Celtic Frost
Biography
Celtic Frost's impact on the evolution of European heavy metal cannot be overstated. Along with power metal kings Helloween (and to a lesser degree, the sometimes cartoonish Mercyful Fate), Frost's enduring influence on Europe's heavy metal landscape is arguably comparable to Metallica's standing in America. Labeled by critics as "avant-garde" for their radical fusion of violent black metal and elements of classical music, the band represented a distinctly European metal perspective. But their history was troubled, their output uneven to say the least, and their ignominious end hardly fitting of their important legacy.Thomas Gabriel Fischer was the product of a broken home and a less than financially secure upbringing -- a rare predicament in his native Switzerland, but one that instilled in him the burning ambition and outcast mentality usually required in the formative years of a rock star. Fresh out of high school, the teenager was already enamored with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and particularly high-energy trios like black metal pioneers Venom and proto-thrashers Raven. Inspired by that movement's D.I.Y. credo, Fischer renamed himself Tom Warrior, and along with bassist Steve Warrior and drummer Bruce Day, formed his first band, Hellhammer, in the fall of 1982.
Selected Discography
Monotheist
2006
Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying (1984-1992)
1997
Into The Pandemonium
1987
Morbid Tales
1985
To Mega Therion
1985
Doom, Gloom, and Hate....Play it LOUDER!!!
Classic Black Metal at its best (and Venom of course)!! Never heard of this band; Willow is still looking for friends..... . . Keep spreading the Hate!! |
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i want private lessons in the back of the thetre downtown where the vagabonds hang out and it will go down to the throbs and strokes of sonata artica...
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nobody rawks out like these cocksuckers- c a l l it what you want but it makes you bang your head thru brick walls and shredding ?-yep-cf has it all-wait did they break up huuuuuup-yaa a o o !
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...ok, ok...I'm taking the tour to see what AoA listens to and maybe read one of his clever comments...
OH!! ...there's on right down there. Robert |
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It has certain qualities that the other 768 black metal bands of Europe do not have. I mean that is why I listen, becasue I know alot of things regarding black metal and music. You know what? Don't even respond to this, just remember that I know symphonic qualities to the super max and if you like, I can give you private lessons in the back of the Theatre down town where the vagabonds hang out;)
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is their version of ''wall of voodoo's mexican radio'' the weirdest thing you ever heard-my ex-fiance dated the brother who wrote the original-tha t is the closest i've ever been sexually to the greatest-cel t i c frost...
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Monotheist is a farking awesome metal album. Crazy...dark and heavy, weird at times, gothic.....j u s t bad a$$ tho.
Sucks they broke up, I would have totally loved another new album.... |
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Great music to play when either the Mormons or the Jehova's Witnesses come over.
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Without a doubt, one of the most ominous bands ever. Not having fully absorbed To Mega Therion, it strikes me that what the album does best is creating a foreboding atmosphere, even with Tom's "Texas vocals" (Or at least I am crazy enough to hear Texas in them), which it succeeds in spite of.
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i hope they make another album along the lines of Monotheist. That album kills. So dark. So heavy.
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Very influental to both black and death metal bands I guess these guy influenced two scenes who hate eachother its kinda funny.
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I like how he says "hey!" haha (Babylon Fell) hahahah I love this band
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Monotheist.. . . u n c o m p r o m i s e d . . u n r e l e n t i n g . . . . t h e heaviest music ever recorded...t h e sound of A DEATH Masterpiece. . . . H a i l CF
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on pandora you have to spell fucck like this or-fuckk-lie that-still an effective word when misspelled.o h f**k yea !!!!!!!!!!!! !
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is suck asss a compliment ? an important band that never comprimises- p r e f e r hellhammer tho-more rawk less thought-oh fucckkkkkkkk k k k yea !!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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F**k yes, Celtic Frost kicks massive ammounts of a**! Hail the most Blackest of Metal! All hail Celtic Frost!
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on to mega therion every song starts like-vvvfruu u o o o o o m - l i k e a small engine making its way up someone's a**.
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I am both a muthafucka and listening_ I made a Celtic Frost station.They ' r e great and a major influence of my favorite band My Dying Bride.
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go tom go warrior and don't ever stop. a metal pathfinder-b l a c k icon.
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how come they won't play gallhammer on my gallhammer station-its bad enough they only play one cd and i wrote in very clearly only gallhammer and hellhammer but frost is HELLHAMMER-s o thats cool one of the smartest metalist bands of all time-but i want my gallhammer-t r y gallhammer best group ever since hellhammer
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on a parched thirst-ohhhh h h h h h h h h h h h h h m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y gggggggggggg g g o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d
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Why can't I give it 2 thumbs up?
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