Glory To The Brave - HammerFall

Hammerfall are undoubtedly the most popular Swedish power metal band, with an inflated reputation that was surely only achieved due to the genre's comparative lack of popularity in Sweden, at least compared to counties like Finland and Germany that churn out numerous power metal acts. 'Glory to the Brave' is their first and best album, a solid traditional metal performance that doesn't accomplish anything new, but is at least more exciting and fun than the band's subsequent albums, which merely repeated the same ingredients ad nauseam. Joacim Cans' vocals are one of the weakest elements here, satisfying enough when singing in unison on a ballad, but lacking ...