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Hammerfall Drops New Album’s Third Single; Fall Tour With Powerwolf Scheduled

In Upcoming Tours
July 07, 2024

July 3 — Hammerfall teased its new album, Avenge The Fallen, again this week with a new single.

The band unveiled the album’s third single, ‘Freedom‘ Wednesday. Its premiere follows that of its predecessors, ‘The End Justifies,‘ which was released last month, and the album’s lead single, ‘Hail to the King,’ which dropped in May.

The musical arrangement featured in ‘Freedom’ is a driving composition. The staccato nature of the guitar line and the choruses point to influences of the likes of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. That is nothing new for Hammerfall but the arrangement still maintains its own unique identity even with the comparisons in mind.

No information regarding the song’s lyrical theme was presented in the news release announcing the new single’s debut. However, a comment from Joacim Cans about the central theme of Avenge The Fallen being personal freedom hints at the song’s theme. The statement cites him as stating, the album’s theme being about “‘freedom’ and the urge to let anyone be who they want to be.”

In other news, Hammerfall also recently announced a tour in support of its forthcoming album, which is scheduled for release Aug. 9 through Nuclear Blast Records. The tour kicked off June 5 at the Sweden Rock Festival. The tour’s next stop is scheduled for July 12 at the Midalidare Rock Festival in BG Midalidare Estate, Chirpan. The band’s current festival run is scheduled to wind down Aug. 10 at the Hellsinki Metal Fest in Helsinki, Finland.

Following that festival run, Hammerfall will join Powerwolf for a roughly month-long European run starting Oct. 10 in Hamburg, Germany. The tour is scheduled to run through Oct. 26 in Prague, the Czech Republic and includes stops in Paris, France; Antwerp, Belgium and Krakow, Poland.

The tour’s schedule is noted below.

Catch HAMMERFALL on tour this summer and autumn:

12.07. BG Midalidare Estate, Chirpan – Midalidare Rock

10.08. FI Helsinki – Hellsinki Metal Fest

with POWERWOLF:

04.10. DE Hamburg – Barclays Arena

05.10. NL Amsterdam – AFAS Live

06.10. BE Antwerp – Lotto Arena

09.10. FR Nantes – Zenith

10.10. LUX Esch Sur Alzette – Rockhal

11.10. DE Stuttgart – Schleyerhalle

12.10. DE Frankfurt – Festhalle

14.10. IT Milan – Alcatraz

16.10. CH Zurich – The Hall

17.10. FR Paris – Zenith

18.10. DE Oberhausen – Rudolf Weber Arena

19.10. DE Berlin – UFO im Velodrom

21.10. PL Krakow – Tauron Arena

22.10. HU Budapest – MVM Dome

23.10. AU Vienna – Gasometer

25.10. DE Munich – Olympiahalle

26.10. CZ Prague – Sportovni Hala Fortuna

More information on Hammerfall’s new single, album and tour dates is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:

Websitehttps://www.hammerfall.net

Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/hammerfall

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/hammerfall