Shortly before driving to what was then West Berlin to enter Casablanca Recording Studio and commence the To Mega Therion recording sessions, Celtic Frost gathered at photographer Ernst Wirz's photo studio on Forchstrasse in Zurich, Switzerland, to conduct the photo session that was to yield the images that would appear on the album.
Wirz, an accomplished Jazz musician in his own right, was a fashion photographer and part of Reed's circle of friends. His To Mega Therion photo session was easily the most ambitious the band had ever undertaken.
The photos posted here are previously unreleased outtakes from the hundreds of negatives of this photo session. They show the band with short-time bassist Dominic Steiner, who was with Celtic Frost for the duration of the album recording sessions.
