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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Human (Intro)

2. Into The Crypts Of Rays

3. Visions Of Mortality

4. Dethroned Emperor

5. Morbid Tales

6. Procreation (Of The Wicked)

7. Return To The Eve

8. Danse Macabre

9. Nocturnal Fear

10. Circle Of The Tyrants

11. Visual Aggression

12. Suicidal Winds

Product Details

Audio CD (April 12, 2010)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: INgrooves Fontana/Sanctuary
ASIN: B00000897X
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,421 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Extremely influential extreme metal classic

By Big J Moreno on June 28, 2006

Format: Audio CD

In 1984 while much of the world was headbanging to the likes of Ride the Lightning, Powerslave, and even stuff like Quiet Riot there were a smaller group of people getting into the much more evil Celtic Frost. This along with the CF precursor band Hellhammer, Mercyful Fate, and Bathory were laying down the foundation for black metal and the other extreme metal styles that were still coming into being. In 1984 all three of these bands made influential and groundbreaking releases. What really sets this one in particular apart was CF's ultimate guitar tone from Hell, their doomy/sludgy/thrashy riffs were unlike any other. Tom G Warrior's (isn't such a cool stage name?) voice was also quite unique, his deeper more guttural voice coupled with his heavy accent adds an evil touch to the songs that no one else really had at the time. Quorthon and King Diamond had much higher pitched vocals yet still unrelentingly evil as well.

As for the actual songs, they're filled with occult themes and those proto-doom/thrash/black metal riffs. If speed's what you're looking for check out the opener "Into the Crypts of Rays", the title track, and Nocturnal Fear leave you headbanging into rigor mortis. If you're looking for doom and gloom we have that too! Listen to Visions of Mortality and Procreation of the Wicked. There's even more midpaced songs like Return of the Eve and Dethroned Emperor to satisfy all your cravings. WAIT A SEC! This album also contains perhaps the creepiest soundscape ever in Danse Macabre, I'm not even going to bother describing it you just have to hear it to believe it, words couldn't do justice.Read more ›

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Ahhhhhh..........The Old School.........

By James M. Mulkern on November 3, 2005

Format: Audio CD

I remember when I was a kid and I traveled by bus with the flu just to pick this up. Theres so much extreme/black/death, etc. metal around today, which is great, but theres some things that just bring back memories. This is where it all started. Same with Possessed, Bathory, etc. None of this stuff was really around then and to hear something so different than the run-of-the mill metal was incredible. This is what "old school" death metal is all about. Today's extreme metal is "corpse paint", "blast beats", etc, and I love it, but please check out some of this old school black/death metal....It's just as sick. "Morbid Tales" is a true classic.

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Ultimate CF masterpiece

By A Customer on January 11, 2000

Format: Audio CD

More than "To Mega Therion", which suffers somewhat from a bad sound, "Morbid Tales" is the ultimate Celtic Frost masterpiece. The original mini album (released about 1985) featured only 6 songs. On this CD, these have been mixed with songs from the "Emperor's Return" EP. A pity, because the "Morbid Tales" songs (Into the Crypts of Rays, Visions of Mortality, Procreation (of the Wicked), Return to the Eve, Danse Macabre and Nocturnal Fear) formed a real unity that couldn't really be improved.
Together with Motorhead's "Overkill" and Destruction's "Infernal Overkill", this "Morbid Tales" definitely has a place in my metal top 3 of all times. There is no album that mixes the brutality of metal with the avant-garde feel of industrial music so well and so uncompromisingly as this one. All tracks are great (apart from the sound collage Danse Macabre perhaps), most are fantastic, and Procreation (of the wicked) is probably CF's best song ever.
Other legendary black metal bands like Venom, Bathory and Mercyful Fate surely produced some fabulous stuff, but things never got any darker, dirtier or more grinding than on "Morbid Tales".

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This is where it all started...

