Legacy of Kings

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studio album
First released:
Sep 18 1998

Overview Edit

Legacy of Kings is the second album from Swedish metal band HammerFall.

It was released September 28, 1998 on Nuclear Blast Records.

The enhanced CD release included the music video for the track "Let The Hammer Fall", a photo gallery, lyrics for the songs, PC wallpapers & a screensaver, and a Winamp skin only on the Bonus Deluxe Edition. The cover art for this album was painted by Andreas Marshall.

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Record label:
Catalog number:
6335
Release dates:
  • Oct 13 1998

Genres

Heavy Metal, Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal. Vote on Genres

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5 stars METAL IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After having seen our favourite musical style bashed down by thrashers who should test their skills wielding chainsaws and/or

other loud implement of destruction...after having 'heard' (??)

abominable crossovers with hip-hop and other sorts of filthy sources of noise, after having our ears maimed by death metal

vocalists (?) sounding like grizzly bears with troath carcinomas

FINALLY

The Gods smiled upon us bereaved followers of melodic power and brought us these fine viking raiders from sweden t…
Written by Kull "the valusian"
3 stars Nice but not excellent
I purchased this disc and Blind Guardian's Nightfall... after reading various reviews here (from people who had also gotten Stratovarius, which is what I initially was looking at). I would concur with one of the previous reviews from April 29, 1999 that their influences are Manowar, Helloween, etc.

The songwriting is polished, solid musicianship, nice production. However, their's nothing really that special here aside from that fact that it is coming out 10 years later than the last wave of this…
Written by Michael A. Ray

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Legacy of Kings 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Nuclear Blast
catalog number: NB 335-2
release dates: Sep 28 1998 in Germany
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Legacy of Kings 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Nuclear Blast
catalog number: 6335
release dates: Sep 28 1998 in Germany
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Legacy of Kings 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Jvc Japan
release dates: Sep 18 1998 in Japan
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