TRACKLISTING
1. Progeny
2. Ground
3. Dying God Coming into Human Flesh
4. Drown in Ashes
5. Os Abysmi Vel Daath
6. Obscured
7. Domain of Decay
8. Ain Elohim
9. Totengott
10. Synagoga Satanae
11. Winter: Requiem/Chapter Three: Finale
review by NecroGool, www.malcolmcallus.com
www.bisoulpromotions.tk
This reviewer being known to highlight the fact when an album would have been better off as an EP, here am I to review an opus for the whole metal world, that is Monotheist by the legendary CELTIC FROST who after 15 years of absence, still know the game of the word “ground-breaking” as they present us with an album so good that one wishes it lasts as a double album. Yet being the experienced players they are, they did not feel pressured and took 4 years to complete this.
First off, the stylistic bursts by which Tom G. Warrior wraps his lyrics, an identity revered by many, compared by none. Especially as once again it reveals more than one new approach to add as asset to its puzzle.
Then you got the simplistic riffing characteristic of CELTIC FROST all these years, yet menacing in their towering approach. Very menacing in fact as although guitar and generic sound nuances on this album do not strike you on a stand-alone basis, when part of the great collage that makes Monotheist, they grab you down to an abyss, that if one has to come up from, it is only when Monotheist decides that this happens.
In other words, this album is that strong, it just takes you away and carries you where it decides, and believe me my friends, that place is not a summer picnic, but the usual Lovecraftian world of FROST we have grown to cherish all these years, a world of sheer darkness, a world that makes one love darkness as it is the only alternative, and that is the power of Monotheist.
Gosh, I still feel giving myself slave to and not wanting it to end, when I listen to Obscured, my fave track on this platter!!! Yet I cannot say it is the best track as literally every song, each bloody song, has a character of its own which I like, from the banging aurae of Progeny & Ground to the doom of A Dying God … & Os Abysmi Vei Daath to the cries of perdition on Ain Elohim.
I stop here. Just get yourself a copy as history is in the making here…. Once again!!!
Celtic Frost
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