Head Hammer Man

by Horndal

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blauwalpimmel This is really nice. Groove all the way, interesting story, good punch. Favorite track: Calling: Labor.

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1.	Head Hammer Man 03:55	buy track
2.	Calling: Labor 04:20	buy track
3.	Exiled 04:22	buy track
4.	Fuck the Scabs 03:24	buy track
5.	Famine 03:19	buy track
6.	Blacklisted 04:06	buy track
7.	The Shining Specter 06:18	buy track
8.	Evictions 04:48	buy track
9.	Orange Legacy 04:11	buy track
10.	Creature Cages 04:32	buy track

about

This album is about the unsung hero Alrik Andersson and the dramatic events in Horndal during the Great Strike in Sweden in 1909. Six months before the strike, Alrik Andersson, a 27-year-old metalworker from Horndal, is chosen as the union leader. He finds himself in the eye of the storm and is forced to take a stand on the barricades for the sake of his members, struggling with lockouts, scabs and greedy officials. When the manager of the Horndal factory starts evicting the unionized workers from their homes, leading to famine and starvation, sympathetic workers from far away rush to Horndal to stop the harassment. The military arrives in Horndal and the country teeters on the brink of civil war. Eventually, the King and the Prime Minister forbid the manager of the Horndal Steel Mill from evicting the workers and instead order their reinstatement. As a result, Alrik Andersson is blacklisted all over Sweden and can’t find work anywhere. Faced with continued harassment, he is forced in exile and emigrates to America. In 1910, he, his wife, and their young sons make their dangerous journey across the Atlantic, where he eventually finds work in Chicago as the Head Hammer Man. This album is dedicated to Alrik Andersson. Hail to the Head Hammer Man!

This recording is a musical summery of what happened in Horndal in 1909. The whole story is told in a book, also named Head Hammer Man. It was written and published parallel with the album.

credits

released April 5, 2024

All songs written by Horndal.
Produced by Pontus Levahn and Anton Sundell.

Recorded at Atlantis Metronome, Studio Bruket, Bob Sound, The Black Wheel and Altar of Sacrifice Studio by Anton Sundell, Niclas Lindström and Horndal. Assisted by Varg Lund and Carl Gustavsson.

Mixed by Simon Söderberg at Mayfire Studio. Mastered by Magnus Lindberg and Redmount Studios.

Illustrations by Dave Levi Holand
Hand lettering by Agnes Printz
Symbol by Taylor Harpster
Cover design and layout by Daniel Liljas

Henrik Levahn - vocals and guitars
Pontus Levahn - drums, guitars, piano, percussion
Fredrik Boethius - guitars
Daniel Ekeroth - bass

Martin Hederos – organ, grand piano, minimoog and vocoder
Henrik Palm – guitar solos on Famine and Fuck the Scabs
David Bryntesson – horns
Pelle Jacobsson – anvil and thunder sheet
Anton Sundell – additional guitars, bass IV, vocals and cacophony
Holly Stacho (Alrik’s grand daughter) – speech on Exiled
Shelley Levahn, Nina Kinert & Moltas Hedene – vocals on Creature Cages
Michael Esposito – electronic voice phenomenon (from Alrik’s grave)
Alrik Andersson himself – backwards speech on Head Hammer Man (recorded in 1968)

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Horndal Stockholm, Sweden

Rusty, eclectic metal from Sweden telling true horror stories from our dead post-industrial hometown. New album "Head Hammer Man" out April 5 on Prosthetic Records. Single "Blacklisted" out Feb 28.

discography

Head Hammer Man

Apr 2024
BE EVIL

Jan 2022
LAKE DRINKER

Apr 2021
REMAINS

Feb 2019
Horndal

May 2017

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