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Key facts
- Origin
- Zürich , Switzerland
- Genres
- Thrash metal avant-garde metal black metal doom metal
- Years active
- 1984–1987 1988–1993 2001–2008
- Labels
- Century Media Noise Metal Blade
- Spinoffs
- Triptykon
- Spinoff of
- Hellhammer
- Past members
- Thomas Gabriel Fischer Martin Eric Ain Franco Sesa Isaac Darso Stephen Priestly Reed St. Mark Ron Marks Dominic Steiner Curt Victor Bryant Oliver Amberg Erol Unala Renee Hernz
- Website
- celticfrost .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Celtic Frost (/ˈkɛltɪk frɒst/) was a Swiss extreme metal band from Zürich. Their early work had a strong influence on the development of extreme metal, especially the death, black and doom metal genres, and they are noted for their avant-garde approach to music.
Guitarist and vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain formed Celtic Frost in June 1984 after disbanding their previous band, Hellhammer. Celtic Frost's debut record, Morbid Tales, was released later that year. It was followed by the albums To Mega Therion (1985) and the more experimental Into the Pandemonium (1987). All three records were highly influential.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Celtic Frost” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.