CELTIC FROST: Preparing To Record New Album

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

"Yes, I know, we're only making an album. It's not an earth-shattering event, and we never claimed it was (although, yes, this blog is quite pretentious at times). Nor will most people on this planet care. It's not even a mainstream album. Good. Nonetheless, every song on this album has a story. This is not about the lyrics, which are by themselves much more personal than anything we have written for CELTIC FROST in the past. But we have spent an unpredictably extended and emotionally and physically intense period of our lives writing, rehearsing, recording and producing this album. That's significant to us. And, judging, by the flood of reactions I am receiving on my e-mail account through this blog, it is significant to many others too, one way or another. It's our own microcosm of meaning.

"Every song is connected to events, personal or professional, that we will hardly ever forget. And there will surely be more in the coming weeks, as we are temporarily relocating to Hanover, Germany, at the end of July to conduct the final recording and mixing sessions at Horus Sound Studio. This is the studio — albeit now in a much more modern incarnation — where we produced the 'Into the Pandemonium' album in 1987. We expect to finally be finished the first week of September.

"There will be some friends who will come to see us, and — apart from a few closed sessions — the studio is also open for anybody who wants to say hello, as always.

"I was interviewed yesterday for a five-part documentary on Swiss rock history, produced for Swiss national TV. Mixed feelings. Questions were good and the people very nice, but how much do they actually know about their topic? Typical signals of a generalization and cursory approach. A surprise? No. Also seems they were a bit astonished at what I had to say. :-) But they'll include the footage of CELTIC FROST's very first public appearance, 'Into the Crypts of Rays' on Swiss TV, shot in 1985."

CELTIC FROST have selected HYPOCRISY/PAIN mainman Peter Tägtgren to co-produce their long-awaited comeback effort, tentatively titled "Dark Matter Manifest". The band willl enter Horus Sound Studio in Hannover, Germany on August 1 to begin recording their first collection of new material since 1990's "Vanity/Nemesis". Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Obscured", "Incantation against You", "Ain Elohim" and "Temple of Depression".

CELTIC FROST, who have been mixing new demo material at Oakland Recording in Winterthur, Switzerland, have yet to secure a record deal for their upcoming CD.