Anaal Nathrakh
| Anaal Nathrakh | |
|---|---|
 VITRIOL at Party.San 2013 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Black Metal , later Extreme Metal |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | myspace.com/anaalnathrakh |
| Founding members | |
| "Irrumator" (Mick Kenney) | |
| VITRIOL ( Dave Hunt ) | |
| "Leicia" | |
| Current occupation | |
| "Irrumator" (Mick Kenney) | |
| "VITRIOL" (Dave Hunt) | |
| former members | |
singing |
Attila Cshihar |
Electric guitar |
Seth Teitan |
| Live and session members | |
Electric guitar |
"Ventnor" |
Electric bass |
Shane Embury |
Drums |
Nick Barker |
| Danny Herrera | |
Anaal Nathrakh is a British extreme metal band. The name comes from John Boorman's film Excalibur (1981). There it is the first of three lines of the spell that Merlin occasionally uses. According to Michael Everson's translation, Anaal Nathrakh means something like "breath of the serpent". The band was formed in 1998 in Birmingham .
history
The band was formed in 1998 in Birmingham by Dave Hunt ( Benediction ) and Mick Kenney ( Mistress , Aborym ). The first line-up also included bassist Leicia, and the drummer named Battlesticks, behind which a drum computer was hidden. In 1999 a self-named demo was released, followed by Total Fucking Necro . Both demos were released in 2000 as a compilation by Leviaphonic Records. Bassist Leicia left Anaal Nathrakh and the duo released the debut album The Codex Necro in 2001 via Mordgrimm Records, which is musically assigned to Black Metal . In 2003 Mordgrimm Records released the EP When Fire Rains down from the Sky, Mankind Will Reap as It Has Sown , on which Attila Csihar ( Mayhem ) and Seth Teitan (later Dissection ) participated as guest musicians .
On November 13, 2003, the band recorded a peel session with drummer Nick Barker ( Dimmu Borgir , Cradle of Filth ) as "Battlesticks II" and bassist Shane Embury ( Napalm Death ) as "The Mad Arab". The recording aired on BBC Radio 1 on December 16, 2003 . This was followed by a contract with Season of Mist and 2004 the album Domine Non Es Dignus . In March 2005 the band resumed a radio session for the BBC Rock Show , strengthened by drummer Nick Barker, bassist Shane Embury (this time under the pseudonym Embryonomous) and guitarist "Ventnor" as in the Peel Session in November 2003. Anaal Nathrakh's live debut took place in Underworld in London on December 15, 2005 as the headliner of the A Cold Night in Hell show hosted by the music magazine Terrorizer , followed by another appearance at Edwards No 8 in Birmingham on December 16, 2005 Danny Herrera was hired by Napalm Death as the live drummer. In 2006 the third album Eschaton was also released on Season of Mist.
In 2007 Mick Kenney and Shane Embury founded the label FETO Records, where the next album Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here was released. The band withdrew from the live events. Starting in 2009, Anaal Nathrakh released three more albums via Candlelight Records and did a few festival appearances, including at Party.San . In 2014 the album Desideratum was released on Metal Blade Records , in 2016 The Whole Of the Law .
Style and texts
At the beginning the band was oriented towards the fast and aggressive Black Metal of Scandinavian bands, according to The Wendigo from Whiskey-soda.de "Total Fucking Necro looks like a brain-sick version of Emperor , Satyricon , Thorns or Khold ". In the meantime the band mixes black metal and grindcore elements. The band received good reviews, especially the programmed, very clinical drums. Fast, brute parts are typical, which since the 2006 album Eschaton have alternated with catchy refrains with clear vocals. The group itself doesn't feel like Black Metal, Death Metal or Grindcore and describes itself as an Extreme Metal band. While in the music grindcore typical flowing riffs and Industrial -typical samples and sound effects one, but the band refuses an assignment to these genres from.
Anaal Nathrakh does not publish her own song lyrics, but the song titles and statements in interviews show that her work primarily deals with apocalyptic topics, mortality and misanthropic content. The text for A Firm Foundation of Unyielding Despair , based on part of Bertrand Russell's A Free Man's Worship , describes according to Dave "VITRIOL" Hunt "in a very clear, moving way the fact that the universe doesn't give a damn about us". Hunt does not agree with the "rather optimistic things" in the further course of Russell's text. Captain Chaos von Vampster wrote about Anaal Nathrakh, few bands went "as mercilessly in the destruction of all life on this dirty round shit called earth" as they did. Erik Danielsson from Watain names Anaal Nathrakh alongside Profanatica and Dimmu Borgir as examples of the dispassionate and mediocre scene in contrast to true Black Metal. If you scratch the surface of these bands, you won't find anything.
Discography
- Demos
- Anaal Nathrakh (1999)
- Total Fucking Necro (1999)
- Albums
- The Codex Necro (2001)
- Domine non es dignus (2004)
- Eschaton (2006)
- Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here (2007)
- In the Constellation of the Black Widow (2009)
- Passion (2011)
- Vanitas (2012)
- Desideratum (2014)
- The Whole Of The Law (2016)
- A New Kind Of Horror (2018)
- EPs
- When Fire Rains down from the Sky, Mankind Will Reap as It Has Sown (2003)
- Singles
- More of Fire than Blood (2009)
- Man at C&A (2011)
- Of Fire, and Fucking Pigs (2012)
- Others
- Total Fucking Necro (2000, Collected Demos)
- The Candlelight Years (Boxset, 2015)
Web links
- Anaal Nathrakh on Myspace
- Anaal Nathrakh at Allmusic (English)
- Anaal Nathrakh at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ken Garner: The Peel Sessions. Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man's Love of new Music . BBC Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84607-282-6 , pp. 252 .
- ↑ The Wendigo: Anaal Nathrakh - Total Fucking Necro. (No longer available online.) Whiskey-soda.de , archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved November 11, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Oliver Schreyer: Anaal Nathrakh: In The Constellation Of The Black Widow. Musikreviews.de, accessed on November 11, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Captain Chaos: ANAAL NATHRAKH: In the Constellation of the Black Widow. Vampster , June 28, 2009, accessed November 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Dufaq: Interview with Mick Kenney (Anaal Nathrakh, Fukpig, Professor Fate). (No longer available online.) In: Mortem Zine. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; accessed on November 12, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Alexander Eitner: Interview: Anaal Nathrakh. (No longer available online.) In: metalnews.de. October 3, 2014, archived from the original on October 20, 2014 ; Retrieved November 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bastian Voigtländer: Anaal Nathrakh: Interview with Dave Hunt on "Passion". (No longer available online.) In: metal.de. August 20, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; Retrieved November 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Roel de Haan: Watain. Lords of Metal, accessed November 11, 2014 .
