Into The Pandemonium - Celtic Frost

'Experimental' is a term that many fans dread, as their favourite band becomes tired of playing the style of music they're best at, and instead trade in their usual kit for weird, exotic tribal instruments in an attempt to get back to basics, or something. Celtic Frost's career entered the experimental phase fairly rapidly, as soon as their second album 'Into the Pandemonium,' and it was a career move that enchanted as many fans as it alienated. I think it's pretty good, but there were undoubtedly some very lousy decisions made along the way. The band's heavy thrash style is still present, expressed most clearly in 'Inner Sanctum' and 'Babylon Fell' which ...  Read the complete review