– 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 shaped dying steel 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 steel riffs and saved them on his telephone. Then, when he was carried out with the Volbeat report, he reopened the rusty gates to Armageddon and began placing collectively songs for his new dying steel 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 through Steel Blade. Get it right here.
In the present day, the band has shared the video for the title observe. 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 track is about all these evil, vile, and horrible acts that get dedicated on this Ungodly Hour,” shares Poulsen in regards to the title. “It’s undoubtedly an anti-religion track. 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 assumption in some excessive, holy spirit. To me, the anti-religion stuff is extra about what folks have carried out to believers – attempting to govern folks to comply with them, which is an autocratic form of factor.”
It follows final spring’s video for “Pyromantic Scryer.” Watch it right here.
Poulsen has rekindled the dying steel hearth that fueled his first band Dominus. He started jamming on riffs with longtime pal and neighbor, drummer Morten Toft Hansen (Raunchy). The 2 began taking part in in Morten’s tiny storage: no mics, no P.A. – only a drum package 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 track each time they obtained collectively. When it got here time so as to add vocals, Poulsen turned to his good pal, who additionally occurred to be one in every of his all-time favourite dying steel growlers: Marc Grewe (Insidious Illness, ex-Morgoth).
“I had recognized Michael fairly a very long time and he at all times talked about that we must always do a dying steel mission at some point, 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 need to do it now. Are you up for it?’ Instantly, I used to be like, ‘Sure, after all!’“
With Asinhell absolutely shaped, 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 regarded no additional than pal 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