Legacy of Kings

What a great collection of metal songs. I literally never heard of Hammerfall until recently. In America, the music companies do not promote very good music like this. However, I came across them on Youtube. This album is an easy five stars. I enjoy every song on the CD. My favorites are At the End of the Rainbow, Stronger Than All, and Let the Hammer Fall. But the entire CD is excellent.

This is my first HammerFall CD and if they have more albums that are this good, then I want more! Legacy of Kings is the 2nd album by the Swedish Power Metal Crew we know as HammerFall and I think that they might become another band in my collection with multiple CD's lining the shelf space along with Journey, Stratovarius, Asia, and Rush. HammerFall isn't my first power metal band, but is my 1st power metal band that actually sings about medieval stuff and doesn't have a keyboardist. And it has a very nice album cover! I love that knight sitting on the throne!Music of the Square Case:The music in this album is your basic power metal like Kamelot or Stratovarius without keyboards and all the songs are all about medieval things like knights, courage, valor, and stuff.1. Heeding the Call- Nice start to album; A powerful drum part followed by a nice power metal guitar riff and a cool chorus: Heeding the Call, one and for all, Never surrender for glory we fall...Nice chorus!2. Legacy of Kings- Another awesome song! I like this one but it's not as cool sounding as the 1st song. Still good, tho3. Let the Hammer Fall- A slower metal song. It has grown on me and I think it is pretty cool! I like the guitar riff a lot!4. Dreamland- Probably tied with Heeding the Call as my favorite track on the album. I like the tone of the song! It has an overall happier tone and I think this is what the best Power Metal sounds like!5. Remember Yesterday- A very nice ballad. Joacim Cans has a very powerful voice! I like this song a lot!6. At the End of the Rainbow- A slower song but it has a nice beat to it and it sounds majestic. I like the low voices that this band uses especially in this song and Heeding the Call.7. Back to Back- This sounds like filler to me. I don't really care for this one.8. Stronger Than All- Another nice and melodic one similar to Dreamland but it does have lower vocals too. It's a good song!9. Warriors of Faith- I think that this one is somewhat ok. It might grow on me but for now it's just ok.10. The Fallen One- A beautiful song that's mainly piano and Joacim Cans but has the rest of the band in a few places. Very good ending to this album!Verdict: If you don't know HammerFall, this is a good place to start. It's not their debut, but it's also not one of their mature albums. It's just their 2nd one but what a good album it is!!! If you are into Stratovarius, Kamelot, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, or Epica, I strongly recommend this album! It's extremely good and you will enjoy it! You will unite with the Knights and have lots of epic adventures with this noble music from the square case!

I have Hammerfall's other 2 albums and I still cant figure out why I havent already bought this one, since it has some of the best songs on it; my favorite Hammer song of all time is Dream Land...I heard it several years ago (1998 or 99) but forgot who wrote it until my quest for metal brought me to Hammerfall and I rediscovered it. But, I guess I'm subconsciously saving the best for last, for this is a great album. Creative riffs, tight playing, excellent production. I love their vocalist, and their guitarists can play some cool melodies. The drummer is a typical pm drummer, which is not bad, the drums complement the music perfectly and he does have skill as you will hear in the beginning drum intro.Anyone with an interest in true metal should own this.

this record is so well made, it sounds clean and sharp, great recording studio, audio engineer and musicians. great music too.

This remaster destroyed the dynamic range of the album.

What Hammerfall does is write good tunes. They are solid in every respect. Vocally they rock, instrumentally they rock, production wise they rock. It just always sounds good and that's what you want if you're going to be spending your hard earned dollars on cd's.This is yet again another masterpiece. Theirs really not much to say about it, after all it's sounds like it's supposed to and that means it's as good or better than anything else they've ever done.If you like these guys or power metal in general?, pick it up as you wont be disappointed!

This is a great power metal masterpiece!! Let the Hammerfall!!! These guys are amazing, only their second LP and get better with each new release.

hammerfall doesn't dissapoint with this one. the guitars sound awesome. some folks may say that all of their songs sound alike... but what is wrong with that?