HammerFall was formed when guitarist Oscar Dronjak quit Ceremonial Oath and invited Jesper Strömblad ( from In Flames ) to join him as a drummer in a new musical project he had been contemplating for some time.

HammerFall was relegated to being a side project of them all for several years.

The concert was a success although the judges disqualified HammerFall for the finals.

The deal was accepted and the band proceeded to record their first two music videos — " HammerFall " and " Glory to the Brave ".

HammerFall was present on festivals in Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic, playing with bands such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Twisted Sister, U. D. O.

On October 16 it was reported that HammerFall ( along with the band Europe ) would be part of the Eurovision song contest.

On his own website ( and therefore with his own official statement ) it was announced that Magnus was tired of the simple bassplaying he was forced to play in HammerFall, and that he was unable to bring his own material to the band.

Shortly after the release of the new record the singer Rob Tyrant left the band, replaced by Morby from Domine who was with Labyrinth throughout the whole European tour as supporting act with Pegazus of the most popoular bands HammerFall and Primal Fear.

They went under the name Highlander from 1990 until 1994 ( with Joacim Cans on vocals and other future HammerFall members ) before the band was put on hold.

As shown in the tracklist, the founding guitarist of In Flames and founding member of HammerFall, Jesper Strömblad, was the co-writer of several of the songs in the album.

They also rerecorded the Glory To The Brave track " HammerFall ".

Infected is also the first HammerFall album not to feature the mascot, the paladin Hector, on the cover.

The album also includes the video for " Lost to Apathy ", produced by Roger Johansson ( who worked with other bands such us The Haunted, In Flames, and HammerFall ) and a Dark Tranquillity screensaver.

HammerFall, Metallica, Napalm Death, Entombed, Iced Earth, Between the Buried and Me, Overkill, Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Fozzy, and Def Leppard have released entire albums of covers, for example.

As HammerFall grew in popularity, the time available for members of the band to dedicate to other projects became limited.

In early 1997, German label Nuclear Blast approached HammerFall with a contract for a European release deal, which included four albums.

HammerFall made arrangements for this album to be recorded by Michael Wagener, who had previously produced bands such as Accept, Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne.

* The HammerFall song " Legion " from the Album No Sacrifice, No Victory contains the line " My name is Legion, for we are many ", including the intro where it's spoken with a deep demon voice.

* 1970 – Joacim Cans, Swedish singer ( HammerFall )

HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden.

When Niklas Sundin and Johan Larsson left HammerFall the following year, Glenn Ljungström ( then guitarist of In Flames ) and Fredrik Larsson ( bassist of the former Swedish death metal band Dispatched ), replaced them.

* HammerFall, a Swedish Power Metal band

One Crimson Night is a two-disc live album and DVD by Swedish power metal band HammerFall.

* HammerFall, a Swedish power metal band

Joacim Cans ( born 19 February 1970 in Mora, Sweden ) is the lead singer of HammerFall, a Swedish power metal band.

The band found Anders Johansson, not the HammerFall drummer but the guitarist in Swedish band Vrävarna to handle the second guitar live and Peder Johansson to handle the bass live.

In 1998, Swedish power metal band HammerFall released their Legacy of Kings album, which features a cover of Pretty Maids ' song " Back to Back " from their debut album Red, Hot and Heavy.

He is best known as founder and former guitarist / drummer / keyboardist of the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames, guitarist of the band Sinergy, bassist of Ceremonial Oath and drummer of HammerFall.

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In 1996, HammerFall reached the semi-finals of Rockslaget.

HammerFall made some expressive concerts before the release of Legacy of Kings, playing in festivals together with bands such as Alice Cooper, Rammstein, Deep Purple, Dream Theater, Saxon and Stratovarius.

During their passage through South America, HammerFall took a short break to visit the Brazilian beaches, but they soon resumed their tour.

HammerFall then proceeded to record their fourth album — Crimson Thunder.

On April 2, 2008 Stefan Elmgren announced his decision to leave HammerFall in order to pursue a career as a commercial pilot.

To kick off their new album HammerFall toured all over the world in support of their new album No Sacrifice, No Victory.

Historical wars inspired numerous bands, like Sabaton, Grave Digger or HammerFall.

HammerFall simplified their power metal to bring it closer to traditional heavy metal.

Includes HammerFall, Sabaton, Cryonic Temple, Lost Horizon, Nocturnal Rites, Steel Attack and Dream Evil.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was certain now that Jess was in the house, but also, presumably, was Stacey Black.

But it also made him conspicuous to the enemy, if it was the enemy, and he hadn't been spotted already.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

His superiors had also preached this, saying it was the way for eternal honor.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

There was also a dog, a dingo dog.

There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.

There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.