Having created what would remain an archetypal metal record in To Mega Therion, it seemed like Thomas Gabriel Warrior and his compatriots were after an exact repeat on first...
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Few bands in the metal world get a second chance after a major career misstep, and no band exemplifies this problem more than Celtic Frost. Two albums ago (Into the...
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After the massive artistic success of Into the Pandemonium, Celtic Frost leader Thomas Gabriel Warrior was abandoned by his other bandmates and left to re-create the band....
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Though they'd been together for barely a year and had yet to play their first concert, Celtic Frost brought a remarkably accomplished vision to the recording of their first...
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Quite the title, and quite appropriate for this career-spanning compilation, from the band's earliest recordings in 1984 up through 1992. Unfortunately the liner notes...
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The bombastic "Innocence and Wrath" starts Therion off on just the appropriate note -- Wagnerian horn lines, booming drums and a slow crunch towards apocalypse. Nobody can...
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