Personnel

• Joacim Cans
  Joacim Cans
  Joacim Cans is the lead singer of HammerFall, a Swedish power metal band. He is the only member aside from founder and guitarist Oscar Dronjak to appear on all of the band's albums....
  
  - Lead & backing vocals
• Oscar Dronjak
  Oscar Dronjak
  Oscar Fredrick Dronjak is the rhythm and lead guitarist and founder of the Heavy Metal band HammerFall. Prior to the success of HammerFall, he also played and released albums with the death metal acts Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age....
  
  - Guitars & backing vocals
• Stefan Elmgren
  Stefan Elmgren
  Stefan Elmgren was the guitarist of the Swedish power metal band HammerFall from 1997 to 2008.- History :Before becoming a member of HammerFall, he was the guitarist in the band Highlander. Elmgren has also worked with his solo project Full Strike and released one album called "We Will Rise" which...
  
  - Guitars
• Magnus Rosén
  Magnus Rosén
  Klas Magnus Rosén is a Swedish musician, born 1963 in Gothenburg, and is best known for being the bassist of the Swedish band HammerFall during the years 1997-2007....
  
  - Bass Guitar
• Anders Johansson
  Anders Johansson
  Anders Johansson is a Swedish musician. He is the son of Jan Johansson, famous jazz pianist and brother of keyboardist Jens Johansson.-Biography:...
  
  - Drums
• Conrad "Cronos" Lant
  Conrad Lant
  Conrad Thomas Lant is a British musician who is the vocalist and bass player of the influential black/thrash metal band Venom, from 1979 to 1987 and from 1995 to present.- Early life :...
  
  - Additional vocals on "Knights of the 21st Century"

Charts

Release information

• "The Metal Age" was released as a bonus track on the Brazilian release.
• Also released as limited and numbered boxset (1,000 copies) containing the limited edition CD in a metal box, two HammerFall glasses, a HammerFall scarf and a certificate.
• The limited metal box CD is available separately (10,000 copies) and includes an enhanced part: Blood Bound (video clip) and Making of "Blood Bound" (video).
• The limited edition digipack includes an enhanced part: Blood Bound (video clip) and Picture Gallery.

Additional information

• The last track is followed by almost two minutes of silence and a short hidden track (0:15).
• The title to the album was inspired from the family motto of House Martell of Dorne from the series "A Song of Fire and Ice" by George R.R. Martin, as well as the name of the songs "Take the Black" and "Fury of the Wild". The lyric "Nothing burns like the cold" from "Never, Ever" is also taken from the first chapter of Game of Thrones, the first book in the series.