Can this man be ANY fucking cooler. What an amazing dude. We are lucky to have someone like him pouring his passion into metal. Fucking amazing, everything he does rocks.
I literally just got the book "Only Death Is Real" by Tom & Martin Ain and I am beyond excited to start reading it. Its an illustrated history of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. I have alot of respect for Tom and admire the feats he went through to keep on creating music and trying to keep his previous bands together as best he could. Definitely one of the people in Metal I dream of meeting \m/
I like how the first song they show is "Procreation of the Wicked", a Celtic Frost song. My favorite one. Slowed down a whole lot, like when I saw them with Type O in 2007 in Houston.
There is a documentary titled A Dying God. In that documentary, Tom makes repeated insinuations that Celtic Frost has always been--as a band--a very energetic but conflicted project. I think there was even a part where he was like, "Celtic Frost never has a happy ending."
I've seen a lot of videos during the Monotheist era, where Tom was just pissed off and overall bitter...his answers and condescending tones were just clear signs that he was NOT happy at all, and that Celtic Frost were suffering......when I heard Triptykon, it was some of THE heaviest shit my ears were ever subjected to. And every interview now, Tom is clearly happy (and as a fan, that is heartwarming to see).....hail Tom!!! TRIPTYKON 4 LIFE
Yeah, it's hard to tell, because my previous comment is inaccurate. Turns out it was the drummer after all; he won't even call the dude by name anymore. I bet he was rather upset with Martin for a while, but eventually decided that he wasn't the one at fault. In my last comment, replace "Martin (Ain)" with "the old drummer," and it'll be accurate. Oops.
Sooner or later, all the heavy bands got corrupted by commercialism. Ozzy, Priest, Frost, Slayer, Megadeth, it happened to them all. Possessed broke up over disagreements about direction and had already moved away from the Satanic thing by the time they recorded "The Eyes of Horror." As for Frost, you could tell there was trouble brewing as far back as "Into the Pandemonium," around which time Tom G. said in an interview "we've got to increase our audience." Kiss of death, that.
Super Cancer yeah, ive only just realized hes been doing all his interviews and appearances with a hat for a long time now...maybe he is balding. if so he should show it, it would make him look insane
Martin Ain is the guilty party. Tom's been pretty good at keeping it quiet in video interviews, but I read one for some webzine or another wherein he basically eviscerated Martin. Apparently, Martin let Celtic Frost's status get to his head, and became a pompous ass -- something Tom apparently found pretty disagreeable. The results we hear in Tryptikon.
Excellent words from sir Gabriel. Completely parallel with my mindset on how to make what music on which emotions. No dumb bullshit like most of the metal-bands with their "we are so this....and we play so that...blah blah blah blah..."
who gives a rats ass what other people think about why you left Celtic Frost your happy making music now with Triptykon so who cares the past is the past and it should stay there.
