Vanity Nemesis

Celtic Frost | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 21, 1990)
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000008E40
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,951 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A return to form, May 7, 1999

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This review is from: Vanity Nemesis (Reis) (Audio CD)

Vanity/Nemesis was the first Celtic Frost album I bought a few years back. It's still one of my favorite metal albums. The songs are well written and the album has a good production. Not as experimental as their previous albums, but it still carries its load with songs like the manic Third from the Sun (Wine in my Hand) and the song Nemesis. The Frost got a lot of flak for their previous album Cold Lake, but I think most fans that didn't like that should like this. It's a return to form with heavier songs than Cold Lake. Tom G. Warrior is a great metal vocalist and his guttural sounds are classic. Recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars Over looked Gem, April 11, 2011

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J. Vance "Video game maker" (Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vanity Nemesis (Reis) (Audio CD)

Its not the death sloppy thrash of the early albums -- Which I love by the way.
Its certainly not the glam crap of Cold Lake.

Its a very polished thrash album with a Celtic twist.

This should have made them big stars but like most things Celtic it just never quite broke thru and thats what really makes it special to us hard core Tom G Warrior fans. I was glad to get it on CD-ROM ... The 2 cassettes of it wore out --- It's that good.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mellow Death, September 7, 2006

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Patrick Stott (Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vanity Nemesis (Reis) (Audio CD)

While this is no `Into The Pandemonium', it's no `Cold Lake' either. The old, old school Death Metal sound may have mellowed a little, but `Vanity/Nemesis' is full of sharp ideas, combining Metal and Rock in a forward looking combination.

And there in lies the problem. It probably seemed too far ahead for the time, leaving many an old school Thrasher scratching his mullet and thinking "???"

Tom G. Warrior had gone back to his God-given Fischer surname, which might well have been a clue, and had finally let his Rock roots loose. Devouring big bites of the '60s and '70s, there are big Beatles-influenced melodies, nods to the old-style Glam Rock sounds (and image) of David Bowie, and stripped back, basic Metal and Rock. Fischer had let his legendary voice ripen a little, sounding more like a gravel throated Blues shouter than a blood curdling Death growler. Unfortunately, Fischer struggles to hold a tune, and some of the songs, "Wings Of Solitude" in particular, really suffer.

The music throbs in a slightly subdued manner. For a band which once produced total Death/Thrash blurs, the controlled aggression of songs like "The Heart Beneath" and "Wine In My Hand (Third From The Sun)" would have been unimaginable five years earlier. It's all pretty solid, and grabs the attention, but doesn't hold it, like past masterpieces such as "Into The Crypts Of Rays" or "Circle Of The Tyrants". The whole album plays more as background music than a lead piece. Still, it's quite a good hangover album.

The newfound maturity was perhaps a bridge too far for Celtic Frost. Fischer seemed to lose interest in the genres of Metal he'd been so influential on, and from the apathetic reception this album received upon release, it seemed his audience had lost interest in him.