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Thomas Gabriel Fischer (born July 19, 1963), earlier known by his stage name of "Tom Gabriel Warrior", is a Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 singer and guitarist. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the death metal style of singing or growling. Together with Bruce Day
Bruce Day

Bruce Day was a bass guitarist and vocalist for the California smooth rock band Pablo Cruise and previously for Santana . Day replaced bassist Bud Cockrell of Pablo Cruise in 1977, and stayed with the band until 1981 before the Reflector album was recorded....
 and Steve Warrior he formed the seminal thrash/Death/black metal band Hellhammer
Hellhammer

Hellhammer was an influential extreme metal band from Switzerland, active during 1982?1984. They are regarded as a key influence on black metal, and one of the founders of death metal....
 in 1982. In late 1983, bassist and songwriter Martin Eric Ain
Martin Eric Ain

Martin Eric Ain is the left-handed bassist of Swiss thrash metal band Celtic Frost. According to a recent interview, Ain is, in fact, an Pseudonym....
 joined Hellhammer and the line-up of Fischer, Ain and Day recorded an EP, "Apocalyptic Raids
Apocalyptic Raids

Apocalyptic Raids is an Extended play by the Switzerland extreme metal band Hellhammer. It was recorded and released in March 1984, and was the band's only commercial release....
", as well as a series of demos for the German label Noise Records
Noise Records (Germany)

Noise Records is a Germany record label founded by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach in 1984 in music as an expansion of the concept of his label Aggressive Rock Produktionen....
 before disbanding in May 1984.

Fischer and Ain joined forces once again and formed thrash/black/death metal three-piece group called Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was an influential avant-garde metal band from Z?rich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres....
 in June 1984.

In 1985, Fischer was asked to co-produce and sing on the first demo, titled Death Cult
Death cult

The term Death cult may refer to:*The Cult, Death cult was an early name for this British rock band*Death Cult , a compilation album featuring all the songs from Death cult...
, by fellow Swiss group Coroner
Coroner (band)

Coroner was a Switzerland thrash metal band from Zurich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. They combined elements of Thrash metal, progressive rock, jazz, and industrial metal with suitably gruff vocals that have put them at times in a death metal camp....
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Thomas Gabriel Fischer (born July 19, 1963), earlier known by his stage name of "Tom Gabriel Warrior", is a Swiss
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
 singer and guitarist. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the death metal style of singing or growling. Together with Bruce Day
Bruce Day

Bruce Day was a bass guitarist and vocalist for the California smooth rock band Pablo Cruise and previously for Santana . Day replaced bassist Bud Cockrell of Pablo Cruise in 1977, and stayed with the band until 1981 before the Reflector album was recorded....
 and Steve Warrior he formed the seminal thrash/Death/black metal band Hellhammer
Hellhammer

Hellhammer was an influential extreme metal band from Switzerland, active during 1982?1984. They are regarded as a key influence on black metal, and one of the founders of death metal....
 in 1982. In late 1983, bassist and songwriter Martin Eric Ain
Martin Eric Ain

Martin Eric Ain is the left-handed bassist of Swiss thrash metal band Celtic Frost. According to a recent interview, Ain is, in fact, an Pseudonym....
 joined Hellhammer and the line-up of Fischer, Ain and Day recorded an EP, "Apocalyptic Raids
Apocalyptic Raids

Apocalyptic Raids is an Extended play by the Switzerland extreme metal band Hellhammer. It was recorded and released in March 1984, and was the band's only commercial release....
", as well as a series of demos for the German label Noise Records
Noise Records (Germany)

Noise Records is a Germany record label founded by German music industry personality Karl-Ulrich Walterbach in 1984 in music as an expansion of the concept of his label Aggressive Rock Produktionen....
 before disbanding in May 1984.

Fischer and Ain joined forces once again and formed thrash/black/death metal three-piece group called Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was an influential avant-garde metal band from Z?rich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres....
 in June 1984.

In 1985, Fischer was asked to co-produce and sing on the first demo, titled Death Cult
Death cult

The term Death cult may refer to:*The Cult, Death cult was an early name for this British rock band*Death Cult , a compilation album featuring all the songs from Death cult...
, by fellow Swiss group Coroner
Coroner (band)

Coroner was a Switzerland thrash metal band from Zurich. They garnered relatively little attention outside of Europe. They combined elements of Thrash metal, progressive rock, jazz, and industrial metal with suitably gruff vocals that have put them at times in a death metal camp....
. Fischer also wrote the lyrics for the recorded songs. Two of the members of Coroner formed part of Celtic Frost's road crew until 1986.

Fischer also formed the ebm
EBM

EBM can be an acronym for:* Ecosystem based management* Electron Beam Melting, a solid freeform fabrication technique for creating solid metal parts from CAD...
/industrial rock
Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres, mainly punk rock and hard rock. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused....
 project Apollyon Sun
Apollyon Sun

Apollyon Sun was an industrial metal project formed by singer/guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer and guitarist Erol Unala in early 1995, after the termination of Celtic Frost, Fischer's prior group....
 in 1994.

In 2000 Fischer's book "Are You Morbid?: Into the Pandemonium of Celtic Frost" received many favourable reviews, including this from Record Collector: "Intelligent, humble, questioning, insightful - the cultured side of extreme metal."

Fischer also performed in Probot
Probot

Probot might mean:*Probot, a side-project band of Foo Fighters singer/guitarist Dave Grohl*Probe droid, as found in the fictional Star Wars universe...
, Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl

David Eric Grohl is an American Rock musician, singer and songwriter. Grohl began his music career in the 1980s as the drummer for several Washington, D.C., area bands, including the hardcore punk band Scream ....
's colaborative project with various metal artists, on the song "Big Sky
Big Sky

Big Sky is a phrase that is generally used in references to areas of large expanses of flat land such as the U.S. state of Montana, and the eastern region of the UK known as East Anglia....
" in 2003.

In 2005, Tom produced vocal (performed by Martin Eric Ain) and guitar tracks (Erol Unala) for a "gothicized" version of Slayer's classic "Black Magic" recorded by Los Angeles based gothrock band Hatesex. The track appeared on their debut album entitled "Unwant".

Due to the 'internal conflict' within Celtic Frost, Tom left the band in May 2008, and has launched a new band named Triptykon
Triptykon

Triptykon is the new musical project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, founding member of the pioneering heavy metal music bands Hellhammer , Celtic Frost and Apollyon Sun....
.

He currently plays an Ibanez
Ibanez

Ibanez is a guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki and based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in the United States and Europe....
 H.R. Giger series Iceman guitar.

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