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There is nowhere to hide as a power trio. Musical shortcomings are easily exposed. Chinks in the sonic armor are painfully evident. The common utterance that \u201cA band is only strong as its weakest member\u201d couldn\u2019t ring truer. Bands with a high number of members can easily mask its deficiencies – not power trios. Some of metal\u2019s best three-man outfits \u2014Destruction<\/strong>, Mot\u00f6rhead<\/strong> and Sodom <\/strong>\u2014 have the commonality that there is no weak links. The same applies for one of metal\u2019s most exciting new power trios, Germany\u2019s Old Mother Hell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery single one of us is standing like a rock behind the band,\u201d says guitarist\/vocalist Bernd Wener<\/strong>. \u201cI guess this is what makes us cohesive. No one is active in additional bands, everyone is a fan of the kind of music we play and there is nothing like a concept or otherwise \u2018artificial\u2019 thing about Old Mother Hell<\/strong>. In some ways, we are like three 16-year-olds meeting regularly in the rehearsal room and living for playing live. In addition to that, we have the advantage of years of experience being in bands. This all adds up to Old Mother Hell<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Old Mother Hell<\/strong> was formed in 2015 from the ashes of another local thrash act, Hatchery<\/strong>, by Wener<\/strong>, bassist Ronald Senft<\/strong> and drummer Ruben Andr\u00e9<\/strong>. The band recorded their self-titled debut album in May 2017 at Rama Studio Mannheim<\/strong> with producer\/engineer Jens Siefert<\/strong> at the helm. The album\u2019s six songs are smoldering, anthemic bodies of work, as Wener<\/strong>\u2019s impassioned vocals and simple, yet powerful riffs work in perfect tandem with the Senft<\/strong>\/Andr\u00e9 <\/strong>rhythm section. The end result is a striking balance between mountainous epic metal and a straightforward attack, with doom influences present, even as the band is playing pure, take-no-prisoners metal.<\/p>\n And to top it all off, Old Mother Hell<\/strong> did things the old-fashioned way: Hammering the songs out in their rehearsal room, then recording them at Rama Studio Mannheim<\/strong> with little overdubs.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat really turned out to work best for us\u2014and most of the debut songs were created this way\u2014 is to just jam in our rehearsal room and work on the songs from scratch, together as a band,\u201d notes Wene<\/strong>r. \u201cI guess this will also be our way to go from now on. When we do that, I sometimes use imaginary vocals. Other times, we first write an instrumental basis from which we refine and add lyrics afterwards. There is no single songwriter in Old Mother Hell<\/strong>. Everyone gives input and is participating in the writing process.\u201d<\/p>\n The band\u2019s self-titled debut has already caught fire across Europe, with the album receiving \u201cDemo Of The Month\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cSelf-Produced Album Of The Month\u201d<\/strong> in Rock Hard<\/strong> and Deaf Forever <\/strong>magazines, respectively. The positive reception couldn\u2019t have come at a better time now that Italy\u2019s Cruz Del Sur Music<\/strong> is handling the album\u2019s exclusive digital and vinyl release. But alas, the journey has just begun for Old Mother Hell<\/strong>, who, in their brief existence, has already exceeded their own expectations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are more than thrilled and would not have believed to get all this positive feedback – even in our wildest dreams,\u201d concludes Wener<\/strong>. \u201cI said that a lot in the last months, but it still holds true: we are absolutely thankful for everyone involved in the album and for every piece of feedback we get from the metal fans out there. It really is a special time and we value it a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Old Mother Hell<\/strong>‘s debut album will be available on compact disc (jewel case), vinyl and digital on Feb 23, 2018.<\/p>\n