Description
Monotheist: Studio album by Celtic Frost
Released: May 29, 2006
Recorded: 2002 to 2005. Producer: Celtic Frost and Peter Tägtgren
Genre: Gothic metal, doom metal, thrash metal, black metal
Length 68:16
Label: Century Media Records
Track listing:
1. “Progeny” Fischer Ain, Fischer, Sesa 5:01
2. “Ground” Fischer Fischer, Unala 3:55
3. “A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh” Ain Ain, Fischer, Unala 5:39
4. “Drown In Ashes” Fischer Fischer 4:23
5. “Os Abysmi Vel Daath” Ain, Fischer Ain, Fischer, Sesa, Unala 6:41
6. “Obscured” Ain, Fischer, Unala Ain, Fischer, Unala 7:04
7. “Domain of Decay” Fischer Ain, Fischer, Unala 4:38
8. “Ain Elohim” Ain Ain, Fischer, Sesa, Unala 7:33
9 “Triptych: I. Totengott” Ain Fischer 4:27
10. “Triptych: II. Synagoga Satanae” Ain Ain, Fischer, Sesa 14:24
11. “Triptych: III. Winter (Requiem, Chapter Three: Finale)” (instrumental) Fischer 4:32
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Tom Gabriel “Warrior” Fischer: voice, guitars, arrangements, programming
Martin Eric Ain: bass, lead and backing vocals (most vocals on “A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh”, all vocals on “Triptych I: Totengott”, spoken parts on “Triptych II: Synagoga Satanae”) + executive producer.
Erol Unala: guitars, engineer, additional programming on “Temple Of Depression”
Franco Sesa: drums
Lisa Middelhauve (Xandria): guest vocals on Drown In Ashes
Ravn (1349): backing vocals in final chorus of Temple Of Depression
Simone Vollenweider: guest backing vocals on Temple Of Depression, additional vocals on Obscured, and lead vocals on Incantation Against You
Satyr (Satyricon): brief segment of lead vocals on “Triptych II: Synagoga Satanae”
Peter Tägtgren: backing vocals on Triptych II: Synagoga Satanae and co-producer of album
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Monotheist is the sixth and final album by the Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost. The album was released in May 2006 and was the first new recording released by the band for fourteen years.
Preparation and development work for the project had been ongoing since 2000. The first recording sessions for the album started in late October 2002. The band consisted of founding members Martin Eric Ain (bass/vocals) and Tom Gabriel Fischer (voice/guitars/keyboards), along with guitarist/producer Erol Unala, Fischers long-time songwriting partner. Unala became an increasingly significant part of Celtic Frost during the songwriting.
Celtic Frosts earlier work melded elements of thrash metal and black metal. However, the sound of Monotheist has been described as heavier and darker, more akin to doom metal and gothic metal.
According to the bands bassist, Martin Eric Ain, some of the lyrics were influenced by the writings of the English occultist Aleister Crowley. This influence manifests itself in tracks such as “Os Abysmi Vel Daath”, which is partially a name of one of Crowleys books.
A video was made for the song “A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh”. The album was ranked number 2 on Terrorizer’s list of the best albums of the decade.
Monotheist (2006) as described by Tom Gabriel “Warrior” Fischer:
“Celtic Frost eventually dissolved in the early 1990’s and I think both Martin and I felt that on the one hand we didn’t want to have anything to do with Celtic Frost at the time because of the way that it ended, but at the same time, given that these last two albums of Celtic Frost were failures, we always felt that not everything had been said. We always said, this cannot be how Celtic Frost ends. I think we always carried that little spark in ourselves. We always knew that one day we would probably have to talk about it, whether it should be the end or whether we should attempt to resurrect that. But we weren’t in the mood throughout the 1990s, and that was a good thing. We received sometimes incredibly lucrative offers to reform the band for certain festivals. There was this one offer particularly that was monstrously big, and Martin and I talked about it and we decided we were not going to reform Celtic Frost for money. If we ever reform it, it has to be for artistic reasons, and I’m very proud we did this. So we waited a few more years, but eventually in 2001 we met for dinner in Zürich, and we just said, look, we have to attempt at least to provide some kind of artistic conclusion to Celtic Frost that is worth the name. That’s really when Monotheist became a reality from having been in the back of our minds as a concept for many years, but that’s when it became a reality.
“It’s the album that should have followed Into The Pandemonium really. To me it’s different from the other Celtic Frost albums, but then every album is different to the other Celtic Frost albums, that is why it’s a Celtic Frost album. And to me, Monotheist counts as one of the important Celtic Frost albums. To me, there are four albums that Celtic Frost did that are crucial to the band’s history and those are the first three and Monotheist. And I’m extremely glad that we have the guts to do this and we had the patience to work for five-and-a-half years on that album to make it right.”
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