Morbid Tales
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| Studio album by Celtic Frost | ||||
| Released | November 1984 | |||
| Recorded | October 8–15, 1984 | |||
| Studio | Caet Studio in Berlin, Germany | |||
| Genre | Black metal,thrash metal | |||
| Length | 24:51 (Europe) 32:09 (USA) |
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Noise (Europe) Enigma/Metal Blade (USA) |
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| Producer | Horst Müller, Tom Warrior, Martin Ain, Karl Walterbach | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 5/10 |
Morbid Tales is the debut EP by the Swiss extreme metal band, Celtic Frost, released in November 1984. It was originally released in Europe as a six-track mini-album. However, the first American release by Enigma/Metal Blade added two tracks, making Morbid Tales an LP.
In 1999 a remastered edition of Morbid Tales was released on CD by Noise Records, which contained also the tracks from their 1985 EP Emperor's Return.
The thrash metal intensity of Morbid Tales had a major influence on the then-developing death metal and black metal genres. It included elements that were adopted by the pioneers of both styles. The band's bleak and dead serious fashion style was also influential, including their corpse paint face makeup.
In the commentary for Darkthrone's album Panzerfaust, Fenriz cites this album along with Bathory's Under the Sign of the Black Mark and Vader's Necrolust as key riff inspirations.
"Danse Macabre" was later sampled in the demo track "Totgetanzt" from their 2002 demo album Prototype.
All songs written by Tom Warrior and Martin Ain, except where noted.
Credits adapted from the original editions.
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