#CELTIC FROST band

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"TO THE GREAT BEAST" I SUBMIT THESE OUTTAKES -- HAIL TO THE MIGHTY FROST.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on previously unpublished outtakes from the "To Mega Therion" photo session, shot by Ernst Wirz in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 1985.

Main shot, from left: Reed St. Mark, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, and studio bassist Dominic Steiner. Bottom shot: "To Mega Therion" rehearsals in Birchwil, Switzerland, summer 1985. 📸: Martin Kyburz.

Source: https://fischerisdead.blogspot.com/2020/10/necromantical-screams.html.

[dyinginafield]

I created a metal version!

[ca1cifiedxx]

[berengenita]

[mercyfulmoon]

When I look up to the moon, I can only cry.

[svenson777]

CELTIC FROST

"Inner Sanctum"

(Album: Into the Pandemonium, 1987)

[big-low-t]

My Record Store...

This was my record store in Charleston, West Virginia. It is closing. The owners are retiring. It breaks my heart, but at the same time it stirs up great memories and nostalgia.

It's 1979, a young and innocent Tim (yeah, 10 or 11 year old me) convinced his mother to stop at Budget Tapes and Records. I needed to get the latest Bad Company album. Hey, "Rock and Roll Fantasy" was a good song, but I can't say I was impressed by much of the rest of the album. My record kept skipping, so I took it back, got another and it skipped too. One of the kind folks at Budget suggested I go to the audio store a few doors down and get a new needle for my fairly cheap stereo system. I did and it worked. No more skipping.

It was the start of some special memories. I got my first Iron Maiden record there. The "Maiden Japan" live EP. Very quickly afterwards I was grabbing everything else Iron Maiden had released up to that point. Picked up my first Motorhead album there, too.

This would be my record store of choice up until around 1990 when I moved out of state after college for a job.

Once I had my driver's license I stopped there at least once a week. It got to be where one of the main employees, John, would see me come in and yell "Hey Timmmmm, we just got something in that I think you'll like..." He was pretty much always right. I remember him playing the promo copies of "Electric" by the Cult and "Nothing's Shocking" by Jane's Addiction to me. I bought the promo copy of that Cult album on the cheap when they were done playing it in the store a few months later. I think I still have it stashed away somewhere. By the way, John still works there, has been for 48 years, but that will be ending once they close on March 3rd.

I met some cool people there while browsing for records. One dude a friend and I bumped into in the metal import section began raving about a band called Celtic Frost... before we left the store parking lot we hopped in his back seat and he blasted the song "Dethroned Emperor" to us. I just remember looking at my buddy and saying "Holy shit!" Blew me away.

Another time I bumped into the "other guy." It seems that between me and this other guy, we would be the ones who usually bought the latest heavy metal import albums. But for a long time we didn't know that. Once we met and started talking we became friends. We would record a cassette tape for each other of the albums we got that the other didn't have.

So many good memories from a place that's been around nearly as long as I have been alive.

But it will all be ending in a few days. Another piece of my past crumbling away into the dust of memories.

I can still hear this dude yelling "Timmmmm, you gotta check this new album out we just got in..."

Those were good days.

[black-arcana]

A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums

Few genres do grandiose like symphonic metal. As the name suggests, it marries the scope and ambition of classical music to the power of metal. The result is orchestral, opulent and sometimes OTT, but it’s a hard heart that is completely resistant to it.

The seeds of the sound were sown in the 80s, when diverse trailblazers such as Celtic Frost and Savatage began incorporating orchestral instruments into their music. But it began to accelerate in the late 1990s, with bands such as Therion, Nightwish, Within Temptation and cult favourites Haggard began to properly fuse the two genres.

Today, symphonic metal has become an unlikely commercial force. Nightwish and Within Temptation are festival headliners, while a constant stream of newer bands have emerged in their wake. For anyone who is new to this grandest of genres, these are the five albums to start with.   

Therion – Secret Of The Runes (2001)

Therion remain the original and – the purists would have you believe – the best of all the symphonic metal acts. Named in honour of Celtic Frost’s second album To Mega Therion, the Swedes have been led by multi-instrumentalist Christofer Johnsson since 1987. While others have prospered by ‘sexing-up’ the genre’s principles, the Therion experience remains a pure one – sackcloth and ashes, almost. Take our word, it’s a beautiful thing.

