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Mick Kenney

British musician (born 1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Michael "Mick" Kenney, also known as Kordhell, is a British musician and record producer. He first became known in the extreme metal scene as the founding multi-instrumentalist of Anaal Nathrakh, where he performed under the pseudonym Irrumator during the band's early years and has handled all studio instrumentation, drum programming, and production since 1999. In the 2020s, he gained mainstream recognition as the electronic artist Kordhell, producing drift phonk tracks that have amassed hundreds of millions of streams worldwide, most notably "Murder in My Mind".

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The public source identifies “Mick Kenney” as british musician (born 1980). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mick, Kenney and British.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mick, Kenney and British providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mick Kenney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.