Hammer of Judgment, by Freight Train Rabbit Killer

Hammer of Judgment

by Freight Train Rabbit Killer

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Lute FP Tom Waits meets Danzig. Shaken, and stirred. Killer.

Bart Dark, tortured, heavy blues. Just lovely. Favorite track: You Don't Love Me Anymore.

Steve Rodger Love this, honest no frills blues just how I like it... RUFF !! Favorite track: Eyes of the Steamboat Captain.

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1.	Pharmaceuticals 02:30	buy track
2.	Eyes of the Steamboat Captain 03:42	buy track
3.	Nodaway County Regulators 04:10	buy track
4.	Conquerors 01:59	buy track
5.	Saw Brother Judas 03:51	buy track
6.	You Don't Love Me Anymore 03:32	buy track
7.	Mush-A-Ring-Around 05:51	buy track
8.	Could But I Won't 03:29	buy track
9.	Cream Corn 02:45	buy track
10.	Whiskey 04:03	buy track
11.	I Wanna Get Down 03:03	buy track
12.	Will You Dance 02:20	buy track

about

Freight Train Rabbit Killer is a duo made up of Kris Bruders (Freight Train) and Mark Smeltzer (Rabbit Killer). A heavy doom blues American Roots opera about a shaman of the hills and a vigilante bent on justice, they have been performing out of their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri and toured extensively internationally and across the United States. Freight Train Rabbit Killer is storytelling through music, American folk art via gritty blues, electric guitars, suits, and masks.

For "Hammer of Judgment", the duo is accompanied by accomplished multi-instrumentalists and solo recording artists Jason Beers and Fritz Hutchison, who provide the “hammer” of drums and bass.

The Hammer of Judgment recording session was a one-of-a-kind pseudo-live studio album, utilizing an interactive crowd of dedicated fans experiencing the recording process first-hand with all the bells and whistles of a professional recording studio. Tickets were sold in advance and the session was captured at GFM Modern Recording in Blue Springs, Missouri in April 2019. Post-production work, a global pandemic, and national independent record pressing delays pushed the release back three years from the recording date, but the end results made it worth the wait.

Haymaker Records releases doom blues group Freight Train Rabbit Killer‘s new album Hammer of Judgment worldwide on August 26, 2022. Hammer of Judgment is the second full-length album for the band and the first full-length on vinyl. Haymaker Records previously partnered with Freight Train Rabbit Killer for the four 7-Inch “Wake Snake Death Dance” record series.

The album features tintype photography from Folk Goblin (Josh Benkert) and album artwork by noted graphics artist Pat Moriarity. Side B closes out the album with a locked-groove.

Physical copies of this album can be purchased from the Haymaker Records website
haymakerrecords.net/product/freight-train-rabbit-killer-hammer-of-judgment/

credits

released August 26, 2022

Guitar, Stomp Box, Vocals – Kris "Freight Train" Bruders
Guitar, Banjo, Violin [Mr. Squeaky], Vocals – Mark "Rabbit Killer" Smeltzer
Bass, Vocals – Jason Beers
Drums, Vocals – Fritz Hutchison
Organ – Andrew Crowley
"Talking Machine" – Scott Holthus (Track 12)

Track 7 is a Traditional Arranged by Mark Smeltzer
Written By - Kris Bruders (Tracks 1, 8, 9, 11)
Written By - Mark Smeltzer (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12)
Written By - Freight Train Rabbit Killer (Track 4)

Recorded at GFM Modern Recording, Blue Springs, MO 04/25/2019 - 04/27/2019
Lead Engineer – Andrew Crowley (04/26/2019 and 04/27/2019)
Engineer – Brian Kraemer, Nic Aguero (04/25/2019 - 04/27/2019)
Executive-Producer – Brenton Cook
Mixed By, Mastered By – Andrew Crowley at Organica Recording, St. Paul, MN

Tintype Photography – Josh Benkert
Illustration, Design – Pat Moriarity
Liner Notes – Michelle Bacon

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Freight Train Rabbit Killer Kansas City, Missouri

Doom blues duo of Kris Bruders and Mark Smeltzer. A heavy American Roots opera about a shaman of the hills and a vigilante bent on justice. Freight Train Rabbit Killer is storytelling through music, American folk art via gritty blues, electric guitars, suits, and masks. Forthcoming album "Hammer of Judgment" due out on Haymaker Records in 2022. ... more

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