TRIPTYKON: Official Limited-Edition Print Available

Artist Vincent Castiglia has announced the release of the official "Triptykon" limited edition, available exclusively through www.VincentCastiglia.com.

This painting commemorates the advent of the musical colossus TRIPTYKON (the group founded by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer),and the momentous collaboration between TRIPTYKON, H.R. Giger, and Vincent Castiglia on the band's debut album, "Eparistera Daimones".

* Museum quality, archival, Giclée prints on Somerset Velvet paper (100% cotton rag),printed using a Canon IPF 9100 with Lucia pigmented inks (rated not to fade for at least 100 years). Each print signed and numbered by Vincent Castiglia.

* Limited edition of 666
* Dimensions: "18 X 18"
* $60 + $12 shipping in the U.S. (insured) (E-mail for International shipping costs)

Available on the official album release date — March 22 (Europe) / March 23 (U.S.)

Inquires prior to this date may be sent to [email protected].

"Triptykon" - The Painting: A Brief Commentary

The manifold occult correspondences of all three artists come to fruition within the album release. Three, being a powerful numerological portent, embodies generation, perfection, and deity. Castiglia's contribution, "Triptykon" (a specially created portrait of the members of the group, painted in the artist's own blood, 86 x 86 cm, blood/iron oxide on archival paper, 2009),is likewise deeply laden with occult symbolism which harmonizes with both the evocations of Giger and TRIPTYKON, namely endowing each band member with a talisman representing the traits of each quarter of the group; a foreboding astral catharsis culled from the "unseen world" to commemorate the band's formation, and procession.

In keeping with semantics, "Triptykon"'s release features the real-life "triptych" and three-fold collaboration between TRIPTYKON the band, renowned Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, and Vincent Castiglia for the first time within the same platform. As CELTIC FROST fans will summon to mind the iconic cover album artwork for the band's 1985 release, "To Mega Therion", featuring H.R. Giger's 1977 painting, "Satan I", Giger's contribution to "Eparistera Daimones" marks a resurgence of the collaboration. Castiglia, a close friend of Warrior's as well as being the first American artist to receive a solo exhibition invitation from the H.R. Giger Museum Gallery in Gruyères, Switzerland, becomes the third aspect of the dark "triptych."

"Eparistera Daimones" also marks the occasion of Castiglia's poster-premier. Along with H.R. Giger's painting, "Vlad Tepes", Castiglia's "Triptykon" will additionally be featured as a fold-out poster within the LP vinyl edition of the album; the first time his artwork has been made available in poster form.

The original painting is currently in Castiglia's collection. Details as to its availability will be published later in 2010.