CELTIC FROST: New Album Mastered

September 27, 2005

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

"Martin [Ain, bass] called me last night to brief me that the album has now been mastered. We thus decided to shelve a new song we had both been developing for — an admittely inane — last minute inclusion, and we resolved to refrain from adding a HELLHAMMERish bassline to the already finished 'Incantation against You'. The mastering now having been completed, the album is ready to pass into the hands of those who run this wonderful music industry.

"I had been there at Oakland Recording on both days of the mastering, but I left a few hours early on the second day as my presence no longer yielded any constructive input. I have presently reached a state where I am too burned out to be truly willing to discern any aural details anymore. I have lived with these songs, this album for so long — too long, as all of us and all our fans will confirm — that I now need a limited pause from the music in order to be able to approach it freshly again by the time we begin rehearsals proper for our concerts next year. We are all tending to various band issues right now, but we all enjoy the break from actually making music.

"And still I listened to the damn thing last night.

"Martin's enthusiasm had been very contagious."

As previously reported, CELTIC FROST have set "Dark Matter Manifest" as the tentative title of their first album in 13 years. The culmination of some three and a half years of songwriting and recording work, the album was largely produced by the band themselves and financed by their own production company, with additional assistance from HYPOCRISY/PAIN mastermind Peter Tägtgren during the final recording and mixing sessions at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany. Negotiations with a variety of labels are currently underway, and the album is scheduled for a release in early 2006. Original CELTIC FROST members Tom Gabriel Fischer (voice and guitars) and Martin Eric Ain (bass) are joined by Erol Unala (guitar) and Franco Sesa (drums). The band are now managed by Antje Lange for The A Label in Berlin, Germany.

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