Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium (1987)

Tom G. Warrior and Martin Ain formed Celtic Frost after the break-up of Hellhammer.

They first disbanded in 1987 but six months later Warrior reformed the band. When they reformed in 2001, they founded their own record label called Prowling Death Records and their own publishing imprint called Diktatur des Kapitals, to gain absolute control over their music. Later, Celtic Frost and Prowling Death Records signed a worldwide licensing deal with Century Media Records, so the rights for their new material is their own and is released by Century Media.

A demo tape called Prototype exists. Among other tracks, it contains two Apollyon Sun tracks, "Relinquished Body" and "Deep Inside".

Cold Lake is largely different from anything else they have ever recorded. The band has repeatedly disowned this release and attribute the shocking change in style to pressure from the record company.

Singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost on 9th of April 2008, due to "the unresolvable, severe erosion of the personal basis so urgently required to collaborate within a band so unique, volatile, and ambitious." It was confirmed in a joint statement by Fischer and Martin Ain in September of that year that Celtic Frost had disbanded again. Fischer later founded a new band called Triptykon and Ain planned to carry on with a new project with drummer Franco Sesa.

 

-Tracklist:

Side A:
1.  Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo cover)     03:29    
2.  Mesmerized     03:24
3.  Inner Sanctum     05:16    
4.  Tristesses de la Lune     02:58    
5.  Babylon Fell     04:19 

Side B:
6.  Caress into Oblivion     05:14    
7.  One in Their Pride     02:51    
8.  I Won't Dance     04:33      
9.  Rex Irae (Requiem)     05:58    
10.  Oriental Masquerade     01:16

-Line up:

• Tom G. Warrior: Vocals, Guitars, Synth, Effects
• Reed St. Mark: Drums, Timpani, Percussion, Vocals, Synth
• Martin E. Ain (R.I.P. 2017): Bass, Vocals, Effects.

 

Label: Noise Records. 

 

 Recorded from January-April 1987, at Horus Sound Studio, Hannover, Germany.

 

Mastered at  Studio-Nord-Bremen.

 

 Unlike the other members of the string quartet, Jürgen Paulmann is only credited in the general credit section, not in the credit section of 9 and 10 which feature this quartet exclusively.