After Forever – Decipher (2001)

The second album from this pioneering and much-missed Dutch outfit, who ran from 1995 to 2009, Decipher employed live classical instruments and a full choir to complement the stirring soprano delivery of Floor Jansen (now, of course, with Nightwish). Soon afterwards Mark Jansen quit, taking his growled co-vocals along to the guitarist’s next band of note, Epica. The album’s grandiose arrangements still sound masterful today.

Within Temptation – The Silent Force (2004)

Although you’re likely to be distracted by the captivating strength of Sharon den Adel’s upfront vocal dynamism, Within Temptation’s symphonic aspirations reached their most querulously romantic apex on this goosebump-inducing masterwork of the form. Although the guitars were louder and crunchier than on 2000’s Mother Earth, and the open- hearted pop savvy was at full widescreen pelt, this 2004 follow-up confirmed the band’s special affinity for wizardly orchestral bombast, here performed by the Ego Works Session Orchestra, under the noted Russian conductor Felix Korobov.

Epica – The Quantum Enigma (2014)

Formed by former After Forever guitarist Mark Jansen, Epica played a crucial part in the development of symphonic metal via a string of consistently impressive releases, but with The Quantum Enigma – their sixth studio record – the Dutch band raised the bar to a whole different level, hiring a live chamber choir and a string orchestra to enhance a collection of tunes that is uniformly strong. Throw in the soaring vocals of flame-haired mezzo-soprano  Simone Simons and the results are seismic.

Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful (2015)

You could pick anything from 2000’s Wishmaster onwards, but the Finns’ first album with Floor Jansen represents Peak Nightwish in terms of a grandiosity. A high-concept exploration of evolutionary science, featuring narration from scientist Richard Dawkins, it’s an absolute triumph. From the full-pelt throttle of Shudder Before The Beautiful and cinematic bombast of Weak Fantasy to the  life affirming anthemia of Alpenglow, it’s a constant stream of brilliance. Then there’s The Greatest Show On Earth, a 25-minute show-stopper most bands could only dream of writing. It’s no surprise this was the record that turned Nightwish into festival and arena headliners.

[grimvagary]

i've been getting more into heavy metal and i NEED y'all to know that the band Celtic Frost, instead of having one of their songs on their YT home page, has a fucking unboxing video by their lead singer

the upside down crosses. the guyliner. he looks like if my dad could grow hair and was goth. i love him.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"...WHEN THEY WERE STILL VERY MUCH AN ADOLESCENT THREE-PIECE ADDICTED TO SLAYER AND CELTIC FROST."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on early shots of Brazilian thrash/extreme metal band SEPULTURA (none are even 18 yet! Max can't be older than 16!), c. 1984-'85.

OVERVIEW: "The first shot is of Sepultura’s first hardcore punk side project, GUERRILHA, which consisted of Max & Igor Cavalera with Jairo and Bibica from MUTILATOR. The other photos are the band when they were still very much an adolescent three-piece addicted to SLAYER (notice wall graff) and CELTIC FROST. Despite Lamounier having been a member since the band’s inception, he departed in March of the same year of the first shot to form SARCÓFAGO, having become disillusioned with SEPULTURA’s direction."

-- FORT BRAGG ZINE (UK/NYC-based webzine)

Source: www.picuki.com/profile/fortbraggmagazine.

[stubberudsgirl]

some things about mee :3

- my favorite bands: iron maiden, bathory, death, mayhem, black sabbath, dissection, slayer, candlemass, dio, venom, anthrax, motörhead, kreator, darkthrone, pantera, celtic frost, hellhammer, just to name a few….

- i mostly just shitpost and post stupid shit about my favorite old (and dead) guys so im quite literally just a stupid fan girl

m.u.y.a! \m/

[hunter-sylvester]

Hunter Sylvester Bands List

An INCOMPLETE list of some of the bands Hunter is canonically implied to listen to.

This includes bands from the spoken list, written list, his posters & more.

(With a few snippets of my opinion bleeding through because I am a dick sometimes lmao)

We’ll start of with some easy ones, the lists.

