Danse Macabre

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So there’s so many aspects involved with this, that when you go on stage with this music, this is always on my mind, this entire history. The Tragic Serenades EP was both a chance to bring Martin Ain back into the fold and to improve on what they felt was a lacklustre production job by re-recording three To Mega Therion tracks. There was this tiny little label from Germany who specialized in cassette boxes and cassette releases, and they asked if they could use the material from these reissues in 2017 and make a cassette box. While the recording quality is top notch with the bass really thumping, it still has that slightly tinny and “recorded live” feel you often get from early releases. Although legendary Swiss metal band Celtic Frost disbanded in 2008, a new expansive vinyl box set entitled Danse Macabre will see the light of day on November 25th, 2022.

Below you can watch an HD version of the music video for “Circle of the Tyrants” and see the full CD tracklist. It almost seems churlish to regard Celtic Frost as one of the great extreme metal bands, because they were so much more than that. The vocals in particular sometimes come across as a little breathless and attempting to push through the music – more like someone singing while playing rather than tracked separately. A "Danse Macabre" woven patch, a double-sided poster, and a Necromaniac Union fan club enamel badge complete the set. Third disc is the debut full album proper, To Mega Therion, and both at the time and retrospectively, considered a black metal landmark.Featuring the first recording of the essential “Circle Of The Tyrants”, the EP is a solid snapshot of the sheer fanaticism that was the lifeblood of Tom and Martin in particular. There are more than a few moments here when it would be easier to look back and compare Celtic Frost to The Cure or Dead Can Dance than to Slayer or Exodus, while pointing the way forwards to the Young Gods and Jane’s Addiction.

Featuring the first recording of the essential "Circle Of The Tyrants", the EP is a solid snapshot of the sheer fanaticism that was the lifeblood of Tom and Martin in particular. Despite Apocalyptic Raids being warmly thought of now by fans of extreme metal, it’s kind of stunning to see how quickly and effectively Celtic Frost managed to alter their entire future course in just a few months. There’s no denying the Black Sabbath influence (but, hell, what band wasn’t influenced by the Black Country’s favourite sons? Dawn Of Megiddo’ is a wonderful example of how the band’s meticulous battle campaign was being realised as an integrated whole as opposed to extreme metal with some odd stuff bolted on, with the addition of timpani played by American drummer Reed St. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers.It covers their Noise Records output from 1984’s ‘Morbid Tales’ to 1987’s ‘Into The Pandemonium’, charting an unpredictable course that saw them take in radical stylistic changes from avant-garde extreme metal to thrash metal and doom metal. A 12" x 12", 40-page book, brings together photography — some previously unseen — from the era and brand new interviews with Tom Gabriel Warrior and Reed St Mark. Convinced, Noise asked CELTIC FROST to record a mini-LP, even though that hadn’t formed part of Warrior and Ain‘s concept document.

The thing that’s most important during these years that stuck in my mind is the camaraderie between us. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). On paper, the story of CELTIC FROST‘s early years is as unlikely as it is extraordinary: a tale of how teenagers from rural Switzerland, at once audaciously ambitious and ferociously uncompromising, took heavy metal into new, exciting and unquestionably extreme territory. That the teenagers who recorded “The Third Of The Storm” and “Triumph Of Death” for the HELLHAMMER EP would, despite constant turmoil, be recording the jaw-dropping “Rex Irae” just three years later is astonishing. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.There’s seemingly no end to the number of mould-shattering bands that came up in this period who were either misunderstood, mocked or straight up ignored. The first full album was released the next calendar year and you can tell the band have gone a little nuts with the addition of a brass band for the introductory opener (who reappear for other songs such as “Dawn of Meggido”). Intensely heavy, nuanced and experimental, the record was a radical musical statement of intent; a stunning synthesis of Warrior and Ain‘s disparate influences. Daring, dark and superlatively heavy, "To Mega Therion" is a sophisticated expression of CELTIC FROST's inherent drive to eschew genre limitations and, instead, define art on their own terms. Obviously the songs present will appear on other releases, but this is the closest I think you’ll get to recordings of Celtic Frost playing “live” from back in the day.

And I submitted a list of titles that I thought would be appropriate, and I really was also curious to hear what they had to say from outside of the band. 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. A “Danse Macabre” woven patch, a double-sided poster, and a Necromaniac Union fan club enamel badge complete the set. Following the usual annual / bi-annual release schedule of bands back in the day, Into The Pandemonium didn’t give the band a huge amount of time to evolve yet they did still manage to tweak things a bit.So a lot of these cassettes were either taken by friends of ours, or we were giving them to our crew, or we used them at home to work on the lyrics or guitar solely. My friend Calum Harvie from the UK made brand new interviews about that particular period of Celtic Frost with me and Reed St. And we can’t really blame the NME too much here, given that much emergent death metal, black metal, grindcore and so on was initially all but ignored by the Phil Collins and Bon Jovi-supporting Kerrang!