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Triptykon Press Release

Published on January 3, 2010 in Music. 0 Comments Tags: Black Metal, Eparistera Daimones, Tom Gabriel Warrior, TRIPTYKON.

Triptykon Press Release

Straight from the band’s press office… and boy, am I excited about this forthcoming release!

Triptykon, the group formed by former Hellhammer/Celtic Frost singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior, is proud to announce that the groups’ own label, Prowling Death Records Ltd., has entered into a licensing agreement with renowned metal giant Century Media Records.

Under the agreement, Century Media Records will release Triptykon’s massive debut album, Eparistera Daimones, in Europe and North America on March 22, 2010.

Eparistera Daimones was produced by Tom Gabriel Warrior and Triptykon guitarist V. Santura and recorded in V. Santura’s own Woodshed Studio in southern Germany, in the course of the second half of 2009. Like Celtic Frost’s highly praised Monotheist album, Eparistera Daimones was mastered by Walter Schmid at Oakland Recording in Winterthur, Switzerland. Eparistera Daimones is said to be heavier than Monotheist, dark, daring, and very diverse.

Tom Gabriel Warrior:

“I am very pleased about continuing my long-standing and very constructive affiliation with Century Media Records. After the demise of Celtic Frost, I was looking for continuity in every other aspect of my life, and the cooperation between Prowling Death Records Ltd. and Century Media Records has in the past already provided an outstanding platform for releases by Hellhammer (the Demon Entrails demo reissue album, 2008) and Celtic Frost (Monotheist, 2006).”

Eparistera Daimones will feature the following nine songs, at a playing time of around 70 minutes:

1. Goetia
2. Abyss Within My Soul
3. In Shrouds Decayed
4. Shrine
5. A Thousand Lies
6. Descendant
7. Myopic Empire
8. My Pain
9. The Prolonging

A further three Triptykon songs have also been recorded, and they, too, will be released in the course of 2010

The album will be further distinguished by stunning artwork from two highly acclaimed international artists, who, together with the group themselves, thus form their own artistic triptych.

Triptykon consists of V. Santura (guitar, vocals), Norman Lonhard (drums, percussion), Vanja Slajh (bass), and Tom Gabriel Warrior (voice, guitars). The group has unambiguously stated that it pursues the continuation and further development of the path Warrior began in Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. The group’s onstage debut is scheduled to take place as part of the distinguished Roadburn Festival, on April 16, 2010.

For further information and a full band biography, visit Triptykon’s website and MySpace page, where samples of the album’s music have been posted.

Former Celtic Frost Mainman’s Triptykon: Two New Songs Available For Streaming

Published on December 11, 2009 in Music. 0 Comments Tags: Celtic Frost, TRIPTYKON.

Former Celtic Frost Mainman's Triptykon: Two New Songs Available For Streaming

Triptykon, the new band featuring former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer, is streaming two brand new songs — “Abyss Within My Soul” and “A Thousand Lies” — on the group’s MySpace page.

Both cuts will appear on Triptykon’s debut album, “Eparistera Daimones”, which will be released in the spring through the band’s own label, Prowling Death Records (home of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost). The CD was produced by Fischer and Triptykon guitarist V. Santura and was mixed at Woodshed Studio in Germany. The mastering duties were handled by Walter Schmid at his Oakland Recording studio in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Commented Fischer: “This will mark the musical culmination of some two years of work on this project. Regardless of whether one will hate or love the music we have created with Triptykon, ‘Eparistera Daimones’ is an album with a very unique background and a truly unique history. Neither of which have been contrived. Come what may, nothing will ever be able to diminish that.”

Although the group has so far proceeded in virtual concealment, the music for “Eparistera Daimones” has been described as akin to a bleak, black ocean of heaviness, accentuated by moments of unexpected grace. Other songs tentatively set to appear on Triptykon’s debut album are, among others, “The Prolonging”, “Myopic Empire”, “Among Veiled Spirits”, “Sepultus” and “Goetia”.

Triptykon will follow the release of “Eparistera Daimones” with a number of festival appearances and a full tour. The group’s onstage debut is scheduled to take place as part of the renowned Roadburn festival in April 2010.

For further information, visit www.triptykon.net.

“Abyss Within My Soul” audio stream:

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Triptykon

Published on August 8, 2009 in Music. 1 Comment Tags: Black Metal, Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Fischer, TRIPTYKON.

Triptykon

As Celtic Frost arose from Hellhammer’s ashes, so arises Triptykon from Celtic Frost’s ashes.

Triptykon, the group formed by Tom Gabriel Warrior after his departure from Celtic Frost in April of 2008, is scheduled to commence studio recording sessions for a first album in mid-August 2009. The album, tentatively titled Eparistera Daimones, will mainly be recorded in southern Germany, with additional recording sessions to take place in Switzerland. Produced by Warrior and Triptykon guitarist V. Santura, the recording and mixing sessions are expected to continue until November 2009. The album is currently scheduled for release in spring of 2010, through the group’s own label, Prowling Death Records (home of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost).

Triptykon was created specifically to continue and further evolve the darkness invoked by its immediate precursors, seminal black/extreme metal pioneers Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. Accordingly, Triptykon’s first album is a persistent development of the virulent and towering musical darkness perpetuated not only by Warrior’s early work but also within his extensive contributions to Celtic Frost’s highly acclaimed Monotheist album. As expected, a significant part of the music on the album consists of material written by Warrior during the past few years and originally intended for Monotheist’s successor. This is balanced by new, original music written by Warrior and Santura since Triptykon’s inception.

Although the group has so far proceeded in virtual concealment, the music for Eparistera Daimones has been described as akin to a bleak, black ocean of heaviness, accentuated by moments of unexpected grace. Songs currently under consideration for inclusion on Triptykon’s debut album are, among others, “Myopic Empire”, “Among Veiled Spirits”, “Sepultus”, “Abyss Within My Soul”, “Goetia”, “A Thousand Lies”, and the 17-minute “The Prolonging”.

Triptykon will follow the release of Eparistera Daimones with a number of festival appearances and a full tour. The group’s onstage debut is scheduled to take place as part of the renowned Roadburn Festival, in April 2010.

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

Published on May 22, 2008 in Music. 0 Comments Tags: Black Metal, Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Fischer, TRIPTYKON.

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.