Terrible Certainty

Terrible Certainty
Studio album by
Kreator
Released22 September 1987
Recorded1987
StudiosHorus Studio (Hanover, Germany)
GenreThrash metal
Length35:39
LabelNoise
ProducerRoy Rowland
Kreator chronology
Flag of Hate
(1986)		 Terrible Certainty
(1987)		 Out of the Dark... Into the Light
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Aaaarrghh!Favorable
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10
Rock Hard9.0/10

Terrible Certainty is the third studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in 1987 through Noise Records. It is the band's first album recorded as a four piece. It was released on CD, cassette, black vinyl, and as a limited edition red vinyl. The remastered version of 2000 contains the tracks of the 1988 Out of the Dark... Into the Light EP as bonus tracks. Another remastered version in 2 CDs was released on 9 June 2017, and included all the live tracks from the EP. The album has sold more than 100,000 copies.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mille Petrozza; all music is composed by Kreator.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Blind Faith"4:07
2."Storming with Menace"4:26
3."Terrible Certainty"4:29
4."As the World Burns"3:50
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Toxic Trace"5:33
6."No Escape"5:01
7."One of Us"4:00
8."Behind the Mirror"4:34

Personnel

Kreator
Production

References

  1. ↑ Grimes, Andrew (1988). "Kreator – "Terrible Certainty"". Aaaarrghh!. No. 3. New Zealand: Paul Campbell. pp. 15–16.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Jason. Kreator: Terrible Certainty at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-89-495931-5.
  4. ↑ Trojan, Frank (1987). "Review Album : Kreator - Terrible Certainty". Rock Hard (in German). No. 23. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "Dark Tales". Aaaarrghh!. No. 3. New Zealand: Paul Campbell. 1988. p. 3.