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If you look at the lyrics,
they're about alternative facts,

people who hawk their opinions
as facts.

That has to be
the song's climax...

You know?

What if in the end we...

take the snare...

The snare and...

That's it.
- Yeah.

What would you do?

From a drummer's point of view?
- First, take a break.

Some doom part.

It's a lot, right?
But it is playable, right?

I think it should be playable
with a bit of practice.

It's fast and tears shit up,
but hey, you're KREATOR.

That was good.
- It was super.

Dude...

Just plain good.

We played well.
Not me, but the rest of you.

I mean, I didn't suck,
I was kind of average.

I made a few mistakes I don't usually make.
- Me, too.

Kind of...

But, you know...

Let's call it a day
and go home.

Where do I put
my shoes?

Leave them here.
I'll text Stoney we left them here.

This is him asleep.

Bobbing along.
It must be the bus.

He thinks
he's screwing.

There he is.

There.
- Shit for brains.

So there is this footage.
And now I'm up.

Dude!

I've been dry
for over 20 years.

This is the first time
I've seen myself drunk again.

A cut!
- Cut!

Come on!

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Things are most volatile here in Europe:

KREATOR have been on tour for six weeks.
I myself am in a perilous position

aboard the tour bus
after six weeks on the road.

The last gig was kind of loose,
back in...

Heilbronn.
- In Heilbronn.

As if we'd be quieter
for that shit.

It's amazing
I'm still alive.

Looking back at this.

Parts of it are terrible,
but doesn't matter.

Mille stripped to the waist.
He won't release this.

He won't.

We played
super-disciplined concerts.

But the parties afterwards
were like, whoa.

We never partied again
like we did back then.

We started out
as teenagers,

then we were in our early 20s,
and we recorded six albums

over seven years, which is a lot.
I thought so. And still do.

For us troubled youths,
this former mine facility, Zeche Carl,

is the place that prevents us
from becoming criminals.

That's exactly right,
isn't it?

We don't want to advertise for Zeche Carl.
Too many people will come here.

Rehearsing here
feels like doing a mining shift.

Exactly.

What else?

Zeche Carl is where
coal mining took place.

After that was discontinued,

they discussed
what to do with the premises.

They wanted to tear it down.
Now we've been practicing here since 1987 or so.

We've never
left the space.

This is my Batman suit for practice.
When I put it on, I'm transformed.

Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
Jürgen Reil becomes Ventor.

I got my first holy pants from Stoney.
From then on, I always wore them to gigs.

You could call them my lucky pants.
I have washed them, though.

If they're not there, something goes wrong.
The sacrosanct needs to be safeguarded.

I have to pass from my normal life
into this world.

They help me do that.

My transformation doesn't have
to be apparent to the public.

But it needs
to convince me.

There was no such thing. I invented it.
Necessity forced my hand.

Because I just couldn't drum away
the way it had to be.

So I invented that and it became a trademark.
Now it's...

a given.

Seventeen years old,
hair like gold.

What a sweet kid.
- Yeah.

I still look that way now
after I shave.

Where did you get
the pants?

The leopard print pants?

Mille had them in green.
- I was a snow leopard.

Snow leopard.
Right.

My beloved bullet belt.
- I mean, OK.

You're not here, huh? It's too early.
- Welcome to "Photo Chat" with Peppi and Stoney.

This is a shot where Mille
doesn't even know he was in it.

Look. That's Mille.

Nah.
- Sure is.

Look at that.
- Yeah. And that's me, look.

Can I get some rosé?
The alcohol-free one?

I've got a vegan dish
for you tonight.

With the chef's compliments.

Is that a carrot?
- It is, yes.

We're serving the carrot
with quinoa and carrot tartare

alongside
tomato-celeriac soup.

Enjoy.
- Thanks.

It's like with that prankster comedian,
Hape Kerkeling:

They're checking our reaction to
being served two carrots.

Oh, delicious, wow.
- Great.

You've never considered
going vegetarian, have you?

