Metal legends KREATOR have announced their Summer Festival run for 2025 as well as three additional headline shows in Germany. For these intimate club shows, which will feature special setlists including a lot of deep cuts, KREATOR have invited Rotting Christ and Warbringer as supports. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday, February 5th (11 am CET) at www.kreator-terrorzone.de. Scroll down for all dates!
Mille commented:
“This summer, Kreator is set to unleash chaos on some of Europe’s biggest stages as part of our Summer Festival Tour 2025. But we’ve got something truly special lined up for our fans – three exclusive club shows in Germany, along with selected festival appearances, where we’ll deliver a unique setlist packed with rare and fan-favourite deep cuts from our vaults.
These intimate club gigs and special festival sets will be a celebration of Kreator’s legacy, showcasing songs we haven’t performed live in years. If you’ve ever wanted to hear those hidden gems, now’s your chance!
For the club shows, we’re bringing along two incredible support acts: the legendary Rotting Christ, delivering their dark, epic soundscapes, and thrash metal warriors Warbringer, ready to unleash their relentless energy. Together, we’ll make these nights an unforgettable celebration of metal.
Germany and beyond – prepare to raise the flag of hate as we dive into the depths of Kreator’s history. Let’s make this summer a season of metal madness to remember!
Hail the Hordes!“
KREATOR
DEMONIC SUMMER 2025
| 05.06. | SE | Sweden Rock Festival |
| 07.06. | CZ | Metalfest Pilsen |
| 27.06. | EE | Tallinn Rock Fest |
| 17.07. | ES | Sun & Thunder Fest |
| 19.07. | DE | Dong Open Air |
| 20.07. | DE | Heidelberg * |
| 21.07. | DE | Obertraubling * |
| 22.07. | DE | Memmingen * |
| 23.07. | SI | Tolminator |
| 08.08. | BE | Alcatraz Fest |
| 09.08. | DE | Elb-Riot |
| 16.08. | NL | Dynamo Metalfest |
| 22.08. | DE | Giessen Kultursommer |
| 23.09. | DE | Full Metal Cruise |
* with Rotting Christ + Warbringer
TICKETS: www.kreator-terrorzone.de (on sale February 5th, 11 am CET)
ABOUT KREATOR
Decades into their game-changing career, German metal legends Kreator find themselves more successful and influential than ever. They’ve stuck to their guns, weathered the trends and outlasted their peers – never once wavering from the ferocious noise that excited them as teens. If anything, that thirst for sonic warfare is just as strong, if not stronger, today. Where others have suffered from creative malnourishment and artistic uncertainty, something which even metal’s biggest and best are prone to, Kreator have always charged full steam ahead – thanks to the red-eyed conviction and fearless determination of founding singer and guitarist Miland ‘Mille’ Petrozza. On 1985 debut Endless Pain, the Essen innovators created the template for extreme noise to come, fusing elements of thrash and black metal in ways that had never been heard before. Their sophomore album of the following year, Pleasure To Kill, became one of the landmark albums of 1986 – making metal history alongside key releases from Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. And onwards they marched, bringing hellish anthems to the masses in every album that followed, with a track record few could ever rival.
The last decade has been a particularly exciting time for the group, with 2012’s Phantom Antichrist proving how they could embrace modern production techniques and move with the times without forsaking the underground spirit and defiance which made them a household name in the first place. Its successor, 2017’s Gods Of Violence, saw them topping the German charts for the very first time in their career, a feat virtually unheard for a band of such thunderous intensity.
They returned in 2022 with fifteenth opus Hate Über Alles – which marked their first studio album with Frédéric Leclercq (ex-Dragonforce, Sinsaenum) on bass, joining Mille, guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö and drummer Jürgen ‘Ventor’ Reil – the metal titans are once again channelling an unholy heaviness strong enough to tilt the earth off-axis.