Hammerfall trail Hector’s Hymn

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Swedish outfit drop video featuring clip from 9th album track

Hammerfall have issued a preview video for their album (r)Evolution, which features a clip of the track Hector’s Hymn.

The full video for the song will launch on August 22, but the band tease a snippet in the third trailer for the new album, which launches across Europe on August 29 and in the US on September 2.

The Swedish band took a creative break last year, but returned with the single Bushido last month – a track the group say is one of their “strongest efforts” to date.

“Bushido captures the essence of Hammerfall as much as any song we’ve written,” says guitarist Oscar Dronjak. “It’s one of the strongest efforts from our camp ever and is filled with energy, hunger and pure adrenaline.”

®Evolution tracklist

  1. Hector’s Hymn

  2. ®Evolution

  3. Bushido

  4. Live Life Loud

  5. Ex Inferis

  6. We Won’t Back Down

  7. Winter Is Coming

  8. Origins

  9. Tainted Metal

  10. Evil Incarnate

  11. Wildfire

HAMMERFALL - Chapters of (r)Evolution (OFFICIAL TRAILER - PART 3) - YouTube
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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent 35 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott keeps Louder’s buyer’s guides up to date, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more. Over the last 10 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog. He's previously written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald newspapers, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to tech reviews, video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.