EdensParadise

One of the best early Blackened Thrash albums ever recorded.  Celtic Frost gave birth to many genres of music and many of the big name Death and Black Metal bands owe a huge debt to Tom G Warrior and the boys. From grand sweeping operatic theatricality to heavy, doom laden riffs and guttural growls: To Mega Therion is one of the best metal albums period.  I listened to Celtic Frost out of curiosity originally. I wasn't huge into them, but I loved Circle Of The Tyrants and eventually started listening to a lot of their albums as a result. To me there's not a bad Celtic Frost record and I think that their early stuff aged incredibly well and you can listen to it now without it feeling dated or boring. If you love thrash, death, or black metal you'll love this album. A lot of what Celtic Frost did laid the foundation out for other bands to emerge and refine it.   

Continuing the trend of albums that spelled doom for a band.  Reinventing The Steel isn't well loved by many Pantera fans. Most of them complained that the album felt disjointed and very slap dash, but I disagree. I think RTS is one of the best Pantera albums ever released and it was released during a very tumultuous time when Phil Anselmo and the Abbott brothers both despised each other. Putting all that aside though: RTS works because of that tumultuous relationship. This was also around a time when Phil and Dime were both neck deep in addiction (Phil with heroin and Dime with alcohol). Some of their best live shows came near the end, the lyrics became less juvenile and more interesting as well.  RTS isn't party music. It's music for a band dealing with issues and each other's behaviors. I feel like if Dime lived that maybe we would have gotten something even better, but that would never come to pass due to Dimes death. I would recommend people to listen to the origin...