Horndal announce new album ‘Head Hammer Man’

HORNDAL have announced a new album!

Titled Head Hammer Man, the upcoming album from the Swedish metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Lake Drinker, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Prosthetic Records.

On the upcoming album, the band share the previously untold real life story of Alrik Andersson, a 1900s union leader from their eponymous hometown and his role in The Great Strike. Speaking about the upcoming new album, the band says, “this is by far our our most ambitious album, both musically and lyrically. We started with two questions: 1. Can you make a metal album with sounds inspired by 60’s jazz drummers? Apparently! 2. Can that album fit the untold story about when events in our rusted hometown almost started a civil war in Sweden? No, you have to write a book too. So we did.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Blacklisted. The new song was first premiered via Swedenrock Magazine. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “when the violent Great Strike in 1909 was over, our unsung hero had managed to save his fellow workers jobs and livelihood. But not his own. He was blacklisted all over Sweden and was forced into exile. He fled over the Atlantic with his wife and young children. The music is as heavy and bleak as the lyrics. Even though there is a riff stolen from Sparks in there. You gotta love Sparks.”

Watch the official music video for Blacklisted here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Head Hammer Man
2. Calling Labor
3. Exiled
4. Fuck The Scabs
5. Famine
6. Blacklisted
7. The Shining Specter
8. Evictions
9. Orange Legacy
10. Creature Cages

Head Hammer Man is set for release on April 5th via Prosthetic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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