's or even when they went back to thrash in the 2000's (with some melodic death elements even), this is part of the essentials and Noise Records did a perfect job on the remastering of their first 5 albums, Coma Of Souls coming in as my second favourite Kreator record. Only downside is that Ventor (Drums, vocals) does not have songs where he's on vocals on this album, and his songs were always a little creepier than Mille's maniacal singing/screaming. 5/5

Kreator konnte ich bei den ersten Kontakten nicht viel abgewinnen, weil mir die Musik zu soft war (da werde ich wohl nur die Werke aus den 90ern nach COS auf die Ohren bekommen haben), und die Stimme war anfangs auch nicht so meins. Da habe ich mich selber gefragt "Warum eigentlich"? Schließlich kann ich mich ja allgemein sehr für Thrash Metal begeistern, Combos wie Slayer und Sodom gehören ja zu meinen Lieblingsbands. Aber nachdem ich dann zu den frühen Kreator Alben gegriffen habe, hab ich schon gemerkt, woher der Status (speziell in der Thrashszene) der Band kommt. Und obwohl ichs gerne auch noch ne Ecke härter habe (Death Metal, Grindcore,...), finde ich vom ersten bis zum fünften Album jedes mindestens gut, wobei Coma of Souls wohl mein Favorit sein dürfte.Beim Songwriting stimmt meines Empfindens nach alles. Kein Song, der langweilt, vor sich hinplätschert, was auch immer. Klar sind auch ein paar ruhigere Nummern dabei (siehe People of the Lie), es bleibt dafür aber noch genug Thrash Geknüppel übrig. Sehr gelungen finde ich auch, wie sich in den komplexeren Stücken der Sorte Terror Zone, Agents of Brutality das Tempo abwechselt. Ausreichend Dynamik und Drive hat das Album also schonmal. Aber auch sonst kann es mich überzeugen: Die brutalen, klischeehaften Texte der ersten beiden Alben hat die Band mit den Vorgänger (teils auch schon auf Terrible Certainly) abgelegt, und stattdessen ziemlich gesellschafts- und zivilisationskritische Töne angeschlagen. Da ich ohnehin gesellschaftskritische und politische Texte bevorzuge, ist das für mich ein weiterer Pluspunkt.Die Produktion - Klar, das Album hat schon mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte auf dem Buckel, entsprechend ist naheliegend, dass der Sound nicht mehr zeitgemäß ist. Man hört dennoch jedes Instrument klar und differenziert heraus, von daher kann ich da beim besten Willen nicht meckern. Schließlich müsste man ja sonst bei jedem Szeneklassiker aus der damaligen Zeit nörgeln "Das klingt aber für heutige Verhältnisse schlapp!" Naund? Das Songmaterial ist entscheidend, nicht die Aufbereitung.Kurz: Bei dem Album haben Kreator eigentlich alles richtig gemacht und ein verspieltes, dennoch kräftiges Thrash Album abgeliefert. Nun könnte ich höchstens noch sagen, dass noch ein paar Hooklines mehr das ganze perfektioniert hätten, aber ehrlich, das Songmaterial ist auch schon so ausgezeichnet. 9 von 10 Punkten für eines meiner Lieblings-Thrashalben.