Horndal announce new album ‘Lake Drinker’

HORNDAL have announced a new album!

Titled Lake Drinker, the upcoming album from the Swedish metallers is their sophomore effort and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Prosthetic Records. The upcoming album is the heavy soundtrack to a true horror story about a small industrial town in Sweden being brutally murdered, left to rust away, and then fooled into believing in the false hope of prosperity, promised by big American tech.

The album was recorded in the iconic Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm, Sweden with producer Karl Daniel Lidén [BLOODBATH, KATATONIA, CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX] taking care of recording, mixing and mastering. The songs are captured in a raw, organic form, making the album come alive as it weaves its tale, incorporating elements of sludge, death metal and furious punk attitude. The album features some guest contributions courtesy of Pelle Jacobsson from Sweden’s NATIONAL RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (classical percussion), Christer Falk and Daniel Johansson (horn arrangements), Johan Jansson of INTERMENT and DREADFUL FATE (guest vocals), and last but by no means least the voices of HORNDAL’s own protesters.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first song from the upcoming album; Rossen. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “first the devil slaughtered HORNDAL’s factory. Now he plans to drink the lake. Rossen is a furious little banger that tells the whole story of the album in one single breath. A given album opener and first single in our ears. The music is inspired by the sounds of the filthy sounding bands rehearsing at the local youth centre in the nineties. So we had to enlist the filthiest voice of them all as guest vocalist, namely Johan Jansson from INTERMENT.”

Watch the official lyric video for Rossen here: 

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

Track List: 

1. Rossen
2. Horndal’s Blodbad
3. The Uprising
4. The Black Wheel
5. Kalhygget
6. Ruhr
7. Growing Graves
8. Home
9. Thor Bear
10. Town Burner
11. Ormön

Lake Drinker is set for release on April 9th via Prosthetic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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