HAMMERFALL Dubs New Album “No Sacrifice”

Swedish melodic metallers HAMMERFALL have set No Sacrifice, No Victory as the title of their eighth full-length album, due on February 20, 2009 (Europe) and TBA (North America) via Nuclear Blast Records.

The CD was recorded in part at Andy La Rocque's (King Diamond) Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden and includes an instrumental written by the group's latest addition, guitarist Pontus Norgren (The Poodles, Talisman, Great King Rat), as well as a song entitled “One of a Kind,” which was composed as a collaboration between HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak and IN FLAMES axeman Jesper Strömblad (who was a member of HAMMERFALL in the band's earliest incarnation).

Pontus Norgren joined HAMMERFALL as the replacement for Stefan Elmgren, who left the band in early April to focus on his new career as a pilot.

No Sacrifice, No Victory Track List:
01. Any Means Necessary
02. Life Is Now
03. Punish And Enslave
04. Legion
05. Between Two Worlds
06. Hallowed Be My Name
07. Something For The Ages
08. No Sacrifice, No Victory
09. Bring The Hammer Down
10. One Of A Kind
11. My Sharona (The Knack Coverversion)

The cover artwork was created by Sam Didier, while Thomas Ewerhard was responsible for the CD layout.

Official press photos taken by Michael Johansson & Caroline Rosmark.

The video for the first single “Any Means Necessary” will be shot in Belgrade, Serbia at the end of November.