TRIPTYKON To Play Japan With NILE

March 11, 2010

TRIPTYKON, the group founded by former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior, will play its first concerts in Japan as part of the Extreme The Dojo Vol. 25 tour in June. The band will co-headline the shows with NILE. The special guest for these concerts will be the German group OBSCURA.

The Extreme The Dojo Vol. 25 dates are as follows:

June 02 - Osaka, JPN @ Club Quattro
June 03 - Nagoya, JPN @ Club Quattro
June 04 - Tokyo, JPN @ O-East

Commented Tom: "In 2008, Japan was the setting for some of CELTIC FROST's most extraordinary concerts ever. I am thus truly delighted to return and grateful that we will get a chance to perform TRIPTYKON's mass of darkness there so early on in the band's career."

In other news, TRIPTYKON has been confirmed to headline the Jalometalli festival in Oulu, Finland, on August 14.

"Eparistera Daimones" — the debut album by TRIPTYKON, will be released as deluxe mediabook CD edition (including a 28-page booklet and extensive liner notes) as well as gatefold double LP via Century Media Records under exclusive license from Prowling Death Records Ltd. on the following dates:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy: March 19
Spain, U.S.: Tuesday, March 23
Sweden, Finland, Hungary: March 24
U.K., Benelux, France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Rest Of Europe: March 22

Short audio samples of all nine songs that will appear on "Eparistera Daimones" are available for streaming on Amazon.com.

"Eparistera Daimones" is not only musically a leviathan. Remarkably, the album will also feature the epic artwork by renowned Swiss artist H.R. Giger and New York-based surrealist Vincent Castiglia.

In an exceptionally rare gesture, H.R. Giger has granted TRIPTYKON the use of his dramatic painting "Vlad Tepes" (work no. 412, 200 x 140 cm, acrylic on paper on wood, 1978). It is the artist's first authorized appearance on an album cover in 17 years, and the second time he collaborates with Warrior (following CELTIC FROST's "To Mega Therion" album in 1985).

Vincent Castiglia contributes "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). As Castiglia aptly put it, the amalgamation of works by H.R. Giger, Vincent Castiglia, and TRIPTYKON on "Eparistera Daimones" forms a creative triptych in itself.

"Eparistera Daimones" will also feature detailed credits, full lyrics and extensive liner notes to all songs.

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

01. Goetia
02. Abyss Within My Soul
03. In Shrouds Decayed
04. Shrine
05. A Thousand Lies
06. Descendant
07. Myopic Empire
08. My Pain
09. The Prolonging

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.

For further information, visit www.triptykon.net.

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