Although plans were already made to enter the studio early next year, after their upcoming tours of Europe and North America, Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza has confirmed that the band's follow-up to 2022's Hate Über Alles will not be released until 2026.

In a new interview with Portugal's 'Metal Global', Petrozza explained: "I'm starting [to put ideas together]. I have some demos. I have some songs. We're looking at [releasing] a new album in the beginning of '26. I have some stuff. I do want this next record to really crush, so I need to take my time. But on the other hand, I was thinking about it and I was talking about it with the band at an earlier stage, when we were on tour, and I remember we were saying all these songs from Hate Über Alles have been lying around for so long because of the pandemic. We could have released Hate Über Alles a year early. So we had some off time. And I constantly write stuff, so from that time, I have a lot of riffs. And so I have a lot of material that we can work on. And I collected some themes and I have kind of like a lyrical direction that I wanna follow, but it's not quite there yet. So '26 is a definitely a very realistic time. Maybe we [will] release a single in '25 or something and then lead it to the album."

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