Celtic Frost was a Swiss metal band from Zürich. They are remembered for their strong influence on the development of several varieties of extreme metal and for their avant-garde approach to music more generally.
Celtic Frost live at Tuska Open Air Metal Festival 2006. The band's distinctive skull-and-spears logo can be seen on the banners.
Into the Pandemonium was Celtic Frost’s second full length album. The album employs a variety of musical styles.
Tom Warrior performing in 2006.
Celtic Frost performing in 2006.
Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual transgression".
Venom in 2008
Venom were significant to the development of speed metal into thrash metal into black metal.