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Horndal is a small town in rural Sweden, located about 90 miles northwest of Stockholm with a current population numbering about 1000. Horndal, the band, is a sludgy, metallic quartet led by guitarist/vocalist Henrik Levahn and his younger brother, drummer Pontus Levahn. Their 2019 debut REMAINS and the brand-new LAKE DRINKER tells the story of their hometown, and whatâs happened there over the past few decades. (The band will be performing live in Horndal on April 18 âed.) Horndal was a hub of the steel industry in Sweden for hundreds of years. The townâs first ironworks opened in 1652. In 1962, a famous economic study cited âthe Horndal effectâ and analyzed the seemingly mysterious increase in productivity between the 1930s and 1950s without any investment from facility owners. In 1979, though, the steel mill that had employed local workers for generations shut its doors. ....
OUTBURN ONLINE SLUDGY METAL CONFRONTS PROGRESS’ SHADOW SIDE: Horndal’s first album, Remains, told the tale of how the Swedish town of Horndal was gutted when the steel company that employed the majority of residents since the 70s suddenly shut down. The fallout of the company shuttering their factory birthed the thematic angle for the hardcore-tinged sludgy metallic thunder of the band that tackled themes of industrial dependence, capitalist margins, urban decay, and how upper class power impacts those on the economic rungs beneath them. Now, as the story goes, an American tech company has put down roots in the town of 1,100 residents, but not without a cost, as ....