Episode 163: Hammerfall Blood Bound. Year 2005. English Version

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00:00:54 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson and you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it it's it's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy let me well it's spelled differently everything is called orgasmatron Rod Halford I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...

00:01:37 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley

00:01:39 - But piano was inconceivable. I mean, you can't just buy a piano.

00:01:44 - Or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:46 - I think I was very driven, period.

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00:02:23 - Hammerfall is a Swedish heavy metal and power metal band, formed in 1993 in Gothenburg.

00:02:29 - They were characterized as one of the bands that made the traditional heavy metal genre more popular in the 1990s.

00:02:35 - Chapter 5, Unbend, Unvote, Unbroken, Hammerfall is an album with many ups and downs.

00:02:41 - While the middle part features several forgettable songs, the album also includes some of the band's best efforts, some controversial tunes, and one hidden gem, This Is Blood band, released on January 28, 2005, and culled from any band in the world.

00:02:54 - Heavy Metal from the 1980s, for being simple, strong and engaging.

00:02:59 - It was the only single released from their fifth studio album Chapter 5, Unbent, Unvowed,

00:03:03 - Unbroken.

00:03:04 - It has great work from the twin guitars and from the singer Joasim Kans, who with his voice can transform a simple song into a heavy metal anthem.

00:03:12 - What good musical taste the hammerful musicians have to make a simple song spectacular.

to promote the album, the instrumental karaoke version, tied in with a competition where fans could submit their version of Bloodbound to Nuclear Blast and win a meet and greet with the members of Hammerfall at their shows in April. From 2005, the positive side of having simple songs is that it allows guitarist Stefan Elmerin to destroy his guitar. Elmerin's style hasn't changed much, but he's still nice and tasteful. He uses a lot of sweeping and most of his solos are quite memorable. Also, Hammerfall's other guitarist,

00:03:45 - Oscar Dronjik continues to do his trademark melodic solos.

00:03:49 - He has never been one to impress with his speed, but his solos are solos that put the band on another scale. Of course, the most interesting part of Hammerfall would be the voice of Joasm

00:03:58 - Kans. A lot of people seem to dislike his voice, but I couldn't imagine Hammerfall with anyone else singing. Perhaps the biggest recurring theme in Hammerfall is that everything is a catchy chant. Kans really does this better than anyone, because big choirs are where he is best. The album's artwork was done by Samwise Didier following an original idea by

00:04:17 - Joasson Kans and Oskar Dronjik. Joasson's Kans tells us, the album title means that no matter what they say, we will always be unbent, unvote and unbroken. We won't bow down to anyone, we believe in what we do, we play a modern version of so-called, true, heavy metal. If you want a band whose music combines the best pieces from that period with a more modern approach, then you should check out Hammer 4. When I say modern,

00:04:40 - I don't mean any new metal elements or anything like that.

00:04:43 - I'm talking about freshness and that's what this band is about.

00:05:10 - Zero, bursting into flames

00:05:14 - Can't you see the coming of a hero?

00:05:18 - On this enchanting day, so

00:05:22 - Stand up and be counted

00:05:24 - In the solar eclipse

00:05:26 - In the desert sand

00:05:28 - No longer the hunted

00:05:32 - United we are

00:05:34 - Till the day we fall

00:05:36 - A chain of breakable

00:05:42 - Every link is a light to our mighty God

00:05:48 - We're bloodbound

00:05:50 - We aim for the sun

00:05:52 - The moon in this moment takes us high over the ground

00:05:56 - We're bloodbound

00:05:58 - Collecting the stars

00:06:00 - We own the power that is greater than all

00:06:03 - We're bloodbound

00:06:06 - Watch out, the heathens all around us Always watch your back, we got a lust for freedom

00:06:18 - Whatever they say, we know we'll stay We are indestructible

00:06:28 - And no matter what happens, we will rise up on

00:06:35 - We're a bloodbound, laying for the sun

00:06:38 - The moon in its room will take us high over ground

00:06:42 - We're a bloodbound, colouring the stars

00:06:45 - We know the power that is greater than all

00:06:49 - We're a bloodbound

00:06:53 - Look into my eyes

00:06:56 - Tell me what is here, tell me deep inside

00:07:00 - Chains about to break

00:07:03 - It's the everlasting freedom for us all

00:07:26 - When I'm lost, I won't let me aim for the place where I'm lost

00:07:36 - When I'm lost, I won't let me aim for the place where I'm lost

00:07:46 - We ain't for the sun, the moon in this room will take us high over ground

00:08:02 - We ain't for the sun, the moon in this room will take us high over ground

00:08:14 - We are Black Bound

00:08:16 - For lost in the stars

00:08:18 - We are the power to get

00:08:22 - LOWER

00:08:24 - FOREVER

00:08:26 - LOWER

00:08:28 - We are Black Bound