Pleasure to Kill is the second studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator, released in November 1986 by Noise Records.

[1] Pleasure to Kill is widely considered a landmark thrash metal classic,[1][2][3][4] along with Master of Puppets by Metallica, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?

[10] Rock Hard reviewer found the album very similar to Endless Pain and, despite the opaque drum sound, quite good by hardcore standards.

[11] In a modern review, AllMusic writer Jason Anderson wrote that "many in the underground metal scene were already paying special attention to the German outfit's proto-death sound, but the cult status was shed after this critically and commercially successful second effort hit record-store shelves.

"[8] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff acknowledged the importance of the album in "propelling the band into the trinity of the genre next to Destruction and Sodom", but was not very pleased by the "tech-thrash ugliness" of the music.