Argeodeema
This thing is an absolute black metal storm. Its grim, firm and brings a dominant trance that borders near totalitarian levels of impact. The drums on this thing are beyond me, if you are into the darker sides of industrial I can recommend this one wholeheartedly.
Björnen
Intense and fierce are two words to describe this album. An album very much to the point. Fjellström deliver some very sick drumming here.
Favorite track: Blodets Morgon.
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BLOODDAWN PRODUCTIONS (distributed & marketed by REGAIN RECORDS) is proud to present HORDE OF HEL’s long-awaited third album, Döden Nalkas, on CD and vinyl LP.
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 Immediately, a change was felt: the more lumbering ‘n’ loping mid-tempos of Blodskam have been replaced by thoroughly berserker drum-programming, which increased the ultraviolence a hundredfold.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.
credits
released September 30, 2020
Tracklist:
1. Blodets Morgon
2. Death Division Status
3. Visdomen Kallas døden
4. Standard Nordland
5. Totalitarian Regime
6. Total Death
7. Holy Ash
8. No Remorse
9. Livets Narkos
10. Of Eternity And Ruins
Line up:
Vocal:Sanctvs
All strings: J.O Sandin
Drums: Nils Fjellström
Recorded at studioLv5 engineered by Jonas Jönsson
Mastered by Devo at Endarker productions
The first 30 seconds of "Revenge by Fire" convinced me to get the whole album! It is a face-melting blend of speed and black metal, reminiscent of Hellripper! KVAEN is a Swedish solo project much like Hellripper but many known guest musicians helped J. Björnfot in his endeavor. Altogether it is really a solid debut album, I loved the melodies and the pace changes in the second half too, ending with a "calm" instrumental one. Well-done!! sachavonkarl74