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\nMartin Eric Ain, co-founder and bassist of seminal Swiss metal band CELTIC FROST, has reportedly passed (October 21) at the age of 50. According to a report from Switzerland’s 20 Minuten, Martin died from a heart attack when he “suddenly collapsed when he switched to a different tram.”<\/p>\n
Originally launched in 1984, Celtic Frost was active until 1993, then reformed again in 2001 before disbanding again in 2008.
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\nCeltic Frost was a heavy metal band from Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres, particularly black metal. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer’s departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again.
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\nZ\u00fcrich, Switzerland\u2019s Celtic Frost were the supreme stylists of the nascent thrash and death metal genres when the band emerged in the mid-1980s. Celtic Frost\u2019s ultra-heavy, extreme version of metal, as well as the band\u2019s image \u2014 one of the first to include corpsepaint \u2014 anticipated the direction the genre would take over the next twenty-five years. The cult surrounding the band, particularly its first two albums, has continued to grow exponentially since its formation, and includes a number of musicians. Kurt Cobain, for instance, told reporters he had listened obsessively to a tape of Celtic Frost before recording Nirvana\u2019s debut album, Bleach.
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\nSinger and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer had founded the primitive, proto-death metal band Hellhammer in 1982. Bassist Martin Eric Ain joined Hellhammer the following year. On Celtic Frost\u2019s website, Fischer says of his association with the genre\u2019s guttural vocal style: “There were a number of death grunts in rock and funk music in the 1970s (and I believe even earlier), but [original Iron Maiden singer] Paul Di\u2019Anno circa 1980\/81 is indeed the reason why we in Hellhammer began to do the death grunt. Why it became so famous with us, out of all the bands who used\/use it, I don’t know. The press just loved Celtic Frost doing it and publicized it accordingly.”<\/p>\n
Fischer and Ain formed Celtic Frost in June 1984, following Hellhammer\u2019s breakup the month before, with a session drummer, happily named Stephen Priestly. Celtic Frost\u2019s debut album, Morbid Tales (1984 Noise\/Metal Blade), is a quantum leap in heaviness for the metal genre. The band, whose worldview seems closest to author H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s \u201ccosmic terror,\u201d disavows Satanism as well as Christianity: \u201cThere\u2019s no human scheme in the beyond,\u201d Fischer sings on \u201cInto the Crypts of Rays.\u201d The track \u201cDanse Macabre\u201d seems to be a kind of audio play, dramatizing some unspeakable encounter with supernatural forces. New drummer Reed St. Mark, from New York City, joined the band on the hastily recorded Emperor\u2019s Return EP (1985 Noise). Martin Eric Ain, co-founder and bassist of seminal Swiss metal band CELTIC FROST, has reportedly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61177,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61168\/revisions\/61177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAin briefly left the band during the recording of Celtic Frost\u2019s second album, which he had already named. The title of To Mega Therion (1985 Noise) is Greek for \u201cThe Great Beast\u201d and presumably refers to the seven-headed, ten-horned monster that rises out of the sea in Revelation 13, though John does not use the adjective \u201cmega\u201d in the Greek original. Occultist Aleister Crowley sometimes identified himself as \u201cTO MEGA THERION.\u201d The album\u2019s cover art features two paintings by Swiss artist H.R. Giger, creator of the Alien (1979) alien. Dominic Steiner plays bass on the original To Mega Therion, though Ain appears on several tracks on the 1999 reissue of the album, which replaces the original recordings of \u201cThe Usurper\u201d and \u201cJewel Throne\u201d with the re-recorded versions of those songs, featuring Ain, that appeared on the Tragic Serenades EP (1986 Noise). Orchestral brass contributes to the Wagnerian pomp of songs such as \u201cInnocence and Wrath\u201d and \u201cDawn of Meggido.\u201d
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\nSource: Lambgoat
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