I'm vegan.
- You are?

For real?
- Since 2008.

Did you know?
- Yeah.

I see.
Vegan since 2008.

I mean,
I used to be...

In the late 80s or early 90s, I went vegetarian,
but there were no vegetarians then.

And back in 2008, when I began,
it was hard to be vegan.

It doesn't bother me if people eat meat.
- No?

It's up to them.

We've actually known each other
since kindergarten.

You have to see it as a microcosm.
We were all in the district of Altenessen,

hanging out
the way kids did in the 80s.

We were music fans
and wanted to have a band.

So out of a certain boredom,
we formed the band.

My father said to me
from the start:

If you're smart,
you won't go down in the mine.

It's the worst thing you can do,
dangerous and awful, do something else.

Back at my parents' house,
there was always music playing.

It was lots of...
Italian stuff,

like Adriano Celentano.

Basically,
popular music of the 70s.

My father was mad about it,
collected it like a nerd.

So, as a child, I guess
I got a sense of how music is important.

Back home, the radio played in the kitchen.
My father listened to military marches.

Then I got my recorder
and had to trill off a tune or two.

But music
was kind of

not so interesting until

I started listening to music
like Kiss.

They were my first love,
musically speaking:

Kiss.
My first concert, too.

I think it was back in
1980 or so.

My cousin joined me
to the concert in Düsseldorf,

because I wasn't allowed to go alone
as I was still too young.

I'd heard from older friends
and my parents

that rockers would be there
and it'd be dangerous.

One might
get beaten up.

But it was the contrary. It was like a community
from the start. It was like...

a dream world.

He came back
a changed person.

It was great.

Then one day, Mille and I said,
Come on, let's be like Kiss.

So we had a band, but couldn't play.
We had no proper instruments.

There was a clearance sale
at the music shop in the Altenessen mall.

So suddenly,

maybe five teenagers
bought guitars,

all wanting to play
in this new band

that Ventor and I had started,
which today is still KREATOR.

Or its primeval soup,
you know.

So we started rehearsing.

There were seven of us.
By the next rehearsal, it was just five.

Finally,
it boiled down to...

three guys who took it seriously:
Rob Fioretti, Ventor and me.

So we thought, fine,

I'll be the singer,
I'm tall.

I can be the frontman
and play the fool.

But we couldn't find anyone
who could or would drum.

By combining pillows of various sizes
on my bed,

all of which
gave off different sounds,

I created my imaginary kit
and started drumming away.

And I still had money in the bank
from my confirmation.

So, we decided:
Alright, you gotta...

You're the drummer
and can buy the kit.

So we all went to my parents
and told them:

Jürgen isn't buying a scooter with the money.
We want to buy a drum set.

On the day Ventor first set up
that drum kit,

it was his second time
at a drum kit at all.

And he began to teach himself
then and there.

He listened to records
by Judas Priest.

There was one called British Steel
where the drum beat was incredibly simple.

So we basically played that through
a hundred times.

I can play the whole record backwards
by now.

So I'd like to present KREATOR's record
that's out on Noise Records.

It's called "Endless Pain,"
like their first track.

Right?
That's how I understood it.

If you could
close in on this.

Great.

And how old are you all?
- Well,

Ventor is 19.
The rest of us are 18.

Pretty young, huh?

And you're from Essen?
- Yeah, the best city.

When it comes to
heavy metal.

If I'm back in Altenessen,
I'm mostly visiting my parents or practicing.

I don't live there anymore. I live
here in the south. But the north is great, too.

Altenessen has the Rhine-Herne Canal.
Swimming there is actually illegal.

It's more for kids.

Back there is Zweigert Bridge
on Altenessen Road.

Where we grew up.

This was
our public pool.

Free admission.

It's just too hot.

We gotta swim.
Everything else is nonsense.

The more demons,
the better.

We need even more.

A famous interview
was held here.

The guy from Rock Hard
said to Sami,

"Sami, you've lived for a long while
in the Ruhr area.

