CELTIC FROST — Into the Pandemonium (review)

CELTIC FROST — Into the Pandemonium album cover Album · 1987 · Avant-garde Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
An avant-thrash curiosity from the ever inventive Celtic Frost, Into the Pandemonium sees the band - on the more conventional tracks - moving in a vaguely thrash metal direction as opposed to the proto-death/black metal of To Mega Therion. But then again, when said "conventional" tracks include a metal cover of Wall of Voodoo's Mexican Radio, you know you're in for one strange trip indeed. On some of the tracks the emotionally overwrought vocals bring to mind then-current trends in goth rock, whilst pieces such as the French poetry recital of Tristesses de la Lune or the NASA-occult dance music of One in Their Pride exist even further outside of the metal mainstream.

Take Mexican Radio out of context and you might be fooled into seeing Into the Pandemonium as the start of the drift into commercial territory which led to the hair metal horrors of Cold Lake, but take the album as a whole and it's clear that it's a much, much stranger proposition than that. It's grown a lot on me over the years, and whilst I wouldn't say it's their best work - the musical styles involves are so incredibly diverse that it's nigh-certain there'll be at least a few tracks that just don't appeal to you unless you have incredibly broad musical tastes - it's certainly one of their more important ones.
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