| Morbid Tales | ||||
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| Released | November 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 8–15 October 1984 | |||
| Studio | Caet Studio in Berlin, Germany | |||
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| Length | 24:51 (Mini-LP) 32:09 (LP) 50:02 (album version) | |||
| Label | Noise (Europe) Enigma/Metal Blade (US) | |||
| Producer | Horst Müller, Tom Warrior, Martin Ain, Karl Walterbach | |||
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Morbid Tales is the debut album by Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in November 1984. It was originally released in Europe on Noise Records as a mini-LP with six tracks, while the American release by Enigma/Metal Blade added two tracks, bringing it to the length of a regular studio LP. The band retrospectively refers to the LP release as the band's debut studio album.[3][4]
In 1999 a remastered edition of Morbid Tales was released on CD by Noise Records, which also contained the tracks from their 1985 EP Emperor's Return as well as a 2017 remastered edition released by the same label on CD and vinyl formats.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 5/10[5] |
- ^ a b Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales review". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2003.
With its highly focused thrash metal intensity and peculiar mix of satanic and esoteric lyrics, the album would sow the seeds of Frost's overwhelming influence in years to come.
- ^ Strachan, Guy (February 2005). "Black Metal Foundations Top 20: Celtic Frost, Morbid Tales". Terrorizer. No. 128. p. 42.
- ^ RIVADAVIA, EDUARDO (24 June 2014). "INFLUENTIAL CELTIC FROST DEBUT ALBUM 'MORBID TALES' TURNS 30 YEARS OLD". Loudwire. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ Warrior, Tom. "Rolling Stone Magazine's "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time" Delineation II". Retrieved 7 June 2023.
...it is of course a significant honour to find Celtic Frost's debut album Morbid Tales of 1984 featured as number 28 of Rolling Stone magazine's 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time'.
- ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 67–68. ISBN 978-1894959315.