“In my memory it is very clear, like watching a film. We gambled our entire career on this album." How Celtic Frost laid the blueprint for extreme metal, black metal and death metal with their debut Morbid Tales

Celtic Frost.

After Hellhammer released their only EP – Apocalyptic Raids – in March 1984, the band split up shortly after. Their frontman Tom G. Warrior (Thomas Gabriel Fischer) and bassist Martin E. Ain returned shortly after with a band with a similarly uncompromising vision: Celtic Frost.

In this 2019 interview, Fischer looks back on their debut release which led metal down a new path of extremity.