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The album was ranked at No. 44 on Metal Hammer ' s top 50 thrash metal albums of all-time list. [1] In 2010, HM Magazine listed Deliverance No. 31 on its Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All Time list stating that "'If You Will' into 'The Call' is almost as good as metal gets (-Doug Van Pelt)" and that "this record would forever change and ...
On the annual Metal Injection readers' poll of the year's best in music in 2021 (50,000 voters), Fortitude was named "Album of the Year". [87] It was voted number one in the annual readers' poll of Metal Hammer, "The 50 best metal albums of 2021", [88] and was ranked number twelve on Guitar World ' s "The 20 best guitar albums of 2021" list. [28]
The album also charted at number 90 on the UK Albums Chart. By 2015, the album had sold 250,000 copies worldwide. [5] In 2022, Metal Hammer ranked the album as the 20th greatest nu metal album of all time. [6]
In 2019, Metal Hammer ranked it as the fourth-best power metal album, [10] but later also included its cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever". [11] A remixed and remastered 'Imperial Edition' of the album was released in 2019, with the band stating that the revised version would add 'the depth, the ...
City received highly positive reviews.Kerrang! praised the album for its heaviness, claiming it sounded like "sticking your head into the jet nozzle of a Stealth Bomber", [12] while Metal Hammer ranked it No. 13 on its "Top 20 Albums of 1997" list [13] and also included it in another list released in 2020 and containing what they considered to be the top 10 albums of that year. [14]
The album also flourished commercially, ranked first in the German charts, and also ranked in several other countries. On 14 September 2018, the album won a German Metal Hammer "Best album of the year" award.
According to Sammet, the album's plot is partly based on real witch trials in Fulda (his hometown) and Mainz held in the 16th and 17th centuries. [3] In 2019, Metal Hammer ranked it as the 25th best power metal album of all time. [4] In 2021, they ranked it as the 18th best symphonic metal album. [5]
Like the previous albums, it centers on the story of Algalord and The Emerald Sword Saga. It was produced and engineered by Sascha Paeth and Miro. It is also the first album to feature drummer Alex Holzwarth. In 2019, Metal Hammer ranked it as the second best power metal album of all time. [4]