Released 1 June 1987 Length 47:59 Artist Celtic Frost Producer Celtic Frost | Recorded January–April 1987 Into the Pandemonium
(1987) Cold Lake
(1988) Release date 1 June 1987 Label Noise International | |
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Studio Horus Sound Studio, Hannover, Germany Genres Thrash metal, Gothic metal, Avant-garde metal Similar Celtic Frost albums, Thrash metal albums | ||
Into the Pandemonium is the third studio album by Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in 1987. The album is more varied than other Celtic Frost's past LPs, with unlikely covers (Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio"), emotionally charged love songs, the album's recurring industrial-influenced rhythmic songs of demons and destruction, traditional Frost-styled songs about dreams and fear, and a dark, classical piece with female vocals.
Contents
The album is vastly different from the band's previous work and cemented its late 1980s avant-garde metal term; it is also a departure from the style found on the band's previous albums, Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion that Celtic Frost had become known for. However, it does have the recurring symphonic elements found on previous albums. The album has a more classic heavy metal style within the songs with elements of industrial, classical, gothic rock and doom metal. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic called it "one of the classic extreme metal albums of all time."
The track "Rex Irae" is the opening part of Celtic Frost's requiem; the third, concluding part of which, "Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)" can be heard on 2006's Monotheist. The second part of the requiem was never released by the band.
"Inner Sanctum" was featured in the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned.
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Lyrics
Some of the lyrics are silently borrowed from other sources. For example, significant portions of Inner Sanctum are directly quoted from Emily Brontë poems, while the lyrics to "Tristesses de la lune" are borrowed from the poem of the same name in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. The lyrics to "Sorrows of the Moon" are an English translation of the same.
Album art
The cover image is a detail from the right (Hell) panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado in Madrid.
Personnel
Songs
1Mexican Radio3:29
2Mesmerized3:25
3Inner Sanctum5:16