1984: Metal by Repo

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Morbid Tales

Celtic Frost

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It’s the Riffs, Stupid!

You could point to any number of reasons why this album was such a success. The album that instantly transformed them into legends in the metal underground. The album that is considered the gate post to seemingly every branch of metal. Black Metal. Death Metal. Even Doom! One reason, as Tom G. Warrior (TGW), Celtic Frost's guitarist and vocalist, points out is that they played slowed-down, heavier versions of Venomsongs. Before rehearsals, they would play Venom’s In The League Of Satan at 45 RPM instead of 33RPM just to make it that much heavier. And that became their goal. To sound like that.

Or as another reason, (and I just love this quote from TGW), “We weren’t good enough on our instruments at the time to emulate something more sophisticated, so punk was within the realm of the achievable”. TGW continues “…Discharge, which to me was a revolution, much like Venom. When I first heard the first two Discharge records, I was blown away. I was just starting to play an instrument, and I had no idea that you could go so far. Discharge totally opened my eyes.”

So they were heavy. And they were primitive. But, what throws them over the top, what makes them until this very day gods of extreme metal, were the riffs. The heaviest riffs imaginable completely on par with even the mighty Sabbath!

And of course, TGW’s creative ear. They may have changed their names from Hellhammer to Celtic Frost because they yearned to play better, but cutting to the chase, they still couldn’t really play their instruments. But, it didn’t matter! They had an ear for this shit. Like Venom before them, they were metal visionaries. They saw potential that people even with (or should I say especially with!) classical training just couldn’t see. Instead, TGW used his whammy bar and production overdubs like a weapon. Distorting notes in ways others said couldn’t work. As TGW said… “Most classical musicians would say ‘You cannot do that’ or ‘You cannot overdub that’ – just every possible denial. It was always a huge struggle to get them to do what we wanted to do, but at the end of the day everybody was always fascinated that it actually worked.” Amen to that! [First added to this chart: 09/28/2021]

Year of Release:

1984

Appears in:

54 charts

Rank Score:

277

Rank in 1984:

Rank in 1980s:

730

Overall Rank:

4,919

Average Rating:

76 (64 votes)

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1984: Metal composition

Artist	Albums	%

Manowar	2	3%
Jag Panzer	1	1%
Loudness	1	1%
Tysondog	1	1%
Y&T	1	1%
W.A.S.P.	1	1%
Paul Chain Violet Theatre	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%

	32	44%
	14	19%
	8	11%
	6	8%
	5	7%
	2	3%
	1	1%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	71	99%
Yes	1	1%

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1984: Metal ratings

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