Into the Pandemonium
Occupation
- Thomas Gabriel Warrior: vocals, guitar; Programming, effects and keyboards at One in Their Pride
- Martin Eric Ain: bass
- Reed St. Mark: drums, percussion, timpani, backing vocals, synthesizer
- Thomas Berther: background vocals on Mexican Radio
- Claudia -Maria Mokri: Singing in Babylon Fell and Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Lothar Krist: classical arrangements at Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Wulf Ebert: cello with Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Anton Schreiber: Horn at Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Andreas Dobler: lead guitar at Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Eva Cieslinski: violin with Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Malgorzata Blaiejewska Woller: violin with Rex Irae ( Requiem)
- Jürgen Paulmann: Viola
- Manü Moan: Guest vocals
Into the Pandemonium is the second studio album by Swiss metal band Celtic Frost.
Formation
The band recorded the album in the period from January to April 1987 at Horus Sound Studio in Hannover and produced it themselves, work as sound engineer was Jan " man " Nemec.
Title list
Style of music and texts
On Into the Pandemonium, the band mingled extreme metal with influences earlier wave bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees or Wall of Voodoo. Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo is also gecovert. On the album there are more aggressive pieces like Inner Sanctum and Babylon Fell, woman singing with Mesmerized, sampling, and electronic elements at One in Their Pride, while Rex Irae and Oriental Masquerade orchestral pieces included.
The lyrics deal with continues to be " sorrowful poetic visions of majesty, corruption, vanity and pride, damnation and the end of life and bring power; the case of all things, all in one fantastic suggestive environment that would fit well to Dune as Sodom and Gomorrah. " The lyrics to Inner Sanctum comes from the poems Sleep Brings No Joy to Me, I See Around Me Tombstones Grey or I See Around Me Tombstones Grey piteous, May Flowers Are Opening, Faith and Despondency and Tell Me, Tell Me, Smiling Child by Emily Brontë, the Brontë adopted without reference to verses were changed only slightly; Sorrows of the Moon is a translation of Charles Baudelaire's sonnet Tristesses de la lune into English.
Shaping
The cover is from Hieronymus Bosch's triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights and represents a part of hell
Reviews
Into the Pandemonium called because of the new features compared to mega therion To produce mixed reactions. Brett Buckle of The Metal Crypt is of the opinion that the album did not deserve the negative reactions; at all obvious differences is still much has been maintained by the magic of earlier publications. However, One in Their Pride tear up the handset from the world of the album abruptly out Buckle described the piece as one of Celtic Frost 's Greatest Mistakes; he had achieved with a cassette without One in Their Pride the problem. According to John Chedsey of Satan Stole My Teddy Bear some pieces are dispensable on the album, but according to him, all the bands that draw on classical influences, samples or singers, Celtic Frost instead of the current representatives homage.
Avoid Avant -garde Metal called the decision to allow the album to start with a cover, as " not kosher ," and saw in Mesmerized the beginnings of Gothic Metal. He chime in, no comparable with this masterpiece album, although since criticism had passed twenty years. Also elements of classical music which he is aware in this form by any metal band Celtic Frost before, and only a few of the subsequent period. Into the Pandemonium is perhaps not the best and most consistent of Celtic Frost's works, but deserve because of its aspirations, his creativity and his daring progress, a place in everyone's heart and record collection as well as a 66 meter high golden statue of the three musicians. The editors of the magazine Rock Hard put the album at number 141 in 2007 its " 500 best albums of all time. " Wolf -Rüdiger Sears wrote, Celtic Frost had " succeeded with this album the experiment, dark ( black) metal with avant-garde elements to connect so that the result has not been lifted and sounds too progressive, but conclusively song useful, enthralling and catchy. " His conclusion was: " Even today, almost 20 years later, this stroke of genius is unmatched! "