Fighting the World

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Fighting the World
Studio album by ManowarLogo.svg

Publication
(s)

May 14, 1987

Label (s) ATCO Records ( Atlantic Records )

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

True metal

Title (number)

9

running time

34:54

occupation

production

Manowar

Studio (s)

Universal Rercording, Chicago (USA)

chronology
Sign of the Hammer
(1984) 		Fighting the World Kings of Metal
(1988)

Fighting the World is the fifth studio album by the US true metal band Manowar and was released on May 14, 1987.

Emergence

Shortly after the release of Sign of the Hammer , Manowar lost their recording deal with 10 Records. The search for a record company turned out to be difficult, only after a year and a half did the band find what they were looking for on the major label Atlantic Records . The connection to a major label benefited the production: Fighting the World is much better produced than the previous albums. It was the first metal album to be recorded entirely digitally, which, according to Marc Halupczok of the German Metal Hammer, "had a natural effect on the sound," and according to Manowar singer Eric Adams it represents the birth of a new metal sound. Worldwide distribution finally made the breakthrough possible for the band.

All titles are written by Joey DeMaio. The illustrations on the cover were created by Ken Kelly , who has been responsible for the illustrations since this album.

In 2008 guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman , a member of the Fighting-the-World line-up , accused that the drums on the album had been recorded with a drum computer , which is why the nominal drummer Scott Columbus never stayed in the studio during the recording have.

Track list

  1. Fighting the World - 3:46
  2. Blow Your Speakers - 3:36
  3. Carry On - 4:08
  4. Violence and Bloodshed - 3:59
  5. Defender - 6:01
  6. Drums of Doom - 1:18 (Instrumental)
  7. Holy War - 4:40
  8. Master of Revenge - 1:31
  9. Black Wind, Fire and Steel - 5:17

All titles are written by Joey DeMaio .

Song information

  • Blow Your Speakers was voted one of the 40 Most Awesomely Bad Metal Songs by VH1 television , possibly for its anti-commercial radio and music television lyrics.
  • Defender is a re-recording of the song from the A-side of the single of the same name. The spoken passages are from Orson Welles , who died two years before Fighting the World was released .
  • For Drums of Doom , additional percussion instruments played by Vince Gutman were recorded.

Trivia

  • The German band Mystic Prophecy covered the song Fighting the World as a bonus track on the album Regressus in 2003 .
  • The German Fun-metal band JBO has 1,995 on the album Explicit lyrics the song Carry On parody. At JBO the song is called JBO and is about how the band formed (in relation to the song Manowar , which is also about the beginning of the band).
  • The German medieval fun band Feuerschwanz also parodied the song Carry On . The song is called Feuerschwanz and is featured as a hidden title on the album Prima Nocte .
  • The album received a gold record in 1994 for 250,000 copies sold. With this, Manowar received their first gold record.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marc Halupczok : Changing winds . In: Metal Hammer . Special issue No. 1/2012: History of Metal , p. 26f.
  2. ↑ a b BIOGRAPHY ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.manowar.com
  3. ↑ Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: 5,000 bullies . In: Rock Hard , No. 257, October 2008, p. 118.
  4. ↑ COLUMNS .