Say something
in the local dialect."

So Sami says,
"Itchin' for a fight, are we?"

You old scallywag.

The backdrop for "Pleasure to Kill"
falls between George and the drum kit.

Is that possible?
- We'll have to run it a couple times.

Ventor!

If it goes well, there's no rain and no
glitches, I'll be satisfied, but you never know.

The occasion is
playing with the other bands:

Destruction, Sodom and Tankard,
who with us make up the Big Teutonic 4.

They formed around
the same time as us.

We looked for a date we could all make,
so we could play together.

And it finally
worked out.

If I remember correctly, the first time we all
played together was 1986 in Pforzheim.

At the Kupferdächle.

Though of course KREATOR
took a different direction.

That is to say,
right to the top.

They naturally play
a lot more often,

while we decided not to live
exclusively from this.

So we kind of went different ways,
but our paths kept crossing.

So it's all the better
that this is happening today:

"Klash of the Ruhrpott,"
"The Big Teutonic 4."

And it's not raining, there's no storm,
so it won't be canceled for that...

It's four bands
and sunshine.

They were kind of shy
and concentrated.

Not that Ruhr thing:
"Let's drink, guys!"

More like:
Mille knows what he wants.

Sodom were
the party animals.

KREATOR were more
focused on their music.

That was back when
they were called Tormentor.

So we later played together.

And KREATOR had begun
to smoke a little dope.

So we did the same.
They basically taught us to smoke weed.

The Sodom-KREATOR Ruhr friendship
isn't as easy as you'd think.

They're like neighbors.

I'm from the south, so I'm like,
Hey, you're all buddies.

A joint concert should be a cinch.
But somehow it isn't.

So Destruction is ready
at any given moment.

If Mille and Tom can agree,
there'll be more of these shows.

I've known Mille since...
'83, yeah.

They were Tormentor then.

Mille was in Altenessen,
where Peppi's father had an old shack.

We met to drink there.

But it was back then, '83 or '84,
when we all began.

We're friends,
but here we say "buddy."

A buddy is a good friend,
but we're not that.

I'm from Syria's capital,
Damascus.

I love KREATOR.

It was always a lifestyle.
Metal isn't a sound, it's a way of life.

It means being critical and shouting it out
if something doesn't suit you.

It's about showing you're here,
showing opposition,

and that's particularly important
nowadays.

To me,
KREATOR is the best German

thrash metal band. After almost 40 years,
they're still reinventing themselves,

never diminishing in quality
or aggression.

A total punch
in the face.

Awesome.

They took the thrash metal from back then
and modernized it, in my opinion.

They worked with melodies,
yet it's still real thrash like back then.

And then I go like:

Dear guests, we're obliged to cancel the show
due to bad weather.

We are very sorry.

We ourselves are...

Say it again in English, please.

Come back!

This sucks,

but there's nothing we can do.
We've been told to stop.

Thanks.

Thanks for everything.

I need to kill someone.
Find me someone.

Boggi!

Howdy.
- Just imagine.

You're looking good.
- You, too.

How long's it been, 20 years?
- Search me. Ages.

At least.

Oh, man.

Hello, how are you?

Coffee...

What's wrong with it?

Make sure it's locked in.
- We try making coffee for once...

The last time we met was at my place.
You were three or four and had drumsticks.

It won't work.
- Something else? Here. Done.

That's right.
Good old beer.

I wasn't always proud of you.
You were really nuts.

I put together a festival at the Westfalenhalle,
and you were so confident on that huge stage.

We just did it.
Just did it.

In those early days,
you weren't top musicians or anything.

You remember. You know how
you've grown technically and so on.

But from the very start, you said,
"We're stars, that's it."

How is it?

OK.
And you?

I wouldn't say there's a death wish
in metal culture,

but rather that it's a confrontation
with the complexity of human existence,

where the only certainty
is death.

This is my first time in the catacombs.
I'm a big fan of horror.

