TRIPTYKON, featuring mainman Tom Gabriel Fischer (ex-HELLHAMMER/CELTIC FROST) is featured in a new interview with Robert Gray at Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below.

Q: Looking back, what are your thoughts on Hellhammer?

Fischer: "At this point in my life, I can say I'm very happy I was a part of Hellhammer. I'm very proud. I'm able to separate the circumstances of my childhood and my youth; of course I'm closely connected to the existence of Hellhammer, but I'm able now to separate that and look at the music and the accomplishments of Hellhammer, and feel very proud of them. I know that certain parts of my youth are still very difficult for me to address, but I know that abstractly the music of Hellhammer is one thing and my personal life is another. I can look at Hellhammer in a much more relaxed manner now, and actually enjoy the music we created. As primitive as the music was and as limited as it was, it expresses a certain heaviness and darkness that actually existed in our lives. I'm very happy that we found each other at the time, and we created that music. It was, after all, a very special time, and I would have never gone the path in my life that I did without Hellhammer. Everything I did later in Celtic Frost and now in Triptykon is of course based on Hellhammer, and it's very good to have come to terms with all of that."

Q: What do you feel the future will hold for Triptykon?

Fischer: "Triptykon to me is basically almost like a bonus track. I've been blessed with a lot of quite amazing occurrences in my life, having been a part of Hellhammer and having been a part of Celtic Frost. I did not think that I would ever have the chance to be in yet another tremendous band, and yet that is exactly what has happened. I'm just humbled and I'm very grateful. I'm not a greedy person; I am very modest, so I'm looking forward to the future with modesty. I'm gonna try to record more albums. I'm gonna do my very best to make very high quality albums, but my expectations? I don't have expectations, and I don't have any ambitions. I've done so much in my life already that has made me very happy, and has gone much further than anything I would have ever expected that it would be preposterous to have expectations now. Triptykon should simply exist to create good music for as long as we all are alive, and that's basically what we're doing."

Click here for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Triptykon are confirmed for the 2011 edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting will take place June 24th - 26th in Dessel, Belgium.

Confirmed acts for the fest now include:

Friday, June 24:

SCORPIONS, VOLBEAT, JOURNEY, FOREIGNER, ICED EARTH, EPICA, PARKWAY DRIVE, THE DAMNED THINGS, MASTERS OF REALITY, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SEPULTURA, ANGEL WITCH, KVELERTAK, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, FM, REVOKER

Saturday, June 25:

OZZY OSBOURNE, JUDAS PRIEST, WHITESNAKE, ARCH ENEMY, MOONSPELL, ELECTRIC WIZARD, ADEPT, SPIRITUAL BEGGARS, SUICIDE SILENCE, FIREWIND, GHOST

Sunday, June 26:

SLIPKNOT, ROB ZOMBIE, AMORPHIS, SOILWORK, TERROR, ALL THAT REMAINS, ARCHITECTS, ESCAPE THE FATE, WHILE SHE SLEEPS

Triptykon's performance date has not been confirmed.

Graspop Metal Meeting is synonymous for three days of music and fun, 70-plus bands, four stages and lots of fringe events to boot, including signing sessions, an outdoor festival fair, an indoor metal market, etc.Moreover, the campsite is second to none with its Festival Express Shop, excellent sanitary facilities and much more.

Tickets for GMM2011 are available at this location.

More on the festival at Graspop.be.