Hidden Gems & Guilty Pleasures: Strikehammer (Italy)
Strikehammer (Speed/Black Metal/Black’N’Roll // Italy)
Strikehammer was born in Italy in 2023 from the ashes of the band Surge Assault, when the guitarist Wild Warrior (ex-Vergine Stuprata) and the bass player Terrifikant (Mother Augusta, Tulpa, ex-Satan Imperii) decided to continue along the same filthy, alcoholic and blasphemous path. Wild Warrior took over also the vocal duties in the new band, and the same year, together with Jöschu Käser as a session drummer, they recorded a five-track EP »Chaotic Spell« – an evil fist of black speed metal with rough rock’n’roll attitude.
Not long after that, drummer Akira (Vexovoid, ex-Human Decay) joined, and the band began an intense live season all around Italy, sharing the stage with Hellripper, Skanners, Barbarian, Game Over, Witchunter, Black Oath, Inchiuvatu, Tulpa, Loculo, Black Ancestry, Tytus, Horror Vacui, and many more at various events over the next years.
Still in December of 2023, the band caught the attention of Metal On Metal Records when they played in Florence together with Barbarian. After seeing another show of Strikehammer (once more with this Florence-based speed/black/thrash trio) in Viareggio in May 2024, the label was completely convinced to offer them a deal.
It took some more months for their first full-length to be completed, and finally, in the summer of 2025, the band entered the studio to record it. The album was mixed and mastered by Tommaso “MasoDesekrator” Volpe (Black Oath, Macabro Genocidio, The Rite, Funest, Vomitvulva, ex-Morbus Grave) in Macabro Bunker Recordings studio.
»Midnight Inferno« will be out on January 23rd, 2026 which will coincide with yet another show with Strikehammer’s brothers in arms, Barbarian, in Florence. Get ready for pure distillation of blasphemic speed black’n’roll mayhem!
Courtesy of Metal On Metal Records
Discography:
• »Chaotic Spell« EP (2023)
• »Midnight Inferno« (Metal On Metal Records, 2026)
Strikehammer is:
Wild Warrior – Vocals and Guitars
Terrifikant – Bass and Vocals
Akira – Drums
FFO: Aura Noir, Barbarian, Hellbringer, Children Of Technology, Wastëland Riders, Apokalyptic Raids
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well