But finding yourself in such a place
is really something else.

I mean, each of these heads
has its own history.

These are real people.

I'd like to return
to the living now.

I was an altar boy,
and I found the church a pretty weird joint.

So we got ourselves these books,
ones we heard satanists read.

And we wanted...

Being 13 or 14,
we wanted to celebrate a satanic ritual.

But we couldn't
get it together.

Satan didn't show up
at the ritual.

Georgie,
if you'd move over a bit.

There.
There it is.

Come around.

That's the fan
blowing air in.

This is all the places he's been.
Janni made an effort

and kept a list of all the places
where he has hung out.

The backdrop is the record cover.
So you could say it's two demons

extending over dimensions.
Demon dimensions!

I sent them a pic of my hands. "What should
the hands look like?" Like this, I said.

And he fits in a case,
my permanent companion.

I'm censoring myself.

Nice.

Are you going to eat?
We'll join you later. Or I will.

I've known Mille since 1990
or the early 90s.

This is the prototype
from the Cave Toys company,

of which
I'm one of three owners.

And this is finally
one of the beautiful...

It won't be plastic,
since we're environmentally conscious.

I have this great comic
and metal affinity.

Of all those bands back then
from the Ruhr,

KREATOR
was maybe the most aggressive.

Aggression
with real perfection.

Maybe the only band from back then
taking a political stance against the far right.

Back then, I'd never seen a metal band do that.
Only punk bands.

So I saw that Mille
is very close to punk.

My first time coming into contact
with KREATOR

was back in the final days
of East Germany.

So, finally,
maybe in early '93,

I managed to persuade my father
to take me to a KREATOR concert.

In Gera,
one of the biggest cities in Thuringia,

it's pretty grim,
but back then was all the more so.

A beautiful city
with a number of ugly people living there:

Nazis and so on.

You stop with your father to buy gas
and there's a bunch of fascists hanging about.

You leave to insults.

Then KREATOR come on stage
with anti-Nazi shirts.

As a statement
precisely where it had to be.

Where not everyone
was just applauding.

To me,
that was really...

Yeah, it was a summons,

or maybe even a sign:

You and your opinion
belong in the metal scene.

As an antifascist,

you're within your rights
and we're on your side.

Back then, imagine, I was 15 or 16,
this spoke to me.

What bothers me is

the atmosphere in this country.
I can partly understand the frustration,

but I don't understand why people vote
for inhuman right-wing parties.

I don't get it.

Here we are.
- Finally, it has come to pass.

The right-wing stuff has always been there,
but now you can see in Germany and abroad

that it's become
presentable again.

Back then,
they spread hate in a bar backroom,

now they do it publicly
and increasingly shamelessly.

So you have to stand up to them.
That's all I have to say about that.

Maik does things
like exploding swastikas on stage.

I've always loved that.

Maik and Heaven Shall Burn
are a great band.

Everything
they represent.

"To each his own?"
- And legible from the grounds.

Why "to each his own?"
- Well, it's cynicism.

Like "Arbeit macht frei," work sets you free.
- Right.

The cynicism
of the SS.

Every April 11, I try to be here,
the day the concentration camp was liberated.

This year was insane.

Mr. Wagner spoke about the elections
in Thuringia 100 years ago.

There were, I don't know,
1,000 to 2,000 people here.

You had the feeling he was standing there alone
with the CDU's Voigt,

telling him how a bourgeois party
once worked with Nazis.

And Voigt voted alongside the AfD on laws
in the Thuringian state parliament.

Voigt did?
- Yes.

It was really
pretty hardcore.

This is the shot-to-the-back-of-the-neck wing.
- Boy.

The "examination room."

They were shot in the neck
while their height was measured.

Who could come up
with such stuff?

They made such a fuss trying to make them think
they were only being "examined."

That makes it
more perfidious.

Compared to
the rest of Europe,

Germany kept its own right-wing populism at bay
10 to 20 years longer.

Now Germany's saying, "It's not so bad,
just look at France and Holland."

