Regarded as important, landmark figures in the development of European heavy
metal, Swiss trio Celtic Frost turned their hand to a number of different styles
within the genre and left a sprawling legacy of work that later influenced
Napalm Death, Nirvana and Sepultura.
Front man Tom Warrior groomed his guttural growls as part of seminal death metal
thrashers Hellhammer in the early 1980s, but when their ragged, primitive spirit
became too limited, he formed Celtic Frost with bassist Martin Eric Ain and
later recruited drummer Reed St. Mark. The apocalyptic, bombastic sound of ...