Hammerfall singer doesn’t like being called ‘power metal’: “I think heavy metal is enough”

Joacim Cans onstage with Hammerfall in 2022.

Hammerfall singer Joacim Cans has distanced the band from the ‘power metal’ tag in a new interview.

Cans, 54, says in an exclusive conversation with Metal Hammer that ‘power metal’ is simply “the American way of naming traditional heavy metal, especially if it’s not made in the 80s”.