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‘Celtic Frost: A Dying God’ Documentary

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on November 17, 2008

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Celtic Frost: Monotheist

This Sunday, November 16, 2008, at 11.30pm, Swiss national TV station SF1 will premiere the first full-length documentary film shot about celebrated and controversial Swiss extreme metal group Celtic Frost.

“Celtic Frost - A Dying God” was directed by Swiss journalist and documentary filmmaker Adrian Winkler, whose team followed Celtic Frost for two years on the road during the group’s final undertaking, the “Monotheist” Tour, in 2006 and 2007. Winkler captured Celtic Frost across Europe, Japan, and the United States, as well as at the Wacken and Hole In The Sky festivals. In addition, the documentary features dedicated interviews with the group’s members.

Wiinkler: “The film documents Celtic Frost striving to do justice to their own legendary reputation. It is an emotional journey, capturing, among other things, the band members facing their own, dark past.”

SF1 will re-broadcast the documentary on November 23, 2008, at 5.30am.

Website of Swiss national TV station SF1 on the documentary: Celtic Frost - A Dying God

Celtic Frost’s Martin Eric Ain

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on June 24, 2008

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pic: l-r Martin Ain and Tom Gabriel Fischer

In light of the tragic disbanding of the amazing Celtic Frost, no one had heard the other side of the coin until bassist Martin Ain’s following update:

“We are deeply sorry about the cancellation of the summer festivals and the Giger Museum anniversary show this year. We regret the adversity that this caused fans and promoters alike. Tom Gabriel Fischer [guitar, vocals] has left the band, but Celtic Frost is still alive, albeit in a coma of sorts. Franco [Sesa, drums] and I are not going to continue recording or touring as Celtic Frost. This would be preposterous without one of its founding members, the original voice and its defining guitarist. But we are not going to officially disband CF. We hope that there might be a possibility of talking things over and overcoming the differences that caused this schism. Most certainly this will not happen now, but maybe sometime in the future. After all, this is not the first time in the history of this band that things have gone wrong. In the meantime, Franco and I will continue to create music of our own. Under what name or with whom else shall remain open for now. For the time being, we accept Tom’s decision as being better for all of us and we would like to whish all the best for him and his future projects. A thank you is due to all fans and friends for their support in these difficult times. We hope that at least the work of these past years was as pleasurable to you as it was to us.”

Why Do You Seek The Living Among The Dead? The Return of Tom Gabriel Fischer

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on May 22, 2008

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Tom Gabriel Fischer

Former Celtic Frost frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has announced the formation of his new band, TRIPTYKON. Check out the group’s logo at this location. The first audio sample, a track called Cucifixus, can be heard on Triptykon’s official MySpace page.

Commented Fischer: “Triptykon will sound as close to Celtic Frost as is humanly possible, and the album I am working on will feature all the material I envisioned for the successor to [Celtic Frost's] ‘Monotheist’. I desire the album to be a darker, heavier, and slightly more experimental development of ‘Monotheist’.

“‘Cucifixus’ is but one of many compositions to that end. TRIPTYKON is not defined by just this one song, however, just like Celtic Frost was not defined by ‘Totengott’ alone.”

Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost last month, citing “the irresolvable, severe erosion of the personal basis so urgently required to collaborate within a band so unique, volatile, and ambitious.”

“I have always seen the ‘Monotheist’ album as a mere beginning, and a tame one at that,” he explained. “My mind and spirit are full of energy, creativity, and ideas. Celtic Frost had become the unreserved focus of my life for the second time. I was looking forward immeasurably to working on the next Celtic Frost album. To me, it needed to be darker, heavier, and more experimental than ‘Monotheist’.

“And yet, Celtic Frost consisted of three individuals, and I was only one of them. In the end I had to concede to myself that there was no other option.”

Fischer added, “Artistically, I did not want to leave Celtic Frost at all; I have never been happier with the music and creativity in the band. I saw ‘Monotheist’ as only the first of hopefully several distinctive albums by this group. I thus plan on continuing exactly in the artistic vein of Celtic Frost. I had very a distinct vision of what the next two Celtic Frost albums might consist of, and I intend to eventually fulfill this vision and complete these albums with a new group. I would also like to continue touring and perform the music I have written in Celtic Frost over the years for audiences all across the globe.”

It was reported earlier in the year that Celtic Frost was putting together an album tentatively titled “Monotheist Companion” that will feature unreleased songs from 2006’s “Monotheist” sessions and rearrangements of tracks from the album. The disc is tentatively due in the summer.

