Track Listing

1. Dragon Lies Bleeding
2. Metal Age
3. Hammerfall
4. I Believe
5. Child of the Damned
6. Steel Meets Steel
7. Stone Cold
8. Unchained
9. Glory to the Brave

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43975 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
1998 album featuring the title cut, which doubles as the first single extracted from it. Nine tracks total, all sure to please fans of old school metal bands like Iron Maiden and Fates Warning. Nuclear Blast.

Customer Reviews

brilliant 80's style power metal
Metal is back!!! The power chords, the solos, the lyrics!!! Pure epic metal! Raise your tankards of beer to the sky and hail the true lords of metal - Hammerfall! Do you own this album? If not, you better get it quick! You'll hate yourself for missing out on these epic cuts! Are you feeling down on life? Listen to "I Believe" and it'll all be good. In the mood for dragon hunting? Check out "The dragon lies bleeding". This album has it all and you'll feel like a true champion. Your face will light up our era! "A metal heart is hard to tear apart"!!!!!

"The Swordsmen must kneel"
4.5 stars. I first picked up Hammerfall's most recent studio creation "Crimson Thunder" and I enjoyed it, but in no way did it prepare me for the shredding guitar-work that is on this CD. This album reminded me time and again of early Iron Maiden with all the incredible riffing that might recall, but this Power Metal album also has an excellent ballad in "I Believe" which manages to sound emotionally evocative without ever crossing over into the realm of grandiose sappiness. The only average moments on the entire album come in the song "Stone Cold" with its repetitive background vocals and simplistic mid-tempo riffs; and it doesn't help that it clocks in at nearly six minutes long. The tone of the album is not sacrificed, however, in its wake. Without that single track I would have a hard time not giving this album a five-star-rating. The opening three tracks are all superb examples of Power Metal at its finest, with particular notice going to "Hammerfall" with its use of polyrhythms: a slow, but huge chorus floating over a shredding lead guitar. Fantastic! While the final, title track sounds less like Power Metal than a seven-minute Rock Opera, it is nonetheless a fitting end to a great album. This CD is essential listening for any and all Power Metal fans. Highly recommended.

The only power metal I like
Yes, Sweden's Hammerfall is the only power metal band I like. I can't stand bands like Helloween, Gamma Ray and Running Wild, not to mention all the other bad Swedish power metal bands. However, having seen Hammerfall live at three occasions (you can hear me screaming on their live-MCD "Heeding The Call") I must say that Hammerfall are never as good as when on stage. So even though this album is rather good, it's nowhere near as good as hearing Hammerfall perform it live. That's metal magic!