Into the Pandemonium is the second studio album by Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost, released in 1987. The album is more varied than Celtic Frost's past LPs, with unlikely covers (Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio"), emotionally charged love songs, the album's recurring industrial-influenced rhythmic songs of demons and destruction, traditional Frost-styled songs about dreams and fear, and a dark, classical piece with female vocals.
The album is vastly different from the band's previous work which cemented its late 1980s avant-garde metal term; it is also a departure from the style found on the band's previous albums, Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion that Celtic Frost had become known for. However, it does have the recurring symphonic elements found on previous albums. The album has a more classic heavy metal style within the songs with elements of industrial, classical, gothic rock and doom metal. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic called it "one of the classic extreme metal albums of all time."
TRACK LISTING:
A1. Mexican Radio
A2. Mesmerized
A3. Inner Sanctum
A4. Tristesses De La Lune
A5. Babylon Fell
B1. Caress Into Oblivion
B2. One In Their Pride (Porthole Mix)
B3. I Won't Dance (The Elders' Orient)
B4. Rex Irae (Requiem)
B5. Oriental Masquerade
C1. Sorrows Of The Moon (Pandemonium session track)
C2. The Inevitable Factor (Pandemonium session track)
D1. In The Chapel In The Moonlight (The Collector's Celtic Frost 12" single track)
D2. One In Their Pride (Re-Entry Mix) (Pandemonium session track)
D3. The Inevitable Factor (Alternate Vocals) (Pandemonium session track)