At these memorials, when you see
the last live witnesses to these events

before they vanish
into the mist of history,

they look over their shoulders
and see the same shit rolling in.

They see it returning
as they depart.

That noise barrier wasn't there back then,
right?

Nope. It was all different then.
There were those red bricks.

Emscher School!

Here. Classroom 1A.
Scene of our first concert.

But it's changed.
- We came in the front.

Up there.
- But there was a door?

Yeah,
but the stage was here.

Madness.

Kenneth did the light show back there
by playing with the switches.

"Heavy Metal For Peace"
was on the wall.

We tore down the "For Peace" bit.
- "For Peace" was torn down?

'83.

Look at these kids.

And that was here.
- Right.

The Savior stood there.
- Yeah.

Miland is also known as the Savior
and made prophecies on tour:

"Today I prophesy that..."

Little rib!

He's lost for words.

He likes to call himself the Messiah,
also known as the Savior.

Give us a prediction.

A prophecy!
- Something simple.

Come on, Messiah. - Give us a prediction.
A standard one. A message.

We were part of
the tape-trading scene,

the people
who sent each other tapes.

We made the first in our rehearsal room
using a cassette recorder.

We recorded our second tape
on a four-track in a "studio."

Stoney thought, "If I'm sending them to people,
why not send them to labels, too?"

So, Noise Records came and said,
"Yeah, let's make a record with those kids."

Stoney came and said,
"Do you want a record deal?"

We were like, "Nah, forget it." He said,
"Too late, I've got one, you only need to sign."

Well, "Management."
- It was management back then.

It was management.

KREATOR,
C/O Andreas Stein.

We didn't plan anything.
It all just came about.

My mother
signed the deal.

It was fine,

because then
I could make a record.

For "Endless Pain," we were supposed
to record for ten days and mix for four.

But after ten days,
the producer Horst Müller said, "Hey,"

"You can go home now if you want.
Only don't tell the label."

I was like, "Is this good or bad?
Were we that great or...?"

I didn't get it.
I was still too young.

The record company let us know
that the record was selling well,

and that we should make
a second one.

Anyone wanting to book the band
called the record company.

Because they weren't even
contactable by phone.

Through parents, maybe,
but they didn't have apartments or cars.

So it all fell to me. I had to make sure
they got to festivals and the rest of it.

It was at such
an early stage

that the band was being taken away
from its regular life,

and suddenly things took off.
They were playing to 500 or 800 people.

And they absolutely crushed it.
It was...

amazing to watch.

We weren't megalomaniacs,
but we also weren't restrained.

We did
all the stupid stuff.

We had a major deal,
were on Epic Records.

We made big budget videos,
were invited on MTV and so on.

So we had...

a time
where we were relatively...

wild.

What the hell?
You think it's cool filming me, asshole?

Stupid old dirtbag?

My God,
have a look at yourself!

Take that shit away.
I'll knock you out.

I mean it.

This is what
I have to say.

This is what I say.
Everyone should take this.

This. Here.

Here.

To set you right, kids:
LSD.

What's it like to be a psychopath?
Please explain.

Is it hard being a psychopath?
Do you train it?

You'd know, asshole.

Mille had just come off stage
sweating like a madman.

So I held the camera in his face.
It was all "fuck off" and so on.

So I kept filming him
to bother him.

He wasn't really angry.
No one was friendly, but we liked it that way.

Even Boggi's wife
is addicted to Game Boy.

They weren't in awe of anything.
They'd play a 100-seater club,

or open in the Westfalenhalle
for Ozzy Osborne, say.

We were delighted
when this Canadian metal band Voivod

liked our record "Pleasure to Kill."
So they invited us

on a six-week
American tour.

We thought,
"Whoa, we're going to America."

So you're trying
to keep it together for them.

You're like,
"The boys have never flown.

They've never been anywhere."
So you've got this crew,

and you say,
"Stay with me. We need to get in line."

