Horndal plays some
Google-inspired metal:
In late 2017, Google announced that they’d purchased 109 hectares of land in Horndal for use as a potential data center. “At first we thought, fuck, now the city’s gonna flourish, it doesn’t fit our story anymore,” Levahn says with a laugh. But he soon realized that this wasn’t 100% good news. “As we realized when we heard about their plans, when you’re building this big server hall, you have to use water to cool the servers, because they get very hot. And they wanted to use our lake, Rossen, to cool the servers with. That’s why [the new album is] called LAKE DRINKER—it’s a new devil in town, you know?”
“Rossen” is the first track on LAKE DRINKER; another is called “Kalhygget,” the Swedish word for clear-cutting. Although Google’s proposed server farm remains unbuilt, the proposed location has already been deforested. “What they’ve done is they’ve created this enormous empty space – cut down all the trees, so there’s a big empty space with nothing on it. And it’s actually not decided whether they’re gonna build this thing or not. They cut the trees down anyway.”
They sound like later Entombed, maybe around the Uprising era, with a few very Slayer riffs in there, which, of course, 60% of all death metal-adjacent band have.