VOLBEAT frontman Michael Poulsen's death metal project ASINHELL releases music video for 'Pyromantic Scryer'
25-04-2025
ASINHELL, the new death metal band featuring VOLBEAT‘s Michael Poulsen, Marc Grewe (INSIDIOUS DISEASE, ex-MORGOTH) and Morten Toft Hansen (RAUNCHY), has released the official music video for the song “Pyromantic Scryer”. The track is taken from ASINHELL‘s debut album, “Impii Hora”, which arrived last September via Metal Blade.
Watch “Pyromantic Scryer” below.
“‘Pyromantic Scryer’ was the first song I wrote for the album and it surely has an ENTOMBED vibe, and as I’ve said before, it was [late ENTOMBED singer] L.G. Petrov who kicked started the birth of ASINHELL,” says Poulsen.
“Pyromancy is the ‘art’ of prophecy/augury by any means of fire,” says Grewe. “The song is about a mad man who thinks he can predict the future from fires. Fires he sets himself. In his delusion, he thinks he is a misunderstood messiah. The song can also been seen metaphorical on some things that are going on (and wrong) in the world of today… a small spark of a mad man (or group/cult) can set the world on fire. I think the video created by Shan Dan shows this dangerous behavior in a quite drastic way!”
Watch the previously released “Desert Of Doom”, “Island Of Dead Men” and“Fall Of The Loyal Warrior” below.
For more than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine VOLBEAT, releasing eight full-lengths, selling millions of albums, and filling stadiums worldwide. Before fronting VOLBEAT, however, Poulsen formed death metal band DOMINUS, which recorded four fast, brutal albums in the mid-’90s.
When Poulsen was putting together songs for VOLBEAT‘s 2021 album “Servant Of The Mind”, he wrote a bunch of death metal riffs and saved them on his phone. Then, when he was done with the VOLBEAT record, he reopened the rusty gates to Armageddon and started putting together songs for his new death metal band ASINHELL, whose debut album “Impii Hora” (Latin for “Ungodly Hour”), is a tribute to Poulsen‘s favorite old-school groups. The songs are rooted in crushing riffs yet injected with strong guitar hooks and shout-along refrains.
While Poulsen sings in VOLBEAT and sang for DOMINUS, he didn’t want to front ASINHELL. So, in March 2022, he called his old friend, ex-MORGOTH singer Marc Grewe (also of INSIDIOUS DISEASE) and invited him to join the party.
“I had known Michael quite a long time and he always mentioned that we should do a death metal project one day, but I never took him too seriously because he was so busy with VOLBEAT,” Grewe says. “Then he called for real and said, ‘Yeah, I want to do it now. Are you up for it?’ Immediately, I was ‘Yes, of course!'”
After considering drummer friends from established bands, Poulsen asked Morten Toft Hansen from Danish group RAUNCHY to join. Not only does Morten play like a fiend possessed, his and Poulsen‘s six-year-old daughters are good friends… and, it takes just 10 minutes to drive to Morten‘s place.
The two veteran musicians started practicing and completed a full song almost every time they got together. Grewe was tied up at home in Germany when it came time to write the vocals, so Poulsen sent the singer phone recordings from rehearsals to start the process. Through Poulsen and Toft Hansen‘s years of experience and renewed hunger to destroy, they captured a firestorm in a bottle.
“Impii Hora” track listing:
01. Fall Of The Loyal Warrior
02. Inner Sancticide
03. Island Of Dead Men
04. Trophies
05. The Ultimate Sin
06. Wolfpack Laws
07. Desert Of Doom
08. Pyromantic Scryer
09. Impii Hora
10. Foj For Helvede
ASINHELL recently announced a European tour that includes festivals as well as intimate club shows. ENDSEEKER will be support on all headline shows except for Zurich, where the band will be supported by New Zealand powerhouse ALIEN WEAPONRY and Copenhagen, where SICKOMANIA (featuring Jesper K Olsen, Michael‘s former bandmate in DOMINUS) will open the show.
ASINHELL 2024 tour dates:
May 30 – DK – Copenhagen – Pumphuset (+ SICKOMANIA)
Jun. 02 – DE – Hamburg – Übel & Gefährlich (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 03 – LU – Luxembourg – Rockhal (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 05 – NL – Utrecht – Rhonda (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 07 – DE – Nürburgring – Rock Am Ring
Jun. 09 – DE – Nürnberg – Rock Im Park
Jun. 10 – DE – München – Technikum (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 12 – CH – Zürich – Xtra (+ ALIEN WEAPONRY)
Jun. 13 – AT – Nickelsdorf – Nova Rock
Jun. 15 – UK – Donington Park – Download
Jun. 18 – DE – Berlin – Hole 44 (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 19 – DE – Frankfurt – Zoom (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 20 – BE – Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting
Jun. 22 – DK – Copenhagen – Copenhell
Jun. 24 – DE – Essen – Turock (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 25 – FR – Lyon – Transbordeur (+ ENDSEEKER)
Jun. 27 – FR – Clisson – Hellfest
Jun. 29 – NO – Oslo – Tons Of Rock
Aug. 31 – DK – Næstved – Næstved Metalfest
ASINHELL is:
Michael Poulsen – Guitar
Marc Grewe – Vocals
Morten Toft Hansen – Drums
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