This is a 1994 release that was reissued last year. This album caught some attention from extreme metal fans worldwide as it was the first black metal album with Christian lyrics that found its way into the secular market by distribution through Nuclear Blast. It has the same visual approach as other black metal releases with a capricious band-logo and a cover-picture of a graveyard at night. Musically it's fast grinding metal, machine-gun drumming, and shrieking vocal noises. Horde was a project by Anonymous which is a lyrical stab to Euronymous, one of the leading persons of the now defunct Norwegian black-metal movement once known as The Inner Circle. Hellig Usvart is a Norwegian title though Horde was from Australia. The music on this album is extreme, fast and dark like black metal was originally intended to be. The CD is especially interesting as a historical document and therefore worthy of being reissued.
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by NecRoSarXBoy, I love typing out this CD's title on my PC. It drives the auto-spell check nuts. Ladies and gentlemen, behold the first truly unblack metal CD to grace both the secular and Christian metal scenes. Sure, some would argue Vengeance Rising to be the first unblack metal band, but let's face it, Vengeance was more thrash oriented. Horde is one of the first stabs at European black metal, where the…Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by SORGThis disc has been shrouded in more mystery and controversy than possibly any other Christian metal album in history. When this cd first appeared on the scene in 1994 the fact that it was done by one man calling himself Anonymous and was released as a direct retaliation against the Satanic black metal scene in Norway at the time, whose arguable leader Euronymous had been killed by fellow black…Dead Zine 2002Reviewed by thOrNNo it's not the infamous H.O.R.D.E. festival fronted by the alterna-elite, it's the full effect unblack metal sounds by some guy in Australia. That's right all instruments are one dude, and his name is Anonymous (for real) and with music this anti-black I agree with not putting your name on it. It's also a bag on the old Euronymous of satanic black metal fame that committed suicide awhile back.…Heaven's Metal #54Reviewed by Doug Van PeltHere is an interesting project. I still remember the first time I listened to it - in the back seat of a car parked at the Black Stump Festival in Australia. Anonymous, the vocalist and instigator of the entire project, explained to me the musical nuances and lyrical insights as curious people walked by the car wondering what this extreme noise was. As extreme metal goes, it will now have to look…Similar sounding releases
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