Into the Pandemonium
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Into the Pandemonium is the 1987 album
by avant-garde metal band Celtic Frost
. The album is more varied than many of 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 and thrash metal
style songs about dreams and fear, and a dark, classical piece with female vocals.
The album is vastly different from the band's previous work and cements its late 80s avant-garde metal term; it is also a departure from the extreme 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 recurring symphonic elements found on previous albums. The album has a more classic heavy metal
style within the songs with elements of industrial
, classical
and gothic
music, and even has a hip hop
/dance inspired rhythm in "One in Their Pride". It does have a few black metal elements remaining in Tom Warrior's vocals, though, and some thrash influenced guitar riffs.
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
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.
, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado
in Madrid
.
, except where noted.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by avant-garde metal band Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...
. The album is more varied than many of Celtic Frost's past LPs, with unlikely covers
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
(Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo was an American New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.-Formation:...
's "Mexican Radio
Mexican Radio
"Mexican Radio" is a song written and performed by the band Wall of Voodoo, and produced by Richard Mazda. The track was initially made commercially available on their 1983 album Call of the West. The song peaked at #58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S...
"), emotionally charged love songs, the album's recurring industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
-influenced rhythmic songs of demons and destruction and thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
style songs about dreams and fear, and a dark, classical piece with female vocals.
The album is vastly different from the band's previous work and cements its late 80s avant-garde metal term; it is also a departure from the extreme style found on the band's previous albums, Morbid Tales
Morbid Tales
Morbid Tales is the debut album by the Swiss extreme metal band, Celtic Frost. It was released in June 1984. The first American release by Enigma/Metal Blade added two tracks, making Morbid Tales an LP....
and To Mega Therion
To Mega Therion (album)
To Mega Therion is the second album by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in October 1985. The cover artwork is a painting by H.R. Giger entitled Satan I...
that Celtic Frost had become known for. However, it does have recurring symphonic elements found on previous albums. The album has a more classic heavy metal
Classic metal
Traditional heavy metal, also known as classic metal or simply heavy metal, is the seminal genre of heavy metal music before the genre "evolved and splintered into many different styles and subgenres."- Terminology:...
style within the songs with elements of industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
, classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and gothic
Gothic rock
Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...
music, and even has a hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
/dance inspired rhythm in "One in Their Pride". It does have a few black metal elements remaining in Tom Warrior's vocals, though, and some thrash influenced guitar riffs.
The track "Rex Irae" is the opening part of Celtic Frost's requiem
Requiem
A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal...
; the third, concluding part of which, "Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)" can be heard on 2006's Monotheist
Monotheist (album)
Monotheist is the sixth and final album by the Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost. The album was released in May 2006 and was the first new recording released by the band for fourteen years.-Development:...
. 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
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned is the first of two episodic expansion packs developed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto IV, developed by Rockstar North. It was first released for the Xbox 360 on 17 February 2009 and on PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows...
Lyrics
Some of the lyrics are silently borrowed from other sources. For example, significant portions of Inner Sanctum are directly quoted from Emily BrontëEmily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother...
poems, while the lyrics to "Tristesses de la lune" are borrowed from the poem of the same name in Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
's Les fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 , it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements...
. 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 DelightsThe Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch , housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious work...
, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado
Museo del Prado
The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of...
in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
.
Original Track Listing
All songs written by Tom Gabriel FischerThomas Gabriel Fischer
Thomas Gabriel Fischer , earlier known by his stage name of "Tom Gabriel Warrior", is a Swiss singer and guitarist. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the death metal style of singing or growling. Together with Bruce Day and Steve Warrior he formed the seminal metal band Hellhammer in...
, except where noted.
Remaster Track listing
Credits
- Tom Gabriel FischerThomas Gabriel FischerThomas Gabriel Fischer , earlier known by his stage name of "Tom Gabriel Warrior", is a Swiss singer and guitarist. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the death metal style of singing or growling. Together with Bruce Day and Steve Warrior he formed the seminal metal band Hellhammer in...
- Guitars, Vocals - Martin Eric AinMartin Eric AinMartin Eric Ain is best known for being the former left-handed bassist of the now defunct Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost. According to a recent interview, Ain is, in fact, an alias...
- Bass - Reed St. MarkReed St. MarkReed St. Mark is an American drummer best known for playing with the avant-garde Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost.Reed St. Mark joined Celtic Frost in 1985 for the recording of their Emperor's Return E.P. and the highly influential To Mega Therion and Into The Pandemonium albums...
- Drums
Guest musicians
- Thomas Berter: Backing vocals (track 1)
- Claudia-Maria Mokri: Backing vocals (tracks 2, 5, 10)
- Manü Moan: Vocals (track 4)
- Malgorzata Blaiejewska Woller: Violin (tracks 4, 10, 11)
- Eva Cieslinski: Violin (tracks 4, 10, 11)
- Wulf Ebert: Cello (tracks 4, 10, 11)
- Jürgen Paul Mann: Viola (tracks 4, 10, 11)
- Lothar Krist: Conductor (tracks 4, 10, 11)
- Jan Nemec: Sample editing (track 7)
- H.C. 1922: Backing vocals (track 8)
- Andreas Dobler: Guitars (track 9, 10, 14)
- Anton Schreiber: French horn (tracks 10, 11)
- Marchain Regee Rotschy: Backing vocals (track 13)