DESCRIPTION:
First single off the new Hellsongs album "These Are Evil Times". "iron Man" is available on 7" vinyl: http://shop.tapeterecords.com/hellsongs-iron-man-7-vinyl.html

HELLSONGS about "Iron Man":

"Iron Man must be one of the first guitar riffs I tried to copy on guitar. Easy but yet doomy and totally cool in the way that you just want to play it over and over again. This was probably one of the roughest songs ever to wrestle down for Hellsongs and there are many x-rated versions in the secret drawer. This since our idea never have been to just copy the original straight away.

Thanks to Johan Reivén, one of the producers, I kept throwing and re-building and I´m very happy that we all had the patience to let it grow. Hellsongs have never before released such a monstrous track, always keeping it quite gentle and lo-fi. Well, this new approach is more or less the red line this time, not bothering about how we have done things in the past. This track needed drums, bass and a whole lot more - so be it!

The video was shot in a very cosy but almost never used public space in Majorna, Göteborg. The actors are friends and neighbours of Hellbender thus the finest beings alive. It was a true pleasure to watch them perform and work together with the talented video team. The director called us up late 2012, stating that he wanted to do a video with Hellsongs. It´s always very fun and interesting when someone chases us, instead of the opposite. Usually they are nutcases but Ronn Elfors Lipsker is quite the opposite, which this video clearly shows.

His strong idea was to use a metal gimmick of some kind (it turned out to be the Kiss make up) to show how identity can be based in a music genre. In my own case, metal was a big core of my self confidence and self esteem when I grew up. It made me strong enough to cope with some really tough situations. As I grew up, that has been more and more internalized and I do not longer have the need to show that I´m a metal head to keep my cool up. We had great fun doing the video and I really think the actors
are great, especially if you consider the age of the youngsters!

The funniest part was that we hadn´t found any oldtimers until the day we finally shot the video. There was this gang of the local skid row, hanging out in the park while we were shooting the last parts, so I asked the director if he felt ok working with some of them. He was totally cool with it, so I just walked up to them and succeded with convincing them to be a part of the video. After a while they hooked up with us and oh boy, you could easily tell how much they enjoyed that!

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