“I FOUND AN old guitar and small amp in my basement, cranked it up to 10, and it sounded absolutely disgusting… it was perfect,” Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen beams.
Joining forces with Insidious Disease’s Marc Grewe on vocals and Raunchy’s Morten Toft Hansen on drums, new project Asinhell has all the makings of an old-school death metal monster. For Michael, it’s a return to his roots, harking back to his 90s band Dominus.
“Returning to the style of my old band felt pretty natural, almost like jumping on your bike again,” he reflects.
Asinhell began life as a number of riffs Michael wrote while working on Volbeat’s 2021 album, Servant Of The Mind. He subsequently put together a band to realise his old-school death metal vision and, when they finally hit the studio, the aim was to capture everything in its rawest state, recording a live take and layering in some extra guitars. There was never any attempt to polish