Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales (1984)

Celtic Frost provide a warped experience for any listener, there's no denying their originality and unpredictable darkness that has kept them going strong years after this oddity was released in '84. The Swiss combo have fluttered from avant-garde black metal, to strange glam-weirdness to electro-thrash and beyond, there's no pigeon-holing this masters, but one thing they are responsible for is influencing ands such as Death, and the whole black metal community.
Fronted by Tom G. Warrior, Celtic Frost's debut opus is a bizarre ride, a record of twisted riffs, hellish grunts and growls, and eerie work-outs that are something akin to a surreal Venom. The subject matter is dark, naturally, but comes across very dark and primal on here, and bemused and unnerved you will be by 'Procreation Of The Wicked', the rattling 'Into The Crypts Of Rays' and spookfest 'Return To Eve'.
This is true black metal, mystical, eerie and down right strange.
8/10