Järnmalm was formed in the year 2008/2009 by a bunch of old buddies who during the 90s – and 00s devoted themselves to all sorts of punk and metal. The members have a past in bands such as Varnagel, No Sense, Human Desolation and Nån Jävla Punk.
Sights were set on playing some sort of Swedish rock and the first songs that got scratched up were those who belonged to Tobbes soloproject from the year before. The bands common passion for the dark and gloomy then transferred the songwriting forward in the direction that came to be known Rysrock.
Synth-sound that found its way into the band's songs, came by pure coincidence. When they did their first gigs, even as a few months young band, Joel injured his hand and couldn't play guitar for a long time. Thus he picked up the synth. After experimenting out of its role in the songs it was decided that it would also be involved in recording the first demo "Trasdockor" made in spring 2009. Since then the band had some difficulties to depart from the component that made Järnmalm get their individual character and in the autumn when the first album was recorded ("Ur gruvan") the synth had an obvious place as an alternative instrument for Joel to play. The album started the band's collaboration with the iconic recordcompany from Stockholm called Beat Butchers and the album was released in January 2010.
After a bunch of gigs in the spring and summer, Beat Butchers published their first fully digital release, in the form of Järnmalm "Till Omvärlden" - which as well was a small pilotproject, but also to ease a bit on songs when more and more new material was produced from the band's songwriters, Vicky, Joel and Tobbe.
The next album is released customary at the beginning of the year and titled "Skördar och sår" to adorn the band's second BB-drop, which this time comes in a nifty digipack and is illustrated by Håkan "Doghead" Eklund (Dia Psalma, Asta Kask and others) who also illustrated the cover of "Ur Gruvan". The band's characteristic genre, rysrock in Swedish, will come to a head on the new release which honed the unique mix of dark synthparts, popswing and heavy metal guitars, all spiced with choirs and punky energy.
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