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HORDE OF HEL’s history dates back to the dawn of the new, cursed
millennium, when John Odhinn Sandin – previously in Odhinn, and
concurrently of the late/great In Battle – wanted to strike out on his
own with a project that significantly differed sonically from those
bands. It would take years before a first recording arrived, but at last
it did in 2009 with the debut album Blodskam. In one sense, HORDE OF
HEL here exhibited a refreshing take on industrialized black metal –
martial, malevolent, mesmerizing – but in another, more accurate sense,
with Odhinn’s emphasis on dark ambient atmospheres, Blodskam transcended
the “industrial black metal” demi-tag altogether.
In 2011, the second HORDE OF HEL album arrived in the form of Likdagg,
courtesy of REGAIN RECORDS. Immediately, a change was felt: the more
lumbering ‘n’ loping mid-tempos of Blodskam have been replaced by
thoroughly berserker drum-programming, which increased the ultraviolence
a hundredfold. A reflection of the increasingly darker times, Likdagg’s
utterly remorseless,
unrelentingly unhinged speed slaughtered listeners with apparent
ease…that is, if that listener possessed the sturdy constitution to step
forward to that onslaught to begin with.
Many years passed, and many presumed HORDE OF HEL dead. Far from it: the
most ULTRA ultraviolence was simply lying in wait! And now it has
arrived with Döden Nalkas, doubtlessly the most extreme (or at least
extremely unforgiving) record you’ll hear all year – or perhaps all
decade. All the rudiments of its no-less-considerable predecessor have
been pushed into the red: drums reaching 500 BPM, the guitars slicing
like barbed wire at warp speed, vocals approaching blackout levels of
seething vitriol, the ambient elements wrapping all around the wreckage
in dizzying, disorienting darkness. But, this new guise of HORDE OF HEL
is a unified trio – a connection between and within three individuals –
and thus are its effects felt across Döden Nalkas. Of them, perhaps the
most pronounced are the integration of real drums from the ever-prolific
Nils “Dominator” Fjellström, who played with Odhinn in In Battle and
more recently in The Wretched End and Nordjevel, among others; this
symbiosis straddles the line between over-the-top gabber and black
metal’s outermost reaches of intensity. Likewise, the arrival of
vocalist Sanctvs (also of Nordjevel) has injected an even greater
intensity into HORDE OF HEL’s already-incomprehensibly-intense attack.
Simply put, put on headphones and your ears will be absolutely PUNISHED
by Döden Nalkas!
The more things stay the same – or stay bleak, the Apocalypse at hand
with the current worldwide pandemic – the more things change, and so too
do HORDE OF HEL. With mastering by Devo (MARDUK) at Endarker Studio,
Döden Nalkas is the soundtrack to the literal END.
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