CELTIC FROST Frontman : 'The Band Has Come Full Circle By Finally Playing In Norway'

CELTIC FROST frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer has posted the following message on his official blog:

"Flying in, coming from Bergen, Norway, on Monday evening [August 28], the weather awaiting us in Zurich could not have been more appropriate. The ravaged clouds were dark grey, almost black, and layered virtually down to the dreary, rain-soaked ground. The heavy winds and freezing downpour rocked the plane thoroughly right to touchdown. We had left Bergen late in the morning in similar weather, and it was almost as if our hometown was eager to surpass such setting in order to make us feel equally welcome. In my mind, this weather perfectly matches our music and, what's more, the band in its current state. I love it.

"The Bergen show [at the Hole in the Sky festival] was perhaps the most symbolic concert in our entire career, but certainly in our string of festival appearances this summer. To me personally, it was more momentous even than CELTIC FROST's concert at the Wacken festival. In more than one way, the band has come full circle by finally playing in Norway, in this truly significant town of the seven mountains. In addition to our friends and peers in the participating bands, 1349, MY DYING BRIDE, I, SATYRICON, and SAHG, there were many other acquaintances of ours from various parts of the world, and numerous new friendships were forged.

"And yet it was by no means an easy show. By the time we went onstage as the last band on the 'Morbid Tales' day of the Hole in the Sky festival, the temperature inside the hall was soaring. I also experienced some — possibly related — annoying technical problems with my equipment towards the end of the set. Things were not made any less challenging by the fact that our temporary guitar tech, a replacement for our usual guitar tech who was on the road in Australia this past weekend, failed completely in his duties several times during the concert and had to be let go afterwards. This was the second time this happened with him in a total of two assignments with CELTIC FROST this summer, and there simply was no other option.

"But the concert carried a truly inimitable aura, and a distinct sense of uniqueness became apparent to most of those present, both on stage and in the audience. Even though we had crossed most of Europe to play in Bergen, it seemed as if CELTIC FROST had come home, in a sense. And it was overdue."

CELTIC FROST spent 17 straight hours on August 15 in Zurich filming for the video for the song "A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh" from the band's latest CD, "Monotheist". The clip is expected to begin airing in September on all the usual video outlets.