{"id":80219,"date":"2018-05-21T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=80219"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:00:11","slug":"interview-zealous-hellspell-of-ordeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/interview-zealous-hellspell-of-ordeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Zealous Hellspell of Ordeals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New York City\u2019s Ordeals <\/b>came blazing into existence in 2011, but didn\u2019t release anything until 2016\u2019s Apotheosis<\/i>,which was a malignant piece of black\/death released originally as only a run of less than a hundred cassettes on a small German record label. Now they have their first release out since then, a split on much larger label Blood Harvest Records<\/b>, but the sound has changed to a very out-of-vogue old school melodic death metal sound more akin to Intestine Baalism<\/b>. Following a triumphant appearance at Covenant Festival in Canada, Zealous Hellspell <\/b>(shortened through the interview as ZH) has been kind enough to answer a few of my questions about their past, their future, and their ongoing ascent to greatness.<\/p>\n

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BW: Since so little information is available about you guys, what\u2019s the origin of Ordeals? Had you and longtime Ordeals multi-instrumentalist Illuminated<\/b> ever played in a band together, and how long have you known each other?<\/p>\n

ZH: Illuminated and I happened to meet on the way to see the Japanese band Sabbat<\/b> play a gig in Brooklyn in 2005, so we\u2019ve known each other for quite some time. We had talked about starting a band for awhile, and he had shown me a piece that would eventually become \u201cGoddess of Time.\u201d On that spark, Ordeals would hurtle forth from the void. In the period between 2011 and 2015 there were long periods of deathlike silence, but everything became aligned, and the coffin could no longer remain shut.<\/p>\n