Crimson Thunder Explained

Crimson Thunder
Type:	studio
Artist:	HammerFall
Cover:	Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder.jpg
Released:	28 October 2002
Recorded:	Wisseloord Studios (Netherlands), Twilight Studios (Germany), and Mi Sueño (Spain)
Genre:	Heavy metal, power metal
Length:	47:33
Label:	Nuclear Blast
Producer:	Charlie Bauerfeind
Prev Title:	Renegade
Prev Year:	2000
Next Title:	One Crimson Night
Next Year:	2003

Crimson Thunder is the fourth studio album by Swedish power metal band HammerFall. It was the first album the band worked on with producer Charlie Bauerfeind.

The cover art was created by Samwise Didier, who is also known for his Warcraft concept art pieces.

A music video was made for the song "Hearts on Fire".^[1]

Track listing

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Release information

• Digipak CD,^[3] LP,^[4] shaped CD, picture LP, comic book edition, leather bound comic book edition, DVD-audio, value box (with "Hearts on Fire" CDS), Gold Award edition.
• Limited Gold Edition comes in an amaray (DVD-box), including printed HammerFall signatures, golden HammerFall-plectrum, bonus track ("Heeding the Call" – live) and a videoclip ("Hearts on Fire").^[5]
• Strictly limited Enhanced Gold-Award Edition, issued in DVD case with gold CD and band logo plectrum. CD has all bandmembers' signatures.
• Special Comic Edition has a CD of Crimson Thunder housed in an oversize hardback comic book, with an original comic story and the album's original liner notes/lyrics. Strictly Limited CD & Comicbook with 25 pages comic + 7 pages booklet, hardcover size A4 and the bonus track "Rising Force".^[6]
• DVD-Audio comes in 5.1 Dolby Surround Multichannel Sound. Playable into all DVD Players and with 5.1 Channel Surround Sound System and has "Hearts on Fire" videoclip.^[7]
• There has also been a numbered (1000 have been made) limited edition 3 CD longform leather digibook, that contains two 3-inch mini-CDs with one track on each: "Crazy Nights" (Loudness cover) and "Detroit Rock City" (Kiss cover).^[8]

Chart ranking

Country	Ranked^[9]
Switzerland	83
Germany	13
Austria	65
France	134
Sweden	3

Personnel

• Joacim Cans – lead vocals
• Oscar Dronjak – guitars, backing vocals
• Stefan Elmgren – guitars, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Magnus Rosén – bass
• Anders Johansson – drums

External links

• Official HammerFall website
• Album information
• Lyrics at Darklyrics

Notes and References

1. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: HAMMERFALL - Hearts On Fire (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) . YouTube.
2. Web site: HammerFall - Crimson Thunder - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives.
3. Web site: Crimson Thunder | Hammerfall - Official Webpage . 25 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203163805/http://www.hammerfall.net/releases/albums/crimson-thunder/ . 3 December 2013 .
4. Web site: HammerFall – Crimson Thunder (2002, Vinyl). Discogs.
5. Web site: HammerFall – Crimson Thunder (2003, Amaray, CD). Discogs.
6. Web site: HAMMERFALL | Crimson thunder COMIC+CD - Nuclear Blast . 3 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427042654/http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/lesestoff/musik/comic/hammerfall-crimson-thunder-comic-cd.html . 27 April 2014 .
7. Web site: HammerFall – Crimson Thunder (2002, DVD). Discogs.
8. Web site: HammerFall – Crimson Thunder (2002, CD). Discogs.
9. Web site: Steffen Hung . HammerFall - Crimson Thunder . swedishcharts.com . 2022-08-13.