Hellbutcher: Vocals
Necrophiliac: Guitar
Iron Beast: Guitar
Eld: Bass
Devastator: Drums
Wimps and posers beware. From the depths of the black steel underground, considered one of its maximum elite figures returns with a brand new band and an much more evil perspective. As frontman of mythical Swedish maniacs Nifelheim, Hellbutcher upheld the unhealthy title of actual black steel with an iron fist. Now with this eponymous new band, the frenzied undertaking continues: not anything lower than general steel mania will do. “The core of Hellbutcher encapsulates the actual essence of steel,” he broadcasts. “We’re METAL, striving to refine and evolve our tune and symbol to transform the purest and heaviest amongst all excessive steel bands all over historical past. Dismissing predefined developments and models, we can persist within the original trail that steel was once supposed to practice!“
He’s now not kidding. Having been a pacesetter within the Swedish black steel scene for the reason that early ’90s, this essence is actually in Hellbutcher‘s bones and flowing thru his veins. Natural steel, general blasphemy, absolute musical Armageddon. “I play black steel. I’ve executed that for 4 a long time now, so I should clearly be possessed in some sense,” he says. “Musically, I don’t like wimpy stuff. [Our] tune reeks of evil, the lyrics should be evil, that’s only a easy reality! Hellbutcher is tune for actual headbangers!“
Following the tip of Nifelheim, who performed their ultimate display in past due 2022, Hellbutcher himself wasted no time in forging ahead. “I realised I had to create my very own band to uphold the actual spirit of steel. I used to be extremely impressed!” Teaming up with previous compadres in evil, guitarists Necrophiliac (additionally of Mordant) and Iron Beast, bassist Eld and drummer Devastator (ex-Nifelheim), Hellbutcher temporarily set about bringing this imaginative and prescient to lifestyles. In a little while, they’d accrued sufficient subject matter to file their raging, hellish, self-titled debut album. Recording in more than a few places round Sweden, corresponding to Devastator’s personal Purple And Black Corridor drum studio and Iron Beast’s Chrome studios, and generating and mastering the whole thing themselves – “No use for an outdoor manufacturer since we knew precisely how our band will have to sound” – this is a file that sticks out and unambiguous as a piece or natural, metal mayhem.
From the album’s opener, the crazed The Sword Of Wrath, Hellbutcher‘s intent is loud and transparent. Channelling the spirit of Venom, Bathory, Iron Maiden, Exciter, Motörhead, Mercyful Destiny and the competitive spirit of true heavy steel, it’s an explosion of diabolic evil, carried out mercilessly by means of true masters of the shape. “It kicks off with an epic intro after which dives right into a frenzy of beating guitars, adopted by means of a formidable refrain and an difficult to understand but heavy heart phase with shredding guitar solos – the whole thing you’d need in a steel music, personally,” explains Hellbutcher. “The music’s lyrics are rather metaphorical, impressed by means of my choice to proceed the trail I began a long time in the past with Nifelheim.”
Somewhere else, the shared fanaticism of the band’s participants will also be noticed when Hellbutcher explains that the music Inferno’s Rage was once musically composed with out him by means of Necrophiliac, contributing the lyrics as soon as the music was once completed. “I’ve identified him for the reason that early ’90s, and his musical taste aligns carefully with mine,” says the singer. “This monitor stands as evidence that he understands the very essence of Hellbutcher! Inferno’s Rage is an unrelenting onslaught of velocity, coupled with touches of heavy steel in sure portions. It additionally presentations the insane drumming of Devastator, who’s stated as one of the vital perfect drummers within the steel scene!“
With an enviable musical pedigree and a killer album to their title, Hellbutcher are sure to scorch a mark onto the black steel scene. The person himself believes this may well be much more devastating than his earlier output. “I consider this band has the prospective to surpass Nifelheim; we’ve completed extra in a yr than I did within the final decade with Nifelheim,” he states. “The important thing distinction lies in the truth that this band stocks a not unusual purpose. I’m now full of super inspiration, and I plan to create new songs, information, and gigs at an absolutely other tempo than earlier than.” Insisting in such a lot of phrases that posers will have to die, and promising that their are living presentations “will probably be a neck-breaking enjoy“, the underground is set to be hit with an endemic of evil not like anything else it has noticed for a very long time.
Time to show the pass the other way up: Hellbutcher are right here, they usually imply evil trade.