Immediately, they're all gone.
One on the floor here, another one there.

"You have to stay at my side.
They'll want to see your faces. Come here."

Like a mother sending her kids to school:
"You got your lunchbox and stuff?"

Our first time in America, our first flight,
our first everything.

But it's not like
we were playing to stadium audiences.

I remember one show
on that tour

where we arrived at the address
and it was a pizzeria.

We were like,
"Seriously? We're booked to play."

"But not now.
We'll let you in later."

So, fine, we went out again
and caused some mischief.

They pushed the tables
and chairs aside.

There was a small stage in a corner
and we played.

What a delicious meal!

Dude, stop filming me!

Yummy!

It was fun.
But it wasn't like,

"Now we've made it.
We're really going places."

There was plenty of sobering stuff
that would've proven the contrary.

The sound was bad,
but on stage it sucked.

The sound check...
- God, you're a complainer.

I don't normally need it
if everything's fine, you know?

So what?
- If you make one little shitty mistake...

So what?
Then you say screw it, right?

No.
- Why not?

Screw the mistake
and you're done.

You were a fantastic audience!
Thank you! Till next time!

Yes, sir!

As a kid, it was already kind of normal:
I was in a tour bus at the age of five.

It began really early.
- Five or six.

That was my first time on the tour bus,
and I just wanted to go home.

Seeing masses of people
and knowing they were here for my papa.

And I knew then:
This just isn't normal.

I found it bad as a child.
Not knowing why he was away.

And for so long,
months at a time.

You'd be starting first grade
and he wasn't there.

That kind of thing.

Finally, you understood
that was the way it had to be.

But it took a long time.
It really did.

Loads of other people wanted to see Dad, too.
- It was a blessing and a curse.

For me, too.
It wasn't easy.

Jülle is one of those secret agents
who took care of absolutely nothing.

He never opened letters or anything,
you know?

And he got
an army conscription order.

This was just before
the US tour.

When he came back,
he was past the due date.

So we had him get out in Amsterdam
and I smuggled him back into Germany.

Then I went to a doctor
I was on good terms with.

I asked him for help:

"I don't know what to do.
He's meant to join the army, but I need him."

So the doctor says,
"Does he take drugs?"

I say, "No, no."

"Course he takes drugs!"
I say, "Well, a bit..."

"He takes drugs.
Lots of them!"

He says, "Listen, I'll write you a letter
that he's a drug addict."

"He's to hand it in."

So Jülle shows up
and hands the letter

to the doctor
at the barracks in Plön.

He was back
two days later.

Unfit for service.
A dishonorable discharge, you might say.

... that they were good.
But they were shit.

I know, they played well.
- But it was always the same.

Is this some...

A bar of chocolate.
- Chocolate.

Chocolate. Here.
The proof.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is this thing.
I wouldn't say...

I find the whole concept
stupid.

You can only do that
in your early 20s,

and then
only for a while.

For two or three years
or you wind up dead.

I lost a lot of friends
to drugs.

I had this...

I know enough dead people
to fill a party.

Guys lost to drugs
in their mid-20s or early 30s.

They started taking heroin and died.
Or drank themselves to death and so on.

Which is why it's so...

... so unnecessary
and superfluous.

Jeez! Listen up!
Just to be clear:

Don't bother with that shit.
We won't stick to it anyway, OK?

Mille's lyrics alone
made them stick out.

The trend back then was all about skulls
and the cult of Satan.

That was the thing
in the thrash metal genre.

And Mille wasn't like that.
He wrote very intelligent lyrics.

Even as a young guy.

In terms of their lyrics,
they were ahead of their times.

Just look at what the world is like now.
Nothing has improved since then.

It's grown
more obvious since.

What the Savior was preaching about
has grown more obvious.

That's why he's the Savior:
His lyrics always had prophecies and...

"Coma of Souls" is one of my favorites.
And that was back in the 90s.

Just look outside.
People didn't even have cell phones then.

