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Celtic Frost - Vanity Nemesis Audio CD

A fair review of the Celtic Frost "Vanity Nemesis" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Celtic Frost reviews here, or go back to the Celtic Frost tabs.

Celtic Frost Band: Celtic Frost
Title: Vanity Nemesis
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Release Date: 1990-08-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks:

stoner rock fans take notice
Possibly this would of faired better released as a side project. As this is no To Mega Therion or Into the Pandimonium,these exspectations put a conciderable bisa on it when it was released. Nonetheless this album is full of killer riff oriented groove metal. Solid songwriting that infectiously stays with you,great production,aside from a few mellow intros which are cool,the entire album jams heavy. the highlight of the album for me is the manical whammy bar lead work which comes shredding your brain on every song. Phallic Tantrum being a stand out track.


Return to the crypt one last time
The old, old school Death Metal sound may have mellowed a little, but `Vanity/Nemesis' is full of sharp ideas, combining Metal and Rock in a forward looking combination. While this is no `Into The Pandemonium', it's no `Cold Lake' either.

And there in lies the problem. It probably looked too far ahead for the time, leaving many an old school Thrasher scratching his mullet and thinking "what the ???"

Tom G. Warrior had gone back to his God-given Fischer, which might well have been a clue, and had finally let his Rock roots loose. Devouring big bites of the 60s and 70s, there are big Beatles-influenced melodies, nods to the old-style Glam Rock sounds (and image) of David Bowie, and stripped back, basic Metal/Rock. Warrior/Fischer had let his legendary voice ripen a little, sounding more like a gravel throated Blues shouter than a blood curdling Death growler. Unfortunately, Fischer struggles to hold a tune, and some of the songs, "Wings Of Solitude" in particular, really suffer.

The music throbs in a slightly subdued manner. For a band which once produced total Death/Thrash blurs, the controlled aggression of songs like "The Heart Beneath" and "Wine In My Hand (Third From The Sun)" would have been unimaginable five years earlier. It's all pretty solid, and grabs the attention, but doesn't hold it, like past masterpieces such as "Into The Crypts Of Rays" or "Circle Of The Tyrants". The whole album plays more as background music than a lead piece. Still, it's quite a good hangover album.

The newfound maturity was perhaps a bridge too far for Celtic Frost. Fischer seemed to lose interest in the genres of Metal he'd been so influential on, and from the apathetic reception this album received on release, it seemed his audience had lost interest in him.


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