Tom G Warrior: “We put so much fanaticism into Hellhammer, it’s nice to know it wasn’t wasted”

The day Kerrang! meets up with Tom G Warrior in London is part of a full-circle coincidence. In the early-’80s, as a teenager he saved what money he had and made the trip from Switzerland to the UK. It was something of a pilgrimage, to the buzzing hub of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, on which he would avail himself of seven-inch singles and records from the most exciting musical movement on the planet at the time.  On said trip, he also picked up two early issues of Kerrang! – like the records, unlike anything easily obtainable at home at the time. Excitedly, he took them back to his hotel near Paddington railway station, thrilled with his haul.  Four decades and change later, now 60, Tom is sat in more or less the same postcode, now reflectin...

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