Tom Gabriel Fischer Interviewed About HELLHAMMER, Early CELTIC FROST For Documentary To Air This Fall
June 9, 2009, 15 years ago
Former CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer, now working under the new banner TRIPTYKON, has issued the following update:
"In the course of the production of a new documentary series about the evolution of music in the 1980s, German/French TV station Arte contacted me some time ago to arrange an interview on the topics of HELLHAMMER and early Celtic Frost.The resulting footage would be used as part of the episode on metal, industrial, and gothic music.
Last week, a small team lead by author Tom Theunissen thus arrived in Zurich to film the segment at Triptykon's rehearsal bunker on the north side of Zurich. It turned out to be a very candid and explicit interview, although only a few brief seconds will of course make it into the final documentary.
Following a spontaneous and rather unexpected suggestion by Tom, we wrapped up proceedings by driving out to Nurensdorf, where I lived as a teenager and wrote all of Hellhammer's music, and Birchwil, location of the bunker in which Hellhammer and Celtic Frost used to practice all these years ago. Such occasions feel explicitly surreal. The music we created back then was an unreservedly personal refuge from a despondent reality, and none of us would have envisioned such attention to ever be cast upon our underground universe.
The documentary, a joint production by German TV station ZDF and arte, it is to be broadcast in autumn."
(Photo: The arte TV team in the forest near Birchwil, Switzerland, on June 4th, 2009. Author and director Tom Theunissen on the right.)
