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Friday, May 21: Celtic Frost, “A Kiss or a Whisper”

Vanity/Nemesis was mostly greeted with rave reviews, with seemingly everyone liking it except the band’s leader. In fairness to Tom G. Warrior’s retrospective assessments, Celtic Frost was fully at the end of their tether yet again by 1989, beset by a lethal mix of label apathy and the aftermath of horrendous creative decisions. And while their fifth album signaled a return to the brute heaviness of To Mega Therion in concept, the leanness and directness of its approach indicated that this was not the same group of guys that unleashed “Circle of the Tyrants” (figuratively and literally- although Stephen Priestly and Martin Eric Ain had returned to Celtic Frost, Ain was barely involved in the recording, with most bass parts played by Cold Lake-era holdover Curt Victor Bryant). All of that said, “A Kiss or a Whisper” was a malevolent piece of work that hit with brute force and efficiency- for all the talk of sellout that stuck with Celtic Frost after Cold Lake, there was nothing especially accessible about this. Thomas Gabriel Fischer/Warrior’s croak made no attempt at actual singing, while he, Priestly and Bryant hit the gas accordingly. In a way, the track found Celtic Frost attempting to bring extreme metal into the new decade, by balancing their overall harshness with a more focused approach; “A Kiss or a Whisper” was every bit as eccentric and unforgiving as anything off Into the Pandemonium, but it felt a bit easier to comprehend. And perhaps that was turned Fischer off from this album in hindsight, as he seemed to come to favor the blunt force trauma of the band’s discography over their more esoteric elements.