"Celtic Frost are dead forever; we've had our chance, we blew it & we have to live with it."
Thus spoke Tom G Warrior but his music lives on in a different manifestation. 2006 saw the final Celtic Frost release, Monotheist. Warrior's new formation, Triptykon, is a natural successor as evident in Eparistera Daimones. The Monotheist overtones are evident here, by that I mean the music as well as recording blueprints. If you are expecting any old-school Celtic Frost/ Hellhammer re-hash, it's actually the regurgitation of Monotheist which is more apparent. What can you expect? Warrior's music is a hateful dronescape, the canvass for his deep frustrations & lashing out. Guitar fans, do not expect any fretwork showcase, the tones on display here are harsh & judging by the sound of it, straight-to-mixer recording was employed. Music-wise, Triptykon is a continuous definition of what Warrior intended it to be, the proto-black beast carrying the genre's heavy definitions with liberal inclusions of doom- the mammoth, 19min concluding number is a fine summary of this release's adventure.
