Episode 619 is CELTIC FROST, a Swiss group considered influential on European heavy metal and extreme metal. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a tasty thrash metal approach, and ambitiously shifted on their second full-length album to what we might call gothic and symphonic metal. The next album went glam which lost them a lot of their audience. Celtic Frost reunited and put out a doom metal album in 2006, which I like the best although it is different from the sound that made them influential. The sonic attack is good, but the vocalist’s style keeps me from loving them.
Favorite album: Monotheist
Best album: To Mega Therion
Favorite song: A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh
Compared to expectations: same
Recommendation: An interesting band for learning what was influenced, but not my first choice to dip into these subgenres.
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