What a great sleeve! Pretty much sums up '80s metal for me, those remote wastes beyond the mainstream which lurked in the rack like sinister gremlins. Celtic Frost, one of the true greats of the macabre and bizarre, 'Emperors Return' may only be a five track record but it's still a must-have for any collection, featuring the classics 'Circle Of Tyrants', 'Morbid Tales', 'Dethroned Emperor', 'Visual Aggression' and 'Suicidal Winds', pure black metal weirdness for the most peculiar of places. Can't knock such an influential band who've inspired so much inner metal evil over the years and remain the true innovators of European metal. The reality, or should that be unreality, is that Celtic Frost remain the darkest form of metal.
8/10
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