If that isn't a coma when you get on a subway
or walk down a street...

You could have
a knife in your head.

No one would notice.
- Unless they film you.

Right, they'd film you.
- While you collapse dying.

When I write a song, it has to be tailored
to my person, or rather,

to my abilities.

A song always has to be such
that I can perform it along with my guitar.

So I have to make sure

it comes from within,
from my heart.

Yeah, Mille has certain standards
for his lyrics.

I always find it inspiring
how he creates stuff out of nothing

and can phrase it so the whole image is there.
It's complete.

If I'd carried on, I guess I'd be there, too.
But I quit writing lyrics.

I'm no longer a lyricist.

But who knows,
maybe I'll write again.

Words like "Terror" and "Suicide Commando"
always need to be in there.

It's not an aggro KREATOR record

if he doesn't repeatedly scream
hysterically from the stage...

People would want their money back,
and he's aware of that.

I can't just take my samurai sword
and slaughter my boss cause he's pissing me off.

I hope we're all
on the same page about that.

But the basic sense
of channeling that aggression

so that it leads to a hard song
and guitar riff,

is what keeps art
and an artist relevant.

And that Mille is still doing this,
is what keeps the band kicking.

Just incredible.

It's cold here
in your Japan.

You guys will be next.

It's too naked.
- Too naked...

Shall we startle everyone?

For me,
Sami is the musician with KREATOR

who brings along his own certain style,
one I haven't heard in other guitarists.

A special tone.

So he always makes
the songs prettier.

If I think up a melody and Sami plays it,
it sounds different to how I'd have played it.

It's unique.

Sami is one of the most underrated guitarists
in the whole metal scene.

He's never in any of the polls
or rating lists or anything.

But he's
an ultra fine guitarist.

I'd cut off all my fingers
to have two of his.

I had this eye operation,
I had this...

I had a detachment
of the retina.

I was almost blind in one eye,
and the doctor said:

You're still doing
that head-banging.

I said, "Yes."

"Stop it or the retina
will get detached again."

So I thought about
not doing it anymore,

but once you're back on stage,
after doing it for so long, it's a part of it.

Musically, Fred is a jukebox.
He can play anything.

And he's very amiable.

He shouldn't really...
He should be playing guitar,

but he's also
a great bassist.

He's a great
all-round musician.

So it's just
the perfect match.

Thank you, Tokyo.

After-show showdown!

This is no use!

Ah, no!

No, no, no!

Nope!

It stinks
and there's no air.

Is he coming? He won't come in.
- No?

Pointless activities
will not be tolerated.

Simple as that.

It sucks...

I watch horror films
to protect my wife.

Because she likes them,
but gets scared.

Yep, more interesting out here
than in there, huh?

Good.
- Very good.

It was fun.
- For real!

Hello.
Good day.

Bye!

Come on,
off we go at long last!

Want some visitors?

Who's visiting?
Yeah, I want visitors.

When are you playing
tomorrow?

Will you be here after the concert?
- We're in the same hotel.

Ah, right. Great.
See you later.

We love KREATOR.

The music is awesome,
they're great people.

Hello.
- Howdy.

It's like making music:
creating something from nothing.

What are you doing
in my bedroom?

Are you nuts?

Our first tour
was in 1987.

Since then,
we've toured every year.

We've never neglected it.
The fans in Europe are very

attentive. Once they know you,
you stay in their hearts.

But here in America,
you're swiftly forgotten.

Meaning you have to play here
all the time.

So it's more work, because you need to be
more present than in Europe.

They think
we're talented.

They're calling us over.

Can you stop
molesting the pig?

You'll find him
at North Cemetery.

Hopefully,
I'll still be doing this in ten years.

I mean,
the fans have accepted us for so long.

If you consider how many of them
have grown older with us,

and are still with us.
Their kids even come along to the concerts.

That's a real gift,
that's great.

So I don't know
what else I could still want.

It's just great.

You've got time.

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Translation: T. Cooper, G. Haas, M. Way