HammerFall announce new album ‘Avenge The Fallen’

HAMMERFALL have announced a new album!

Titled Avenge The Fallen, the upcoming album from the Swedish power metal band is the follow-up to 2022’s Hammer Of Dawn, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Nuclear Blast Records.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Joacim Cans says, “this is our 13th album. How do you still stay relevant after 13 albums? It’s very much like the opening line to the song Avenge The Fallen: ‘what is the worst, be the one who died, or be the one who survived’. Think about it, because it is a tough question. Do we want to be a band who releases new music just for the sole reason of getting out on the road again or do we want to keep pushing and challenging ourselves? In times where people have less and less attention span, we still think in the form of full-length albums. A few good songs don’t make a strong album. A strong album comes from an album full a great songs and that’s what we’re delivering with Avenge The Fallen.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, HAMMERFALL have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Hail To The King. Speaking about the new song, guitarist Oscar Dronjak says, “I began working on Hail To The King while on tour in the US with HELLOWEEN. By the end of the tour, I was getting close to wrapping the song up, so straight after the Los Angeles gig I headed to the bus where I worked like a mad man to get the last pieces together. That turned out to be the show where one of my favourite wrestlers, Chris Jericho, came to visit. It was also the show where Fredrik met his idol Frank Bello from ANTHRAX and Joacim met Jay Ruston, producer for ARMORED SAINT, AVATAR, ANTHRAX, COREY TAYLOR and more and whom after this meeting agreed to produce the vocals for Avenge The Fallen! I missed all that, but I at least got a great song out of it, [laughs]!”

Watch the official music video for Hail To The King here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Avenge The Fallen
2. The End Justifies
3. Freedom
4. Hail To The King
5. Hero To All
6. Hope Springs Eternal
7. Burn It Down
8. Capture The Dream
9. Rise Of Evil
10. Time Immemorial

Avenge The Fallen is set for release on August 9th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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