What do you say to people who claim HammerFall keeps making the same album?
I would say they have no idea what they’re talking about. Get into the albums, and you’ll realize there is a big difference between them. We’re following a path toward somewhere, I don’t know where exactly. But we are not going to change our style. I know it’s popular to do that in pop music. You go one way with this album, another way with the next. But that’s not what heavy metal is about. Heavy metal is such a broad genre for us that I think we still have a lot of stuff within it to explore, and a lot of songs inside us that need to come out. I can admit that the first three albums were similar-sounding in a lot of ways, but also, I think we progressed with each one. But with the two latest ones, Crimson Thunder and Chapter V, I think what we learned with Crimson Thunder is how to put together a complete album instead of just writing ten songs and recording them. Now we write the songs with the album in mind. That gives the album a lot more diversity and variety, which I don’t think
