I Have To Start An Official ILM Celtic Frost - Monotheist Thread

Oh man, To Mega Therion is a sonic textbook in awesomeness.

"HAYYYYYYYYYY"

May 31, 2006 Vosselaar, Belgium Biebob
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I'm going if Scott sez the new record is great.

i was really afraid it'd be a big mess of nu-metal & industrial influences and sound like it was desperately aping their early shit, but no - it's so dark and fucked up and the gothic touches actually do work. and that last track's a killer.

"Hu!"
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Ha!

This album, dare I say, is a triumph.

"For a comeback CD, this is of phenomenal quality, but the band must find their range first in style and next in songwriting, and that may take another release to get right. The music is good, but the aesthetics need work; it's too symmetrical, obvious, non-magical. Look to the next album for the art to match its concept."

It's way more than i expected, but i do think they could make an even better album if they keep at it. and they seem to want to. having said that, i still think monotheist is awe-inspiring. it is made up of sounds that i personally go nuts over.

Anyway, here's what I wrote on the rolling metal thread, and unlike the person whose review is quoted above, I go into specifics:

okay, scott and other people are gonna hate this, but that new celtic frost album really starts to drag long about track #8, "ain elohim," sounds like to me. #9 "tottengott" was so completely unlistenable i had to skip over it, then #10 "synagoga satanae", 14 fucking minutes long, is even draggier than #8 (and what the hell? synogogue of satan?? tom's not gonna get many passover seder invites this year, is he?). oddly, i was really enjoying the thing for the first seven tracks or so (the opening of "obscured" was so high-mass beutiful that i was hoping it was the one with the latin title, but nope, that was the track before.) i think i'm gonna set this thing aside for now, though, and come back to it later. (seriously, though, where does tom stand religion-wise? i mean, the album is called *monotheist,* duh! so it's not my imagination that the subject's been on his mind, right?)
-- xhuxk (xedd...), April 12th, 2006.

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ha ha, crucified barbara's album is more fun than the new celtic frost album! (at least it seems to be so far. and so far, i'd rank the new celtic frost album as their worst since their debut album, nowhere near as catchy as cold lake or vanity/nemesis, but i might change my mind about that. i need to go back and read what scott and other people say on this thread and that *monotheist* thread about why it's supposed to be so great, but right now i'm theorizing this is no different wishful- thinking-wise than will people say a new bowie or dylan album is their best since whenever. though like i said, i'm still liking a lot of it.) (though part of me wonders whether warrior's voice isn't kinda shot.)
-- xhuxk (xedd...), April 12th, 2006.

So I've finally decided (how generous of me, huh?) that I'll give Celtic Frost's *Monotheist* the thumbs up, though I still say it's their least entertaining and hardest to get through album since before *To Megatherion*. Also, I don't understand why it's not called *Atheist,* since near as I can decipher his grunting that's the gist of what Warrior's words are trying to get across here. And I still think "Totengott" is horrible, with that stupid wicked witch exorcism screech voice doing its Khanate thing. (Is Khanate who I'm thinking of? I think so.) But for the most part, these guys really sound like nobody else, and they're catchy and truly eccentric in a way post-Slayer thrash (a big world, I know) almost never is. My favorite cuts are I think "Ground" (for the "Oh God why have you forsaken me?" hook), "Obscured" (for its high-mass opening part) and "Winter" (just because it's so beautiful and classical sounding). Also I decided that "Ain Elohim" (the one where Warrior keeps going "rummalummalummagrumblebutt" or whatever) is not bad and has a pretty cool ending, "Domain of Decay" has a great riff though it kind of wears out its welcome, and the 14-minute "Synagoga Satanae," though interminable, is also somewhat inexorable, and has a neat German Rammstein section in the middle. Also, most of the time, I wished they played faster. So can I file the CD away now?
-- xhuxk (xedd...), May 5th, 2006.