Hail to England

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Hail to England
Studio album by ManowarLogo.svg

Publication
(s)

4th February 1984

Label (s)

Format (s)

CD, LP, MC

Genre (s)

True metal

Title (number)

7th

running time

33:28

occupation

production

Jack Richardson

Studio (s)

Phase One Studios, Toronto (Canada)

chronology
Into Glory Ride
(1983) 		Hail to England Sign of the Hammer
(1984)

Hail to England (English for: " Long live England ") is the third studio album by the American true metal band Manowar .

Emergence

After recording Into Glory Ride , the band went back to the studio to record new material. From these studio sessions two albums emerged, which were released in 1984 with a relatively short interval. The recordings for Hail to England took place at Phase One Studios in Toronto and lasted 12 days. The studio cost was $ 20,000. Basically, this album is a lot harder than its predecessor Into Glory Ride .

The album title refers to the success that Manowar had in England at the time. The collaboration with the record company at the time was less successful: the follow-up album Sign of the Hammer was released under a different label six months later.

publication

In the UK, the album reached # 83 on the album charts.

The album was difficult to get on CD for years. In 1984 a very small edition of Roadrunner Records appeared in Europe in the extremely rare Slimline series. In contrast to most of the titles in this series (which were mainly pressed in Japan), this CD (together with Metallica's Kill 'em all, among others) was pressed in Germany by Pallas and is one of the first and rarest Metal CDs ever . The CD sleeve can be compared to today's single sleeves , but has a different opening mechanism in which the white back is bent in the middle and the CD can be removed from the front. In 1987 another very rare edition of Music for Nations appeared in France (for the European market) . It wasn't until 1993 that Geffen Records released a larger CD edition , before that one had to be content with bootlegs . To promote this debut, a box containing Hail to England , its previous album and a 15 minute VHS video was created and released under the name Secrets of Steel . In 2001, Hail to England was remastered and re-released as a Silver Edition (Metal Blade Records under license from Ragnar Productions).

Track list

  1. Blood of My Enemies - 4:16
  2. Each Dawn I Die - 4:21
  3. Kill with Power - 3:57
  4. Hail to England - 4:24
  5. Army of the Immortals - 4:24
  6. Black Arrows - 3:07
  7. Bridge of Death - 8:58

All titles are written by Joey DeMaio, except Each Dawn I Die and Army of the Immortals by Joey DeMaio and Ross the Boss.

Song information

Black Arrows is an instrumental on which Joey DeMaio plays a piccolo bass solo.

The band dedicated the piece Army of the Immortals to their fans. To this day it is considered an anthem for them and they refer to themselves as the "army of immortals".

After the release of Venom's album Black Metal (1982), numerous new metal bands flirted with a satanic image; but mostly this happened without actually representing this ideology and mostly without seriously dealing with Satanism , but rather as an expression of rebellion. DeMaio wrote a corresponding song with Bridge of Death , although Manowar did not adopt a satanic image. It was also played live for the first time on June 6, 1986, based on the number 666 ; otherwise, however, to the disappointment of many fans, it is almost never performed at concerts. It deals with a pact with the devil , which the protagonist entered into for a life full of wealth and success and paid for with blood and his soul. This claimed Satan now for himself and the protagonist swears allegiance and obedience. Musically, the song flirts slightly with progressive rock , in a middle section the spoken declaration of loyalty to Satan is underlaid with a “demon voice” effect. For Michael Hauptmann from Bloodchamber, "[ Bridge of Death ] still blows all the hard Black Metal combos on the wall in terms of both the lyrics and the atmosphere ."

Trivia

  • The death metal band Edge of Sanity covered the song Blood of My Enemies on their album The Spectral Sorrow , as did the power metal band Power Symphony on their album Futurepast .
  • The melodic death metal band Arch Enemy covered the song Kill with Power on their EP Dead Eyes See No Future , as did the German metal band Powergod on their album Bleed for the Gods in 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Stratmann, Holger (Ed.): Rock Hard Lexikon, Dortmund (Rock Hard GmbH), 1998, ISBN 3980517101
  3. ↑ Discography on Musicmight
  4. ^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . ItBooks, 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 244 .
  5. ↑ Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos . Extended and revised edition. Index Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936878-00-4 , pp. 31 .
  6. ^ J. Bennett: Procreation of the Wicked: The Making of Celtic Frost's Morbid Tales . In: Albert Mudrian (Ed.): Precious Metal. Decibel presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces . Da Capo Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6 , pp. 43 .
  7. ↑ a b Marty: Manowar - Hail To England. (No longer available online.) Metal1.info, archived from the original on October 30, 2012 ; Retrieved March 11, 2010 . 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.metal1.info
  8. ↑ a b Götz Kühnemund : Götz Kühnemund interviews Joey DeMaio. February 15, 1997, accessed March 11, 2010 .
  9. ^ Yves Dube: Manowar: Hail To England (1984) Manowar: Hail To England (1984). Sea of ​​Tranquility - The Web Destination for Progressive Music !, accessed on March 11, 2010 .
  10. ↑ MANOWAR - Warriors of the World (advanced Promo Tape) :: Rezension / Review at metal-district.de. (No longer available online.) March 31, 2002, archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; Retrieved March 11, 2010 . 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.metal-district.de
  11. ↑ Michael Hauptmann: Manowar - Hail To England. Bloodchamber.de, February 2, 2004, accessed March 11, 2010 .