Kreator is plotting the follow-up to their 2022 record Hate Über Alles, but don't expect to hear it anytime soon. According to Kreator mastermind Mille Petrozza in an interview with Metal Global, he's always working on new material but wants to make sure that the new record is a worth successor to Hate Über Alles.
"I'm starting [to put ideas together]," said Petrozza. "I have some demos. I have some songs. We're looking at [releasing] a new album in the beginning of '26. I have some stuff."
"I do want this next record to really crush, so I need to take my time. But on the other hand, I was thinking about it and I was talking about it with the band at an earlier stage, when we were on tour, and I remember we were saying all these songs from Hate Über Alles have been lying around for so long because of the pandemic. We could have released Hate Über Alles a year early. So we had some off time.
"And I constantly write stuff, so from that time, I have a lot of riffs. And so I have a lot of material that we can work on. And I collected some themes and I have kind of like a lyrical direction that I wanna follow, but it's not quite there yet. So '26 is a definitely a very realistic time. Maybe we [will] release a single in '25 or something and then lead it to the album."
Kreator will be out on the road with Testament and Possessed this September and October. Tickets are available here.
9/12 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort
9/13 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
9/14 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Centre
9/16 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
9/17 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
9/18 Vancouver, BC Canada Vogue
9/20 Calgary, AB Canada MacEwan Hall
9/21 Enoch, AB Canada River Cree Casino
9/22 Saskatoon, SK Canada Coors Event Centre
9/24 Winnipeg, MB Canada Burton Cummings Theatre
9/26 Maplewood, MN Myth Live
9/28 Huber Heights, Oh Rose Music Center
9/29 Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/1 Cleveland, OH The Agora
10/3 Toronto, ON Canada History
10/4 Montreal, QC Canada MTelus
10/5 New Haven, CT College Street
10/6 Boston, MA House of Blues
10/8 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
10/10 Montclair, NJ The Wellmont Theatre
10/11 Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Casino
10/12 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
10/13 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
10/15 Orlando, FL. Hard Rock Live
10/16 St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Live
10/18 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall (Lawn)
10/19 San Antonio, TX The Aztec
10/20 Dallas, TX The Factory
10/22 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
10/23 Albuquerque, NM Albuquerque Convention Center
10/24 Phoenix, AZ The Van Buren
10/26 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
10/27 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
