ASINHELL Release Debut Studio Album ‘Impii Hora’
September 29th, 2023
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European death metal band Asinhell issued debut full-length studio album Impii Hora (Latin to English translation: ‘Ungodly Hour’) on September 29th, 2023 through Metal Blade Records.
When guitarist Michael Poulsen was putting together songs for Volbeat’s 2021 album Servant Of The Mind (Volbeat being Poulsen’s main band, which he fronts), he wrote a bunch of death metal riffs and saved them on his phone. Following the completion of Servant Of The Mind, Poulsen started putting songs together for his new group Asinhell. Poulsen had previously recorded four death metal albums in the mid-90s as a part of Dominus.
Not wishing to front Asinhell, in March 2022, Poulsen contacted old friend and former Morgoth vocalist Marc Grewe (Insidious Disease) and invited him to join. “I had known Michael quite a long time and he always mentioned that we should do a death metal project one day, but I never took him too seriously because he was so busy with Volbeat,” Grewe said. “Then he called for real and said, ‘Yeah, I want to do it now. Are you up for it?’ Immediately, I was ‘Yes, of course!’”
Subsequently, after considering drummer friends from established bands, Poulsen asked Morten Toft Hansen from Danish group Raunchy to join the fold – the pair live ten minutes away from one another. Grewe was tied up at home in Germany when it came time to write the vocals, so Poulsen sent the singer phone recordings from rehearsals to start the process.
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The track listing is as follows:
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. ‘Føj For Helvede’
Asinhell’s line-up is as follows:
Marc Grewe (vocals, Insidious Disease / ex-Morgoth)
Michael Poulsen (guitars, Volbeat / ex-Dominus)
Morten Toft Hansen (drums, Raunchy)
Impii Hora was made available in the following coloured vinyl formats; 180g black (Europe exclusive), crimson red marbled (Europe exclusive), white vinyl (Europe exclusive, limited to 1000), gold with black dust (EMP exclusive, limited to 300 copies), clear with and red and white splatter (Europe Band store exclusive, limited to 500 copies), silver (US exclusive, silver with red splatter (US exclusive), black and white melt (US exclusive), and red and black splatter (US Band store exclusive, limited to 500 copies).
Music videos were released for the tracks ‘Fall Of The Loyal Warrior’, ‘Wolfpack Laws’, ‘Pyromantic Scryer’ and ‘Impii Hora’. In addition, official lyric videos were created for the songs ‘Fall Of The Loyal Warrior’, ‘Island Of Dead Men’ and ‘Desert Of Doom’. All seven clips can be viewed below.
Promotional photograph by Britt Bowman.
