Hammerfall - Renegade (Single)
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal
3 songs (12'40)
Release year: 2000
Hammerfall, Nuclear Blast
Reviewed by Chris

Hammerfall are back ! ! ! Yes !! Renegade ! ... Renegade ! That's right baby !

Wow it feels good to hear some more tunes from my Power Metal heroes. The song is however strange in matter of subject as medieval lyrics kinda disapeared on this new song. But usual good and powerul guitar riffs and solos, with amazing song-writing is still here, more than ever. However, Joacim sings kinda strangely on that song and I'm a bit afraid ! I dunno if it's his little adventure with Kai Hansen and if he tries to sing like him, something that could have been observed on "I Want Out" fabulous cover, on which he plays duet with master Kai ! In this one it's amazing how their voices are similar. But I prefer his normal way of singing. Aside from this, the song is fabulous just like every Hammerfall songs so far !

Fortunately on the 2 covers that fills the CD the voice is getting better. Run With The Devil is excellent. As for Head Over Heels accept cover, it's the same one that could be found in the Accept tribute.

The CD also contains a multimedia presentation in Flash, a screensaver that is not really interesting, unless perhaps for the dog photograph which is fun, and a video clip showing bits of recording and other nice stuff in Quicktime format. Too bad it's not very compatible in general as 3 out of my 4 PCs couldn't run it from the Flash interface, probably a problem with the built-in QT plugin or something... anyway I could see it with QT4 by opening it by hand but the sound saturates...It's nice without being fantastic and I quite like the idea of extra sutff on singles, gives a good reason to buy them since they usually contain only 1 new song and cost the third of an entire album :).

The album is not far now (begining of October) and I'm pretty impatient to headbang while listening to it ! (and when my neck won't be able to take it anymore I guess I'll throw the review then :) )

Killing Songs :
Renegade, Run With The Devil
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Other albums by Hammerfall that we have reviewed:
Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn reviewed by Goat and quoted 70 / 100
Hammerfall - Dominion reviewed by Goat and quoted 80 / 100
Hammerfall - (R)Evolution reviewed by Joel and quoted 89 / 100
Hammerfall - Infected reviewed by Goat and quoted 80 / 100
Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory reviewed by Goat and quoted 80 / 100
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