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TOM G. FISCHER On TRIUMPH OF DEATH: 'We Have Been Talking About Maybe Trying To Write Some Music In The HELLHAMMER Style'

In a new interview with PowerOfMetal.cl, former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST and current TRIPTYKON singer, guitarist and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. Tom Gabriel Warrior) spoke about his upcoming December 2025 performance at the Chile Terrorfest where he will perform the music of HELLHAMMER with his TRIUMPH OF DEATH project and the music of CELTIC FROST with TRIPTYKON. Asked if he ever considered going beyond performing the music of HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST with his current projects and possibly reviving either band with new material, he responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, in the case of CELTIC FROST, we are doing this with TRIPTYKON. TRIPTYKON is basically a continuation of CELTIC FROST without some of the personal problems that we had. But even on the next TRIPTYKON album, there's gonna be some music that I wrote when I was still in CELTIC FROST, and there's also new music that's very much just my music, the way I write it and the way I would've written it, even if CELTIC FROST would still exist. As far as HELLHAMMER and TRIUMPH OF DEATH is concerned, there's, of course, only two years' worth of HELLHAMMER music; HELLHAMMER only existed for two years. And yeah, we have been talking about maybe trying to write some music in the HELLHAMMER style, but I'm very careful about this. I don't wanna do something wrong. To me, HELLHAMMER is something very important by now in my life. And if you ever do this, we will be very, very careful to do it the right way. And if it doesn't feel right, we're not gonna release it. And we don't have to do it, so there's no pressure. We can do it only if it's right."

Asked what the "turning point" was that made him finally "embrace the idea" of performing CELTIC FROST and HELLHAMMER music with his current projects, Tom said: "For Martin [Eric Ain, late HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST bassist] and me, the turning point was when we reunited CELTIC FROST in 2001. Talking about the old days, and it was not just in a nostalgic manner, we really tried to revisit the reasons why we formed HELLHAMMER, why we formed CELTIC FROST and so on, and talking about this, of course, made us listen to the old music and made us understand it maybe a little more deeply than we could when we were young. When we were young, we were full of adrenaline and full of testosterone, and we were just thinking in the now, but when we reformed CELTIC FROST, we were older, we were hopefully a little more mature. We were adult men. We listened to this music and we said, 'Wow, some of this music actually has aged quite well.' And we actually began playing some HELLHAMMER songs during the rehearsals for [CELTIC FROST's] 'Monotheist' album [in 2006]. We had the intention of playing some HELLHAMMER songs on the 'Monotheist' tour. The reason why we didn't do this in the end was because the drummer we had at the time really didn't click with this music. We tried to play these songs in the rehearsal room and they just never sounded right with the drummer we had. But then I did the book about HELLHAMMER — around 2010, I wrote the book 'Only Death Is Real' with just the HELLHAMMER history — and this really inspired me to try it again, but to try it with a band specifically formed for that. So I formed TRIUMPH OF DEATH with some very good friends of mine who I know understand the music of HELLHAMMER. And that's when it happened."

This past May, Fischer spoke about TRIPTYKON's appearance at the Incineration festival in London, United Kingdom where he and his bandmates once again played a special set consisting of nothing but CELTIC FROST material. He told the Iblis Manifestations podcast: "I have to really state this because some lovable haters of mine always say, 'Stick to TRIPTYKON. Are you so desperate to play CELTIC FROST?' And there's a lot of things to say about that, which I won't do now. I'm just gonna state the most obvious. I wrote these fucking songs, and these songs are my life. Almost every single CELTIC FROST song had had a profound influence on my life, whether I liked it or not. And [late HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST bassist] Martin [Ain], too, of course. And there's no way I'm gonna spend the rest of my life without that music. I formed TRIPTYKON specifically to continue CELTIC FROST's path. And, of course, TRIPTYKON have continued as CELTIC FROST would have. TRIPTYKON is basically CELTIC FROST by a different name. I wasn't gonna be cheap and call it CELTIC FROST without Martin, but it is essentially… I'm operating exactly like CELTIC FROST. We've always played CELTIC FROST music because it's part of my life. And we also, of course, play TRIPTYKON music, because it is also part of my life."

