– June twenty ninth, 2023 –

BAND FEATURES VOLBEAT’S MICHAEL POULSEN, MARC GREWE (INSIDIOUS DISEASE, EX-MORGOTH), & MORTEN TOFT HANSEN (RAUNCHY)

DEBUT ALBUM IMPII HORA OUT SEPTEMBER 29 VIA METAL BLADE RECORDS

BAND SHARES “FALL OF THE LOYAL WARRIOR” LYRIC VIDEO

For greater than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine Volbeat, releasing eight full-lengths, promoting hundreds of thousands of albums, and filling stadiums worldwide. Earlier than fronting Volbeat, nonetheless, Poulsen shaped demise 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 demise steel riffs and saved them on his telephone. Then, when he was accomplished with the Volbeat report, he reopened the rusty gates to Armageddon and began placing collectively songs for his new demise steel band Asinhell, whose debut album Impii Hora (Latin for Ungodly Hour), is a tribute to Poulsen’s favorite old-school teams. The songs are rooted in crushing riffs but injected with robust guitar hooks and shout-along refrains.

Impii Hora can be launched September twenty ninth by way of Metallic Blade. Pre-order it right here.

Immediately, the band has shared the lyric video for “Fall Of The Loyal Warrior.” Watch it right here.

“We’re very excited to share the primary style of Asinhell with ‘Fall Of The Loyal Warrior,’” says Poulsen. “The music is form of a tribute to bands I like, like Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Post-mortem, Grave, and Darkthrone. They’re the rationale why we are able to do that within the first place, and we’re proud to put on our influences on our sleeve. The album was impressed by late ’80s and early ’90s old style demise steel, and one in all our brightest factors of inspiration was the mighty Demise, fronted by the legendary Chuck Schuldiner. There’s lots of Demise in there. Schuldiner is one in all my favourite demise steel vocalists, the opposite being our vocalist Marc [Grewe]. So to me, this music is the mix of two of my favorites. ‘Let the steel stream,’ as Chuck would have stated!“

Whereas Poulsen sings in Volbeat and sang for Dominus, he didn’t wish to entrance Asinhell. So, in March 2022, he referred to as his previous pal, ex-Morgoth singer Marc Grewe (Insidious Illness) and invited him to hitch the social gathering. “I had recognized Michael fairly a very long time and he all the time talked about that we should always do a demise steel mission someday, however I by no means took him too critically as a result of he was so busy with Volbeat,” Grewe says. “Then he referred to as for actual and stated, ‘Yeah, I wish to do it now. Are you up for it?’ Instantly, I used to be ‘Sure, after all!’“

After contemplating drummer associates from established bands, Poulsen requested Morten Toft Hansen from Danish group Raunchy to hitch. Not solely does Morten play like a fiend possessed, his and Poulsen’s six-year-old daughters are good associates… and, it takes simply 10 minutes to drive to Morten’s place. The 2 veteran musicians began working towards and accomplished a full music nearly each time they received collectively. Grewe was tied up at house in Germany when it got here time to put in writing the vocals, so Poulsen despatched the singer telephone recordings from rehearsals to start out the method. Via Poulsen and Toft Hansen’s years of expertise and renewed starvation to destroy, they captured a firestorm in a bottle.

Asinhell went from being a mere thought to recording the piledriving full-length Impii Hora in a couple of yr. Poulsen requested Volbeat‘s administration to assist discover a house for Asinhell and was thrilled once they talked about that Metallic Blade founder Brian Slagel would love the band. As quickly as he heard Impii Hora, Slagel made Asinhell a high precedence. “It’s such a dream come true for me to get to be on fucking Metallic Blade Information,” Poulsen exclaims. “Once they stated they wished to place out the album, I felt like I used to be 17 years previous once more. I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m making a take care of Metallic Blade! How cool is that?’ It was like I used to be lastly getting the report deal I dreamed of after I was a teen.“

IMPII HORA TRACK LISTING:
01. Fall of the Loyal Warrior
02. Internal Sancticide
03. Island of Lifeless Males
04. Trophies
05. The Final Sin
06. Wolfpack Legal guidelines
07. Desert of Doom
08. Pyromantic Scryer
09. Impii Hora
10. Føj for Helvede

The album can be out there within the following codecs. Pre-order it right here.

• Jewel case CD
• 180g Black Vinyl (Europe excl.)
• Crimson Pink Marbled Vinyl (Europe excl.)
• White Vinyl (Europe excl., ltd. 1000)
• Gold/Black Mud (EMP excl., ltd.300)
• Clear w/ Pink/White Splatter Vinyl (Europe Band retailer excl., ltd. 500)
• Silver Vinyl (US excl.)
• Silver w/ Pink Splatter Vinyl (US. excl.)
• Black & White Soften Vinyl (US excl.)
• Pink/Black Splatter Vinyl (US Band retailer excl., ltd. 500)

ASINHELL ARE:
Michael Poulsen: Guitar
Marc Grewe: Vocals
Morten Toft Hansen: Drums

FIND ASINHELL ONLINE:
https://asinhell.com
https://www.fb.com/AsinhellMusic
https://twitter.com/Asinhell
https://www.instagram.com/asinhellmusic