Released: Feb 20, 2009
Genre: Power Metal, Heavy Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Number Of Tracks: 11
No Sacrifice, No Victory is the seventh studio album by HammerFall and will be released February 20, 2009.
No Sacrifice, No Victory
Reviewed by:
power_gamer_6, on may 05, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Sound: HammerFall returns again with their unmistakable brand of power metal, rising up from the sea of melodic death metal bands Sweden is known for. This album's sound is not unlike many of the previous albums, although heavier. This is the first album in which HammerFall tunes their guitars down a full step down as opposed to the usual half-step they've been using on previous albums. The only downfall to the sound is that it gets rather generic at times, but HammerFall seems to work it rather well, so that while it may be generic, it's never truly 'boring.' Particularly with the addition of the instrumental track "Something For The Ages". // 9
Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics in this album differ only slightly from their previous works in that they seem to be darker than usual, what with "Punish and Enslave" and the opening to the track "Legion". Aside from that, they're your typical high-fantasy-based power metal lyrics, except for "Life is Now" in which he seems to be singing about his life. That brings me to the singing on this album, which is great as usual. HammerFall used a lot of backing vocals on this album, a lot more than I felt is typical for them, especially on the opening track "By Any Means Necessary". Typical stuff, but they could stand to change it up a bit. // 8
Impression: This album fares pretty well up there with some of the better power metal bands. Some of the songs that really stood out to me were the opening track "By Any Means Necessary", "Between Two Worlds" as the album's power ballad, "Hallowed Be My Name", the guitar-driven instrumental "Something For The Ages" and the cover song as last track of the album (which I won't spoil). The rest of the album is really good, too, but these were just the songs that stood out to me the most. I love that they tuned their guitars all the way down to D as it adds a heavier sound and an almost darker 'edge' to the music. I don't hate very much about it, but like I said previously; they could stand to change up their sound just a bit. If the album was stolen or lost I'd definitely run out and buy it again. For sure. // 10
No Sacrifice, No Victory
Reviewed by:
maximumrocker, on february 20, 2009 1 of 3 people found this review helpful
Sound: Hammerfall to me has been on of my favorite power metal band since I found out about them way back in 2001. I currently now own again all there albums. With their new release of No Sacrifice, No Victory that is coming out tomorrow. The sound of this albums is perfect no clipping etc. Just like all the other Hammerfall albums the producer of this album was godly again. // 10
Lyrics and Singing: Lyrics of Hammerfall are always about war, victory, honor, etc. Yes there amazing in a band of itself but I always found these lyrics cheesy but for the first song off the album Any Means Necessary You'll start to sing with it cause that chorus is just amazing. Joacim Cans is still amazing at sings, his voice is just beautiful for this band. But over all the lyrics of the songs go with the way the music is build. // 7
Impression: 01.Any Means Necessary: first song off the album. First music for the album great chorus. Great track 10/10
02.Life is Now: good song, nothin really to make it special just good song. Shreading solo. 7/10
03.Punish & Enslaved: classic Hammerfall chug during the verus, and ohhh in the chorus are pretty cool, solo is pretty good too 6.5/10
04.Legion: when the first minute comes on ur like WTH haha you'll see when you listen to it's pretty epic. Overall song isnt bad. Sweet solo tho 7/10
05.Between Two Worlds: starts off with organ, acoustic song I like it alot. I was waiting for it to break into the Hammerfall power Metal but it didn't but htat is ok cause the song is great in itself 7/10
06.Hallowed Be My Name: this song I liked at lot the really nice slow head banging riff too it. Plus it has gun shots in it so that was a suprise to me. One of my favorite on the album 8.5/10
07.Something For The Ages: intrusmental that is just godly probably my favorite track off the album amazing go listen to it now 10/10
08.No Sacrifice, No Victory: title track of the album the songs is pretty good. One of the better ones on the album 8/10
09.One Of A Kind: Mr. Cans is hittin like the bricks to the balls notes on this song really high ones in some parts of the chorus
Tho the middle of the song is damn good. Other than that it was alright 7/10 My Sharona - Cover my the Knacks Hellz yea it's awesome 8/10
Pontus Norgren did a great just for taking Oscars place for lead guitar after Oscar left great album better than the last album Threshold. // 8
Reviews should be objective on both sides dude, not just you carrying on about your favourite songs from the album.
And it was Stefan Elmgren who left, not Oscar.
Research a little before post this kinda stuff.
Well,I actually never liked powermetal or bands like Hammerfall,but I have to say this new album really isn't so bad & it's more classical heavy metal than power.2 good songs ''any means necessary'' and ''between two worlds'' a few cool solos also.
The rest is nothing special.
Reviews should be objective on both sides dude, not just you carrying on about your favourite songs from the album.
And it was Stefan Elmgren who left, not Oscar.
Research a little before post this kinda stuff.
yea i just relized that after i clicked submit i was like crap
[br][br]Agree. He just made pretty generic comments on every song. [br][br] I'm not sure if I could call myself a "fan" of Hammerfall, but as a power metal fan, I'll give this a listen.
If you can't write reviews in proper English on a site that entirelly an English site, don't write one.
If you write a review that is nothing but a fanboys nerdgasm over the keyboard, copy it and create a thread in the forums.
Don't publish your shitty, subjective, ill-researched of a review in the review section. Save that for the forums.
In other news, pretty decent album. Typical Hammerfall I thought. Nothing stuck out as groundbreakingly awesome, but still, its Hammerfall. Give it a listen if you enjoy good power metal.
1 - try to learn English, before you publish. seriously, man, I had to decode what you've written there, it took me several minutes to understand your sentences...
2 - be objective. Even if you're a fan of a band, you don't have to lick their asses. In fact, you have to avoid being selfish about them.
3 - I don't think a song-by-song is needed if you write only one sentence about each track. Instead, you should just pick up the best moments, and mention them.
Raizer Sabre :
i loved it, especially legion, punish and enslave and their cover of my sharona. first full hammerfall album i've actually listened to though lol
what about legacy of kings?!
this album was good but like others have said, its typical hammerfall (which is good) but nothing overly groundbreaking. i didnt know my sharona was on there until i heard it coming through my stereo. i was like no they didnt lol but its good.
i believe with this album and threshold hammerfall have really fine tuned and found their 80's esque sound the production is outstanding everthing charlie bauerfiend does is i do believe the album could use some more lead solos here are there like fills and such but overall a still a great job
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