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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This Island Earth Lyrics

Celtic Frost

Furious the exodus walks
Along the maddening march of death
With the furror and the masses
whose supremacies is the dominion
Alien bodies stiff and cold
your inner sane turns numb
you transform into a rage
to naive to understand
And as they go on the sacrifice grows
We're living on ground zero-fire!
This Island Earth
Target locked, system checked, enter code
We're living on ground zero Fire
Locked up in a room
Human belongs in a cage
The sentence is a scienced death
as they pull the trigger of ray guns
Evil blackened eyes of youth
Absorbing lifes hidden anguish
Death throw all about the ground
Or those who wouldn't fight
We're living on this Island Earth