Tragic Serenades

Tragic Serenades is an EP by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost. It was released in 1986, and was an influence on the developing death metal and black metal genres. According to frontman Thomas Gabriel Fischer, the purpose of this EP was to include Martin Eric Ain's bass lines and improve on Horst Müller's original production of tracks from To Mega Therion.[5]

Tragic Serenades
EP by
Celtic Frost
Released1986
Recorded13–15 March 1986
StudioMusiclab Studio in Berlin (new recordings)
Genre
Length11:40
LabelNoise
ProducerThomas G. Warrior, Martin Eric Ain, Karl Walterbach
Celtic Frost chronology
To Mega Therion
(1985)		 Tragic Serenades
(1986)		 Into the Pandemonium
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[3]
Kerrang![4]

The EP was reissued in 2018, with 2,500 copies pressed for Record Store Day 2018.[6]

Overview

The re-recorded version of "Return to the Eve" (the original version of which was featured on the Morbid Tales album) features Reed's habit of loudly goofing off during songs, with Reed loosely sharing lead vocals.[7] Celtic Frost included this "party-like studio jam" of the song on Tragic Serenades as their "first public display of light-heartedness".[8]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleLength
1."The Usurper"3:26
2."Jewel Throne"4:03
Side two
No.TitleLength
3."Return to the Eve" (Party Mix)4:10

Personnel
Celtic Frost
Production
  • Horst Müller – engineer (original recordings)
  • Harris Johns – engineer (new recordings)
  • Karl "Jeder Will 1500" Walterbach – executive producer

Notes
  1. Metal Storm: Celtic Frost timeline
  2. "Celtic Frost - Tragic Serenades review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-08.
  3. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 68. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  4. Russel, Xavier (7 August 1986). "Celtic frost 'Tragic Serenades'". Kerrang!. No. 126. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. p. 18.
  5. Fischer 1999, page 6.
  6. https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/9999
  7. Fischer 2000, page 116.
  8. Fischer 2000, page 138.

References
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