By Michael Tobey on November 26, 2006

Format: Audio CD

Everyone from Napalm Death to Darkthrone to Goatwhore nabbed riffs from this masterpiece, and as a result we're all better off. Despite Tom G's bizzare (if charming and aggressive) vocals, this album remains as timeless and punishing as the day it was first pressed to vinyl as a 6-song MLP. The more time I spend talking about this album, the less time is spent listening to it, so I'm going to end this now and turn on Morbid Tales!

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Are you Morbid?

By D. Sly on August 1, 2013

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Celtic Frost's debut album Morbid Tales is an essential addition to any metal collection. Any or black metal fanatic can tell you this is most definitely a landmark in the history of the genre. Although the band has progressed with To Mega Therion, this album had a major affect on extreme metal and paved the way for many BM bands of the 90s and beyond. Several versions of this album exist but the best is the 1999 noise remaster as it has all the tracks recorded for this record, as well as the Emperors Return EP released a year later. The album starts with what I call one of the best intros ever done. Every time I hear those screams I get chills running down my spine (in a good way), before delivering a fast speed metal assault "Into the Crypts of Rays", everything about this track is blazing fast and strikes the listener like lightning. Throughout the album the faster parts and doomier parts are perfectly alternated. "Dethroned Emperor" is and excellent mid paced track that starts off with one of Tom Warrior's epic screeches that will draw you to the rest of the song instantly, "Morbid Tales" is another example of a good mid paced thrash tune, of course it contains one of the most well know lyric "Are you Morbid?". The next track, the more sludgy "Procreation (Of The Wicked)" has one of the best riffs on the album, and the atmosphere is nothing short of excellent. "Danse Macabre" is one big nightmare recorded on a piece of plastic, it has a nice doomy atmosphere that just seceams "EEEEEEVVVVIIIILLLL". It is a collage of creepy effects that will just leave you under your covers shivering. Overall if you love thrash or black metal DO NOT hesitate to pick this cd up. Absolutely mandatory!!! *HORNS UP*

Killer Tracks:

Intro, Into The Crypts of Rays, Dethroned Emperor, Morbid Tales, Procreation (Of The Wicked), Return To The Eve, Danse Macabre

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Five Stars

muy buena

Published 2 months ago by HUAMAN ANAMPA WILFREDO

Mandatory

Words can’t describe the importance of this album for metal. Any black metal band in existence should lick the boots of everyone that was involved with this CD, bow down to their... Read more

Published 13 months ago by Metal_Freak95

This is what it's supposed to sound like!!

This is what it's supposed to sound like !!!!I wcan't understand why they broke up because of lack of interest they're all I listen to.can 't get enough of them.

Published 19 months ago by jaydeluzio

Five Stars

Excellent

Published 21 months ago by Freddy Castro

Classic Black metal album

Morbid Tales from Celtic Frost is a ride through an endless void where light has no real place... NOT for the faint of heart

Published on April 5, 2014 by Jason A.

One of the best albums of the era.

One of the best albums from the early incarnations of Celtic Frost. This album put them at the top of the black metal scene in the mid eighties. Read more

Published on February 6, 2014 by cfredhappy

A Crude But Great Start

This was Celtic Frost’s first true album under that name. I picked up the US vinyl version with the two additional tracks, Dethroned Emperor and Morbid Tales (which were part of a... Read more

Published on December 15, 2013 by Fred Rayworth

Rock on!

Great band What else can I say? This is a great purchase a one of a kind cd from a unique band, this is more than awesome.

Published on August 28, 2013 by PABG, Somewhere in the world

This is the Morbid Tales release to obtain

This maybe hard to find, but along with the original press of "To Megatherion", I would recommend over the later pressings. Read more

Published on February 21, 2012 by J. P. Kennon

the best of the mighty frost

morbid tales is a bad ass straight forward early death metal album. starts off w an eery track called human, then goes into the fast paced into the crypts of rays. Read more

Published on August 30, 2010 by greg delucia

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