TOM G. WARRIOR Reveals TRIPTYKON Will Report New Music In 2023

Celtic Frost followers have been salivating over the model new field set spanning the important thing years for the acute steel luminaries. Danse Macabre, the great archive of all issues Celtic Frost circa 1984-87, drops in North America this November, but followers of the incomparable Tom G. Warrior could have but one more reason to rejoice.

In a brand new sit-down with Steel Injection, the famed frontman candidly outlined plans to report a brand new Triptykon album in 2023, their first album of latest materials since 2014’s Melana Chasmata.

“I truly haven’t any downside providing you with an official assertion,” he mentioned within the interview. “Why not? Final time we spoke was, in fact, the start of the pandemic, and we thought we will use that point to put in writing a brand new album. However because it turned out, the pandemic had the alternative impact on all of us. None of us felt impressed being confined to our houses, not having any contact, in particular person nearer to one another, not having any contact to our audiences, not being on the stage, not touring. I wrote one tune throughout the two years of the pandemic, despite the fact that I wished to put in writing extra.

“However that has modified now, in fact, that we’re again as an lively band and we are literally going to report a brand new album subsequent 12 months. That is our strong plan, that we’re truly engaged on it now. We’ve simply performed the final live performance for the 12 months and all people is now going to their house or ending up their particular person concepts after which we’ll subsequent meet to rehearse these. So the official plan is for us to complete it subsequent 12 months. And I am unsure if it should be sufficient to launch it subsequent 12 months, however we actually will launch new music subsequent 12 months, even when it isn’t a full album but. We will certainly do an EP or one thing to indicate those who we are literally within the studio and the album is definitely taking place.”

With Warrior planning to toast Celtic Frost in a restricted sequence of tribute concert events in 2023 with Triptykon – together with at Houston’s Hells Heroes – the person behind a few of excessive steel’s most enduring data defined that having the previous on the mind may very well be key to crafting classics of the longer term.

“You already know, I believe it is truly a wholesome factor that we’re additionally getting ready for these couple of Celtic Frost tribute concert events on the similar time. I’ve at all times been of the opinion that it is vital to not lose contact together with your roots. Each Martin [Ain, late Celtic Frost bassist] and I’ve skilled durations in our lives the place we in all probability misplaced contact with our roots an excessive amount of, or had a stance that was too vital about sure issues in our previous, which in fact can also be needed.

“However on the finish of the day, if you happen to create new music, I believe it is vital to not lose observe of the place you come from. The music of our early days is so trustworthy, it does not harm to be actively concerned in that whereas we’re writing a brand new album, 40 years later, as skilled musicians. I do not wish to change into too skilled. I do not wish to be an excessive amount of in a routine, you recognize?”

Keep tuned to Steel Injection for extra on our one-on-one with Tom G. Warrior!