Tragic Serenades (12” EP on pink and black swirl vinyl) I Won’t Dance (12” EP, back on vinyl for the first time in 35 years.

Intensely heavy, nuanced and experimental, the record was a radical musical statement of intent; a stunning synthesis of Warrior and Ain‘s disparate influences.

February 1984, Hellhammer recorded Apocalyptic Raids to be released in March, only to realise the game was up in May, they had an entire new band and gameplan by Summer, and were back in Caet Studios in Berlin by October and the result, Morbid Tales was released in November of that year. Into The Pandemonium" was the last recording made by this era of CELTIC FROST, bringing to an end a period of incredible creative and artistic growth over what was a remarkably brief period of time. Convinced, Noise asked CELTIC FROST to record a mini-LP, even though that hadn’t formed part of Warrior and Ain‘s concept document. A friend gave me a massive stack of NMEs from the mid-80s recently and Fine Young Cannibals seem to appear on the cover more than The Fall, Everything But The Girl or The Smiths, let alone Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine or Coil. By comparison, other forms of rock in the mid-80s, such as indie and jangle pop, stood meekly on a continuum with rock’s past, no matter how much its main players decried the dinosaurs of yore.

And also something that’s coming up which is also special is that Triptykon announced that you’ll perform a tribute set of early Celtic Frost songs at Hell’s Heroes Festival in Houston, Texas next year. View all posts by Mosh Posted on November 1, 2022 by Mosh Posted in Album Reviews Tagged Celtic Frost. and Sounds (whose metal coverage after sterling work kick-starting NWOBHM tended to be slightly more mainstream). t almost seems churlish to regard Celtic Frost as one of the great extreme metal bands, because they were so much more than that. It is intense, blistering, but as you’d expect from such a debut it’s still a little rough’n’ready in places.Danse Macabre” captures the radical ambition and evolution of CELTIC FROST from 1984 through to 1987. S., “Danse Macabre” brings together the band’s recordings from those years, capturing their boundary-pushing ambition and creative zeal. It’s more of a rock n’ roller, with an interesting use of backing vocals in the chorus as well as some background recordings. So we talked about this among the members of Triptykon, and I wanted to be sure everybody does it for the right reasons, and nobody’s against this. NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service.

Certainly, especially with the non-traditional instruments, you get the feeling from this point that Celtic Frost were a band prepared to push a few boundaries.

Into The Pandemonium is one of those rare albums that entirely lives up to its name, a thing of such shifting and seismic beauty, it’s almost still impossible to get a true handle on it, marking Celtic Frost out as not just a band ahead of their time but also one ahead of their space. In 1970, the heavy blues rock group Black Sabbath, on the title track of their eponymous debut album, create the template for what will eventually be recognised as a doom metal song; on subsequent albums they craft other important templates while remaining, for the time being, essentially a heavy rock band in debt to the blues.

Celtic Frost would take a more commercial turn with 1988’s Cold Lake, but the recordings that came before it remain legendary. With your other band Triumph of Death, a tribute to Hellhammer, are there any upcoming dates for this band?We all feel as long as it’s done the right way, as long as we don’t go on a tour and bill it as a reunion or something. The vocals are more prominent on ‘The Usurper’ and Mokri consequently feels less like an afterthought, and ‘Jewel Throne’ is undeniably punchier, but, before you start conducting your own blindfold test, let me save you some time: these re-recorded tracks are now the ones you hear on both EP and LP. The album's experimentation is still striking today, challenging how we perceive heavy music and what it means to take music risks. Recorded in Hanover at the start of 1987, "Into The Pandemonium" was not an easy album to make, the band's experimental ambitions often at odds with their label's concerns.