Best Celtic Frost Album Poll

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To Mega Therion! I can't believe people are voting for Into the Pandemonium. Sure, there's a few classics on it, but there's also a few songs that flat out suck.

I listened to Morbid Tales for the first time in awhile last night, and was struck by how awesome it was. Not better than To Mega Therion, but better than I remembered.

i think To Mega Therion is going to win easily.

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9 jokers for cold lake then

chuck eddy has eight sockpuppet accounts

there was a secret thread someplace where one guy told eight other dudes to go vote for cold fucken lake

I dont think even Chuck voted for it!

More votes for Cold Lake than for Morbid Tales = world has gone mad

I think I forgot to vote. Although even if I had, it still would only have 5!

Just listened to Celtic Frost for the 1st time today. I dl'd To Mega Therion and listened to it in the car during my 5 a.m. commute. Black clouds sailed past the full moon as I sped down the parkway. This is a fitting opener to Halloween season. This has been missing my whole life.

Welcome! <maniacal cackle>

Top shelf. I think Montheist beating out Morbid Tales in this poll is utter nonsense.

And you can remove the "I think" part of that statement. It's totally objective fact.

I think Monotheist has become my favourite ahead of Into the Pandemonium , as that's the one I pull out to play mostly now.

^This guy is crazy! :)

Had left TMT in the car CD player last night and it was on when I started up the car to take my kid to the bookstore. I switched it immediately over to his Spiderman CD and he goes "No. Wait - put that song back on!" So I put it back on The Usurper and he had on this full-toothed grin and doing this swaying back-and-forth dance...kinda an Axl Rose thing.

About two minutes in, I saw that he was staring into space and figured he was bored so I asked if he was ready for me to change it back to Spiderman. "When this song's over, you can put it back." Cool.

After I changed it back he says "I like angry music because it's loud and because IT'S ROCK AND ROLLL!"

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Somewhat off topic, but let's give it up for Hellhammer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTr7_mhD9ew

There were young kids wearing Hellhammer shirts at the Agalloch show on Saturday. Also Atheist shirts etc. Heartwarming.

Alright, "Cold Lake" isn't as bad as I remember. I mean, Tom G. Warrior wrote it, there's some decent metal buried under bad production and guitar squeals/tremelo abuse. Would pay Warhammer or Apokalyptic Raids to re-record these songs in proper CF style.

so I finally just got Monotheist and I want to hurt everyone ITT who said such great things about it. I love old Celtic Frost but the first five tracks of this border on mediocre post-thrash with gothic and doom influences. I mean I wouldn't have even guessed this was CF if the name wasn't on the album cover. I really am not interested in hearing Tom G. Warrior sing as much as he does either.

Bahhhhhhhhhhhhh...

You probably don't want to hear the Triptykon record then; it's Monotheist continued. And it's my favorite CF record though I didn't post on this thread for some reason.

I don't love Monotheist, think it's got some serious groove, but Triptykon - man that is proper. TG Warrior being forward-looking and pertinent in 2010...who'd have thought? fucking rad.

on reflection, Morbid Tales totally should have got more votes in this. "procreation (of the wicked)" is probably their greatest song.

its the one i listen to most now

love that there were 9 people attempting to get everybody mad by voting Cold Lake

1 will have been chuck...so point taken

The power of positive trolling.

oops i read up and it was his 2nd fave

When we doing the Coroner poll?

Best Coroner Album Poll

this thread reminds me that i still haven't heard a note of Vanity/Nemesis. it really is easy to forget that that album exists.

Was surprised to see Cold Lake even made it to the list.

someone would've complained that it wasn't on it and that they intended to vote for it (in this case 9 people )

Tom G. Warrior's "HEEEYYYYY!" is one of the greatest vocal signatures in rock history. It actually activates my (presumed) Tourette's Syndrome to the point that I just want to howl it at really inopportune, inappropriate times: on a crowded subway, late at night in my apartment, when my phone rings, to my cat, in the shower. I need to find To Mega Therion on vinyl. I love Into the Pandemonium a lot.

I saw them on the Pandemonium tour & they opened with "The Usurper" and everybody in the pit did the "uhh!" at the end of the first chorus

OMG I HATE YOU. No, that must have been fucking insane... I recently picked up the Darkthrone Panzerfaust reish and the second disc has Fenriz voicing-over basically about how much of a stan he is for Tom G's riffage. He ripped it off pretty mightily with that record, I have to say... And I love how non-intuitive yet perfect-feeling Celtic Frost's riffs are.

I tend to disagree with buying classics out of a sense of obligation, but when certain classics belong to some sort of stylistic tradition you love, I'm more inclined to do it. I didn't really care for the first two Venom albums much and never went further.
I fairly enjoyed Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion but still wasn't a FAN, although I loved "Procreation Of The Wicked" and "Dawn Of Meggido" quite a lot. I wondered if it was worth getting more because I'm not a total metalhead and I don't feel like I need to prove credentials.
But I when I got Into The Pandemonium I fucking loved it and finally felt like a fan. It makes me wonder how many bands I might give up on only to miss what might be the record that gets me properly into a band.

Something I especially like about Celtic Frost which I'd like to hear in more metal, is Tom Warrior's voice contrasted with an elegant (and sometimes slightly sinister) female voice. Do the later Celtic Frost albums do this? Are there any other metal bands who have a similar dynamic like that? "Rex Irae" being my favourite example, I just love how she sounds like this Lady Macbeth or some high sorceress from a Robert E Howard book.

re: female vox, the Storm record with Fenriz, Satyr and female vox from Kari Rueslåtten does this.

But actually came to post how much I love the first 3 Celtic Frost releases (including the Emperor's Return EP). Something about their sound changed on Into the Pandemonium that I don't quite love, but to then, I'd say they were a step up from Hellhammer.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'd like to hear more stuff like this.

Monotheist has the female vox you crave. It really is a quite brilliant album and as good as their pre-cold lake stuff

Thanks

got a newer copy of TMT to replace the one I lost and holy fuck this feels like the first time I heard this again (not gonna front, it was 1999, I wasn't around in the o.g. days).

nobody riffed like these dudes.

I know some people adore and worship Hellhammer and all but to these ears that shit's minor league compared to this

For such an influential band, hard pressed to say what kind of metal CF play. Black/thrash/crust/doom/death.

We lumped them in with European thrash back in the day. But yeah, CF has influenced every single extreme metal subgenre, so it's really impossible to categorize. "Avant garde".

Just had to restart To Mega Therion because I got to "SILVER HORSES BROUGHT US HERE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE/WE LEFT THE FALLING WALLS AS THE STARS' COLLAPSE BEGAN" and I was like NO WAY is this fucking loud enough...

Oh and I've always thought of Celtic Frost as death metal. They never really used guitars in a thrashy way, to my ears, and their whole vibe was just occult bullshit and weird old fiction, a million miles removed from blue jeans, white sneakers and lyrics about society.