The bands Hunter verbally lists to Kevin:

Black Sabbath

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Metallica

Anthrax

Slayer

Megadeth

Motorhead

Guns N Roses (movie’s wrong)

Rage Against The Machine

Pantera

Emperor

Tool

Dio

Meshuggah

Opeth

Slipknot

Mastodon

Lamb Of God

Additional bands from the written lists he gives to Kevin:

Van Halen

Sepultura

Avenged Sevenfold (ugh)

Gojira

Kvelertak

Additional bands he wears t-shirts of:

Misfits

King Diamond

The stickers in Hunter’s locker:

Napalm Death

Mayhem

Cannibal Corpse (it’s only half a sticker but the font matches up)

Death

Other references:

Celtic Frost (Phone Background)

Gorgoroth (D&D character, ‘Malmsteen Of Gorgoroth’)

Okay, now for some of his posters:

Danzig

Paradise Lost

Ghost

Ozzy Osbourne (kind of included with Sabbath but he has an Ozzy poster so eh)

Blood Incantation

Morbid Angel

Pallbearer

Baroness

Katatonia

Gwar

Bell Witch

The Black Dahlia Murder

In Flames (movie’s wrong, don’t ask)

Testament

Twisted Sister (?????????)

The Sword

August Burns Red

Red Fang

Tomb Mold

Trivium

Amon Amarth

Goblin Cock

Attila

Steve Vai/Whitesnake

Black Label Society

Agalloch

Nile

Goatwhore

Obituary

Manowar (meh)

Poison Idea (random but ok)

I just left the ticket stubs out all together because there was some in there that I’m like...no??? They’re kinda hard to read at times anyway because a lot of them are super faded.

Again, this is not even remotely everything but I wanted to list some of the ones I’ve jotted down over time.

Screen-grab at the top of this post is yet another excellent example of Hunter giving Kevin ‘love me eyes.’

Also look at his stupid little bejeweled skull.

Look at it. This silly fucker.

He’s just like me fr

[sendmyresignation]

In that case could you possibly compile an introductory list to what you would consider good black metal for someone coming more from hardcore (i also listen to some metal but nothing really specific as a genre)? Thank you for your previous answer

sorry this took so long anon! i wanted to really give some specific recs, especially considering you sound less familiar with the metal basics. hopefully you find some good stuff worth exploring!

first and foremost, i would recommend first wave black metal pretty wholeheartedly for punk/hardcore fanatics. First wave essentially refers to the 80s black metal that existed pre-scandinavian genre definition (which means its also less sketch, typically, though there are shitheads). This stuff is pretty nebulous, its defined mostly by "extremity" and genre mixing (stuff that existed on the outskirts of other genres, with different balances of black/death/thrash). A lot of it is influenced by thrash and punk + it was way underground so shares a lot of qualities with diy/shit production + was primarily made by teens and people who could barely play their instruments. some essentials:

Venom - Welcome to Hell (defining black metal influence even if the sound of black metal is unrecognizable now. punk influence in spades, if you like discharge you'll love this)

Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark (if venom is what really codified Satanism in bm, then bathory did the same for vikings. this is probably The Classic first wave rec)

Slayer - Show No Mercy (barely counts here, but they rip off venom enough and this is impactful enough that if you haven't gotten to it, this is required listening)

Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales

Sarcofago - INRI

Sodom - In the Sign of Evil (much more on the thrash side of first wave, Sodom was pushing enough boundaries that they've been incorporated into the first wave)

Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath (blackened thrash with a ton of venom/motorhead influence)

Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance

there's also a long tradition of black punk crossover. ultimately the genres have ideological similarities in terms of their philosophies surrounding music imo (not politically, obviously) and how it manifests as its own self-perpetuating diy culture. black/punk tends to also be less full of shitheads, which is nice

Devil Master - Satan Spits on the Children of Light

Melissa - Melissa

Truchlo Strzgi - Gwiezdny Demon

Gehennah - Hardrocker (tw for puke on the cover btw)

Wildspeaker - Spreading Adder (black and crust infusion here, rather than just punk)

Svalbard - When I Die, Will I Get Better? (technically my blackgaze rec, I think it's tempered significantly by the post-hardcore influence, it feels much more intense and varied)

in terms of true blue kvlt black metal, here's a nebulous collection of bands I'd suggest checking out since they're more along what i see hardcore heads gravitate towards and then you can dig deeper into their respective scenes/niches

Darkthrone (first couple classics have the greatest diy charm of the second wave imo. later work incorporates a lot of punk, they experiment with crust and trad and such)

