I'm not really a metal fan, but I always thought their song "Brothers Of Metal" was one of the funniest songs I have ever heard. (And being one of the stupidest songs) The lyrics are so fucking awful. I pretty much steered clear from this genre partly because of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns6MBQXtyMk
― van smack, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
whats funny?
― kumar the bavarian, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
the lyrics
― van smack, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
dont you get it? stripes on a tiger don't wash away, manowar is made of steel not clay
― kumar the bavarian, Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP Scott Columbus. Really good drummer, that dude.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=156340
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link
aw shit! RIP
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, a major loss.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Into Glory Ride is classic.
― carlton lutefisk (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Re-reading this made my side hurt a little from suppressing laughs at the old 150 buck ingot of chocolate promotion. Went out to the Manowar site, wow, almost persuaded to get the anniversary remake of the Battle Hymns. Only almost.
― Gorge, Thursday, 30 June 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
I downloaded it a while ago. It's pretty good. I used to laugh at these guys a lot, but once I heard their most recent live album, Gods of War Live, I was converted and now I have all their stuff.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 30 June 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
I d'ld it today. I agree, it is good. I immediately A/B'd it with the original. The original has a much more open sound, the vocals sound a lot younger, the rhythm section is not recorded as crushing. The original Battle Hymns was a good to great hard rock/metal record with a lot of melodic rock 'n' roll in it. It was not as groundbreaking or as unique as the originals billed it. But it also hit an old audience -- the aggrieved biker, MIA flag, Vietnam thing, which none of the band members had anything to do with first hand. C'mon, Ross was always a great guitar player who was an upper middle class dude faking the lower class stuff. Nothing wrong with that.
I still think it's the best album they did. More attached to reality than the big dive into Teutonic/Visigoth/Iron Age hokum they're mostly known for. They were all the right age for the Vietnam vet thing, much like Sylvester Stallone, who worked out his guilt trip through the First Blood movies and Rambo character. The second edition to Battle Hymns could have easily included a "soliloquy" from First Blood. No one believes in that shit now but it's embedded in the American consciousness forever. Sarah Palin's constituency over Memorial Day, when she did the old biker rally thing, was totally in line with it. So big props for Manowar doing it, a subtraction for abandoning it. You could easily play Battle Hymn or Manowar over the campaign of the Michele Bachmann or any of so many GOP extremist candidates now, no matter how square they look.
― Gorge, Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
I love Battle Hymns, the title track used to be in my "all time top 10 metal songs" list I made in high school. The viking nonsense records made me disown them completely (Metallica-style) for years (see comment above) but over the last ten years I've mellowed quite a bit.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
"Re-reading this made my side hurt a little from suppressing laughs at the old 150 buck ingot of chocolate promotion."
I'm not so sure the chocolate should just be kept as an artifact, but be eaten by the fans as sacrament to the power of Manowar Metal.
― earlnash, Thursday, 14 November 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
re-reading this makes me miss george smith
― CANONICAL artists, etc., etc. (contenderizer), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
The first record is SO goddamn good. I get "Fast Taker" and "Shell Shock" in my head all the time. Undeniable.
― Clarke B., Friday, 15 November 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
http://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/q77/s720x720/1779852_10152158329413818_667361520_n.jpg
Manowar in Atlanta. Only $75. For advance tickets. $82.80 with Ticketmaster fees.
Zoinks.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
$100 on day of show
― brimstead, Friday, 21 February 2014 02:01 (ten years ago) link
Worth it IMHO.
― Jeff, Friday, 21 February 2014 02:14 (ten years ago) link
WIMPS AND POSERS
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
first time hearing "Achilles, the Agony and the Ecstacy". normally this is the type of shit I'd balk at (26 fuckin' minutes....if you ain't a Canadian prog trio, gtfo), but....I really like this in its sheer ridiculous pretentiousness. not as much suites as ideas that kinda just give way to other ideas. sloppily stitched together but well-played and fun. we've already hit a drum solo ten minutes in.
it honestly feels like five imaginary countries' national anthems with instrumental solos thrown in. I feel like Luca Turilli probably formed Rhapsody the moment he heard this.
that either sounds awesome to you or the worst shit imaginable. but I like my metal ridiculous.
also no Ross the Boss, which is good cos he was a toolbag (still is actually - MAGA fuck).
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
some bands PLAY...
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Monday, 12 July 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
if you shop in their US store they have like 3 shitty t-shirts, but the European store has like amazing ones.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
...for 40 Euros each plus shipping.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 15 July 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
yeah which....nope.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Thursday, 15 July 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
I knew that Neanderthal bumped this thread, haha!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 15 July 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
KILL WITH POWER
DIE! DIE!
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
And now I'm listening to "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts". I am currently up to whatever part the drum solo is.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:56 (two years ago) link