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| Well, to me, this clearly is Hammerfall's best effort ever. Yet I agree, it's not a very good album at all. |
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| I do find them boring. I can't even remember the album now although I listened to it not so long ago... |
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Written by wrathchild on 14.06.2008 at 14:13
Well, to me, this clearly is Hammerfall's best effort ever. Yet I agree, it's not a very good album at all.
I claim that most of the members are very professional (today), but well, that's not enough. Justin Timberlake could also be called professional... anyway, I prefer to listen to their newer stuff because of that reason. I was waiting to get bashed for this review but it doesn't seem so  |
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| One of the first metal album I encountered. I love best the last song Glory To The Brave and the first one. |
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| It is quite a boring generic album...I've never particularly understand the 'Hammerfall hype' personally. |
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| I personally like this album. There is nothing really special or unique about it, but everything is just right. I consider it a classic because this is pretty much traditional power metal very well played (although not very imaginative). My personal rating is a 6.5 or 7 (average music well performed). |
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I think this is the best Hammerfall album. But I find the band so forgettable and their recent material so horrible, it doesn't mean much.
Of course, it is not original at all. Hammerfal has never been about originality. But at least it was decent Powermetal back then. |
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ErnilEnNaur - 16.02.2011 at 00:44
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"Song structures, riffs and solos aren't way to bad for a début at all, but that doesn't help very much when the most of the songs lacks good melodies, good vocals, good lyrics and catchy hooks."
You nailed it, absolutely nailed it. I agree 100%. However, "Stone Cold" is a pretty good song, nothing brilliant, but certainly much better than the rest of the album, though it too suffers from a very lame chorus. |
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| "Glory To The Brave" song is great anyway |
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| Not the best album but the 2 ballads "I Believe" & "Glory To The Brave" are really good... |
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| I think it's quite a good album, but not the best HF has to offer. |
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| I will never forgive Niklas Sundin, Mikael Stanne and jesper Strömblad for forming this band together with Oscar Dronjak |
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.07.2012 at 10:52
I will never forgive Niklas Sundin, Mikael Stanne and jesper Strömblad for forming this band together with Oscar Dronjak
Holy crap! I... I did not know that. I feel weird now. All of them playing melodic death metal, what the hell happened in 1993... What were they thinking?!  |
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Written by Mr. Doctor on 19.07.2012 at 11:57
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.07.2012 at 10:52
I will never forgive Niklas Sundin, Mikael Stanne and jesper Strömblad for forming this band together with Oscar Dronjak
Holy crap! I... I did not know that. I feel weird now. All of them playing melodic death metal, what the hell happened in 1993... What were they thinking?!
to make it even worse Johan Larsson was also part of the very first line-up of the band. |
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.07.2012 at 10:52
I will never forgive Niklas Sundin, Mikael Stanne and jesper Strömblad for forming this band together with Oscar Dronjak
Quite a difference between this and Ceremonial Oath. |
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.07.2012 at 12:27
Written by Mr. Doctor on 19.07.2012 at 11:57
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.07.2012 at 10:52
I will never forgive Niklas Sundin, Mikael Stanne and jesper Strömblad for forming this band together with Oscar Dronjak
Holy crap! I... I did not know that. I feel weird now. All of them playing melodic death metal, what the hell happened in 1993... What were they thinking?!
to make it even worse Johan Larsson was also part of the very first line-up of the band.
By all indications I think that the band (which was probably not even known as "Hammerfall" back then) either started out as a Gothenburg-metal band, or was basically a joke of some sort, like "hey dudes, let's get drunk and try to play Helloween mixed with Manowar and see what happens". |
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