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TRIPTYKON Mainman: 'I Knew I Was Giving Up A Lot When I Left CELTIC FROST'

October 15, 2010

Chris Harris of Gun Shy Assassin recently conducted an interview with current TRIPTYKON and former HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST singer, guitarist, and main songwriter Tom Gabriel Warrior. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On the songwriting process for TRIPTYKON's second full-length album, tentatively due in late 2011 or early 2012:

"I feel very inspired at this time, and it is a pleasure to work with this band. I am very proud and happy to work with them and there is plenty of material that I think is worthy enough to be on a new album so we are working on this."

On whether it gets old fans always kissing his ass:

"You never like people kissing your ass, but you also don't like people screwing with you. It goes both ways. I'm just a musician and I am very passionate about music. It's fine with me if people just appreciate my music. I don't do this to be worshipped. If anything, my beginnings were so difficult and so humble and I still feel mentally so close to those times that it feels completely contrived to me. I'm not Tom Warrior, the legend — as people call me. I'm just Tom Warrior — somebody who had a teenage dream to play music to escape from a dismal reality in my private life. Music makes me happy and that's really the end of it."

On his departure from CELTIC FROST:

"I knew I was giving up a lot when I left CELTIC FROST. It was not a decision I made in a hurry or in anger or something. I knew it was coming to this and I knew I was going to give up a lot and have to start from scratch again. So I did and I was totally open in what to expect and I was surprised that there were far more people interested right from the beginning in TRIPTYKON than I thought and I am very happy and proud about that."

Read the entire interview from Gun Shy Assassin.

Quality fan-filmed video footage of TRIPTYKON's October 13, 2010 performance at The Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio can be viewed below.

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