HAMMERFALL

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: massive epic thunderous heavy metal

third full-length [2000] by Swedish traditional metal revivalists is best known for the sweeping title track, reinforced by a suggestive video, yet it is just one tenth of the entire contents, continuing the glorious march of ambitious five-piece, leading the pleiads of European heavy metal bands at the dawn of the new millennium: effectively convincing repertoire brims with energetic, dynamic, easy to grasp numbers, yet they stick to mind for a long while like The Champion, as well as bombastic, heart-breaking ballads like Always Will Be, determining diverse, heavy-weighted direction, which, compared to the first two records, sounds more polished, yet features bolder arrangements without losing its heroic melodicism and combative spirit; recent German strictly limited gatefold sleeve yellow vinyl edition with a completely new mix and mastering as well as modified design marks twenty years since the original recording