Hellhammer

Read the full interview with the legend.

The legendary death metal drummer takes us through the music of his youth.

Hellhammer has a more than capable replacement.

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...

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...

Wearing shirts by Hellhammer and other essential extreme metal bands, and featuring deviant black metal producer BST on vocals (ex-Aborted, Aosoth) along with former members of Aborted (drummer Daniel Wilding), Cradle of Filth (guitarist James McIlroy) and Akercocke (bassist Peter Benjamin), the guys in Order of Apollyon sure seem like children of the black...

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...

Ian Christe is a heavy metal renaissance man. Not only has he written for everyone from Spin to Metal Maniacs, he's also released music as Dark Noerd and in 2007 he launched his own book publishing house called Bazillion Points. Since then he released Daniel Ekeroth's 'Swedish Death Metal,' the unofficial bible for the beloved scene...

One of the coolest parts about being part of the Noisecreep family is getting to talk shop with some of our favorite people in the hard rock scene. Ian Christe is one of the most respected figures in the world of heavy metal. Perhaps best known for his exhaustive 'Sound of the Beast' metal history book, Christe has also started his own publishing company called Bazillion Points Publishing where he