"Sulphur"

With Ar, friend extraordinaire and member of Secrets Of The Moon and the astonishing Ascension, backstage at what must have been the most dismally organized and thus most comprehensively disappointing festival we in Triptykon have encountered all summer: Party.San. Schlotheim, Germany, August 11, 2011.

Triptykon Press Release

Triptykon To Perform On Wacken Open Air's Black Stage

We feel proud and delighted to be able to announce Triptykon's appearance at the 2011 edition of the legendary Wacken Open Air, the world's largest metal festival.

On Friday, August 5, 2011, at 11.15pm, exactly five years to the day and hour after Celtic Frost headlined the Black Stage, one of Wacken's two main stages, Triptykon will unleash a mass of heaviness and utter darkness on the very same stage. Triptykon will appear for one hour.

Wacken Black Stage schedule, Friday, August 5, 2011:

12pm to 1pm - Ensiferium
2:30pm to 3:30pm - Morbid Angel
5pm to 6pm - As I Lay Dying
7:30pm to 8:30 - Heaven Shall Burn
11:15pm to 12:15am - Triptykon
2am to 3am - Apocalyptica

In August 2011, Triptykon will also appear at the Party-San festival (Germany), Bloodstock festival (UK), and Brutal Assault (Czech Republic).

"Triptykon are the musical equivalent of evil. Triptykon have created the music for the end of the world." - www.the-pit.de

For further information, please refer to:
www.wacken.com
www.triptykon.net
www.centurymedia.com

Circle Of The Tyrants

With our friends and peers Demonaz and Abbath of Immortal (top), and with Triptykon's Vanja Slajh and Immortal's Abbath (bottom), both before and after Triptykon and Immortal dedicated music to each other on stage. Fortarock Festival, The Netherlands, July 2, 2011, a day never to be forgotten. Photographed by Hakon Grav, used with very kind permission.

Triptykon Press Release

Triptykon To Be Touring As Part Of Hatefest 2011

Following extensive touring in Japan, the United States and Canada, and numerous highly acclaimed concerts and festival appearances in The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Greece, Croatia, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, and France, Triptykon will continue to promote the group's "Eparistera Daimones" debut album in Europe by being part of the 17 concerts of Hatefest 2011.

Hatefest 2011's running order will be: Kataklysm (headliner), Triptykon, Marduk, Milking The Goatmachine, plus two further special guests.

The tour dates are:

December 2, 2011 Oberhausen, Germany (Turbinenhalle - Metalfest Winter Edition)
December 3, 2011 Giessen, Germany (Hessenhalle - Metalfest Winter Edition)
December 4, 2011 Paris, France (Alhambra)
December 5, 2011 Pratteln, Switzerland (Z7)
December 6, 2011 Innsbruck, Austria (Hafen)
December 7, 2011 Vienna, Austria (Arena)
December 8, 2011 Zlin, Czech Republic (Masters Of Rock Café)
December 9, 2011 Leipzig, Germany (Hellraiser)
December 10, 2011 Geiselwind, Germany (Event Hall - X-Mas Metal Festival)
December 11, 2011 Antwerp, Belgium (Trix)
December 12, 2011 Saarbrücken, Germany (Garage)
December 13, 2011 Hanover, Germany (Musikzentrum)
December 14., 2011 Hamburg, Germany (Markthalle)
December 15, 2011 Berlin, Germany (C-Club)
December 16, 2011 Munich, Germany (Backstage)
December 17, 2011 Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Effenaar - Eindhoven Metal Meeting)
December 18, 2011 Ludwigsburg, Germany (Rockfabrik)

(Dates may be subject to change)

Throughout the summer of 2011, Triptykon will also play further festival appearances in The Netherlands (Fortarock), Iceland (Eistnaflug), Germany (Party-San), UK (Bloodstock), and the Czech Republic (Brutal Assault). Moreover, the group intends to add further concerts to its itinerary for 2011/2012, in territories not yet covered on the "Eparistera Daimones" tour.

For further information and ticketing links, please refer to:
www.hatefest.eu
www.triptykon.net

The Third Of The Storms

Triptykon headlining Rock Hard Festival, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Friday, June 10, 2011. Photography by Jörg Müller (The-Pit.de), used with very kind permission.

