AUDREY HORNE
Devil’s Bell
NAPALM More big-riffing bravado from Bergen’s classic rockers
Named after a character from the infamous drama Twin Peaks, Audrey Horne have roots buried in the Norwegian black metal scene. But just like countrymen Enslaved, whose guitarist Arve ‘Ice Dale’ Isdal doubles up in both bands, for the past two decades the quintet have served as an escape valve to let off steam in a far more tuneful way. Their seventh album takes its cues from the giant, stadium-filling rock of the 70s and 80s. The result is a granite-hard monolith of tunefulness, with rowdy, lighter-waving anthems such as Animal, Toxic Twins and Break Out – the latter a distant cousin of Dio’s We Rock and Ozzy Osbourne’s Shot In The Dark – which are accompanied by lashings of red-hot twin-lead guitars.