Hellig Usvart [SEP] record label
Hellig Usvart
Hellig Usvart is the debut album by Australian unblack metal band Horde, released in 1994 on Nuclear Blast Records. Upon its release in 1994, the album created a controversy among the black metal fans; death threats were sent to Nuclear Blast demanding the label to drop the album from its catalogue because the album contains Christian, anti-satanic lyrics that counteract the usual black metal thematics at the time. Because of the strong lyrical contradiction, the album was thought to be a parody of the Norwegian black metal movement
Productions purchased all remaining copies and distributed them worldwide. The album has since been re-released on this label with an additional track entitled, "My Heart Doth Beseech Thee (O Master)". However, in 2004 the Australian label Soundmass re-issued "Hellig Usvart" as a 10-year anniversary edition. Also in 2008, the Polish label Metal Mind Productions re-released the album in a digipak format.
Controversy.
Upon the initial release of "Hellig Usvart", a publicity campaign was launched throughout