Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
Though they'd been together for barely a year and had yet to play their first concert, Celtic Frost brought a remarkably accomplished vision to the recording of their first album, 1984's Morbid Tales. With its highly focused thrash metal intensity and peculiar mix of satanic and esoteric lyrics, the album would sow the seeds of Frost's overwhelming influence in years to come. And, along with the powerful visual impact of its bandmembers' leather-bound wardrobe and badly-drawn facial corpse paint, songs like "Visions of Mortality" and "Morbid Tales" would be analyzed, digested, and regurgitated by manic hordes of disillusioned European youths forming their own death metal bands in years to come. Following the hellish primal screams of intro "Human," and the lethal speed metal of "Into the Crypts of Rays," Tom Warrior (aka Thomas Gabriel Warrior) and company lock into a fierce groove which rarely falters through to the last riff of closer "Nocturnal Fear." With its primitive grind, the excellent "Procreation (Of the Wicked)" (later covered by Sepultura) remains a career highlight, but shows no sign of the band's future experiments in avant-garde metal. In fact, these are only hinted at by the female voice recital utilized in "Return to the Eve," and the bizarre noise experiments of "Danse Macabre" -- a collage of sound effects, violin, Warrior's moans, and all-around mayhem. As for Celtic Frost's own source of inspiration, Venom and other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands provide the bulk of it. The main riff of "Dethroned Emperor," for instance, simply offers a slight variation of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil." But it was Celtic Frost's very isolation from rock's typical breeding grounds which fed their uniquely European perspective. Had they not been impoverished outcasts within Switzerland's protective prosperity in their formative years, it is unlikely that theirs could have been such a twisted and wonderful evolution.
© Eduardo Rivadavia /TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From £10.83/month
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Eric Ain, Composer - Tom G. Warrior, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, Composer, MainArtist - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, Composer, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - "Mad" Horst Muller, Producer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, Performance, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Celtic Frost, Performance, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer - Thomas Gabriel Fischer (Tom G. Warrior), Composer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, Performance, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Composer - Celtic Frost, Performance, MainArtist - Martin Stricker, Composer
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Album review
Though they'd been together for barely a year and had yet to play their first concert, Celtic Frost brought a remarkably accomplished vision to the recording of their first album, 1984's Morbid Tales. With its highly focused thrash metal intensity and peculiar mix of satanic and esoteric lyrics, the album would sow the seeds of Frost's overwhelming influence in years to come. And, along with the powerful visual impact of its bandmembers' leather-bound wardrobe and badly-drawn facial corpse paint, songs like "Visions of Mortality" and "Morbid Tales" would be analyzed, digested, and regurgitated by manic hordes of disillusioned European youths forming their own death metal bands in years to come. Following the hellish primal screams of intro "Human," and the lethal speed metal of "Into the Crypts of Rays," Tom Warrior (aka Thomas Gabriel Warrior) and company lock into a fierce groove which rarely falters through to the last riff of closer "Nocturnal Fear." With its primitive grind, the excellent "Procreation (Of the Wicked)" (later covered by Sepultura) remains a career highlight, but shows no sign of the band's future experiments in avant-garde metal. In fact, these are only hinted at by the female voice recital utilized in "Return to the Eve," and the bizarre noise experiments of "Danse Macabre" -- a collage of sound effects, violin, Warrior's moans, and all-around mayhem. As for Celtic Frost's own source of inspiration, Venom and other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands provide the bulk of it. The main riff of "Dethroned Emperor," for instance, simply offers a slight variation of Diamond Head's "Am I Evil." But it was Celtic Frost's very isolation from rock's typical breeding grounds which fed their uniquely European perspective. Had they not been impoverished outcasts within Switzerland's protective prosperity in their formative years, it is unlikely that theirs could have been such a twisted and wonderful evolution.
© Eduardo Rivadavia /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:49:27
- Main artists: Celtic Frost
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Noise Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company ℗ 1984 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company
Improve album informationWhy buy on Qobuz...
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.