HAMMERFALL

Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: massive epic thunderous heavy metal

cover artwork and promotional video of the eighth studio album by Scandinavian metal stalwarts implement gloomy horror movie and zombie invasion vibes behind, and it is indeed partly a concept album, bringing a darker shade to their otherwise heroic, catchy music; it is nonetheless as powerful, fist-pumping and guitar-shredding heavy metal as the rest of rich back catalog, with roots firmly laid in characteristic eighties' tradition, yet skills and intrigue are intact with nowadays context, while thumbs go up for reviving an old heavy metal anthem Send Me a Sign of historical Hungarian band Pokolgép!