Circling back to TRIPTYKON's appearance at Incineration, Tom said: "The show being entirely CELTIC FROST — all the shows where TRIPTYKON play CELTIC FROST only are by request of the festival, not by 'Tom being desperate' or 'Tom wanting to cash in.' Which is another issue. When people say, 'Yeah, he wants to cash in on his [history with] CELTIC FROST.' Well, if you go to work, you expect a salary — everybody. If you're a baker, yeah, you wanna cash in on the bread you sell. Oh my fucking God. It's my profession."

He continued: "I'm not justifying it. I'm simply stating the obvious because there's some people who think — I feel contempt for them. They think they have to tell me how to live my life. And I'm the last person to listen to that, but it doesn't hurt to occasionally address this. If you're loser and you're jealous about somebody else's work, maybe put that energy into your own. If I had been sitting at home in '82, '83, '84, and instead of writing demos together with Martin and recording demos and putting everything, every last cent we had, everything into musical fanaticism, if I had spent that time instead writing evil mails to people, I would be nowhere. And that's the difference. If I'd put that energy into destructive things instead of creative things."

"It was so much fun to connect with this fantastic audience over these songs, because these songs have a history not just for me, but also for the people who were there. They were singing all the lyrics. They were headbanging to it. What's wrong with this? I mean, if I'm totally honest, these are songs written, like, 40 years ago, some of them, and I've changed, of course, in these decades. I'm not the same guy that I was as a 20-year-old, totally inexperienced Tom Warrior. I'm gonna be 62 in in a couple of months, and I'm a very different person, of course. I've lived the life, I have life experience, hopefully some maturity, hopefully. And, of course, it changed me. So if I have a choice, of course TRIPTYKON is much closer to me because TRIPTYKON reflects the current Tom. But that doesn't preclude me loving these songs for a different reason, because these songs were the stones in my path, the floor plates on that road that I'm walking, and as such they're hugely important. And especially with the death of Martin, there's some songs that we performed yesterday where I have a film in my mind how Martin and I created these songs and how we produced them in the studio. And, for example, playing for the very first time ever 'A Dying God [Coming Into Human Flesh]' [from CELTIC FROST's 2006 album 'Monotheist'] yesterday on stage, it was first and foremost a tribute to Martin Ain, because I know how important this song was for Martin, and that's also why the video projection at that point focused on Martin. It's not about me. Martin can no longer come on stage, and believe me, if he was still alive, we would've asked him to be a guest in these shows. But I basically also carry his memory now. I'm involuntarily put into this position. Because I was the old one, I always thought I'm gonna die before him and he's gonna be the administrator of CELTIC FROST's legacy. But now I'm in this position. And this is part of what happened yesterday on stage. And I know people totally understand this. That's a lot of fans of Martin Ain in the audience, and you can see it."

In 2023, Tom and the rest of TRIPTYKON also played several other concerts during which they performed a set of early CELTIC FROST songs celebrating the influential Swiss metal band that he co-founded more than 40 years ago.

Ain, who played with Fischer in both HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST, died in October 2017 after suffering a heart attack at the age of 50.

CELTIC FROST reformed in 2001 and released its comeback album "Monotheist" via Century Media/Prowling Death in 2006. The band broke up in 2008, with Fischer going on to form TRIPTYKON.

TRIPTYKON has released two full-length albums, a live LP, an EP, a single and two box sets in its 17 years as a band.

TRIPTYKON 2025 is Tom Gabriel Warrior (voice/guitar),Vanja Slajh (bass),V. Santura (guitar/vocals) and Hannes Grossmann (drums/percussion).

TRIPTYKON's previous album releases are "Eparistera Daimones" (2010),"Melana Chasmata" (2014) and "Requiem - Live At Roadburn 2019" (2020).

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