Cold Lake pretty much killed Celtic Frost’s career for good, and believe me, if they hadn’t made this record, they’d be as revered as Slayer are now. They’d probably have swimming pools, and Satanic groupies, and amped-up young ‘uns would carve the “CF” logo into their arms and bleed half to death while blastin’ their tunes. Tom Warrior would make cameos in big Hollywood action movies as, like, the mad Swiss bomber, and Martin Ain would have his own (spooky) reality show. And a new Jeep.
But none of that is ever gonna happen now. Why? Cold Lake. If ever there was an album that aimed so low it cut its own creators off at the ankles, it was Cold Lake. Ask him, and the album’s creator will tell how horrible it is, and grouse about the terrifying lapse of good taste and judgment it took to create such an abomination. But is he right? Is Cold Lake really that bad? Or was it just too far out for anybody to understand?
