Bread (band)

. Discography. After a successful reunion, tensions between Gates and Griffin drove the band apart again, this time permanently. Their last album was a collection called Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying (1992). Royer left the group, replaced by Larry Knechtel in time for a series of hit singles and a hit album called Baby I'm-A Want You, followed by Guitar Man. Personal disputes soon broke up the band, with Gates and Griffin beginning solo careers. Marks soon left again, but Martin Eric Ain returned soon after to replace him. Hiring Mike Botts (drums), Bread began touring and recording Manna, which included their most enduring hit, "If". Though it was critically successful, Celtic Frost's reputation had not recovered yet.

Bread, the band's debut album, was a failure. Their second album established Bread as a major act, hitting the mainstream with "Make It With You". Warrior fired Amberg and convinced Ron Marks to return for the release of Vanity/Nemesis in 1990. Bread was a 1970s rock and roll band from Los Angeles, California. David Gates (keyboard, vocals) and James Griffin (guitar, vocals) formed the group in 1968, adding Robb Royer (guitar, vocals, of Pleasure Faire) before signing to Elektra Records. The album was an utter failure in both mainstream and heavy metal markets, and the band was ridiculed by its former fans as a sell-out. They mutated the death metal/black metal sound into radio-friendly thrash/glam rock sound. Despite his willingness, Warrior did not take much interest in the album and producer Tony Platt and Amberg took control of the recording of Cold Lake.

Six months later, Warrior decided to reform the band with Stephen Priestly, Oliver Amberg and Curt Victor Bryant. During a subsequent American tour, financial trouble and personal tension between the bandmembers led to a complete dissolution. The album was one of the pivotal LPs of heavy metal in Europe, and innovated a new, more classical sound in death metal. However, their most influential recording is 1987 Into the Pandemonium.

To Mega Therion was just as successful as their first. Their second album was To Mega Therion, with cover artwork by H.R. Giger. By 1984, Hellhammer had morphed into a more gothic, classical group called Celtic Frost. Their debut LP, Morbid Tales was a hit in the European metal scene, and the band set out on its first tour, through Germany and Austria. The band attracted a small local fanbase, and they soon signed to Noise Records in Germany.

With Bruce Day and Steve Warrior, he formed Hellhammer in 1982. The frontman, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, was of Swiss origin, and changed his name to Tom Warrior early in his career.
Celtic Frost was a European black metal band. Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return (1998).

Parched With Thirst Am I and Dying (1992). Vanity/Nemesis (1990). Cold Lake (1988). Into the Pandemonium (1987).

Tragic Serenades (1986). Emperor's Return (1985). To Mega Therion (1985). Morbid Tales (1984).