Emperor's Return

Emperor's Return is the second release by the Swiss extreme metal band Celtic Frost. It was released in 1985 as an extended play and was their first record featuring American drummer Reid Cruickshank (a.k.a. "Reed St. Mark").^[3] The band's bleak publicity photographs from this period had an influence on the fashion and style of the developing black metal genre.^[2] The tracks of Emperor's Return were remastered and re-released in the 1999 edition of Morbid Tales and yet again remastered and included in the 2017 edition of To Mega Therion.

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ReleasedAugust 1985^[1]

RecordedOctober 1984 at Caet Studio in Berlin, Germany (tracks 2 and 3)
April 1985 at Line in Recording Studio in Zürich, Switzerland (tracks 1, 4, 5)

Genre

• Thrash metal
• black metal^[2]

Length21:21

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Emperor's Return
EP by Celtic Frost
Released	August 1985[1]
Recorded	October 1984 at Caet Studio in Berlin, Germany (tracks 2 and 3) April 1985 at Line in Recording Studio in Zürich, Switzerland (tracks 1, 4, 5)
Genre	Thrash metal black metal[2]
Length	21:21
Label	Noise (Europe) Enigma/Metal Blade (USA)
Producer	Horst Müller, Rick Lights, Tom Warrior, Martin Ain, Karl Walterbach
Celtic Frost chronology
Morbid Tales (1984) Emperor's Return (1985) To Mega Therion (1985)

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