Vanity/Nemesis

Vanity/Nemesis
Vanity/Nemesis
Studio album by Celtic Frost
Released	11 April 1990
Recorded	1989
Studio	Sky Track Studio and Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany
Genre	Heavy metal; thrash metal; gothic metal;
Length	45:38
Label	EMI/Noise; Noise/RCA (USA)
Producer	Roli Mosimann; Karl-Ulrich Walterbach;
Celtic Frost chronology
Singles from Vanity/Nemesis
	"Wine in My Hand (Third from the Sun)"; Released: 1990;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	9/10^[2]

Vanity/Nemesis is the fifth studio album by Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost, released on 11 April 1990 through Noise Records.

Modern reviews see this album as a return-to-form compared to the band's previous album, Cold Lake, but contemporary critics panned it.^[1]^[2] The band continued experimenting and evolving their music, this time fusing elements of traditional heavy metal, thrash metal and gothic rock.^[1] It has a different sound from the black/thrash metal of the first two albums, or the avant-garde metal of Into the Pandemonium, although Vanity/Nemesis retains lyrical and musical elements from those releases.^[1]^[2]

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 album also includes a cover of David Bowie's 1977 hit "Heroes".

The track "The Heart Beneath" was used on the Manga Entertainment compilation trailers on the UK, Dutch, Spanish and Australian released video tapes.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Torreano, Bradley. "Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis review". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

[allmusic-1] Torreano, Bradley. "Celtic Frost - Vanity/Nemesis review". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 January 2017.

[martin-2] Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

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