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The Titans Are Coming With MILLE PETROZZA From KREATOR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hi, I'm Milts. I'm the lead singer and guitar player of the band
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  Creator from Germany. Er for Bye, thanks for joining us the same name.
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  All right, thank you, thanks for having me. Where's my story?
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  We're here for a big special announcement, mate, and that is a
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  Creator return to Australia for a run of shows in February twenty twenty four.
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  So on behalf of metal lovers all over the country. Height let me be
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  in one of the first to say a big thank you, thanks for coming
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  to the Australia. I mean thanks for having us again. I mean for
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  us, Australia is always special because we we It's like I said, it's
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  on the other side of the world. And for a man like us,
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  I mean we've we've been coming to us sort of since ninety real I think,
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  and it's always it's always a blast. We always have a fucking amazing
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  time and and yeah, the fans are amazing and we we were really looking
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  forward to to do this tour. And not just you guys coming as well,
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  but you're also big and with you the mighty in flames like that,
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  what shows going to show with It's like it's just just two of the best
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  in one hit. We have this, we have this tour like this,
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  this, this, this, this, we we have this clash of the
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  Titans with the k and Uh. We've met with Tour and and Testament in
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  South America and North America in the in the past, and we're thinking about
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  doing an addition for for Australia, and so we asked them Flames because they're
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  friends of ours, and they were like, yeah, let's do this,
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  and yeah, it's gonna be like two full headlining shows and it's like a
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  co headlining double headlining bill, and both bands are going to play one hundred
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  percent of headlining shows and it's gonna be it's gonna be good. It's going
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  to be good like double treatment, you know, you get the full double
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  treat awesome. I won't want to say how headlining show? Does that mean
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  that when night you'll play last and then the next night in times will play
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  last ers or again that time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a
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  flip flop. Yeah, some nights we're going to play We're going to close
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  the show and sometimes in Flames going to close the show. But it's like
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  I said, it's two full sets, you know, full full headlining sets.
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  And this is Creative's first ALM in Australia since two thousand and seventeen,
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  So what's changed with the band in those six years? We had the pandemic?
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  You know, there was this that that kept us from coming back,
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  and that kept us from releasing our album the year earlier, even though we
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  had it written in two thousand and twenty, it was already written and we
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  waited till twenty twenty two to release the album. So, yeah, was
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  basically the pandemic that held us back from coming to Australia earlier and since nobody
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  was able to tour and mm hmm, finally this time is over. This
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  horrible pandemic is in the past, and uh we are we We we were
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  able to come back and we're able to to come back to Australia as well.
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  Yeah, the big thing is by what can fans expect from your set
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  when you come over? What do you got? What you got in store
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  for us? Uh, we're gonna it's gonna be a nice mix between between
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  the two thousands material of Creator and ancient stuff from the eighties, you know,
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  So we have a nice setlist. We're gonna play some of our new
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  album, and I think it's it's gonna be something for everybody. And of
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  course we'll bring some some some production and it's gonna be it's going to be
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  a good show. I think people will definitely be able to to to yeah,
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  to enjoy a great nine of metal. I going back to the beginning,
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  mate, like, you found a creator in Germany back in nineteen eighty
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  two, So what was the musical climate like back then they gave birth to
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  the band and where did you fit in initially? Yeah, I mean nineteen
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  eighty two is a little early. We had a band before our creator.
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  My official like I always go like, the band formed in eighty five when
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  we did our first album, but it was the climate was different, of
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  course, because it was pre internet. It was of course we had a
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  We were a part of this tape trading scene back in the eighties, which
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  meant we were writing letters, like actual letters like on paper, send it
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  to send it to people from all over the world and asked for that tapes
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  there, you know, connecting with metal heads all over the globe. And
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  that led us to recorded the first demo because we were asking, for example,
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  people in the US for their tapes and they were like, oh,
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  you have a band too, why don't you send us some of your music,
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  And that led us to record the first Tormentor demo, which the band
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  was called Tormento before, and then we were recording the second demo, and
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  then we got a record deal and we signed a record deal in eighty or
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  and released the first album in a five and changed the name from Tormento to
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  Creator in eighty five. So that was for me, the birth of Creator.
