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Scene: The Citadel of Nu-Metal war room, some time around the year 2000. their earlier material is pretty tame when compared to metal today, but Manowar's sound will adapt with the times and they will certainly improve on later albums, but otherwise, 'Battle Hymns' is a bit of a naff one, to me anyway. 'Death Tone', 'Metal Daze' and 'Manowar' (born to live forevermore, and don't you forget it), are all okay, nothing fancy, but certainly a precursor to the cheese that is to follow. Still, not all's lost, as there is some stuff here which is, well. Vocalist Eric Adams sings his heart out, and certainly possesses an impressive range. well, it'll always be cheesy no matter when you hear it. by today's standard, it's tame, light, and.
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But that's not going to stop them from preaching the gospel of the metal Gods.īut the thing is, while this might have been heavy and cutting edge in 1982. It's got a bluesy, swinging feeling to it, that doesn't quite match up to the imagery of the band. Kind of like America's answer to Judas Priest, Manowar's early albums seems more akin to hard rock than metal. I would caution against anyone who tells you not to try their post ‘80s output, but maybe don’t make this particular outing your first.īreak out the loincloths and battle axes, it's time to delve into the sword and sorcery world of "real metal", as Manowar's debut album, 1982's 'Battle Hymns' shamelessly ups the ante on pure cheesiness and forces us to ask ourselves what it means to truly be a metal fan. It doesn’t really fit on the album at all, lyrically, or musically, but it makes it into any Manowar playlist I make. Lyrically Its just typical Manowar fun (‘’From a hall I heard thunder and screams/I walked inside so I could hear/And the guy beside me gave me a beer’’). Musically, it’s a stompy mid-tempo track. Tellingly the song I like the most, ‘Die For Metal’ is a semi-bonus track that sits outside the concept. Even then however, I feel they did better versions of this type of material on the albums directly before and after this one. ‘King Of Kings,’ ‘Sleipnir,’ ‘Sons Of Odin’ and ‘Loki God Of Fire’ are all exactly the style of Manowar I love the best, and some of the material outside that style, such as choral sounding ‘Army Of The Dead, Part II’ is quite entertaining.
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Of course, that’s not to say it is devoid of quality. Its all personal preference of course, but this is definitely my least favourite Manowar record stylistically. I have Mars Volta albums that get to the point faster than this! There’s also quite a high ratio of ballads to fast tracks. Two in a row, before the album really kicks off. I mean, strangest of all, the first two tracks are in effect intros. Even tracks which aren’t intros have partial intros or outros.
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Its 16 tracks long, and I would classify a full 6 of those as skippable intros. I guess it stands to reasons that Gods Of War is my least favourite album, as it is a narration filled concept album that has a lot of intros. I can also be fifty-fifty on the ballads. My favourite things about Manowar are usually the fast and hard double-kick filled metal songs or stompy mid-paced grooving songs, and my least favourite bits are the intros/outros, spoken word narrations and indulgent solos. That being said, there is one album I don’t really like – their tenth studio album, 2007’s Gods Of War. Some fans say they haven’t made any good albums since the 80s and I’ll disagree with that all day long. I keep a vinyl copy of Kings Of Metal framed on my wall, they’re my 8th most-listened to band of the past 12 years according to LastFM, and I’ll defend them to the death whenever anyone makes fun of them or calls them silly. I may have been a bit sceptical when I first heard them, but they have grown and grown in my estimation over the years. Manowar have really become one of my favourite band’s over the past 6 years.