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Been listening to this quite a bit lately, badass album

Deserves classic status IMO

Absolutely, great album. It certainly has that classic sound.

Isn't Glory To The Brave often mentioned as a key album for starting the big power metal wave in the late 90's/early 2000's?

I'd say more of a revival of what was thought to be a dead genre, but I guess you could really go either way.

And yes, great album. Too bad this is the only thing they did worth getting (IMO) with the exception of Legacy Of Kings.

Shoddy fanboy review of a rather nonplussive album. I'm sure the metal scene would've gotten by just fine without this album.

Not the power metal scene.

Perhaps. But that's not what the review says.

Oh yeah, the review is horrible. I'm sure even Chris would agree there.

Honestly I really like all their albums, even Threshold which a lot of people hated. It's probably because they're one of the first bands that got me into metal, although all their albums have some killer power metal anthems and sometimes you're in the mood for just that.

As Joacim tells the tale, the people at NB were passing the album around for a laugh and the owner of the label decided to release it because he felt a JP type of sound was going to come back. I don't think it hurt that Jesper, from In Flames, was involved, but I don't know who was signed first, HF or IF, so it may not be relevant at all.

It still gets a laugh out of me. Totally lame vocals. He sounds like Don Dokken's little sister.

Also, what's with the term 'true metal'? Are other metal genres 'untrue'? I had bullshit like that flung at me when I was 17 and refused to like Dream Evil and Manowar and Metalium, but coming from a grown man in his thirties... what the bloody hell.

I think the term 'true metal' was tossed around when people were listening commercial metal and dismissing all the other genres. I think the fact that power metal was labeled such was becasue it was so far from what the mainstream was used to. Looking at it now seems silly though. Actually, I'm wondering why we ever thought the term was valid.

I don't think it is relevant anymore and I always wonder where they drew that line. Judas Priest wasn't commercial, but Europe and Dokken were? I wonder what that was all about.

This ^

The term "true metal" is pure bollocks.

Don Dokken is great, and his sister may be not that bad either.

Great album, one of the best heavy metal albums coming from the 90s.

Hail the Templars of Steel!!!!

haha, we may disagree about Hagar area VH, but, we seem to agree about Dokken.
One of the only so called "pop" metal bands that I like.
George Lynch is one of the best.

Haha! How can you not like a band who recorded songs like Kiss of Death, Unchain the Night, When the Lightning Strikes or Tooth and Nail?

Even if I didn't dig some Dokken, (which I do, I'm not ashamed to admit), I'd still listen to it for the fretmanship of Lynch.
A perfect example of blistering technique tastefully executed.

So you're both lame as hell