Mille Petrozza reveals more insight about Kreator’s documentary

“Kreator – Hate & Hope,” the official documentary about German thrash metal band Kreator, debuted at the 42nd Munich International Film Festival on July 2 and will be released in theaters on September 4. Cordula Kablitz-Post directed the 110-minute movie. She previously directed the documentary on the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen in 2019. Using private archive material, “Kreator – Hate & Hope” tells the story of one of the biggest and longest-running bands in the German thrash metal scene. Kablitz-Post and the four members of Kreator discussed the documentary’s creation with Kati Rausch of Music Interview Corner at the August 23 premiere in Berlin, Germany. BLABBERMOUTH.NET transcribed Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza’s response when asked how he struck a balance between the desire to share his tale and protecting his privacy.

I think we found a very nice compromise of showing a little bit of personal stuff without getting too private. But I think the movie really benefits from the fact that there is more personal stuff and then there’s the audience, and then there’s stuff in the studio, then there’s behind-the-scenes and backstage stuff. So it’s a nice variety of — it shows all the facets. And it’s the whole band… This is also like a certain… How do I put this? There’s almost like a relationship with four people, plus the crew and plus the audience. So Cordula really managed to give the viewer a nice insight of how it is to be in a band. And it’s not just the glory of the concerts, but also the waiting around and the stuff at the airport and there’s so much more to it than just what people see on stage. And if you’re interested in that, the movie is really, really good. And it’s interesting. We take you kind of behind the scenes and also to some more personal stuff.

Petrozza also discussed his autobiography’s forthcoming official German-language edition, “Your Heaven, My Hell – Mein Leben, Heavy Metal Und Wie Das Alles Passieren Konnte” (“Your Heaven, My Hell – My Life, Heavy Metal, And How It All Could Happen”), which he co-wrote with journalist, author, and presenter Torsten Groß and will be released on August 28 by Ullstein Verlag. You may pre-order the book right now. This is what Mille said about how sharing his narrative for his book differed from sharing Kreator‘s tale in the documentary.

The book is different, because this is present, and Cordula was on tour with us and the book was stopped at ’93, I think, or ’94, or maybe even ’92. And so to me that didn’t seem so private, because it almost seems like another life; it is long time ago. And it’s probably more private… I decided both — I mean, I was making my peace with both the book and Cordula. So it was a decision to make, to open myself up and do this documentary and do this book. So it’s all good. It’s all good. I think the book is entertaining, and the movie is amazing. So I think it was about time to share some stuff. And, yeah, I never thought about it, but yeah. It wasn’t hard. It was a decision.