Glory to the Brave [Enhanced, Import]

Hammerfall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: MSI:NUCLEAR
• ASIN: B00008CGTX
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,329 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Dragon Lies Bleeding

2. The Metal Age

3. Hammerfall

4. I Believe

5. Child Of The Damned

6. Steel Meets Steel

7. Stone Cold

8. Unchained

9. Glory To The Brave

10. Ravenlord (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant 80's style power metal, December 31, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Glory to the Brave (Audio CD)

Metal is back!!! The power chords, the solos, the lyrics!!! Pure epic metal! Raise your tankards of beer to the sky and hail the true lords of metal - Hammerfall! Do you own this album? If not, you better get it quick! You'll hate yourself for missing out on these epic cuts! Are you feeling down on life? Listen to "I Believe" and it'll all be good. In the mood for dragon hunting? Check out "The dragon lies bleeding". This album has it all and you'll feel like a true champion. Your face will light up our era! "A metal heart is hard to tear apart"!!!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful epic power metal, February 21, 2001

By 

Vadim Diaconescu (Dracula's Castle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glory to the Brave (Audio CD)

Along with Gamma Ray, Rhapsody, Blind Guardian, Kamelot or Stratovarius, one of the top ten contemporary power metal bands! True followers of Helloween and Mannowar! Wonderful speedies, great power, breathtaking ballads! The voices, the choruses and the guitar-playing are un-*-believeable! Together with Gamma Ray's "Alive'95" and Rhapsody's "Legendary Tales", the best power metal album of the 90's I have listened to. Buy it or go listen to Limp Buiskit!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "The Swordsmen must kneel", February 21, 2005

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D. Knouse (vancouver, washington United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glory to the Brave (Audio CD)

4.5 stars. I first picked up Hammerfall's most recent studio creation "Crimson Thunder" and I enjoyed it, but in no way did it prepare me for the shredding guitar-work that is on this CD. This album reminded me time and again of early Iron Maiden with all the incredible riffing that might recall, but this Power Metal album also has an excellent ballad in "I Believe" which manages to sound emotionally evocative without ever crossing over into the realm of grandiose sappiness. The only average moments on the entire album come in the song "Stone Cold" with its repetitive background vocals and simplistic mid-tempo riffs; and it doesn't help that it clocks in at nearly six minutes long. The tone of the album is not sacrificed, however, in its wake. Without that single track I would have a hard time not giving this album a five-star-rating. The opening three tracks are all superb examples of Power Metal at its finest, with particular notice going to "Hammerfall" with its use of polyrhythms: a slow, but huge chorus floating over a shredding lead guitar. Fantastic! While the final, title track sounds less like Power Metal than a seven-minute Rock Opera, it is nonetheless a fitting end to a great album. This CD is essential listening for any and all Power Metal fans. Highly recommended.