Mick Kenney Explained

Mick Kenney
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Name:Michael Kenney
Birth Date:18 January 1980
Birth Place:Birmingham, England
Occupation:Musician, record producer
Years Active:1998–present

Michael Kenney (born 18 January 1980) is a British musician and record producer. He gained popularity as the lead guitarist of the extreme metal band Anaal Nathrakh. He now releases phonk music under the name Kordhell.

Career

Kenney studied Illustration at the University of Birmingham.[1]

He is a founding member of the extreme metal 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[2] since 1999, a small recording studio situated near the centre of Birmingham, England.

He relocated to Orange County, California, in 2007. There, he founded the clothing label Misanthropy Clothing[3] in 2013.

In 2020 he formed the black metal band Make Them Die Slowly[4] [5] together with fellow musician Duncan Wilkins. They both operate under stage names. Mick Kenney as Officer R. Kordhell and Duncan Wilkins as The Void.[6] The band was formed as a celebration of vintage gore films.

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 Shane Embury of Napalm Death fame. Feto Records have released albums by Mistress, Monkeys Are Machine Guns, Lock Up, Fukpig, Cripple Bastards, Anaal Nathrakh, and Ramesses, among others.

In 2021, Kenney started releasing phonk/Memphis rap music under the stage name Kordhell.

His first album, Beat Tape 1, managed to give Kordhell some visibility, but his first true success was with his songs "Live Another Day" and Murder in My Mind, which charted in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom,[7] [8] [9] and is still his biggest song to date.

His success in phonk made him one of the pioneers of this new wave of music that quickly exploded on social media, such as TikTok.

Recently, he also started experimenting with Brazilian Phonk, a new combination of phonk's distorted and dark sound and brazilian funk's rhythms and vocals.

Discography

Kordhell

Albums

EPs

Charted singles

Title! rowspan="2"
YearPeak chart positionsCertificationsAlbum
AUT
[10] 		CAN
[11] 		IRE
[12] 		SWE
[13] 		UK
[14]
"Murder in My Mind"[15] 202256 93 76 92 83

Other singles

Make Them Die Slowly

Albums

Singles

Mistress

Additional projects

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edwards . Lee . 2013-11-13 . Misanthropy Clothing Is Launched By Mistress/Anaal Nathrakh's Mick Kenney . 2023-01-05 . The Sleeping Shaman.
  2. Web site: Anaal Nathrakh on Apple Music . 2023-01-05 . Apple Music.
  3. Web site: MISANTHROPY CLOTHING STORE . 2023-01-05 . Misanthropy Clothing.
  4. Web site: Anaal Nathrakh: neues Nebenprojekt mit neuem Song - News . 2023-01-05 . Metal1.info . de-DE.
  5. Web site: 2020-11-08 . Interview – Make Them Die Slowly – English . 2023-01-05 . Acta Infernalis . fr-FR.
  6. Web site: 2020-11-02 . Make Them Die Slowly - The Bodycount Continues . 2023-01-05 . Echoes and Dust.
  7. Web site: Kennelty . Greg . ANAAL NATHRAKH's MICK KENNEY Remixed DISTURBED's "Bad Man" . Metal Injection . 24 February 2023 . 21 June 2023.
  8. Web site: Kordhell – Murder in My Mind . austriancharts.at . de . 16 February 2023.
  9. Web site: Kordhell full Official Chart History . . 16 February 2023.
  10. Web site: Discographie Kordhell . May 13, 2023 . austriancharts.at.
  11. Canadian Hot 100 - Week of September 24, 2022 . May 13, 2023 . Billboard.
  12. Web site: Discography Kordhell . May 13, 2023 . irishcharts.com.
  13. Web site: Discography Kordhell . May 13, 2023 . swedishcharts.com.
  14. Web site: KORDHELL full Official Chart History . May 13, 2023 . Official Charts Company.
  15. Web site: Murder In My Mind - Single by Kordhell on Apple Music . May 13, 2023 . Apple Music.
  16. Web site: Gold & Platinum: Kordhell . May 13, 2023 . RIAA.
  17. United Kingdom. Kordhell . July 6, 2023.

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