Into the Pandemonium

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Into the Pandemonium
Studio album by Celtic Frost

Publication
(s)

1987

admission

January to April 1987

Label (s) Noise Records , Combat Records

Format (s)

LP, MC

Genre (s)

Metal

Title (number)

10

running time

39:24

occupation
  • Martin Eric Ain: Bass
  • Reed St. Mark: drums, percussion, timpani , backing vocals, synthesizer
  • Thomas Berther: Backing vocals on Mexican Radio
  • Claudia-Maria Mokri: Singing with Babylon Fell and Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Lothar Krist : classical arrangements with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Wulf Ebert: Cello with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Anton Schreiber: Horn with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Andreas Dobler: lead guitar with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Eva Cieslinski: violin with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Malgorzata Blaiejewska Woller: violin with Rex Irae (Requiem)
  • Manü Moan: guest vocals

production

Celtic frost

Studio (s)

Horus Sound Studio, Hanover

chronology
Tragic Serenades (EP, 1986) Into the Pandemonium Cold Lake (1988)

Into the Pandemonium is the second studio album by the Swiss metal band Celtic Frost .

Emergence

The band recorded the album in the period from January to April 1987 in the Horus Sound Studio in Hanover and produced it themselves, Jan "Mann" Nemec was involved as a sound engineer .

Track list

  1. Mexican Radio (Marc Moreland / Stanard Ridgway ) - 03:29
  2. Mesmerized (Text: Warrior / Ain, Music: Ain) - 03:24
  3. Inner Sanctum (Text: Ain, Music: Warrior) - 05:16
  4. Sorrows of the Moon - 03:04
  5. Babylon Fell (Jade Serpent) (Warrior) - 04:19
  6. Caress into Oblivion (Jade Serpent II) - 05:14
  7. One in Their Pride (Porthhole Mix) (Warrior) - 02:51
  8. I Won't Dance (The Elder's Orient) (Warrior) - 04:33
  9. Rex Irae (Requiem: Overture) (Text: Warrior, Music: Hannes Folberth / Warrior) - 05:58
  10. Oriental Masquerade (Hannes Folberth / Warrior) - 01:16

Music style and lyrics

On Into the Pandemonium , the band mixed extreme metal with influences from early wave bands such as Bauhaus , Siouxsie and the Banshees or Wall of Voodoo . Wall of Voodoo's Mexican Radio is also covered. The album features more aggressive pieces such as Inner Sanctum and Babylon Fell , female vocals on Mesmerized , sampling and electronic elements on One in Their Pride , while Rex Irae and Oriental Masquerade contain orchestral pieces.

The lyrics continue to deal with “worrying poetic visions of majesty, corruption, vanity and pride that bring damnation and the end of life and power; the fall of all things, all in a fantastic suggestive setting that would suit Dune as well as Sodom and Gomorrah ”. The text for Inner Sanctum comes from the poems Sleep Brings No Joy to Me , I See Around Me Tombstones Gray and I See Around Me Piteous Tombstones Gray , May Flowers Are Opening , Faith and Despondency and Tell Me, Tell Me, Smiling Child by Emily Brontë , the verses adopted without reference to Brontë have only been changed slightly; Sorrows of the Moon is an English translation of Charles Baudelaire's sonnet Tristesses de la lune .

layout

The cover is from Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights and represents part of Hell .

Reviews

Into the Pandemonium caused mixed reactions due to the innovations compared to To mega therion . The Metal Crypt's Brett Buckle says the album didn't deserve the negative feedback; for all the obvious differences, much of the magic of the earlier releases had been retained. One in Their Pride, however, abruptly ripped the listener out of the world of the album, Buckle described the piece as one of Celtic Frost's greatest mistakes; he solved the problem with a tape without One in Their Pride . According to John Chedsey of Satan Stole My Teddybear , some tracks on the album are dispensable, but according to him, all bands that draw on classical influences, samples or singers should pay homage to Celtic Frost instead of current representatives.

Avant-garde Metal's avoid called the decision to start the album with a cover "not kosher" and saw the beginnings of Gothic Metal in Mesmerized . He couldn't think of an album comparable to this masterpiece, although twenty years had passed since then. Also elements of classical music in this form were not known to him from any metal band before Celtic Frost, and only from a few that followed. Into the Pandemonium may not be the best and most consistent of Celtic Frost's works, but it deserves a place in everyone's hearts and record collections as well as a 66-meter-high gold statue of the three musicians because of his endeavors, creativity and bold progress. The editors of Rock Hard magazine put the album at number 141 in their “500 strongest records of all time” in 2007. Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann wrote that Celtic Frost “succeeded with this album as an experiment to combine dark ( black ) metal with avant-garde elements that the result does not sound aloof and too progressive, but coherent, song-related, gripping and catchy ”. His conclusion was: "Even today, almost 20 years later, this stroke of genius is unmatched!"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CELTIC FROST BIOGRAPHY .
  2. ↑ a b aVoid: Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium .
  3. ↑ Brett Buckle: Classic Review: Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium .
  4. ↑ Celtic Frost .
  5. ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock and Metal , Heel-Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 141.