Immortal (think the fact immortal seem very ridiculous and over the top makes them very endearing to people who otherwise dislike the self-serious nihilism of the second wave)

Rotting Christ

Panopticon

Gabestok

Hulder

Tietanblood

Havukruunu

as a final note, I'll just mention Opera IX, Spectral Wound, Yaotl Mictlan, Valdrin, Tresspasser, Dawn's Reflection, Thantifaxath, and Marthe for some bands i really like that are less accessible for hardcore listeners (mainly use symphonic elements like synths and keys or are atmospheric in an opposite direction to blackgaze)

[goatilocks13]

Fans stagediving at Celtic Frost's concert in Bochum, the event at which the band made the 'Circle of the Tyrants' video on March 16, 1986.

[death-to-posers]

As promised, here’s that list of people I will/won’t write for, and also my boundaries etc.

Will do:

Smut✅

Angst✅

Fluff✅

Some averagely kinky stuff✅

x reader fics✅

platonic ships & fics✅

sodomy✅

Queer fics (f character x f reader, m character x m reader etc, I will write for non binary readers too. Please specify the gender you want the reader to be when you request or I will default to non binary)✅

Won’t do:

R*pe/Non con❌

Adult x minor ❌ (no weird pedo shit)

Anything that glorifies or sexualises severe domestic abuse❌

Pregnancy fics (I can’t I’m sorry.)❌

Shit kinks💀 (come on now..)❌

Vomit kinks (why.)❌

Foot fetish related stuff❌

Incest❌

furry/zoophile shit❌

vore❌

eating disorder/self harm stuff (I know a lot of people originally used this as a coping mechanism but it eventually evolved into the romanticism of anorexia and self harm and I do not stand for that.)❌

Might do, depends on the request:

Ships between two real people (unless they’re an actual couple I will probably be against this)

People/bands I will write for:

AC/DC (all members)

Alestorm (all members)

Abbath (all members)

Alice In Chains (all members)

Abbath Doom Occulta

Bathory (all members)

Behemoth (all members)

Billy Idol

Björk

Black Sabbath (all members)

Bon Jovi (all members)

Burzum (all members but it’s just Varg so this goes without saying)

Cannibal Corpse (all members)

Carpathian Forest (all members)

Courtney Love

Celtic Frost (all members)

Darkthrone (all members)

Disturbed (all members)

The Doors (all members)

Dream Theater (all members)

Evanescence (all members)

Foo Fighters (all members)

Ghost/Ghost B.C. (all members)

Gloryhammer (all members)

God Seed (all members)

Gojira (all members)

Gorgoroth (all members)

Green Day (all members)

Hanoi Rocks (all members)

Helloween (all members)

Hole (all members)

Immortal (all members)

Iron Maiden (all members)

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (all members)

Judas Priest (all members)

King Ov Hell

KoRn (all members except David Silveria)

Lamb Of God (all members)

Lana Del Rey

Limp Bizkit (all members)

Marilyn Manson/Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids (all members)

Mayhem (all members)

Megadeth (all members)

Metallica (all members)

Misfits (all members)

Morbid (all members)

Motörhead (all members)

Murderdolls (all members)

My Chemical Romance (all members except Bob)

Necrobutcher

Nickelback (all members)

Nirvana (all members)

Old Funeral (all members)

Ov Hell (all members)

Ozzy Osbourne

Pantera (all members)

Powerwolf (all members)

Pearl Jam (all members)

Queen (all members)

Rammstein (all members)

Rob Zombie

Repugnant (specifically Mary Goore)

Ronnie James Dio

Rotting Christ (all members)

Sabaton (all members)

Serj Tankian

Sirenia (all members)

Slaughter To Prevail (all members)

Slayer (all members)

System Of A Down (all members)

Type O Negative (all members)

Twisted Sister (all members)

Tool (all members)

Varg Vikernes

If there are any members I’ve excluded it is most likely because I fucking hate them. If you submit a request for someone and I refuse to do it then it’s either because: it makes me uncomfortable to write for said person especially if it’s smut, I don’t know enough about them to write a fic or I hate them. It’ll probably be one of those three reasons so please understand and respect that. If there’s someone/a band not on this list or the “won’t do” list, it doesn’t necessarily mean I won’t do them. I might have simply forgotten to add them so please ask.

