Vanity/Nemesis
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Vanity/Nemesis is a the fourth studio album by Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost. It was released on April 11, 1990 through Noise Records. It can be seen as a return-to-form compared to the band's previous album, Cold Lake. The album also includes a cover of David Bowie's 1977 hit "Heroes". Unlike their first 3 albums before the Cold Lake era; this album shows the band heading in a thrash metal direction instead of the black/death metal sound of the first 2 albums, or the avant-garde metal of Into the Pandemonium. Vanity/Nemesis would be Celtic Frost's last studio album before the dissolution of the band in 1993 and until their return album in 2006 Monotheist. Vanity/Nemesis was re-released in 1999 with additional tracks.
The track "The Heart Beneath" was used on the Manga Entertainment compilation trailers on the UK, Dutch and Australian released video tapes.
Track listing
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| 1. | "The Heart Beneath" | 3:49 |
| 2. | "Wine in My Hand (Third from the Sun)" | 3:26 |
| 3. | "Wings of Solitude" | 4:35 |
| 4. | "The Name of My Bride" | 4:30 |
| 5. | "This Island Earth" (Bryan Ferry cover) | 5:49 |
| 6. | "The Restless Seas" | 5:40 |
| 7. | "Phallic Tantrum" | 3:31 |
| 8. | "A Kiss or a Whisper" | 3:04 |
| 9. | "Vanity" | 4:24 |
| 10. | "Nemesis" | 7:46 |
| 11. | "Heroes" (David Bowie cover*) | 3:45 |
| 12. | "A Descent to Babylon (Babylon Asleep)**" | 4:26 |
* Not on the original Vinyl release
** 1999's re-release bonustrack
Personnel
- Celtic Frost
- Thomas Gabriel Fischer – Vocals, Guitars (except Tracks 3, 7), Bass (Track 7), Backing vocals (Tracks 1, 2, 6, 7, 8)
- Curt Victor Bryant – Bass (except Track 1, 7), Guitars (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12), Backing vocals (Tracks 1, 2)
- Martin E. Ain - Bass (Track 1), Backing vocals (Tracks 1, 7, 10)
- Stephen Priestly – Drums
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- Session musicians
- Michele Amar - Additional vocals (Tracks 3, 11)
- Uta Gunther - Backing vocals (Tracks 3, 6, 9, 10, 12)
- Roli Mosimann - Additional vocals (Track 1), Sampling keyboards (Track 10)
- Michelle Fischer - Additional vocals (Track 1)
- Ron Marks - Guitar (except Track 2, 7)
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- Production
- Alex Leser - Engineering
- Michele Amar - Engineering
- Andreas Gerhardt - Engineering
- Michael Herzog - Engineering
- Brian Martin - Mixing, Engineering
- Voco Fauxpas - Engineering
- Roli Mosimann - Producer
- Karl-U. Walterbach - Executive producer
- Howie Weinberg - Mastering
- Tom Re - Engineering
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References
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r3493
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