Tom Gabriel Warrior's Death Mask Sculptures To Be Featured In Group Exhibition

The acclaimed Antecedent Death death mask sculptures created by Triptykon singer/guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior will be part of Terminus, a group exhibition featuring a spectacular international cast of artists. The exhibition will be held at Galerie Villa Mainau 34, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Terminus will showcase paintings, sculptures, photography, jewelry, digital art, drawings, etchings, silk screen, and comic strips. Among the artists participating in Terminus are: Sibylle Ruppert, Ryszard Wojtynski, Viktor Koen, Jason D'Aquino, Eli Livingston, Jose Manuel Schmill, John U. Abrahamson, Paul Rumsey, Philippe Druillet, Annie Bertram, HR Giger, and others. The exhibition is being curated by Les Barany, Marco Witzig, and Hans Kunz.

The opening of Terminus will take place on Thursday, June 23, 2011, from 5pm to 8pm, and the exhibition will run until Saturday, July 16, 2011. During the exhibition, the gallery will be open on Thursdays and Fridays, from 3pm to 7pm, and on Saturdays, from 2pm to 6pm.

Galerie Villa Mainau 34
Mainaustrasse 34
8008 Zurich
Switzerland
+41 79 339 8757
www.kunzstueck.ch
kunzstueck@gmail.com

Tom Gabriel Warrior's Antecedent Death
www.selfdeceased.blogspot.com

Resurrection Of The Flesh

The Letter “S” Is Frowned Upon

The forest above Woodshed Studio, Bavaria, Germany. Photographed by Vanja Slajh in fall of 2009, used with kind permission.

Back once again at V. Santura’s Woodshed Studio in the Bavarian countryside near Landshut, Germany, this time to mix the new album by Secrets Of The Moon, “Seven Bells”, together with V. These sessions easily rank among the most fascinating, enthralling, and constructive I have ever been a part of. The friendship with Secrets Of The Moon, which has begun in such a unique manner, shall hopefully persist for a very long time.

Pictures From An Exhibition

Impressions from Antecedent Death I, my first solo exhibition, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, February/March 2011, as part of the Swiss edition of the Inferno Festival. Lowermost photo by Franck Faignot; used with kind permission.

A Night Sky Painted With Stars

It was perhaps 1.30 am as I was walking through the deserted quietness of the pitch black night. To my left, in the distance, the dark, ragged silhouette of the forest could be felt more than it was actually visible. The air was ice cold and accordingly clear, and it revealed a firmament sprinkled with stars from horizon to horizon.

"Crescent", from Brendan Perry's "Ark" album, was playing in my headphones, and the sensation of it all was completely overwhelming. I couldn't help thinking intensely of Daniel Wieser, whose existence in human form on this planet had ceased not too long ago and who had now again become part of the cosmic dust from which he had arisen all these years ago. And whose friendship and smile I will miss and remember until the day when I, too, shall follow.

Triptykon Press Release

Inferno Festival Switzerland / "Antecedent Death" Death Mask Exhibition

As part of the Swiss edition of the renowned Inferno Festival, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from February 25 to 27, 2011, Triptykon singer/guitarist Tom Gabriel Warrior has been invited to publicly exhibit his Antecedent Death death mask project for the very first time.

A natural extension of Warrior's past and present endeavors, Antecedent Death was begun in earnest In early 2007. Based on ideas originally explored during his youth, Warrior casts and adorns each life-size concrete death mask individually by hand. The resulting, highly acclaimed pieces have in the meantime become part of numerous private collections across the globe.

The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Bernard/Headstrong Music and co-curated by Sandra Henny, and it features a number of pieces exclusively created for the event. The exhibition takes place at Uniquement Vôtre, virtually next door to the official festival venue Les Docks, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It will be open every day (except Sunday) until March 5, 2011. The path from Les Docks to the exhibition is marked.

Uniquement Vôtre
Av. de Sévelin 54
CH-1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
info@uniquementvotre.ch

Frozen

Over the Baltic Sea, on the flight to Triptykon's performance at the Finnish Metal Expo, about 30 minutes before landing in Helsinki, Finland. Photographed by TGF, February 17, 2011.

Phallic Enshrinement

Phallus I/2011 (above and center); metal Jesus figurine mounted to wooden dildo cross; wood, white metal, steel, epoxy, and black enamel. Cross created from 3 German hand-crafted, spruce wood dildos. Crucified messiah figurine and INRI insignia in metal. Dimensions: height approx. 20 cm (7.9"), width approx. 13.5 cm (5.5"), dildo diameter approx. 2.6 cm (1"). Weight: approx. 160 g (5.5 oz).

Phallus II/2011 (bottom); resin Jesus figurine mounted to wooden dildo; wood, resin, steel, epoxy, and enamel. Dildo base created from a German hand-crafted, spruce wood dildo. Messiah figurine in resin, secured by steel pin. Dimensions: height approx. 23 cm (9"), dildo diameter approx. 2.6 cm (1"). Weight: approx. 100 g (3.6 oz).

See Antecedent Death for further information.