R.I.P. Oliver Withöft, co-owner of Century Media Records; long-time collaborator with Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Triptykon; and licensing partner to Prowling Death Records.

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 in southern Germany, a few days ago. It was a protracted and sometimes challenging drive through yet anoth…

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 bunker, the former rehearsal room of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost, in Birchwil, S…

“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 by extended orchards which, at that time of the year, app…