The week of Triptykon’s much anticipated return appearances at Bloodstock Festival, UK (August 8), and Jalometalli Festival, Finland, (August 9), the Swiss avant-garde extreme metal act is scheduled to release the first of two video clips filmed to accompany of the group’s second album, “Melana Chasmata”. See the video, presented by Metal Hammer magazine …

Triptykon, the occult/avant-garde metal project formed by former Hellhammer/Celtic Frost singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior, continue to promote their second, much acclaimed studio album Melana Chasmata. On Friday, June 6th, Triptykon will appear at Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater, headlining the first day of the 2014 edition of Germany…

Photo taken by Doralba Picerno.  The greatest surrealist artist of our time, H.R. Giger, died in a tragic accident on Monday, May 12, 2014. In the wake of Giger’s death, his closest friends are gathering to comfort his widow, Carmen, and to assist her in organizing Giger’s funeral and his memorial service. I am one of those friends. We are all still …

H.R. Giger at his house in Zurich, Switzerland, around the time he created Mordor VII, the painting that would one day become the cover of Triptykon’s second album, Melana Chasmata. Photographed by Katharina Vonow in autumn of 1976; used with very kind permission by Katharina Vonow and Carmen Giger.  “I fight the impending lure of belated sleep For f…