Ex-CELTIC FROST Frontman TOM GABRIEL FISCHER: 'The Triptych Is Thus Complete'

Former CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has issued the following update via his blog:

"It is as if a prophecy. Three times in my life have I been led by events to form an occult extreme metal group in the month of May. HELLHAMMER, in May 1982; CELTIC FROST, the night of May 31, 1984; and now TRIPTYKON, in May 2008. The triptych is thus complete."

Winged triptych pentagram XIII and Triptykon Weimar logo VII, created in 2008, can be viewed below.

TRIPTYKON's lineup also features Reed St. Mark (ex-CELTIC FROST),V. Santura (DARK FORTRESS) and Vanja Slay. 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 in April, citing "the irresolvable, severe erosion of the personal basis so urgently required to collaborate within a band so unique, volatile, and ambitious."

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.