HAMMERFALL Members Train For A Day At Bas Rutten's Elite MMA Gym; Video Footage Available
May 3, 2010, 14 years ago
Drummer Anders Johansson and guitarist Oscar Dronjak of Swedish heavy metal band HAMMERFALL visited Bas Rutten's Elite MMA Gym on March 27th while on their North American tour in support of their 2009 release, No Sacrifice, No Victory.
Following an afternoon workout with mixed martial arts class instructor James Singler, Johansson and Dronjak had a few hours of rest before they performed a 90-minute set with three encores at the House Of Blues in Hollywood.
States Dronjak: “We were both quite nervous since we really had no idea what we were going to have to do, and obviously didn't want to get hurt doing it. The first thing we saw upon getting there was an advanced muy-thai class in the next room, where someone with a busted nose was bleeding all over the mat but still continued to do pushups…”
A three-minute video clip of their visit — shot and edited by Rick Lee — can be viewed below.
Read more about the day at Elite MMA on Oscar Dronjak’s tour blog (under “MMA Madness”), here.