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  And the climate was it was you know, eighties, right, It
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  was different. It was very adventurous. We were teenagers and everything was new,
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  and of course it was totally different from nowadays, but it was still
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  the same energy and that's still the same even though we're almost like forty years
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  back in the in the game. It's still the same vibe and it's still
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  the same energy that hasn't changed. The media has changed. I'm able to
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  see you now and then then talk to you even though you're only in Australia
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  and I'm in Germany. But back then, we we would overcome these these
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  these obstacles as well by writing letters and and and and waiting for a response
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  for two weeks or something. You know when we were gone in with some
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  some bands. We were even in touch back in the day with an Australian
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  band called Slaughter. I don't know even if you remember, Yeah, they're
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  they're not the Slaughter, not the Lamb Slaughter, but there was a Slaughter,
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  very heavy slaughter from Australia. Oh, I've always your early vision and
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  early dolls for creator and out they change the vision of Yeah. I mean,
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  of course we progressed as musicians. We I think the attitude is still
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  the same. We love to play extreme metal, we love to play to
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  go to explore new music. Every time we release an album, it has
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  to we it's it's it's it's important for us that we do something that we
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  haven't done before, and that we that we push ourselves and and and and
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  and put in new elements and then try new things every time we release an
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  album. But the attitude is still the same. We want to be I
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  think over the years we establish own style and uh and we wanna we wanna
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  progress as musicians and we want to come up with new stuff, exciting stuff.
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  We want to keep our music exciting. That's why we take sometimes take
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  five years between albums, sometimes three four, but we never just put out
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  something for the sake of it, you know, along those lines like how
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  do you think your sound has changed and grown from your debut album Endless Pain
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  in nineteen eighty five to the most recent Haydo Bradley Is in twenty twenty two.
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  Mm hmm. Like I said, we progress as musicians, we were
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  more confident, we're more experienced obviously, but sound wise, the technology is
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  so different nowadays. Even though on Hater Bottles we went to an old school
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  studio like called the Hansa Studio, a studio where they Boie worked in the
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  eighties. You Tube did some albums there. Depeche Mode work there. So
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  we keep it old school sometimes in some to some extent in order to keep
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  like sound wise sonically, just keep the the kind of like some of the
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  elements from from the early days. But I would lie to you. I
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  mean, if I would say we are not using computers now. Of course
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  everybody's using computers nowadays, we're not. We're not blocking out this new technolo
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  technology and the possibilities of nowadays recording techniques and uh, and so it's it's
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  a nice mix. It's a nice mix. And then and but I think
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  as long as the attitude is the same and like that, that's I think
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  that's referring to real questions, Like we still have the same attitude, the
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  same energy we were put into the music, and it's we we will work
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  very hard on on on keeping it fresh and exciting. Greater have been around
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  for roughly four decades in the music world, right, So what do you
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  consider the band's contribution. I guess to heavy metal music over the last forty
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  years. Hopefully we made some people happy, hopefully wrote some songs that people
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  enjoy and hopefully though that's how we be remembered. That's what we're being remembered
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  for once we leave the this this the small plane. But I think it's
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  something it's a question you should ask the fans. I think we we we
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  give a best and we we try to make we try to like like like
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  be a band that is unique and has their own vision and their own style
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  and our own like version of of of extreme metal. I guess that's that's
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  that's how I would put it. But what we contributed to to the metal
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  world, you should ask our fans. They can tell you a lot more
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  precisely. No, I don't ask this question that many people might, but
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  you're one of the few people in the world is in a position to answer
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  it. So, what do you consider to be the top three commandments of
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  Eavy Metal? The top three commandments just be real, yeah, give one
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  hundred and fifty and be and dedicate your life to it as much as possible,
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  you know, and just just and be prepared for like meeting a lot
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  of people from all over the world, like a huge you're part of a
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  huge community and it's a it's it's magic, and so just be aware that
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  that this, don't take it for granted, and once you're in it,
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  just be be real, we be honest. Yeah,