In a new interview with Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio show, KREATOR frontman Mille Petrozza was asked how he keeps the songwriting process challenging after making sixteen studio albums with the band, including KREATOR‘s latest, “Krushers Of The World”, which came out in January. He responded: “Keeping it fresh is the key. Otherwise it becomes boring and it becomes a routine, and that’s something that we try to avoid. It’s kind of hard, I know, but I think what really helps is taking time and wait until you are inspired. Rather than putting out albums every two years, we put out albums every four to five years. So that means after two years of touring, I will have inspiration and there will be some new themes that I can think of, writing lyrics, and new themes for songs and new ideas and new riffs and new music. And I just wait for the right moment to come. And hopefully we are keeping it fresh. It’s hard for me to judge because I’m too involved in the music, but I think we’re doing our best to not repeat ourselves. Even though we found our style, we try to keep it somehow exciting.”

Asked if the joy he gets out of the creative process has evolved for him in the four decades since he started KREATOR, Mille said: “It became better and better over the years because I kind of know my craft a little better, like the technical side of things, which is in my DNA now. I’ve been doing this since my teenage years. I’m in my fifties now, so I’ve been doing this for a long time. So the craft is there. The technical skills, all that is there. It’s like you’re painting a picture — you’re painting a nice artwork and you know all the colours, how they would look at the end of the day and what you wanna express. So it’s the same with the music.”

He continued: “The most important thing is that the band enjoys what we do first. And if we get something out of this and we do demos and we feel the excitement of a new thing that wasn’t there before, and we create something new, that’s the best thing in the world. And it’s something that I have done all my life. And I don’t think I’m gonna stop doing this until the day I die, really. I mean, it’s just what I do. And it’s fun. It’s more exciting than in the early days, because in the early days, we were still trying to figure it out. It was more of a challenge to kind of get the things that we had in our mind on tape, playing-wise, technically. Nowadays the technique is there. Now we have to kind of express the emotion and the feeling, which is a different level of excitement.”