Your Heaven, My Hell – Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza explains how heavy metal saved his life. With Torsten Groß
Mille Petrozza grew up in the 1970s as the son of a working-class family in the Altenessen neighborhood of Essen. His mother was an East German refugee, his father a miner who came as a guest worker from Calabria. In the melting pot of the Ruhr region, the subcultures of the time collided with structural transformation: the closures of the mines, violence, alcoholism, glue sniffing. And then came heavy metal, smashing right into this world. After a Kiss concert, Mille joined an international grass-roots movement. Heavy metal helped emancipate him from drunken youth gangs. His first guitar gave him super powers. In Your Heaven, My Hell, he tells for the first time the incredible story of his early years and the unplanned rise of a heavy metal clique to become one of the world’s greatest and most celebrated thrash metal bands of all time: Kreator.
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Mille Petrozza
Mille Petrozza, born in Essen in 1967, has been the guitarist,… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Torsten Groß
Torsten Groß, born in Iserlohn in 1971, is a music journalist, … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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Date:
Thursday
12. March 2026
17:30 -
Pre Pre sale price (fees excluded) ab 18 €
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Stadthalle Köln
Jan-Wellem-Str. 2
Köln-MülheimPlease follow the checkroom instructions.
Bitte Garderobenhinweise beachten.
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