HAMMERFALL Guitarist: New Album Will 'Sound More Heavy Metal Than Ever'

Sweden's HAMMERFALL have entered the studio to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken", tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Oscar Dronjak has posted the following recording update on his official blog:

"There were only two songs left for today, the instrumental 'Reign Of The Hammer' and the fast triplet song 'Genocide'. Saving the hardest for last, it was instrumental time now. It's a fairly simple song, and Magnus [Rosén, bass] had learned the stops well before hand. So, by one o'clock, it was triplet time again. Woo-hooo... Being a first-timer with the pick, he had his work cut out for him, but Magnus came through beautifully.

"This HAMMERFALL album is going to sound more heavy metal than ever based on the pick factor alone! It sounds so much better, so much tighter, so much more ON it's ridiculous! The track was finished just in time for Magnus and me to make the departure from Lundgård in time to catch the ferry in Fredrikshavn (a three-hour drive, remember?).

"It feels like we really have come a long way since last time, this album will be a definite improvement sound- and performance-wise (provided that Charlie [Bauerfeind, producer] puts the rest of us through the same rigorous filet he did with the other two, but why shouldn't he?). I just hope the music itself will have improved an equal amount, but it absolutely feels like it. We shall see... Whatever the case, that's it from me for now. We'll return to Denmark on May 31st, and I will continue to keep you updated on what's going on down here."

Other songtitles set to appear on HAMMERFALL's new CD include "Carved In Stone", "Titan", "Dark Wings, Dark Words", "Shadow Empire", "Rebel Inside", "Threshold", "The Fire Burns Forever", "Howlin' With The 'Pac", and "Natural High".