Chaosmonger wrote: Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium.
Liking 80s thrash metal is like having facial hair on your eyes. People look away, you soon become the subject of ridicule and disdain and will sooner or later be killed by an angry mob of insane mothers. But this record, I maintain, is one of the best rock records of all time. So totally ridiculous, pompous, ill-advised, ill-conceived and plain bonkers it is a work of genius. Heavy as all shit.>>
Patchy album, imo. Morbid Tales and old Hellhammer is better.
Mike
Sure, you can't argue with the early stuff. The true origins of post-Venom European death metal, each a classic. But Pandemonium, there's something about it. Like the idealism behind it is cosmically far-reaching (moon landings, Babylon, Carthage deserts, death, the night sky, dancing), but the delivery is ancient and archaic in character. It's as if they were shaking off their shackles and saying "Look what we can be, if you'll let us", and we did let them, and they unfortunately imploded.
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