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St. Patrick's Day is one of the biggest party days of the year. And music, of course, is the most important mood setter for any party. Whether you're spending the holiday hunting the Hawk of Achill or tossing back Bushmills, here are ten tunes to make it a little more green - or black...

Matt Fox might not be a household name, but his influence on modern metal is irrefutable. Shai Hulud, the group he formed in 1995, was one of the first acts to successfully merge metal and hardcore, inspiring not only bands to form, but entire scenes...

Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. Not only do we voraciously devour new music like no one else, we also can't enough information about the artists we love. Now more than ever, it seems like there's a press release on floating around every other week about a heavy metal-related book hitting stores...

Triptykon frontman Tom Gabriel Warrior has been friends with iconoclastic Swiss artist H.R. Giger ever since Giger gave him permission to use his painting 'Satan I' for the cover of Celtic Frost's 1985 album 'To Mega Therion.' So when Warrior decided to start a new band, he knew just where he wanted to turn for the cover art...

When Celtic Frost reunited in 2003 following a 10-year absence, they did so without longtime drummer Reed St. Mark, who bassist Martin Ain didn't want back in the band. So when Celtic Frost disbanded last year, frontman Tom Gabriel Warrior invited him to play with his new group Triptykon during their infancy...

If debut Triptykon's debut album, 'Eparistera Daimones' (To My Left, The Demons), sounds an awful lot like frontman Tom Gabriel Warrior's former band Celtic Frost, than the influential metal veteran has achieved his goal. "Musically, creatively, and artistically, I wanted this to be as little as possible ," Warrior told Noisecreep...

New York black metal band Black Anvil may have been influenced by progenitors of the genre such as Celtic Frost, Bathory and Sodom, but for some reason they've reached out to one of the aesthetic enemies of their forefathers to produce their second album, 'Triumvirate...

Triptykon's 'Eparistera Daimones' is the Swiss band's debut album, but it already carries with it a lot of weight in the metal community. This is the new project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer of Celtic Frost and Hellhammer fame. In parallel with the legendary nature of the band, the cover art featured is a painting by none other than surrealist painter H...

There were a ton of metal releases that hit the shelves last week, but the biggest success story for metal is Demon Hunter's 'The World is a Thorn,' which sold over 14,000 copies its debut week in stores. That's a huge number for a band that never tours (and yes, we had to mention since we're bitter about not seeing Demon Hunter play, since they don't very often...

It was summer of 2008, when Thomas Gabriel Fischer -- founder of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost -- announced his new project called Triptykon. Around that time New York based artist Vincent Castiglia was exhibiting his work at the H.R. Giger Museum Gallery in Switzerland...