{"id":7866,"date":"2011-07-27T10:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7866"},"modified":"2012-02-13T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:35:12","slug":"kreator-at-grf-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/kreator-at-grf-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Kreator at GRF 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7871\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8407trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7871\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8407trim-800x459.jpg\" alt=\"Kreator at Getaway Rock Festival 2011\" title=\"Kreator at Getaway Rock Festival 2011\" width=\"800\" height=\"459\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8407trim-800x459.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8407trim-250x143.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8407trim.jpg 1882w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kreator at Getaway Rock Festival 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been a fan of Kreator since the late 1980s. I remember watching MTV&#8217;s Headbanger&#8217;s Ball and having to sit through countless horrible bands in the hopes that they would also throw in &#8220;Over the Wall&#8221; by Testament or Kreator&#8217;s &#8220;Betrayer.&#8221; &#8220;Terrible Certainty&#8221; was one of the first CDs I ever purchased back in the 80s. But even though I&#8217;ve been a fan for more than two decades, seen countless concerts during that time frame, and Kreator hasn&#8217;t split up like most bands from that era, I have never been in the right place at the right time to see them. Until the <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/getaway-rock-festival\/>Getaway Rock Festival<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7870\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8225trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7870\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8225trim-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"Kreator\" title=\"kreator Mille Petrozza\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8225trim-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8225trim-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8225trim.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kreator&#039;s Mille Petrozza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Walking to the front of the stage as the mighty Kreator launched into &#8220;Hordes of Chaos&#8221; was such a rush. Here I was standing at their feet with camera in hand taking up shots of Kreator. I felt like I was shooting the Betrayer video (as that consists mainly of up shots as well). On top of the visual experience, the sound quality was fantastic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7867\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8145trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7867\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8145trim-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"kreator crowd at grf getaway rock festival sweden\" title=\"kreator fans\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8145trim-800x457.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8145trim-250x143.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8145trim.jpg 1888w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweden&#039;s Kreator fans<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think any other band had the Swedish crowd going as crazy as Kreator did at the Getaway Rock Festival 2011.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7869\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8171trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7869\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8171trim-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"J\u00fcrgen Ventor Reil Kreator drummer\" title=\"J\u00fcrgen &quot;Ventor&quot; Reil\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8171trim-800x529.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8171trim-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8171trim.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ventor Reil on drums for Kreator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have many more photos of Kreator coming soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7868\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8165trim.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7868\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8165trim-800x413.jpg\" alt=\"Kreator\" title=\"Kreator\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8165trim-800x413.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC_8165trim-250x129.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kreator<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan of Kreator since the late 1980s. I remember watching MTV&#8217;s Headbanger&#8217;s Ball and having to sit through countless horrible bands in the hopes that they would also throw in &#8220;Over the Wall&#8221; by Testament or Kreator&#8217;s &#8220;Betrayer.&#8221; &#8220;Terrible Certainty&#8221; was one of the first CDs I ever purchased back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[336,344,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7866\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}