Thorr's Hammer
Thorr 's Hammer is an American Death - Doom band. Thorr 's Hammer was the first successful band of Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley and as such decisive for the formation of the band Burning Witch and the label Southern Lord.
History
The band was founded by guitarists Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley in Ballard, Washington in the winter of 1994 /1995. Within a short time the then seventeen -year-old Norwegian exchange student Runhild Gammelsæter were added as a singer, drummer Jamie Sykes and James Hale on bass. The band was founded after only six weeks active in this period, they played two concerts and recorded the demo tape Sannhet i Blodet and the three song EP Dommedagsnatt. After Runhild Gammelsæter had returned to their homeland, the band broke up and immediately laid the foundation for the formation of the band Burning Witch by O'Malley, Anderson and Sykes. The inclusion of the EP Dommedagsnatt wore meanwhile in establishing the label Southern Lord by O'Malley and Anderson, whose first release in 1998 was just going to be those EP, which had hitherto been available only as a cassette. For the re-release in 1998, the EP has been extended to the live piece Mellom Galgene.
In 2009, the band played with Guy Pinhas as new bass player, at the Supersonic Festival in Birmingham a Reunionkonzert. That same year, Gammelsæter spoke positively to the opportunity to be followed by further publications from Thorr 's Hammer. More sporadic concert and festival appearances followed, including at the Roadburn Festival, where the band also presented the new song Aasgaardsreien.
Style
The band's style is characterized by the Norwegian language in which Runhild Gammelsæter written all the lyrics that Deathgrowls with which she recites this, and the enormously slow and heavily distorted riffing. Contrary to the majority of known songs will change the song in Norge, the opening track of the EP, nor between clean vocals and growling.
Discography
- Sannhet i Blodet (Demo 1995)
- Dommedagsnatt ( Cassette 1996, CD 1998, CD re-release in 2004, Picture Disc 2004)