I love the Blind Guardian and Gamma Ray albums. They're amazing. On paper they're better than the Hammerfall album. Hammerfall basically takes the all the best elements of melodic metal from the past few decades and amalgamates them to make incredibly accessible power metal without any real innovation. But actually listening to Hammerfall makes all of that go away, because they're just brilliant. It's pretty much impossible to listen to a Hammerfall album without getting half the songs stuck in your head for the next month. "Legacy of Kings" (the song) has been stuck in my head for the past month at least.
Hammerfall is just a celebration of metal, that begs you to forget everything you know about "intelligent" music and just listen. The lyrics are the perfect example of this. They are not merely about swords and orcs, they are a call to arms to the defenders of true metal. Legacy of Kings is not a reference to arbitrary fantasy rulers, the kings are Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Dio, and their legacy is metal itself! I know this sounds like a fanboy diatribe, but I don't care. Hammerfall ****ing rule. Simple as that.
Hammerfall - 1
Blind Guardian - 0
Gamma Ray - 0
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Last edited by The Batlord; 12-13-2011 at 12:06 PM.
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