| Vanity/Nemesis | ||||
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| Released | 11 April 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Studio | Sky Track Studio and Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany | |||
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| Length | 45:38 | |||
| Label | EMI/Noise Noise/RCA (USA) | |||
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| 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.