Before the Rift
Ragnarök Hard
199020 tracks1 hr 30 minMetalcore
Norse-influenced metal. No Valhalla. Just beards.
Now playingTooting the Gjallarhorn
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Liner notes
No portal. No time travel. Just five men who bought horned helmets at a gas station and never took them off.
Ragnarök Hard is the band’s Viking album: longships, mead, beard lice, and the end of the world, all performed at a volume Odin himself filed a noise complaint about. Lance insists every word of it is historically accurate. Track 14 disagrees.
“Valhalla hath accepted our application. Pending a background check.” — Dirk “Lugnut” Hammerstrom
Credits
- Lead guitar
- Dirk "Lugnut" Hammerstrom, on an axe-shaped guitar he refers to as "the actual axe"
- Rhythm guitar
- Rusty "Torque" Kowalczyk, in a horned helmet worn over all eleven pairs of aviators
- Keys / synth
- Lance Velour, on a keytar he calls "the Synth of Valhalla," a name he got off a mead label
- Drums
- Sal "Meat Wagon" Bronco, on war drums made from a gas-station cooler, still full of ice
- Bass
- Buck Fontaine, rowing between takes; nobody told him the longship was on a trailer
- Vocals
- None. Odin was asked. He never called back.
- Recorded at
- A longship on a boat trailer behind the Gas-N-Go (parking brake on)