Metal Reviews

Btw Olivier, the review is great. I'd a great time reading it, really dig your sense of humor. Your score is too high according to the review though.

My score: 20. (Yes, I've heard this once... unfortunately).

Buzz Metal

Wow... I had no idea Scott Columbus was no longer in the band, turns out he's fucking dead too? Metal Reviews must have dropped the ball on that one, I rely on you guys to keep me up to date on stuff like that!

Listening to the album on youtube now - man, this is sad. Like Bruce said, Gods of War at least had a few pretty good tracks but this is a pile of shit. I can't believe Warriors of the World was ten years ago!

What is so horrible about it? I see people shit on albums all the time and then when I listen to them , they are not as bad as they say. Louder Than Hell was one of those and I think it is one of their best.

"there were anthemic moments that made you want to get bare chest, grab your cock with your left hand and a war axe with the other"

You have some imagination !

Your sacrifice will be remembered for the ages.

um wait I mean

I think i'd listen Sign of the hammer, Hail to england or Into glory ride instead of this one, and treat Manowar as a long time disbanded band, whose last album was Louder than hell.

Do you mean Manowar still exists?
Nah, it's a hoax!

Louder than Hell is one of the worst metal albums of all time, on part if not worse than Illud Divinum Insanus and St.Anger. The band that recorded Into glory ride and Hail to England were a group of unknown session musicians, to this date no information has surfaced on the lineup some suppose it was the fellas in Omen who disappeared suddenly only to have a gang of primadonna's obsessed with homoerotic pictures of themselves to take credit for the music of the two aforementioned albums. The Manowar cirque 2012 is an illusion, much like God, the holocaust, and DevotedWalnut's Masculinity.

Been nice knowing you, buddy.

^Was a reference to Greg Giraldo not anti-semitism involved here.

The only racist here is the frenchman

Am I?
You just claimed that holocaust was a myth and I'm the racist...

What part of that was a reference to a joke made by Greg Giraldo do you not understand?

After the first few albums, Manowar started to build an image to create and consolidate a fan base which would make them live for the rest of their lives. It has nothing to do with art or anything, just cashing in and milking an already conquered fan base, over and over. And as long as they were able to pull out a few enjoyable songs once in a while, why not? To each their own.

But today, it seems after two hugely flawed albums they can't even produce that anymore. Honestly I don't think they actually like their image and the music they make. Doing anything else would be a huge financial risk though (besides, are they even able to?), so they keep on producing shit record after shit record. And how could it be otherwise? Same old formula but without the heart = nothing possibly good.

I watched 40 minutes of a recent live show of them on YT, while preparing this review (just to have a feel of their nowadays individual shape). Adams can't sing, Logan can't properly deliver a clean solo, DeMaio looks immensely bored (or tired).

(After that, I watched Iron Maiden's "En Vivo!". Ha! Night and day.....)

What part of what I ever said on the forums made me a racist in your eyes?

I was just kidding you frog.

Yeah.... I think I will just avoid this album. Truth be told, even listening to their older material isn't much to look foward to any more. Whatever I used to get out of it (that macho nostalgia deal) just isnt there anymore.

This band hasn't mattered since '92. And even then it was questionable.

Louder Than Hell one of the worst metal albums of all time? Hmmmm.....there are worse for sure. And that album is actually one of my faves from Manowar!

As for this new one, I like that they ditched the concept/symphonic route ala Rhapsody and went for shorter, more straight forward songs. However, they are so generic that the album really leaves you with no desire to want to go back for more. It's great to see their original drummer back on the skins. But my biggest complaint about this album, as with most other people is Joey's bass sound. That was a real trademark that defined Manowar's sound. Now after all these years of not really changing much, they do this? Bad move! And Eric "Golden Voice" Adams is more like "Rusted Voice". It's too bad that Manowar really thinks this is good. Funny mention in the review with regards to the lyrics. We've heard many of those words used over and over again. If we were to have a contest which word would you think was used the most so far....Steel? Sword? Death? LOL!