Horde (group)

Horde is the name of a group of Unblack metal, fruit of the project of the Australian musician Jayson Sherlocke, which formed formerly part of the groups Mortification and Paramaecium. Sherlocke records an album, " Hellig Usvart " (Holy Unblack) under the pseudonym " Anonymous ", which was distributed by Nuclear Blast Records in 1994, then republished by Rowe Productions. The majority of the album is recorded in Norwegian (as well as the title itself), which with thorough much of people to be believed, when Sherlocke still anonymous, that Horde was originating in Norway, which was supported by the bad quality of the production of the album, was regarded as a trademark of the Black Norwegian metal.

For the initial exit of Hellig Usvart , a publicity campaign was launched in all the community black metal, O Sherlocke allotted like " Anonymous". A wave breaks in the community black metal due to the not very common techniques of sale implied in the promotion of this album. Death threats are addressed to Mark Staiger in Nuclear Blast so that it reveals the identity of the anonymous musicians who created the album, without success, although the identity of Sherlocke was revealed later. Horde receives death threats to be a Christian group playing of the black metal. At the time of the original exit in 1994,4 000 copies of the album were in a hurry. In 1999 Rowe Productions buys all the remaining copies and distributes them in the whole world. The album has had for summer republished on this label with a piece whole no-claims bonus, My Heart Doth Beseech Thee (O Master) .

Hellig Usvart itself is a single exit, Jayson not having the project to work again on its Horde project. The album cut through a path without precedent in the kind of " Unblack Metal" ; from its exit of the groups such as Dark Endless (also a group of Unblack Metal with an anonymous member), Crimson Moonlight and Antestor made their appearance, proposing the concept of black Christian metal. This album makes the satire of the black metal, by diverting typical sentences of the black metal to incorporate a Christian message in it. The topic of the album is generally the destruction and the rejection of Satan, in favor of God. There are also direct links and indirect with the hiring of God in all the recording. The music of Horde is generally simple, dark and slow, with acute cries or grondements. Certain songs such as Invert the Inverted Cross has a tempo much faster, and use much the large case. The keyboards are them also widespread in all the album and appear on certain pieces such as Release and Clothe the Virgin Sacrifice .

Horde occurred once in concert, in Nordic Fest in Oslo, on November 3rd, 2006. Jayson Sherlock was with the song and the battery while the members of the group of the group of Norwegian Technical Black Metal Drottnarfilling were with the guitar, with low and with the keyboards. The photographs with flash were prohibited because they would have revealed the identity of Sherlock, which wore a black hood during the spectacle. This concert was recorded and appeared on disc in 2007.

Discography

Hellig Usvart - 1994
Alive in Oslo - 2007

External bonds

Legacy off Horde
Rowe Productions
Hellig Usvart album cover

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