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Mick Kenney
Kenney performing with Anaal Nathrakh in 2013
Kenney performing with Anaal Nathrakh in 2013
Background information
Birth nameMichael Kenney
Also known as
  • Migg
  • Kordhell
Born (1980-01-18) 18 January 1980 (age 44)
Birmingham, England
Genres
Occupation(s)Musician, record producer
Instruments
  • Guitar
  • bass guitar
  • drums
  • keyboards
Years active1998–present
LabelsBlack 17 Media

Michael "Mick" 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 a variety of music, including drift phonk, music under the name Kordhell.

Career

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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.[1]

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 drift phonk 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 drift 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 drift phonk's distorted and dark sound and Brazilian funk's rhythms and vocals.

Discography

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Anaal Nathrakh

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Main article: Anaal Nathrakh § Discography

Kordhell

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Albums

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  • Beat Tape 1 (2021)
  • Beat Tape 2 (2021)
  • PSYCHX with Scarlxrd (2022)
  • A MILLION WAYS TO MURDER (2023)
  • Beat Tape 3 (Remixes) (2024)
  • MUSIC FOR THE FUNERAL with DJ Paul (2024)

EPs

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  • Phonkageddon (2021)
  • Beat Tape 3 (2024)

Charted singles

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Charted singles, with selected chart positions and certifications
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
AUT
[10] 		CAN
[11] 		IRE
[12] 		SWE
[13] 		UK
[14]
"Murder in My Mind"[15] 2022 56 93 76 92 83 Non-album single

Other singles

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  • "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 Raizhell 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 Scarlxrd (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)
  • "DAT PHONK" (2023)
  • "Vuk Vuk" featuring Dragon Boys (2023)
  • "Shoot To Kill" (2023)
  • "HOMICIDE" (2023)
  • “Bad Man (kordhell remix)”” featuring Disturbed (2023)
  • “lost” featuring Mupp and Leah Julia (2023)
  • “BALLE BALLE” featuring RVDENT (2023)
  • “HEAVEN” featuring yatashigang (2024)
  • ”SANTINHA” featuring Bibi Babydoll (2024)
  • “Fuku” featuring ZWE1HVNDXR (2024)
  • “Glitch Krush” (2024)
  • “Revolution” (2024)
  • “FICA DE 4” featuring DJ FKU (2024)
  • “XEREQUINHA VAI” (2024)
  • “JUNBI” featuring anar (2024)
  • “K-SLIDE” featuring 2KE and 808iluli (2024)
  • “VYSE” featuring valorant (2024)

Make Them Die Slowly

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b Edwards, Lee (13 November 2013). "Misanthropy Clothing Is Launched By Mistress/Anaal Nathrakh's Mick Kenney". The Sleeping Shaman. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Anaal Nathrakh on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  3. ^ "MISANTHROPY CLOTHING STORE". Misanthropy Clothing. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Anaal Nathrakh: neues Nebenprojekt mit neuem Song - News". Metal1.info (in German). Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Interview – Make Them Die Slowly – English". Acta Infernalis (in French). 8 November 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  6. ^ "Make Them Die Slowly - The Bodycount Continues". Echoes and Dust. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  7. ^ Kennelty, Greg (24 February 2023). "ANAAL NATHRAKH's MICK KENNEY Remixed DISTURBED's "Bad Man"". Metal Injection. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  8. ^ "Kordhell – Murder in My Mind". austriancharts.at (in German). Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  9. ^ "Kordhell | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Discographie Kordhell". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Canadian Hot 100 - Week of September 24, 2022". Billboard. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Discography Kordhell". irishcharts.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Discography Kordhell". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  14. ^ "KORDHELL | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  15. ^ "Murder In My Mind - Single by Kordhell on Apple Music". Apple Music. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  16. ^ "Gold & Platinum: Kordhell". RIAA. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  17. ^ "British certifications – Kordhell". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 6 July 2023. Type Kordhell in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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