Triptykon: To Be One Of The Headliners Of 2012’s Metalfest Festival Tour

Century Media Records has anounced that gothic doom metallers TRIPTYKON will be One Of The Headliners Of 2012’s Metalfest Festival Tour. “We are proud to be able to announce that Triptykon has been invited to be one of the groups to appear as part of Rock The Nation’s massive “Metalfest 2012” open air festival tour. “Metalfest” will take place in June 2012, in seven European locations. In several of these locations, Triptykon will headline the second stage.“ METALFEST OPEN AIR FESTIVAL posted.

The bands participating in 2012’s “Metalfest” are: Hypocrisy, Behemoth, Kreator, Fear Factory, Death Angel, Ensiferum, In Extremo, Legion Of The Damned, Dark Tranquillity, Vader, Swallow The Sun as well as many more.

The following are the planned “Metalfest 2012” dates:

May 31 to June 2, 2012: Mining, Metalfest Austria
May 31 to June 2, 2012: Dessau, Metalfest East Germany
June 1 to June 3, 2012: Jaworzno, Metalfest Poland
June 3 to June 5, 2012: Zadar, Metalfest Croatia
June 5 to June 7, 2012: Monza, Metalfest Italy
June 7 to June 9, 2012: Loreley, Metalfest West Germany
June 7 to June 10, 2012: Pratteln, Metalfest Switzerland
June 8 to June 10, 2012: Plzen, Metalfest Czech Republic

And also, Triptykon has been confirmed to appear at Norway’s legendary Inferno Festival, held from April 4 to 7, 2012, in Oslo, Norway. Triptykon guitarist and singer Tom Gabriel Warrior was part on an Inferno Festival discussion panel on the future of extreme metal in 2008. At the same festival, Warrior was a guest vocalist for Norway’s 1349, joining them onstage to perform their cover version of Celtic Frost’s “The Usurper”. This is the very first time, however, that Warrior will perform at Inferno with his own band, Triptykon.