Swiss band Celtic Frost rose from the ashes of Hellhammerin 1984. They are considered to be one of the bands that paved the way for a darker black metal genre, along with Venomand Mercyful Fate; however, they are not considered a black metal band. Their sound is more accurately described as blackened thrash metal. Their 1987 album Into The Pandemonium was revolutionary in the sense that it was one of the first pieces of music to combine elements of heavy metal with gothic and operatic elements. This paved the way for the so-called "beauty-and-the-beast" doom metal bands of the 1990s and some avant-garde metal bands.
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Celtic Frost

The pyramids tremble, darken the sun, (the) sky tums red
They reached the wall of no return (and the) breeze has stopped
Who wore the crown will never be known - might is broken
For all well drown into the sand - what will remain?
Inverted horizons, denied truth and blinded eyes
The titans arise, the monuments fall, we cannot halt
Wishful pleads at last came true, some always knew
The clouds burn - or is it fire? ... the gods wince
Human pride and megalomania - the titans watched it all
The trace led to nowhere - wrath had to come
As ushers at the gates - to ecstasy and excess
Aii turn their backs - they wont give us any rest
(the) fires wont redeem, illuminateds the night - the eternal summer
When they came high from the sphere on shrieking wings ...
Now theyre trapped to the ground, to heat and dust
And the eye is glowing above ...