Celtic Frost were once described by Kerrang! as “the Black Sabbath of the ’80s”. In a time of metal getting faster, harder and louder, like Sabbath, the Swiss trio stood out from their peers thanks their dark and sinister tone. Harnessed to a creative genius and a vision to be more than another metal outfit, not to mention their grim look, their aura was genuinely one of otherworldliness. There was nothing else on Earth like them. This was a marked improvement on the review of their debut release. The write-up for 1984’s Morbid Tales earned bottom marks, just as Apocalyptic Raids, the sole EP by the band’s previous incarnation as the noisier, harsher Hellhammer had done. “One ‘K’ stood for ‘Kompost’ in those days,” recalls frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer (then kn...