Album
Vanity / Nemesis
Vanity / Nemesis is the fifth studio album by the Swiss band Celtic Frost, released in 1990. It followed Cold Lake and turned out to be their last record before the group split in 1993, with the next studio album, Monotheist, not arriving until 2006. A reissue with additional tracks appeared in 1999.
The band kept experimenting here, blending traditional heavy metal, thrash and gothic rock. It sounds different from the black and thrash metal of their first two albums and from the avant-garde leanings of Into the Pandemonium, though it keeps some of the lyrical and musical traits of those records. Critics at the time panned it, but later reviewers have seen it as a return to form after Cold Lake. There's also a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes", and "The Heart Beneath" turned up in trailers on Manga Entertainment video releases.
Vanity / Nemesis: tracklist and credits
11 tracks · 49:20Tracklist
- 1The Heart BeneathBryant, Priestly, Warrior3:50
- 2Wine in My Hand (Third From the Sun)Steven Priestly and Thomas Gabriel Warrior3:26
- 3Wings of SolitudeThomas Gabriel Warrior4:35
- 4The Name of My BrideMartin Eric Ain and Curt Victor Bryant4:30
- 5This Island EarthBryan Ferry5:49
- 6The Restless SeasBryant, Marks, Warrior4:40
- 7Phallic TantrumAin, Bryant, Warrior3:31
- 8A Kiss or a WhisperAin, Bryant, Warrior3:04
- 9VanityAin, Bryant, Priestly, Warrior4:24
- 10NemesisAin, Bryant, Marks, Warrior7:46
- 11HeroesDavid Bowie and Brian Eno3:45
- Produced by
- Roli Mosimann, Karl-Ulrich Walterbach
- Recorded at
- Sky Track Studio and Hansa Studios, Berlin, Germany
- Recorded
- 1989
- Labels
- EMI, EMI/Noise, Noise/RCA (USA)
- Length
- 49:20
Line-up
- Martin Eric Ain · bass, background vocals
- Curt Victor Bryant · bass, guitar, background vocals
- Ron Marks · guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Steven Priestly · drums (drum set), background vocals
- Thomas Gabriel Warrior · guitar, background vocals, lead vocals, bass
- Michelle Fischer · vocals · guest
- Roli Mosimann · vocals, sampler · guest
- Michele Amar · vocals · guest
- Uta Günther · background vocals
Singles
- “Wine in My Hand (Third from the Sun)” · 1990
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date sources disagree on the year (1989, 1990)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 12 October 1990 | ignored lone early release dated 1990-04-11 |
| Wikipedia infobox | 11 April 1990 | |
| Wikidata | 1989 | |
| US release | 1990 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 1990 | earliest UK or European date |
13 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | GB | EMI | 0077779407019 | other |
| 1990 | US | RCA | 078635240320 | other |
| 1990 | GB | EMI Noise | other | |
| 11 April 1990 | DE | EMI Noise | 077779407026 | original |
| 12 October 1990 | JP | EMI | 4988006651197 | other |
| 1992 | DE | Noise | 4006030019926 | other |
| 1999 | DE | Noise Records | 4006030032826 | other |
| 2005 | RU | Sanctuary Records | 4601250329659 | other |
| 28 August 2006 | GB | Noise Records | 5050441801921 | other |
| 2007 | JP | Noise International | 4988002519743 | other |
| 28 December 2010 | XW | Noise Records | 4050538214383 | deluxe |
| 20 June 2017 | XE | BMG | 4050538214352 | other |
| — | — | Noise Records | 4050538841206 | other |
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| coverartarchive | 300×296 | upscaled |