– September thirtieth, 2024 –
BAND FEATURES VOLBEAT’S MICHAEL POULSEN, MARC GREWE (INSIDIOUS DISEASE, EX-MORGOTH), + MORTEN TOFT HANSEN (RAUNCHY)
DEBUT ALBUM IMPII HORA OUT NOW VIA METAL BLADE RECORDS
For greater than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine Volbeat, releasing eight full lengths, promoting thousands and thousands of albums, and filling stadiums worldwide. Earlier than fronting Volbeat, nevertheless, Poulsen fashioned dying metallic band Dominus, which recorded 4 quick, brutal albums within the mid ’90s.
When Poulsen was placing collectively songs for Volbeat‘s 2021 album, Servant of the Thoughts, he wrote a bunch of dying metallic riffs and saved them on his cellphone. Then, when he was carried out with the Volbeat document, he reopened the rusty gates to Armageddon and began placing collectively songs for his new dying metallic band Asinhell, whose debut album Impii Hora (Latin for “Ungodly Hour“), is a tribute to Poulsen’s favourite old-school teams.
Impii Hora was launched September 29, 2023 by way of Steel Blade. Get it right here.
Immediately, the band has shared the video for the title monitor. Watch it right here.
The video comes on the one-year anniversary of the album launch. The footage was shot in Berlin in the course of the band’s current European tour.
“It means ‘Ungodly Hour’ in Latin and the music is about all these evil, vile, and horrible acts that get dedicated on this Ungodly Hour,” shares Poulsen concerning the title. “It’s undoubtedly an anti-religion music. Mainly, we’re not churchgoers, however then again, I completely respect individuals who consider in one thing. However faith, to me, is the oppression that comes with being part of the church. That’s the oppressive factor, not the idea in some excessive, holy spirit. To me, the anti-religion stuff is extra about what folks have carried out to believers – making an attempt to control folks to comply with them, which is an autocratic sort of factor.”
It follows final spring’s video for “Pyromantic Scryer.” Watch it right here.
Poulsen has rekindled the dying metallic hearth that fueled his first band Dominus. He started jamming on riffs with longtime buddy and neighbor, drummer Morten Toft Hansen (Raunchy). The 2 began enjoying in Morten’s tiny storage: no mics, no P.A. – only a drum equipment and a combo amp turned all the best way up like they used once they had been youngsters. Quickly, the pair had been finishing a brand new music each time they bought collectively. When it got here time so as to add vocals, Poulsen turned to his good buddy, who additionally occurred to be one in all his all-time favourite dying metallic growlers: Marc Grewe (Insidious Illness, ex-Morgoth).
“I had identified Michael fairly a very long time and he at all times talked about that we must always do a dying metallic undertaking someday, however I by no means took him too significantly as a result of he was so busy with Volbeat,” Grewe says. “Then he known as for actual and stated, ‘Yeah, I wish to do it now. Are you up for it?’ Instantly, I used to be like, ‘Sure, after all!’“
With Asinhell totally fashioned, the three convened with Volbeat producer Jacob Hansen to provide, combine, and play bass on their debut album. When it was time so as to add lead guitar to the album, Michael seemed no additional than buddy and The Arcane Order axeman Flemming C. Lund.
ASINHELL ARE:
Michael Poulsen – Guitar
Marc Grewe – Vocals
Morten Toft Hansen – Drums
ASINHELL ONLINE:
https://asinhell.com
https://www.fb.com/AsinhellMusic
https://twitter.com/Asinhell
https://www.instagram.com/asinhellmusic