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Former CELTIC FROST Frontman Featured In ARTE TV Documentary

August 24, 2009

As part of an a new six-episode documentary series about the evolution of the music scene in the 1980s, German/French TV station Arte is set to broadcast episode 5, titled "Gothic, Industrial & Black Metal", on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at 10:55 p.m. CET. This episode features new interviews with bands such as KILLING JOKE and CABARET VOLTAIRE as well as clips from an interview conducted with TRIPTYKON's Tom Gabriel Fischer about the emergence of HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST.

Commented Fischer: "It turned out to be a very candid and explicit interview, although only a few brief seconds will, of course, make it into the final documentary.

"Following a spontaneous and rather unexpected suggestion by Tom [Theunissen, writer/director], we wrapped up proceedings [in early June, when the interview was taped] by driving out to Nurensdorf, where I lived as a teenager and wrote all of HELLHAMMER's music, and Birchwil, location of the bunker in which HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST used to practice all these years ago. Such occasions feel explicitly surreal. The music we created back then was an unreservedly personal refuge from a despondent reality, and none of us would have envisioned such attention to ever be cast upon our underground universe."

"Welcome to the '80's - Episode 5: Gothic, Industrial & Black Metal", written and directed by Tom Theunissen, will air on Tuesday, August 25 at 10:55 p.m. CET. The broadcast will be repeated by Arte on Saturday, August 29, at 3:00 a.m. CET, and by German TV station ZDF on Thursday, September 3 at 6:05 p.m. CET.

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