Volbeat‘s vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has returned to his death metal roots in Dominus with his new outfit Asinhell. That trio finds him handling the guitar duties, while Marc Grewe (Insidious Disease, ex-Morgoth) handles the vocals and Morten Toft Hansen of Raunchy fame sits behind the drum kit.
Metal Blade Records have picked up the band and will be releasing their debut album “Impii Hora” (Latin for ‘ungodly hour’) on September 29th. A lyric video for the song “Fall Of The Loyal Warrior” serves as your first taste of that new record, Poulsen commented:
“We’re very excited to share the first taste of Asinhell with ‘Fall of the Loyal Warrior‘. The song is kind of a tribute to bands I love, like Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Autopsy, Grave, and Darkthrone. They’re the reason why we can do this in the first place, and we’re proud to wear our influences on our sleeve.
The album was inspired by late ’80s and early ’90s old school death metal, and one of our brightest points of inspiration was the mighty Death, fronted by the legendary Chuck Schuldiner. There’s a lot of Death in there. Schuldiner is one of my favorite death metal vocalists, the other being our vocalist Marc [Grewe]. So to me, this song is the combination of two of my favorites. ‘Let the metal flow,’ as Chuck would have said!”
Speaking of signing with Metal Blade for the project, Poulsen added:
“It’s such a dream come true for me to get to be on fucking Metal Blade Records. When they said they wanted to put out the album, I felt like I was 17 years old again. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m making a deal with Metal Blade! How cool is that?’ It was like I was finally getting the record deal I dreamed of when I was a teenager.”
“Impii Hora” track listing:
01 – “Fall Of The Loyal Warrior”
02 – “Inner Sancticide”
03 – “Island Of Dead Men”
04 – “Trophies”
05 – “The Ultimate Sin”
06 – “Wolfpack Laws”
07 – “Desert Of Doom”
08 – “Pyromantic Scryer”
09 – “Impii Hora”
10 – “Foj For Helvede”
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