Infected

About Infected

Overview

Infected is the eighth studio album by Swedish power metal band HammerFall, released on 20 May 2011 in Europe and 7 June 2011 in North America. It was their first album produced by James Michael and the HammerFall guitarists Oscar Dronjak and Pontus Norgren. To promote the record, the song "One More Time" was released as the first official single on 6 April 2011. On 8 April 2011, Nuclear Blast Records released a limited edition picture 7" version of the single "One More Time"; the vinyl was limited to 500 copies. The album entered the Swedish charts at number two. The album's second single, "Send Me a Sign", was released on 6 May 2011 with two tracks: "Send Me a Sign" and "Send Me a Sign (Instrumental)".The album's third single "B.Y.H" was released on 23 August 2011 and it had two tracks: "B.Y.H." and "Hol van a szó (Send Me a Sign - Hungarian Version)". Album cover disputes After considering potential legal actions and possible negative reception, the original album cover of a black biological hazard symbol on a grey background was changed to the existing bloody hand. Band mascot Hector had been featured prominently on each album cover up to this point, and many fans saw his exclusion from this album as a sign that HammerFall were possibly moving away from their traditional power metal sound. Hector does, however, appear on the "Send Me a Sign" single, and artist Samwise Didier even provides backup vocals on the main album, indicating that fans had likely not seen the last of the chivalrous mascot. Bassist Fredrik Larsson confirmed in a live chat on the official Nuclear Blast Records website that it was indeed not the end of Hector, and he would be featured on future records and merchandise. Hector returned to grace the cover of the band's next album. Track listing

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Notable quotes

“[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, scene 2. Memb. 3. Subsect. 10.
“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X.
“Molecular biologists may have ignored mitochondria because they did not immediately recognize the far-reaching implications and applications of the discovery... It took time to accumulate a database of sufficient scope and content to address the many challenging questions related to anthropology, disease, evolution, and more.”
— Immo E. Scheffler, as quoted by Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (2005) pp. 6-7.
“This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.”
— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act I, scene 2, line 125.
“Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.”
— Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, Chapter XIV. 20.
“Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.”
— And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

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