Heads hero high

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Heads hero high
Dead Lord's studio album

Publication
(s)

August 21, 2015

Label (s) Century Media

Genre (s)

Classic rock , hard rock

Title (number)

10

running time

46 min 39 s

occupation
  • Guitar: Olle Hedenström
  • Bass : Martin Nordin

production

Ola Ersfjörd & Nicke Andersson

Studio (s)

Studio Grondal, Stockholm

chronology
Goodbye Repentance
(2013) 		Heads hero high In Ignorance We Trust
(2017)

Heads Held High is the second studio album of the Swedish classic rock - / hard rock - band Dead Lord . It was released on August 21, 2015 via Century Media and put the band in the charts for the first time . Heads Held High was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in the Hard & Heavy category.

Emergence

In contrast to the debut album Goodbye Repentance , the musicians rehearsed more together for their new album and arranged the songs as a band. The second guitarist Olle Hedenström has also written more songs than on the first album, according to singer Hakim Krim. The recordings took place in November 2014 in Studio Gröndal in Stockholm . The musicians recorded the songs live with an analogue tape recorder . The singing of Hakim Crimea was later via overdub added. The album was produced by Ola Erfsfjörd and Nicke Andersson . The album cover was created by Pol Abran.

background

Track list
  1. Farewell - 3:34
  2. Ruins - 5:45
  3. Mindless - 4:55
  4. No Regrets - 4:20
  5. Cold Hearted Madness - 4:59
  6. Strained Fools - 3:56
  7. When History Repeats Itself - 3:28
  8. The Bold Move - 6:33
  9. Don't Give a Damn - 4:03
  10. With Heads Held High - 5:06

In Ruins , singer Hakim Krim takes a critical look back at the right-wing government in Sweden under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt , which was in office from 2006 to 2014. The song Cold Hearted Madness deals with the growing racism in Europe . When History Repeats Itself deals with the Middle East conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Palestine region . According to Hakim Krim, conflict over religions and traditions would only lead to endless conflict.

“This argument is only superficially about religion, but meanwhile the fight has taken on a life of its own. It's all about the power of the fittest, a kind of tail comparison. I think that's crazy. "

- Hakim Crimea

In Don't Give a Damn , Krim writes about a musician he knows who plays in a band and Krim only tells which albums his band will record and which festivals they would play at. However, this musician did nothing to achieve these goals, so that Crimea called him a dreamer. Eventually, the said band broke up without having achieved anything. The limited version of the album contains the song Burnin 'for You as a bonus .

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Heads hero high
  DE 74 08/28/2015 (1 week)

Boris Kaiser from the German magazine Rock Hard described Heads Held High as "another classic rock lesson". The majority of the ten tracks would be “an admirable balancing act between fine accuracy and a spontaneous, seemingly easy-to-do attitude”. Kaiser rated the album with 8.5 out of ten points. Matthias Mineur from the German magazine Metal Hammer praised the sound of the album, which "generates analogue warmth and has nothing at all from the cold, roaring, loudly mastered digital productions with which many bands currently would span the arc". The music of Dead Lord would be "a melodious anachronism that might even have turned out a bit too good". Mineur awarded four out of seven points.

The album Heads Held High entered the German album charts at number 74. The German magazine Visions led Heads Held High on their list published in 2019 by the Swedish 55 best rock albums.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Best list 4-2015. In: Prize of the German Record Critics. November 15, 2015, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Robert Fröwein: DEAD LORD - Hakim Krim. Stormbringer.at, accessed on September 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Matthias Mader: Just don't rush . In: Rock Hard , August 2015, page 10
  4. ↑ a b Matthias Mader: Tail comparison in the Middle East . In: Rock Hard, September 2015, page 60
  5. ↑ Dead Lord in the German charts. Federal Association of the Music Industry , accessed on September 23, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Boris Kaiser: Dead Lord - Heads Held High. Rock Hard, accessed October 21, 2018 .
  7. ^ Matthias Mineur: Dead Lord - Heads Held High. Metal Hammer . Accessed September 23, 2015 .
  8. ↑ various authors: export world champion . In: Visions , issue 312, page 57

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