I will also write for certain non-musicians such as historical figures and/or fictional characters. Give me a shout in requests and I may or may not be willing to write for them. As an example, I will write for Manfred and Lothar von Richthofen. Not musicians but I adore them.

People/bands I will NOT write for:

Any kpop bands.

Any actors/actresses

Deftones (there’s no negotiation. I will not write for Deftones. End of discussion.)

Blink-182 (same as Deftones)

Falling In Reverse (Same reason as Deftones)

Yungblud (come on now. Be serious. Be so for real.)

Panic! At The Disco (fuck no.)

The Beatles (no.)

Mötley Crüe (no❤️)

Tokio Hotel (nothing against them but no thanks)

One Direction (come on.)

C*rey Taylor/most of Slipknot. (I will write for Joey and Jay though, my pookies)

Mindless Self Indulgence (foul ass band I despise all of the members)

And when I said I won’t write a romantic fic between two real people I meant it. Platonic is more than okay, we love some platonic bandmate fluff but beyond that is a fat no unless they’re actually married/dating. So it goes without saying that I will NOT write Davisdurst, don’t even start. Do not.

- 𐕣𝕶𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖎𐕣

[theblackvomit666]

Black Doom (Written by Phantom Slaughter of WORM)

[Article taken from Arcane Archivist Zine #5]

For as long as I can remember, I have always favored a slower to mid-tempo black metal. Perhaps I should say I have a strong attraction to glacial paced music in general. To me, it leaves much more room for depth with an almost larger than life atmosphere and dread. My first experience with this macabre sound would have to be with Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. My favorite First Wave BM entity. While Bathory and Venom are mainly chaotic, most of Tom G. Warrior's riffs seem to be directly influenced by early Sabbath. (Honorable mention would be Poison from Germany). I mean just listen to the opening riff of "Dawn of Megiddo"! If that ain't doom, I don't know what is. Or the lead heavy bends on "Procreated (of the Wicked)". This is why I must cite them as the starting point and birth of black doom.

As I furthered my research, I soon stopped at two albums which are a huge influence on Worm's first full-length, "Evocation of the Black Marsh". Goatlord's "Reflections of the Solstice" and Samael's "Worship Him". This had that same doom foundation but added way harsher vocals than what I had heard previously. I still get shivers down my spine when I hear "Into the Pentagram". Speaking of influences for Worm, it would be a crime to not name this next band. They started out as one of Finland's first BM bands under the name Holy Hell but soon their Procession of Black Doom became fully realized as Unholy! "The Second Ring of Power" would have to be my favorite album by these cloaked shamans. While we are in Finland, I would also like to mention some equally important releases. Barathrum's "Witchmaster/Hailstorm" as well as Dolorian's "When All the Laughter Has Gone".

We must now move onto Norway for a black doom band I feel is extremely underrated. Svartsyn with their only release "Aandens Melankoli". Anyone who is into funeral doom like Skepticism/Shape of Despair/Thergothon/Worship should feel right at home with this album. Another Norwegian connection would be Carpathian Forest's demo "Bloodlust and Perversion". The track "Return of the Freezing Winds" has those same Celtic Frost bends I dig so much. Let's not forget my favorite Darkthrone song "The Hordes of Nebulah".

Surprisingly enough, one of the richest scenes for this sub-genre would be Poland. Some speculate this due to the classic Samael tour which influenced many local bands. One of the earliest bands in this scene would be Xantotol, but I believe the true Polish standouts to be a tie between two records. Themgoroth's "Gate to the Unknown", and Taranis's "Faust". Both extremely gloomy and melancholic masterpieces.

I'd like to end this chapter of blackened sludge with some albums that are currently spinning in the Fantomlodge and quite possibly ones that are influencing the latest Worm material. This may be a controversial statement but I believe Katatonia's "Dance of December Souls" to be 100% black doom. If you think Katatonia has nothing to do with black metal, ya should go check the promo photos of "Jhva Elohim Meth". I'd like to piss off some more stuck up purists by adding Bethlehem's "Dictius te Necare", Argentum's "Ad Infinitum Funebrarum", and Salem's "Creating Our Sins/Kaddish". In a time where it seems like the modern underground scene is beginning to put a spotlight on death doom, it's very important to also show some love to its even more obscure evil twin brother BLACK DOOOM!