Royal Hunt - Paper Blood (2005)

This Royal Hunt album was recorded after the exit of Jacob Kjaer and Steen Mogensen, who had been replaced by Marcus Jidell (guitar) and Allan Sørensen (drums), but the band's sound is pretty much the same.
Of the ten tracks, three are instrumentals, and heavy metal instrumentals rarely do much for me, as is the case here (especially with the concluding "Twice Around The World", which seems to go around the world fifty times), so that leaves the songs, and they're quite good, if nothing terribly new.  Highlights include "Not My Kind", "Never Give Up" and "Paper Blood", while "Seven Days" seems to be some grumby, rumpy complaint against Christianity in some way (seven days of creation and all that).
Vocalist John West left after this, to be replaced by former Yngwie Malmsteen contributer (and also  singer with Ring Of Fire) Mark Boals.

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