That's a nice story there man. You're lucky to have a father like that. Mine wouldn't even come close to shops where they sell metal CDs.

And it's nice to see a new member who isn't a spammer, welcome

I am the oldest Hammer Fall fan. Since I heared their first album, somehow I knew they will be my favorite band. Luckily, my friends know my passion so whenever they can the are bying me HF merch. by now, I have great collection, but I guess the most precious gift are HF concerts and chance to talk to them. I had chance to meet Oscar and Pontus after their last concert. for metal fanatic as I am , that is something you can never forget.

Well, as we buy loads from itunes, it has a recommended list, one afternoon the otherhalf was browsing and clicked on them to see what they were like. He called me through and said "Heres a band you will like" it was earlier this year when No Sacrifice, No Victory had just been released.................and here we are........they are one of the few bands that all 6 of us in the house like, even my not so metalhead eldest son. both my daughters act along to the videos

Well perhaps you're familiar with that Guild Wars video that Fire of Spirit did w/ Heeding the Call? Yeah, that one, with the female Mesmer singing the first part of the song.

My oldest and I were checking out Guild Wars videos one evening and came across that one. Chris commented that it was wrong, that wasn't a girl singing. It was the same guy all the way through. I searched out more of their music and haven't been able to get enough since.

I found them a couple of years ago.

I was playing a flash game that was similar to guitar hero, and one of the songs was HammerFalls "Take The Black". I fell in love with the song so I decided to go look up Hammerfall on Youtube. Now they're my favourite band.

I can say that I´m a Hammerfall Fan from the first hour.
When the first album was released I was totally enthusiastic!

When the first album was released I was 7 years old and I thought that any music with electric guitars wasn't music

When the first album was released I was 16 years old! I just got to know my now-husband and he introduced me to metal
And he was the one who told me abut this absolutely awsome swedish band which first album he had found in the music store.

And then you knew it: this is trve love!

When the first HF album was released I was 2 years old...

I heard of them 3 and a half years ago.
The first song I heard was Let The Hammer Fall, it was on the celebration of the 1st May 2007. Two of my cousins who introduced me to metal two years before that, were listening to HammerFall (it was 3 months after their first concert in Belgrade) and I was there. They suddenly asked me how do I like that band and I said: "well... they're nice...", not even dreaming that it will, just in few months, become my absolutely favourite band. They gave me Legacy Of Kings album. Since the first time I've heard it, I couldn't stop listening to it. I stopped listening to anything else. Than they borrowed me DVD they had, One Crimson Night. I watched it each day. And so on, I've heard all of their albums, learned all of their songs, seen all of their music videos, later seen all other DVD's, and read everything I could find about them on the internet... And all in less than 6 months. Soon after that, I made a huge book with everything that included HF, especially Joacim because he was always kinda my favourite member of the band their photos and such things... last year I went to their concert in Belgrade... and, here I am now!