When Celtic Frost has found its abrupt and mean end in 2008, not only one of the most influential European metal bands got buried, it also left a singer, songwriter and musician deeply hurt seeing his life’s work destroyed. But since this end did not fall out of the blue and actually not for the first time Tom G. Warrior found salvation in doing what he can do best: music! He comparatively fast went back to the business to breathe new life into a project that already existed for quite some time named TRIPTYKON.
With this new outcome cryptically entitled Eparistera Daimones Warrior not only picks up the thread where Celtic Frost’s last masterpiece Monotheist was left off, he moreover has created a manifest, a manifest of darkness and depths of human souls. Eparistera Daimones is a monolith of pure pain, born out of betrayal, lies and loss. Eparistera Daimones is abysmally dark, vicious and brutal, from the first up to the last tune. Every song is a complex organism of Black-, Heavy- and Doom Metal, with a slightly progressive touch, an Avant-garde like notation as well as brilliant skills and musicianship.

Regarding single tracks I found myself with sort of a fifty-fifty balance between the ones I like more from the others ;) I fall for In Shrouds Decayed and the fast A Thousand Lies, where Warrior screams out all of his pains, a process of coming to terms with his past. Myopic Empire again is so abysmally deep… rattling on everyone’s foundation, but gently propitiating with a piano dominated part in the middle. To show TRIPTYKONs variety My Pain emerges as an Ambient-like interlude supported by the voice of Simone Vollenweider and can be taken as the intro to the final, 20 minutes running The Prolonging.

Yes, there is a heavy emotional legacy to be processed, making this record lack of a certain dose of homogeneity to put it on the same level as Monotheist or older masterpieces. But there is no need for. TRIPTYKON is something new, just getting off the grid and with all directions open for further developments ;) In return Eparistera Daimones owns its very special originality and authenticity every Celtic Frost fan may comprehend and welcome TRIPTYKON too.