Battle hymns

chronology
Battle hymns
Studio album by
Publication ; (s)	1982
Label (s)	Liberty Records ( EMI )
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	True metal
Title (number)	8th
running time	35:48
occupation	Singing : Eric Adams ; Guitar : Ross the Boss ; Bass : Joey DeMaio ; Drums : Donnie Hamzik;
production	Bob Currie
Studio (s)	Criteria Recording Studio, Miami, Florida (USA)

Battle Hymns (English for. " Battle Hymns ") is the debut album of American True Metal band Manowar .

Emergence

After a demo recording with the songs Shell Shock and Battle Hymn Manowar managed to sign a record deal with a sub-label of EMI .

The band was able to win Oscar winner Orson Welles to speak parts of the song Dark Avenger . Welles also took part in the Manowar single Defender , which was reissued on the later album Fighting the World .

Track list

Death Tone ( Ross the Boss , Joey DeMaio ) - 4:50
Metal Daze (DeMaio) - 4:20
Fast Taker (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) - 3:56
Shell Shock (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) - 4:09
Manowar (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) - 3:38
Dark Avenger (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) - 6:24
William's Tale (DeMaio, Gioachino Rossini ) - 1:54
Battle Hymn (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) - 6:56

reception

Even if the debut album enjoys a high cult status among the band's fans , Battle Hymns is the most untypical Manowar album to date. Compared to later albums, songs like Death Tone , Fast Taker or the band anthem Manowar are melodically strongly influenced by rock . In addition, some of the texts deal with current, secular topics such as unemployment, rebellion against the parents or the Vietnam War . On the other hand, the tracks Dark Avenger and Battle Hymn already show a lot of what was to become their stylistic feature on the band's later albums: songs with a hymn character and a relatively long playing time, which lyrically deal with the fight in an archaic, mythological world.

In 2001, Battle Hymns was re-mastered and re-released as a Silver Edition , a re-recording of the debut appeared in 2010, but was titled Battle Hymns MMXI .

Reinhold Reither von Stormbringer described Battle Hymns and the three following Manowar albums as those that were "made to last". Such would have "their very own, their very special charm, which one will never again be able to reproduce so authentically, so uniquely". Songs like Metal Daze , Shell Shock and Manowar are considered classics.

Trivia

William's Tale is an adaptation of a melody from the overture to Gioachino Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell , which DeMaio plays on the electric bass .
The thrash metal band Overkill has the song Death Tone on their album cover Kill from 1999 gecovert .
The power metal band Seven Witches has the song Metal Daze on their album Second War In Heaven gecovert from the year 1999th
True metal band Majesty covered the song Battle Hymn on their 2003 album Reign in Glory .

The Frankfurt thrash metal band Tankard covered the song Fast Taker on their album Disco Destroyer .

There are still a handful of MCs with the band name The Manowar. This was then changed to Manowar. The MC should never actually come onto the market in this form.

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhold "reini" Reither: MANOWAR - Battle Hymns MMXI (CD) .
^ Clement: Manowar - Battle Hymns MMXI .

[1] Reinhold "reini" Reither: MANOWAR - Battle Hymns MMXI (CD) .

[allschools-2] Clement: Manowar - Battle Hymns MMXI .