Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen is no stranger to death metal. Poulsen used to play in Dominus back in the '90s and has made his love of the genre over the years very, very clear. Now Poulsen is getting back into death metal with a new band Asinhell, whose first single "Fall Of The Loyal Warrior" you can check out below.
"We're very excited to share the first taste of Asinhell with 'Fall of the Loyal Warrior,'" says Poulsen. "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!"
Asinhell features Poulsen on guitar alongside singer Marc Grewe (ex-Morgoth, Insidious Disease) and drummer Toft Hansen (Raunchy). Asinhell will release their debut album Impii Hora on September 29, with pre-orders available here.
Predictaby, Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel was stoked on the band. "It's such a dream come true for me to get to be on fucking Metal Blade Records," Poulsen exclaims. "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."
