Renegade (HammerFall album)

Occupation

• Vocals: Joacim Cans
• Bass: Magnus Rosén
• Guitar: Stefan Elmgren
• Guitar: Oscar Dronjak
• Drums: Anders Johansson

Renegade (English for " Bandit " ) is the third studio album by the Swedish power metal band Hammerfall and was released in 2000 The album is, beside the subsequent Threshold, which so far only the band with which she at the leap the. head of the Swedish album charts managed.

Formation

According to singer Joacim Cans songs should " turn out just a little bit harder, and the guitars should come across a lot fatter" on the album, which was achieved under other by the fact that the band for the first time worked with Michael Wagener as a producer.

His way of working, for example, differs in that the producer Fredrik Nordström of the former, than that the songs were recorded sequentially complete, rather than completely take the song at the end.

Some songs of In Flames guitarist and founding member Jesper Hammerfall Strömblad participated as co-author, with his influence had already decreased significantly in relation to the last album and the majority has now been taken over by Cans and Dronjak. With the instrumental tracks Raise the Hammer guitarist Stefan Elmgren was first involved in the authorship of a Hammerfall album.

Title list

Song Info

Raise The Hammer is the first released on an album instrumental piece of the band. It was also Always Will Be the first proper ballad on a Hammerfall album since the previous ballads, " but then failed musically quite violently " by Joacim Cans.

Singles

Renegade was released in August as a single and reached the top of the Swedish charts video. In April 2001 the second single Always Will Be, on the European beside an additional acoustic version also The Fallen One from the previous album Legacy of Kings, and the Judas -Priest- Breaking the law cover were included.