Thorr-Axe

"Reddened blades and broken shields; shattered limbs and headless foes." Thorr-Axe was formed to give praise to conflict and conquest; to revel in victory and remember the fallen. Since 2007, Thorr-Axe has been an immutable force of nature in heavy music, blending sludge, black metal, and traditional heavy metal to forge something to be reckoned with. 2011 saw the release of their debut album, Wall Of Spears, engineered by Bob Fouts (The Gates Of Slumber, Apostle Of Solitude). In 2015, Thorr-Axe release Gates Of Winter, a heroic concept album in the vein of the Icelandic Sagas in its scope. Teaming up with Archarus in 2017, the two bands joined forces to release "The Hobbit Split", telling the narrative of J.R.R. Tolkien's timeless masterpiece in their own respective ways. Bear witness. HOBBIT SPLIT W/ ARCHARUS O U T N O W thorr-axe.bandcamp.com Praise for "Gates Of Winter": "...an early contender for best of 2015 and shows that blackened doom metal, as an art form, has a lot left to say. These are tracks that are going to rip your face off and leave your body torn apart, a twisted husk of its former self." -Two Guys Metal Reviews "There’s an icy grimness in the atmosphere, a freezing river that courses through the songs. The band blends together the vibrating tremolo-picked motifs of black metal with the heavy, stalking riffs of doom and the bleak rumble of sludge — and the melodies are much more sombre and serious than beer-soaked and rollicking." -No Clean Singing "The title track lumbers with frozen limbs like Jack Torrance in The Shining, with a similar spine-tingling animal roar to back it up..." -Ninehertz Merch at: http://thorraxe.bigcartel.com Heads on pikes. Leveled buildings. Burned crops and salted earth.