CELTIC FROST TO MEGA THERION LP ORIG 1985 Black Metal Hellhammer Slayer HR GIGER

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Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Label:  Noise - N 0031
Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country:  Germany
Released:  1985
Genre:  Rock
Style:  Black Metal, Speed Metal
Tracklist:
A1 Innocence And Wrath Written-By Warrior 1:02 A2 The Usurper Arranged By Steiner, Ain, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 3:25 A3 Jewel Throne Arranged By Steiner, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 4:04 A4 Dawn Of Megiddo Arranged By St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Ain, Warrior
5:45 A5 Eternal Summer Arranged By Steiner, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 4:28 B1 Circle Of The Tyrants Arranged By Ain, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 4:36 B2 (Beyond The) North Winds Arranged By Steiner, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 3:07 B3 Fainted Eyes Arranged By Ain, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 5:01 B4 Tears In A Prophet's Dream Written-By Celtic Frost, Steve Warrior 2:33 B5 Necromantical Screams Arranged By Ain, St. Mark Written-By, Arranged By Warrior 6:01
Companies:
Distributed By SPV GmbH 08-1696 Published By Maldoror Musikverlag Recorded At Casablanca Studio, Berlin Mixed At Casablanca Studio, Berlin Mastered At Casablanca Studio, Berlin
Credits:
Bass, Effects Dominic Steiner Drums, Percussion, Effects Reed St. Mark Engineer Horst Müller Engineer [Assistant] Rick "Lights", T.G. Warrior Lead Vocals, Guitar, Effects, Co-producer, Artwork [Celtic Frost & To Mega Therion Logos, Heptogram Design, Heptogram Drawing] Tom G. Warrior Mastered By SNB Painting H.R. Giger Producer Horst "The One & Only" Müller
Notes:
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Casablanca Studio, Berlin, 14-28 September 1985. 
Released in a gatefold sleeve which features the H.R. Giger paintings "Satan I" on the front, and "Victory III" inside. Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics.
Barcode and Other Identifiers:
Label Code: LC 9066 Rights Society: GEMA Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): N 0031-A Matrix / Runout (Side A, hand-etched): SNB Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): N 0031-B Matrix / Runout (Side B, hand-etched): SNB
Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zurich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost disbanded. The band was inspired by heavy metal groups such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Venom, but also by gothic rock acts like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Christian Death, and by the hardcore punk group Discharge.  Their exact genre has been a topic of debate. Their earlier music was sometimes classified as thrash metal, black metal and even death metal and their later work as doom metal and gothic metal. The level of experimentation on albums such as Into the Pandemonium led certain journalists to describe the band's direction as avant-garde metal.
Celtic Frost's former frontman, guitarist and singer Tom Gabriel Fischer, adopted the alias Tom Warrior. With Steve Warrior on bass, he formed one of the earliest extreme metal bands, Hellhammer, in 1982. Steve Warrior was later replaced by Martin Eric Ain also a pseudonym. The band attracted a small international fan-base, got signed to Noise Records in Germany and recorded their debut EP Apocalyptic Raids in March 1984, now a rare finding on eBay or second hand record stores around the world.
Metal publications were also skeptical of Hellhammer's musical endeavor. Metal Forces, for one, absolutely loathed the group; that started a long-lasting feud between that zine and Warrior, which kept Celtic Frost from playing in England for a couple of years. Rock Power was not fond of Hellhammer either - they considered it "the most terrible, abhorrent, and atrocious thing musicians were ever allowed to record". In fact, they were "receiving miserable reviews everywhere", Warrior concluded.  Regarding the controversial status of his former band, Thomas said: " Way back in 1984 and 85, when Martin Eric Ain and I recorded Celtic Frost's first two albums Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion, Hellhammer lasted on us almost like a curse. Even though Hellhammer was the very reason we had thought over our goals and conceived the Frost, HH's left-overs kept being mighty rocks in our way. Many voices saw Frost as the same band with just a name-change. The lack of musical quality in HH made it almost impossible for us to get an unbiased reaction for Frost. To make a long story short, it almost killed all our work and dreams.  By May 1984, Hellhammer had disbanded. Fischer and Ain, along with session drummer Stephen Priestly, regrouped as Celtic Frost. Their 1984 debut mini-LP, Morbid Tales was a hit in the underground metal scene, and the band set out on its first tour, through Germany and Austria. This was followed with an EP Emperor's Return. Both early releases are now available on the one CD.
One of their more influential recordings was 1985's To Mega Therion which did not feature Ain on bass, but stand-in Dominic Steiner. The cover artwork is a painting by H.R. Giger entitled Satan I. The album was a major influence on the then-developing death metal and black metal genres. Ain did return after the album was recorded however. In 1987 followed Into the Pandemonium. The album is more varied than many of Celtic Frost's past LPs, with unlikely covers (Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio"), emotionally charged love songs, the album's recurring industrial-influenced rhythmic songs of demons and destruction, traditional Frost styled songs about dreams and fear, and a dark, classical piece with female vocals.
To Mega Therion (meaning the great beast in Greek) is the second album by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in October 1985. The cover artwork is a painting by H. R. Giger entitled Satan I. The album was a major influence on the then-developing death metal and black metal genres.
Ned Raggett in his review for Allmusic writes, "The bombastic 'Innocence and Wrath' starts To Mega Therion off on just the appropriate note -- Wagnerian horn lines, booming drums, and a slow crunch toward apocalypse. With that setting the tone, it's into the maddeningly wild and woolly Celtic Frost universe full bore, Warrior roaring out his vocals with glee and a wicked smile while never resorting to self-parodic castrato wails. 'The Usurper' alone is worth the price of admission, an awesome display of Warrior's knack around brute power and unexpectedly memorable riffs." According to Raggett, "other prime cuts" include "Circle of the Tyrants", "Dawn of Megiddo", "Tears in a Prophet's Dream", "Eternal Summer" and "Necromantical Screams". Raggett concludes his review by stating that the album "is and remains death metal at its finest".
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