Tragic Serenades

Tragic Serenades
EP by Celtic Frost
Released 1986
Recorded 13–15 March 1986
Studio Musiclab Studio in Berlin (new recordings)
Genre Black metal, death metal[1]
Length 11:40
Label Noise
Producer Thomas G. Warrior, Martin Eric Ain, Karl Walterbach
Celtic Frost chronology
To Mega Therion
(1985)To Mega Therion1985		 Tragic Serenades
(1986)		 Into the Pandemonium
(1987)Into the Pandemonium1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[3]
Kerrang![4]

Tragic Serenades is an EP by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost. It was released in 1986, and was an influence on the developing death metal and black metal genres. According to frontman Thomas Gabriel Fischer, the purpose of this EP was to include Martin Eric Ain's bass lines and improve on Horst Müller's original production of tracks from To Mega Therion.[5]

The EP was reissued in 2018, with 2,500 copies pressed for Record Store Day 2018 [6].

Overview

The re-recorded version of "Return to the Eve" (the original version of which was featured on the Morbid Tales album) features Reed's habit of loudly goofing off during songs, with Reed loosely sharing lead vocals.[7] Celtic Frost included this "party-like studio jam" of the song on Tragic Serenades as their "first public display of light-heartedness".[8]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Usurper"3:26
2."Jewel Throne"4:03
Side two
No.TitleLength
3."Return to the Eve" (Party Mix)4:10

Personnel

Celtic Frost
Production
  • Horst Müller - engineer (original recordings)
  • Harris Johns - engineer (new recordings)
  • Karl "Jeder Will 1500" Walterbach - executive producer

Notes

  1. ↑ Metal Storm: Celtic Frost timeline
  2. ↑ "Celtic Frost - Tragic Serenades review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  4. ↑ Russel, Xavier (7 August 1986). "Celtic frost 'Tragic Serenades'". Kerrang!. No. 126. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. p. 18.
  5. ↑ Fischer 1999, page 6.
  6. ↑ https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/9999
  7. ↑ Fischer 2000, page 116.
  8. ↑ Fischer 2000, page 138.

References

  • Thomas Gabriel, Fischer (1999). To Mega Therion (CD Booklet). Celtic Frost. Berlin, Germany: Noise Records. N 0326-2.
  • Fischer, Thomas Gabriel (2000). Are You Morbid?: Into the Pandemonium of Celtic Frost. London, UK: Sanctuary. ISBN 978-1860743108.
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