I feel like it was just yesterday when I was legally buying Celtic Frost’s final album, Monotheist.  After hearing they were breaking up, I was unable to smile for a few days.  But when I found out about another Tom G. Warrior project would have an album out in 2010, I was ecstatic.  Now here I am, listening to what very well could be the heaviest album I’ve heard in a long time.

Eparistera Daimones, the debut of said Warrior led project, Triptykon, is one of those albums where you know it’s going to be good about 10 seconds into it.  Simply put, this album doesn’t have any bullshit moments.  It lets you know what it’s there to do, and does just that.  Eparistera Daimones is Warrior’s darkest effort to date, and arguably his greatest.  The entire album is chock full of heavy and crushing riffs, and each is delivered with enough force to tear down the Great Wall.  Songs like Goetia, Abyss Within My Soul and A Thousand Lies just emit an energy of heavy blackness, all the while oozing the doomy riffs that Celtic Frost performed perfectly.

This is going to be an album that I will listen to for quite a long time, and don’t be surprised when you see it on a lot of top 10 lists in December.  That’s exactly what you get out of this Triptykon debut, a top of the line, no bullshit, dark album.  Cheers my fellow Celtic Frost fans, Tom G. Warrior is back!

95/100