Parched With Thirst Am I And Dying - Celtic Frost

When the planned fifth Celtic Frost album 'Under Apollyon's Sun' failed to come together for one reason or another, the band's break-up precipitated this release instead, a sort-of fifth album that's more a collection of rarities and unreleased material than a worthless "best-of." The material here spans the band's highly flighty eight-year career, from their origins as an underground proto-death metal band with the evil songs 'Return to the Eve,' 'The Usurper' and 'Journey Into Fear' (the re-recording of the central song sadly losing some of its atmosphere), through their experimental phase and even the horrible near-glam of the much-maligned 'Cold ...  Read the complete review