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10 Reasons Celtic Frost was the greatest band ever.
In no specific order.
One:
Question: Did anyone write greater riffs than Tom G Warrior on Morbid Tales and Emperor’s Return?
Answer: No.
Two:
Tom G Warrior, or Satanic Slaughter as he was known in his Hellhammer guise, reimagined Venom’s Novocastrian calamity, transforming their primitive battery into an approximate primordial art form.
I know it’s proper to refer to Cronos and co as Geordies, but Novocastrian sounds infinitely cooler and decidedly more absurd when referencing Venom. Faster and over the top! Aaaaarghhh!
Three:
H.R. Giger provided artwork for the band. The sleeve design of To Mega Therion, equally iconic as it is diabolical. A true vision of hell.
These forces were drawn together for reasons greater than their geographic proximity. Celtic Frost, more cerebrally evolved than their contemporaries, even if the sonic facade was comparable to a less sophisticated frame.
Hieronymus Bosch also contributed an element of his Garden Of Earthly Delights triptych to Into The Pandemonium. The same explicit approval afforded to this post.
Four:
