Triptykon‘s second album, Melana Chasmata (rough translation: “black, deep depressions/valleys”) will be released on April 14 (Europe) and April 15 (North America), 2014, through Century Media Records/Prowling Death Records Ltd. Like its predecessor Eparistera Daimones, the album...

The following piece was originally posted today in Tom Gabriel Warrior‘s “Delineation II” blog, entitled “Consumed“. “Even the stars in the night sky appear faint, a year after my demise.” “We transferred to V. Santura’s Woodshed Studio near Landshut...

The following piece was originally posted today in Tom Gabriel Warrior‘s “Visions of Mortality“: “These are photos I took on August 3, 2013, almost exactly 30 years after Hellhammer released the Triumph Of Death demo. They depict the remnants of the somewhat fabled Grave Hill...

“In December 1983, during what I then unsurprisingly perceived as an exceptionally dark and cold winter, Bruce Day and I, at the time the sole two members of Hellhammer, descended upon a small studio located in a bunker in an equally small village near the northern border of Switzerland. Surrounded...

Triptykon has now been confirmed for the Rock Hard Festival 2014.

In 2010, the organizers of Holland’s highly acclaimed Roadburn Festival invited Tom Gabriel Warrior, founder of Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Triptykon, to act as the curator at that year’s festival. Under the banner of Only Death Is Real, Roadburn 2010 thus became the venue for the presentation...

The following piece was originally posted today in Tom Gabriel Warrior‘s “Homewards“: “The view across the street from Prowling Death Records Limited’s office in North London, photographed in the course of a rainy November during the early days of Triptykon.” “Prowling...