C/D Manowar

If it is then they are worth being arounf

http://www.manowar.com/images/fudge.jpg

'If you walk up to an average band member or Normal Joe on the street and shout “Hail And Kill” or “Lucifer Is King, Praise Satan”, they will most likely think you a crazy.
If your target is, however, a member of Manowar or a Manowar fan, then you are likely to have a friend for life. That is the power of Manowar, and they make no bones about it.
“We're out to kick ass, out there to turn our gear on and blast, we're out there to kill. That's what Metal is. Anybody who says otherwise is not playing Heavy Metal. We will melt your face”, says bassist and founding member Joey DeMaio.
...
All are masters of their instruments and not afraid to show it...
And if that's not enough to convince you, here is another Joey quote illustrating the humble attitude Manowar
take. They are, after all, just working for a higher power, the power that guides us all. "We just live the part of Metal, you know. We are here to rock, drink and fuck. And that's it. The power is in the music."'

Certifiably CLASSIC.

Rob Halford will be delighted to hear, no doubt.

Not so different than GG Allin.

So are these guys self-consciously ironic or not?

They weren't when newly minted on Liberty, going to the trouble of getting Orson Welles -- in between TV commercials for cheap wine -- onto their record. Invented the term "false metal," used to belittle bands much more commercially successful in the US, where Manowar couldn't get arrested. Get the anniversary reissue of "Battle Hymns."
The personal history in it is hysterical. Pictures of a pile of bomb casings used as a stage prop signifying might and manliness into the studio, the modern military hardware later abandoned for breechclothes and a less Vietnam, more Viking/Visigoth look.

I used to buy the albums for the unintentionally funny one-liners on the back cover in fine print about the fulsomeness and puissance of their gear. Some of the fans they picked up quickly appreciated the comic aspect of Manowar.

Spawned and influenced lots of bands. If you're in Europe, Japan or south American country it goes over better. In American, as "headliners," I never saw them in any places but dives.

Extra points accrue for generating Dream Evil's "(I Want to Be In) The Book of Heavy Metal" -- a fine song -- and an equally ecstatic number about dieing to be hit over the head with "The Sledge(hammer) of Rock."

See, now this has always been the fundamental problem with Manowar: Total lack of common sense, imagination and humor. Why not make it a real ingot of steel from the Kingdom of Steel? You'd have to add another fifty dollars to the price for shipping weight but stamped with a Kingdom of Steel bezel, anyone nuts enough to drop $150.00 on Manowar isn't going to gripe about the extra money.

Plus, fuckin' chocolate! Now you know that's not going to work in California, Iraq, the desert states and Florida during the summertime. Who's going to eat an ingot of chocolate with Manowar embossed on it. After sitting in your room for a few months it's going to covered in dust, bits of tissue paper stuck to it, cat hair and sprouting fur.

and what's more metal than that??

Check their merch page, $150.00 doesn't go as far in the Kingdom of Steel as you'd think. They DO accept Diner's Club, though.

XPOST.

What, you're going to store your ingot of Manowar chocolate in the fridge for the rest of your life? Your wife's not going to go for that. One day soon you'll come home and it'll be gone and you won't even know when she threw it out. "Oh that hideous thing, it was all covered in fur and was contributing to the spoil of the bread."

Besides, Manowar want you to admire the chocolate, like a bayonet or some other weapon they might use. That means the refrigerator has to have a glass door to look through which makes it not a refrigerator.

- wives.

or, if you like, "Pleasure Slave":
She is waiting to kiss my hand
But she will wait for my command
My chains and collar brought her to her knees
She now is free to please

Woman, be my slave
That's your reason to live
Woman, be my slave
The greatest gift I can give
Woman, be my slave

Before her surrender she had no life
Now she's a slave, not a wife
Her only sorrow is for women who live with lies
She's taken off her disguise

Woman, be my slave
That's your reason to live
Woman, be my slave
The greatest gift I can give
Woman, be my slave

Your body belongs to me

Woman, come here
Remove your garments
Kneel before me
Please me

Woman, be my slave
That's your reason to live
Woman, be my slave
The greatest gift I can give
Woman, be my slave

Has anyone made the obligatory "fudge-packer" joke yet?

How are the 'sell out' albums?

kings of metal is the only one i own. it doesn't seem like they're taking the piss either. that 'pleasure slave' track is delivered with the utmost sincerity. a pretty entertaining listen from time to time. 'stand and fight' is actually pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiESgYr35gA

so there's that

They're so metal they refuse to acknowledge the existence of the beatboxers that could make them pure acapella

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this insane (but believable) story that came out a couple weeks ago:

http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/funniest-lawsuit-of-the-year-how-heavy-metal-musicians-deal-with-defamation.html

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

whats funny?

the lyrics

dont you get it? stripes on a tiger don't wash away, manowar is made of steel not clay

RIP Scott Columbus. Really good drummer, that dude.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=156340

aw shit! RIP

Yep, a major loss.

RIP

Into Glory Ride is classic.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

re-reading this makes me miss george smith

The first record is SO goddamn good. I get "Fast Taker" and "Shell Shock" in my head all the time. Undeniable.

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.

$100 on day of show

Worth it IMHO.

WIMPS AND POSERS

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).

some bands PLAY...

if you shop in their US store they have like 3 shitty t-shirts, but the European store has like amazing ones.

...for 40 Euros each plus shipping.

yeah which....nope.

I knew that Neanderthal bumped this thread, haha!

KILL WITH POWER

DIE! DIE!

And now I'm listening to "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts". I am currently up to whatever part the drum solo is.