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Mick Kenney (born 18 January 1980) is a British musician and record producer. He gained popularity as the lead guitarist of the
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band Anaal Nathrakh, for which he performs under the
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Irrumator.


Career

Kenney studied
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at the
University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
. He is a founding member of the
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act Anaal Nathrakh where he started out as the lead guitarist and is now playing all the instruments. They have released a total of eleven albums since being formed in 1998. He operates Necrodeath Studios since 1999. A small recording studio situated near the centre of
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, England. He relocated to
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, in 2007. There, he founded the clothing label Misanthropy Clothing in 2013. In 2020 he formed the
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band Make Them Die Slowly together with fellow musician Duncan Wilkins. They both operate under stage names. Mick Kenney as Officer R. Kordhell and Duncan Wilkins as The Void. The band was formed as a celebration of vintage
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s. Besides those two bands he also plays in several other bands of different genres and produces music for different artists. He also co-runs Feto Records with
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fame. Feto Records have released albums by
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, Monkeys Are Machine Guns, Lock Up,
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, Cripple Bastards, Anaal Nathrakh, and Ramesses, among others. In 2021, Kenney started releasing
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music under the stage name Kordhell. His song " Murder in My Mind" charted in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.


Discography


Anaal Nathrakh


Kordhell


Albums

* ''Beat Tape 1'' (2021) * ''Beat Tape 2'' (2021) * ''Psychx'' with
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(2022)


EPs

* ''Phonkageddon'' (2021)


Charted singles


Other singles

* "9mm" (2021) * "Killers from the Northside" (2021) * "Glock to Your Head" featuring DeadJxhn (2021) * "Memphis Doom" (2021) * "SSN-571" featuring XO1 (2021) * "Live Another Day" (2021) * "To Hell and Back" featuring Razihel and fkbambam (2022) * "Scopin" (2022) * "Zep Tepi" (2022) * "Unholy" featuring Dxrk (2022) * "Dead on Arrival" featuring Kute (2022) * "Go Hard or Get Gone" featuring DJ Paul (2022) * "Fatality" (2022) * "WTF?!" featuring Sadfriendd (2022) * "I Am the King" remix featuring L19U1D (2022) * "One Shot, One Kill" featuring Sinizter (2022) * "ТАЙМАУТ" remix featuring Nikitata (2022) * "Land of Fire" (2022) * "Misa Misa!" (featuring Corpse and
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(2022) * "Miss Me?" featuring Scarlxrd (2022) * "Like Yxu Wxuld Knxw (Autumn Trees)" featuring Corpse and Scarlxrd (2022) * "9 in My Hand" (Fast and Furious: Drift Tape/Phonk Vol 1) (2022) * "Murder Plot" (2022) * "Hellraiser (Fast and Furious: Drift Tape/Phonk Vol 1) (2022) * "Vuk Vuk" featuring Dragon Boys (2023)


Make Them Die Slowly

Albums * ''Ferox'' (Feto Records, 2020) * ''The Bodycount Continues'' (Feto Records, 2020) Singles * "The Terror Begins" (2020) * "Slaughter High" (2020) * "Silent Night Murder Night" (2020) * "My Bloody Valentine" (2021)


Mistress

* ''Mistress'' (Rage of Achilles, 2002) * ''II: The Chronovisor'' (Rage of Achilles, 2004) * ''In Disgust We Trust'' (Earache Records, 2005) * ''The Glory Bitches of Doghead'' (Feto Records, 2007)


Additional projects

* Motionless In White - Disguise (writer/production) * Carnifex - World War X (production) * Aesthetic Perfection - Into The Black (writer) * Sicarius - TBA (recording/mastering) * Sylla - TBA (mixing/mastering) * Tear Culture - 1899 (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Carnifex - Bury Me In Blasphemy Ep (producer/recording/programming ) * Abhorrent Affliction - Forever Will He Reign (mixing/mastering) * Bleeding Through - Love Will Kill All (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Born To Murder The World - The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Blood On The Scales - The Human Condition (mixing/mastering) * Plague Bringer - TBA (mixing/mastering) * Slytract - Slytract (mixing/mastering) * Benediction - TBA (mixing/mastering) * Sun Speaker - Ov Lustra (mixing/mastering) * Aesthetic Perfection—Ebb and flow Miggiddo Remix (producer) * Anisoptera - Spawn of Ondonata (mixing/mastering) * Repvblika - The Insurgent (mixing/mastering) * Motionless In White - Graveyard Shift (writer/production) * Eighteen Visions - XVIII (producer/mixing/mastering) * Sicarius - Serenade of Slitting Throats (producer/mixing/mastering) * Dawn Of Ashes - Daemonolatry Gnosis (mixing/mastering) * Carnifex - Slow Death (producer/writer/programming) * Dawn of Ashes - Theophany (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Empyrean Throne - Chaosborne (producer/mixing/mastering) * The Iron Son - Enemy (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * The Witch Was Right - The Stone (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Urilia - "The Adversarial Light" (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Motionless In White - Reincarnate (writer) * The Witch Was Right - The Red Horse (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Motionless In White - Infamous (writer/producer) * Bleeding Through - The Great Fire (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Suffer Well - Sorrows (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Fukpig - Belief Is the Death of Intelligence (writer) * Fukpig - Spewings from a Selfish Nation (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Professor Fate - Inferno (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Frost - Black 7" (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Frost - Talking to God (producer/writer/mixing/mastering) * Aborym - With No Human Intervention (guest appearance) * Disgust - The Horror of It All (guest appearance) * Frost - Cursed Again (producer/writer/mixing/mastering)


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kenney, Mick 1980 births 21st-century British guitarists Black metal musicians Bleeding Through members English experimental musicians English heavy metal guitarists English rock guitarists Living people People from Birmingham, West Midlands