Hornblas

Hornblas is the lead singer of Mall Rat and he formerly worked at the Hot Topic in Brimstone Valley Mall, Pennsylvania. It is unclear if he was fired or if he quit from the job to pursue his New Year’s plan.

He has been surface-side for roughly thirty years, and before meeting Belzagor, he had played solo gigs around the country. It’s unclear what his job was before coming to Earth.

Personality
Among the demons, most of them agree that Hornblas is a nice person and that he’s generally well-liked. He also tends to get very moody and can be miffed over the slightest thing— like the cold middle of a Hot Pocket— and Misroch teases that this is because he’s an artist, and artists must have their moods.

Misroch describes Hornblas as “unreliable, flaky, and immature.” Hornblas tends to show up last minute to everything, but the demons of Mall Rat agree that it’s usually because he has a special surprise up his sleeve.

From spoken accounts of him, Hornblas sounds like an idealist. He often comes up with fun schemes and ideas to cheer people up (travelling to Spain to hire a Mariachi band or stealing a net from a fisherman to give Misroch something to wear for a concert) or to create new music (hiding in the cupboards of Wiener World to note down what Misroch shouts to turn them into lyrics or to play a recorded song backwards as background noise).

He is also the driving reason why Mall Rat or his friend group exists, as he brought them together himself. Xaphan describes him as “the leader.”

Appearance
Among the demons, not much is known about his appearance. According to Belzagor, he has a tattoo of her demonic sigil on his human body somewhere.

Relationships
Belzegor (close friend)

Misroch (friend)

Asmoraius (friend)

Trivia

 * Like Xaphan, Hornblas is directly named after his namesake.
 * Hornblas is the demon of musical discord. With his tuneless blasts, he can summon the denizens of Hell together.
 * With this information, it can explain why many of the demons from Hell comment that Mall Rat isn’t that good a band.


 * He owns a Fender guitar.
 * He wanted to write a 5-hour-long concept album about bees.
 * Based off of the answering machine message played at the beginning of every episode, he doesn’t seem like a very convincing liar.
 * His Summoning ability makes him very important to Hell. He’s described as the only demon who can summon other demons.