Beyond the borders of Thrash Metal

This is CELTIC FROST’s third outing after their debut Mini-LP Morbid Tales and their first full lenght Album To Mega Therion. Into the Pandemonium is my favourite record by this very unique band. Mr. Fischer and his cohorts Ain and St. Mark were never better. Tracks like Babylon Fell and Inner Sanctum are still blowing me away. For a start they rip through Wall of Voodoo’s Mexican Radio with no mercy, brilliant! The Album is so diverse, unequaled until today. Other highlights are the sad, gloomy Mesmerized and (my personal Fave) I Won’t Dance, with an almost R&B feeling in the backing vocals. Great too, the more "experimental" Tracks like the beautiful Tristesses de la lune, with just female Voices and (real) Strings and the very urban, and very unusual (for a metal band…) sampled Track One in their Pride. All in all an investement you will never regret. No favourite tracks here, listen to all of them to get the whole idea of this great band. Cover painting by Hieronymus Bosch. Released in 1987.