00:00I think the greatest metal band of all time is probably two bands.
00:10Hey, this is Mila Petossa from Creator and these are the five essential creator songs.
00:15First one would be the title track of the latest album, Hate Over Alles.
00:20I think it kind of defines the current Creator sound.
00:24We always try to come up with a little more influences and keep the old school.
00:29So the song Hate Over Alles represents that very strongly, in my opinion.
00:36It is a song that is very fast, has very cool lyrics, in my opinion also.
00:42And it's the opener of every show that we play since two or three years, since the album came out.
00:48I think it just sums up where we're at at the moment.
00:51And it's also the first album that we recorded with our new bass player, Fred.
00:56I mean, we probably had our moments where we thought we needed to be more rock or whatever,
01:04you know, more slower and more this or that.
01:08But at the end of the day, you just follow your heart and I think that's the key.
01:13I would say Satan Is Real is one of the essential songs.
01:17I had a friend, he suggested the song title. He's also a singer-songwriter from Switzerland.
01:23And he suggested the song title, Satan Is Real, which is by some Christian band from the 60s.
01:31There's another Satan Is Real out there.
01:34When he suggested that song to me, the subtitle to me, I was like, you can't, it's too much.
01:39It's over the top. It's like, what do you want to, it's almost on the edge of being too corny.
01:45But then I, you know, I thought about it and we were getting together.
01:50I had these three riffs and we were recording it.
01:53And then I did like, I think I did a stretch vocal with the chorus.
01:57And it all fell into place and it all felt very strong.
02:00And the lyrics to me are one of my best lyrics because of the title.
02:05I thought if the title is so over the top, I need to give it a meaning, give it a
02:10certain meaning.
02:11So to me, the song really represents a lot of like spiritual things, but also a lot of like,
02:19it kind of describes how spiritualism is getting captured by religion, so to speak.
02:26Yeah, it's one of my favorites.
02:28Third big would be Enemy of God. Same, same thing, same thing as with Satan is Real.
02:35I wrote after 9-11, 2001, it came out in 2005 and it describes the confusion when this thing happened
02:44and everybody was like, well, fuck man, this is the end of the world.
02:48And it really captured the chaos at the time and kind of captured the vibe of everybody not knowing
02:55what's going to happen next. You know, everybody thought now World War III is going to come.
03:00And it didn't, but it was still very, it was a tragic event and Enemy of God is about that.
03:06To me, it's always important to challenge yourself, not only musically, but also when it comes to
03:16shows and playing with certain bands. You know, we always take,
03:21we always try to go get on packages where we play with bands that are very strong.
03:28So, you know, playing with Testament and Entrax Now is like, you have two classic,
03:35amazing bands that you go on after and it's a challenge.
03:39Fourth pick, I would go with Betrayer. Betrayer is a song that kind of was a game changer for us.
03:48It was, I'm talking about 89 now. MTV was a big thing. And it was our first song that was
03:57played on MTV a lot, you know.
04:00And so in these days, it was important. Nowadays, it's kind of like some people don't understand how important MTV
04:09was.
04:10The younger generation probably wouldn't understand why it was a TV show.
04:15So at the time, it was, they had cool shows. They had like two metal shows.
04:19They had one in America, one here in Europe and getting AirPlayer on that meant a lot.
04:26And it opened a lot of doors for us. So Betrayer for us was definitely one of the,
04:32one of the songs that were, was like accepted by a wider audience, even though it was a full-on
04:39thrash metal song.
04:39At the time, we were already playing bigger clubs and bigger, bigger places.
04:45And yeah, thrash metal itself, the genre itself was peaking.
04:50It's a pleasure to kill.
04:51Yeah. I mean, it's a classic song, even though when we wrote it, we didn't know it was a classic
04:56song.
04:56It's going to become a classic song. I mean, but I think that this album means so much for a
05:02lot of people.
05:02And it means so much to us also because it was that time when we were like teenagers and we
05:10had this record deal.
05:11We put an album out in Spain and we didn't know whether or not we're going to put another album
05:16out.
05:16And then we got the chance that they asked us, the record company back in the day, they were asking
05:22us,
05:22you want to put another album out? We were like, yes, but we don't like some of the production and
05:28last album.
05:28So we need a real producer. We need more time to write proper songs.
05:32And they gave us this time and they gave us the real producer, the great producer from Germany, Havis Jones.
05:40He helped us a lot with the arrangements and with the recordings.
05:45And I think Pleasure to Kill to this day, the song is very influential to a lot of, especially Norwegian
05:55bands.
05:58And we were influenced at the time, we were influenced by Possessed and we just finished a tour with Possessed,
06:04you know, in the US.
06:05So, like I said, it comes out from soccer, which is kind of cool.
06:15Will it be BSR?
06:16We are.
06:16We are.
06:18We're not.
06:18We are.
06:18We are.
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