ASINHELL share Pyromantic Scryer video ahead of Download Festival in June

23rd April 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

For more than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine Volbeat, releasing eight full-lengths, selling millions of albums, and filling stadiums worldwide. Before fronting Volbeat, however, Poulsen formed death metal band Dominus, which recorded four fast, brutal albums in the mid-’90s. When Poulsen was putting together songs for Volbeat‘s 2021 album, Servant Of The Mind, he wrote a bunch of death metal riffs and saved them on his phone. Then, when he was done with the Volbeat record, he reopened the rusty gates to Armageddon and started putting together songs for his new death metal band Asinhell, whose debut album Impii Hora (Latin for Ungodly Hour), is a tribute to Poulsen‘s favorite old-school groups.

Impii Hora was released on September 29 via Metal Blade. Get it here.

“‘Pyromantic Scryer’ was the first song I wrote for the album and it surely has an Entombed vibe, and as I’ve said before, it was L.G. Petrov who kicked started the birth of Asinhell,” says Poulsen.

“Pyromancy is the ‘art’ of prophecy/augury by any means of fire,” continues vocalist Marc Grewe. “The song is about a madman who thinks he can predict the future from fires. Fires he sets himself. In his delusion, he thinks he is a misunderstood messiah. The song can also be seen as metaphorical on some things that are going on (and wrong) in the world of today… a small spark of a madman (or group/cult) can set the world on fire. I think the video created by Shan Dan shows this dangerous behavior in a quite drastic way!”

UK fans don’t have much longer to wait to experience ASINHELL live for the first time, with the band embarking on a European tour next month that takes in Derbyshire’s Download Festival. The band will perform on the Opus stage on Saturday 15th June.

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