CELTIC FROST EXPLAIN ALBUM DELAY 04/01/06

Celtic Frost men Tom Fischer and Martin Eric Ain recently talked to Terrorizer about the reasons for the long delay in the recording of their first new album in 15 years, 'Monotheist.'

Tom: "Everything you can think of happened. I cannot describe it any other way. From technical problems to personal problems to song writing developement - anything you can imagine. With hindsight I'm glad we let it mature because now it's exactly where we imagined it would be when we first talked about this. Any time before would have been nice for that f ans - I've read all the complaints on the Celtic Frost board."

Martin: "You should keep in mind in that regard that this wasn't about a band writing an album, it was about forming a band and writing an album. We had to get ourselves back together again and redefine our relationship. We had loose contact over the years, and I'd been out of the gamefor years and had to get myself into Celtic Frost mode. We also had to find a drummer. So it was forming a band and then writing the material."

Tom: "We recorded tons of demos that nobody will ever hear. Some are finished and mixed, some are just basics. That was very important for the gestation of this album. Also, we were under no boligation to release an album by a certain date. This wasn't a band coming back together because management and record company offered a lot of money. we did it because we wanted to. We had total indepedence. We did the album on our own time and since we had already waited 15 years, what difference would a month or 10 months make? We wanted to make the album the way it needed to be."

To Mega Therion is a good place to start, I love that album. Can't write a CLASSIC review for it because of that... it's killing me, I swear.

Because of what?

Because I like it too much and don't want to sound like a desperate nutcase.