Watching Adam Curry on Headbanger's Ball, is like watching John Tesh run the backstage interview tent at Hellfest, it's just awkward no matter how you slice it.
COLD LAKE turned me into becoming a true "thrash" metal head. In a time when 90% of the rock out there was Motley Crue based, I used COLD LAKE to cross over into "Real" metal. If it wasn't for this album, I might have never listened to Morbid Tales, or Into The Pandemonium. That was Tom's plan ; to introduce glam metal heads to CELTIC FROST. Tom changed my life !!!!!!!!
Nah pretty sure he was leaving it all to others cos he was not in a good place - fucked the band up for a decade - who did he sack when he came to his senses. Ah well - the album wasn't too bad. Not really worthy of CF though You could argue - you'd be wrong.
i think you are the first person in History to ever say that, for me it was Exodus, Testament & Metallica. i was surprised after hearing more celtic songs that they were heavier. I thought back in 89 that this was their actual style & sound
noel aguero exactly...the only band that has ever attempted to mix glam, thrash, black and avant garde perfectly...no wonder CF without cold lake and Vanity are not a success story !! this is Ain's cousin here :)
I kind of like Cold Lake because my instincts tell me not to. The fact that it still doesn't quite "click" in my head makes it interesting. It keeps drawing me back to it.
What's going on in Tom's head during this interview? Is he really feeling good about Cold Lake or is he already feeling bad about it, but doesn't want to show it.
Nothing wrong at all with cold lake or vanity nemesis and the almost unknown nemesis of power has some of their best songs...if your reading this go listen to a song called the man who would weep it's a work of art.
Vanity Nemesis I find utterly forgettable , and possibly worse than Cold Lake . Cold Lake is grim listening , but at least has some memorable tunes , if only for the wrong reasons. It's just a period of Frost I like to forget happened and i concentrate on the 84-87 period which is peerless.
I think Tom had been through the music industry meat grinder by this point Yeah. Cold Lake was a bad mistake, but I think he pretty much had given up. "Glam album? Sure. Whatever " Will it get me out of debt?" Tom is a true artist and in the end, it turned out fine. His influence will be felt for long after he's gone.
'The next album will be very very avant garde ...' , alas it was a formulaic thrash record. I think Tom would rather just forget the 88-89 version of Frost , as would I .
Morbid Tales and To Mega Thereon there best work IDK when they decided to become Poison of Europe but hey a lot of bands tried to ride the glam train!!!!!!!!
Hanoi , Rose without thorns , eagles... are thrashy and .. Its british metal.influenced Drop the look . Listen with your ears , not eyes Thrashers makes me laught .. They seems to forget what was before thrash and shit on it .. Its just heavy metal. Still heavier , way heavy than the bands you mention
i personally quite enjoy the riffs of cherry orchards. cold lake was their best album hands down. screw hellhammer and that other noise CF made that all those mongrel metal fans praise. get some taste, try some britny fox, cinderella, poison and king kobra!
He was in the same band as Stephen Priestly at the time Tom recruited Stephen back into to Frost... some crappy local Swiss band (Junk Food maybe?). I wonder... where was Ron Marks?
I dont know why people say this album is so bad (Cold Lake), is way better than that crap Hellhammer. At least in "Cold Lake" they look more like musicians. Not an amazing album, but, more convincing (compared to Hellhammer). I am a big fan of "Vanity Nemesis" , that was the best!! Tom is a very exotic guy, he really did something!
Frost yeah i agree...both cold lake and especially vanity/nemesis is perhaps CF's best records for me...people of the "lamb of god" day and age will not appreciate this masterpiece...its a generation gap !
Amherst Felixia Yes! I listen to Jazz, Classical music, also! I look for musicality, intensity and good melodies, good atmosphere! Im not crazy about all this metal "fetish", if sounds good = thats it! "The Evil God and the Dance of the Pagan Monsters" by Prokofiev is HEAVY AS HELL! :) and surely, amazingly composed.
If you drop the look , The music is british metal sounding . With T'rex groove here and there Thats not the most inspired CF album. But still heavier and better than most bands , and far from sunset bands .
I thought the same for a long time, but then I listened to the full album and realized that other than Cherry Orchards it's not a musical abortion. That being said it's still better than the album that came out inbetween Vanity/Nemesis and Monotheists
Correction on my part. The demo after Monotheist known as "Hip Hop Jugend." I always think that it came out in the 90s. If you don't know what it is then for the love of God, do NOT look it up. Your ears will bleed.
I wonder if he truly does or if his opinion is influenced by fans backlash. I think the album is okay, it has some good musicianship but some of the songs are kinda by the numbers.
