Cold Lake

Cold Lake is an album by the Swiss metal band Celtic Frost. It was not popular with the group or its fans and is no longer available to buy, making the album much sought after by collectors. After a disheartening end to their "One in Their Pride" tour in Dallas, Texas, Thomas G. Warrior decided to end the band. However, in mid 1988, at the request of Oliver Amberg and with the support of producer Tony Platt, the band was resurrected, although with an entirely new line-up. Even though the project had the cooperation of Warrior, he held little interest in it and so allowed Amberg to do most of the musical composition. The album was released in 1988 and received hugely negative reviews by critics and the band was labeled a sell-out by its core fanbase. The music was changed to sound more like glam metal such as Mötley Crüe (a popular style at the time) than that of the hardcore underground thrash/death/black metal that defined the band (and its early incarnation, Hellhammer) or avant-garde influenced doom/thrash sound era Into the Pandemonium.