Tom Gabriel Fischer Quits Celtic Frost

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on April 11, 2008

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Tom Gabriel Fischer Quits Celtic Frost

Its weird how things pan out. Just the other night I had an inkling to once again listen to Celtic Frost’s brilliant and masterful ‘Monotheist’ album. (covered extensively on this here blog upon its release). I played this album to death when it came out on a musical rotation policy that lasted for months. Every so often I would also check out Celtic Frost’s mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer’s blog which is always an interesting read and keeps people informed and involved in all the dastardly deeds in the Frost camp.

Several days ago, the blog was offline and appeared to have been hacked. A new blog sprung forth and featured some exciting news about Tom’s involvement in the H.R. Giger camp. For those in the know, Celtic Frost and Giger are a match made in the outer reaches of hell! Celtic Frost’s music is so perfectly in sync with the sick and twisted stylings of H.R. Giger.

Right here on Dogmatic we posted about a forthcoming gig featuring Celtic Frost performing at the Giger Museum’s 10th Anniversary bash. Things were looking promising.

Within the span of several hours, Fischer announces his exodus from Celtic Frost. Huh? How is this possible? He IS Celtic Frost.

“Celtic Frost singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer has left Celtic Frost due to the irresolvable, severe erosion of the personal basis so urgently required to collaborate within a band so unique, volatile, and ambitious.”

I was personally upset at the news as this is a band I have followed since 1983. I managed to find an email address for Tom and sent of a supportive email. I was pleasantly surprised to hear back from him and it all appears to be true… he is no longer a member of Celtic Frost.

In his email to me Tom states: “…John, It is indeed a tragedy. I am deeply affected. Unfortunately, I don’t think things can be fixed, as the others don’t regard Celtic Frost to be that important…”

In a post on his new blog Fischer explains: “…I am devastated beyond description, and I am infinitely disappointed. As the one member of Celtic Frost who is exposed most dramatically to the feedback by our audiences and the media, I feel troubled and humiliated about being unable to honor the enormous goodwill extended to Celtic Frost during the past few years and meet the justified expectations of our fans…”

It will be interesting to see what happens from this point on. But if Celtic Frost are no more (let’s face it, without Tom they are nothing!) - here’s hoping that Tom Gabriel Fischer is not lost to the world of Avant Garde music…

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Celtic Frost & H.R. Giger

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on April 9, 2008

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Celtic Frost & H.R. Giger

Swiss Black/Death/Doom Metallers Celtic Frost will play a special party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the H.R. Giger Museum on June 21. The group will pay tribute to the Swiss fantasy artist who designed the creature in the Alien movies and contributed the cover to Frost’s To Mega Therion album, among other accomplishments.

In a 2006 interview with the Associated Press, bassist Michael Eric Ain said of Giger, “We were completely stunned when he got back to us telling us that he could relate to the music, that he saw something of his art reflected in the music. That was one of the biggest boosts we’ve ever gotten artistically speaking, because back in those days…a lot of the inspiration we got was from literature or art”.

The concert will tentatively take place at 11 P.M. at the Globull nightclub in Bulle, Switzerland.

Celtic Frost: Monotheist

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on September 23, 2006

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Celtic Frost: Monotheist

Holy Mother of God! Celtic Frost’s newly released ‘Monotheist’ has not only exceeded my expectations, it has completely blown me away and refused to leave my iPod and iTunes. On heavy rotation, it permeates the office and home airwaves as I will not play anything else but this fucker! I had thought Celtic Frost all but dead - their glory days buried deep and far away somewhere in the mid to late 80’s. Even though the band’s origins spawned out of the (awful!) Hellhammer back in 1984 (they were so bad back then you just had to take notice!) they reformed as Celtic Frost and released the wonderful ‘Morbid Tales’.

With the rest of the metalsphere trying to mimic the fledgling Metallica and trying to play at ridiculously fast speeds, Celtic Frost took a different approach. Haunting, catchy Sabbath-esque riffs filled their repertoire. Always experimental and even operatic in places, infinitely evil and sinister, the Frost were a unique and cathartic band that were busy creating a sound uniquely their own. No one sounded like them. No one had the balls to pull off such an album as the gloom-ridden opus ‘Into The Pandemonium’. Which other Metal band would even attempt a cover of Wall of Voodoo’s ‘Mexican Radio’ and do it so magnificently? And here we are, years later - Celtic Frost have returned with quite possibly one of the finest releases for 2006. I can’t even begin to put into words just how good this album is. Innovative. Fresh. Atmospheric. Brutal. In this Metalcore (ugh!) world we currently live in where every band tries to out-muscle every other band by screaming and growling like a carbon-copy of eachother, it is refreshing, so refreshing that a band like Celtic Frost are back with an album so sinister, so macabrely evil that they are going to take the Metal world by the scruff of its collective neck and send it to hell!

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