Chris D of Decibel Magazine recently conducted an interview with Triptykon‘s Tom Gabriel Fischer aka Tom Gabriel Warrior. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.
What are the differences between Celtic Frost and Triptykon?
Thomas Gabriel Fischer: As little as possible. The idea behind Triptykon was to continue Celtic Frost and to continue Celtic Frost’s musical path without the penis problems, the ego problems and the megalomania that were destroying Celtic Frost behind the scenes. Everything else is the same. From the equipment we’re playing to the album we’ve made, it’s basically Celtic Frost with a new rhythm section. We’ve created an album that I was creating for Celtic Frost. It was my interest to have as much continuity as possible.
Triptykon by Shelley Jambresic
Can you talk about music direction? As you said, it’s a direct continuation of Celtic Frost.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer: It’s a very intense album. Celtic Frost was my life’s work. It was the content of my life. It has dominated my life for 25 years. My life was Celtic Frost and Celtic Frost was my life. Walking out of Celtic Frost wasn’t an easy situation. It was provoked by devastating human conditions behind the scenes. I carried from that situation with me intense hatred, frustration and sadness. It’s probably logical that these emotions are in the music of Triptykon. This is the reason why it’s intense, very dark and very heavy. Other than that, it’s very much the album I wanted to make with Celtic Frost. Half of it was written while I was in Celtic Frost. It is essentially the album I was going to make after Monotheist.
Eparistera Daimones has a dark, mysterious vibe. At this stage, I don’t expect anything you’re involved in to be bright and happy, but the songs are noticeably darker than anything on Monotheist.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer: If you look at the music I’ve written throughout my life it’s invariably dark. I didn’t need dark inspiration. Starting with Hellhammer’s first demo, I don’t need to create it artificially. That’s the way I write naturally. When I write music, it’s my emotions and everything is derived from there. There’s plenty of darkness there. I’m the main songwriter and, as I said, I write from my emotions, and if I carry these intense feelings needless to say it will affect the music I write. Whether I want it to or not. I’m totally outspoken against artificial evilness. So many bands do it. If you artificially create evil lyrics or evil music so that you look like a man and in reality your band isn’t into it and doesn’t live that lifestyle then you have nothing in common with the things you’re singing or writing about. I look down on that. I don’t seek artificial darkness. Monotheist was a very honest album, written during a very difficult period in all of our lives back then. The same goes with Triptykon’s debut album. It’s a very honest album.
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