Sign of the hammer

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Sign of the hammer
Studio album by ManowarLogo.svg

Publication
(s)

September 22, 1984

Label (s) 10 Records ( Virgin Records ; today EMI )

Format (s)

CD , vinyl , MC

Genre (s)

True metal

Title (number)

8th

running time

40:35

occupation

production

Jack Richardson, Tony Platt

chronology
Hail to England
(1984) 		Sign of the hammer Fighting the World
(1987)

Sign of the Hammer ( English for " sign of the hammer ") is the fourth studio album of American True Metal band Manowar .

Emergence

Already six months after the release of the previous work Hail to England Manowar had recorded a new album. In the meantime, however, they had lost their record deal with Music for Nations and had to publish the successor on 10 records. Virgin took over the distribution. A European tour followed the album's release. The record deal lasted until 1986.

Like its predecessor, the album was produced by Jack Richardson.

Track list

  1. All Men Play on Ten - 3:54
  2. Animals - 3:35
  3. Thor (The Powerhead) - 5:22
  4. Mountains - 7:40
  5. Sign of the Hammer - 4:16
  6. The Oath - 4:50
  7. Thunderpick - 3:33
  8. Guyana (Cult of the Damned) - 7:06

All titles are written by Joey DeMaio, except The Oath by Joey DeMaio & Ross The Boss.

Song information

  • The opening song All Men Play on Ten can be seen ambiguously: On the one hand this album was released on "10 Records" and on the other hand 10 is the highest level of the Marshall amplifier used by Manowar . The song was also released as a single , but could not record any significant success. B-side was the album track Mountains .
  • Thor (The Powerhead) is about the Norse god Thor . Norse mythology is a topic that Manowar take up quite often and to which they have dedicated a concept album with Gods of War .
  • Thunderpick is a bass instrument from DeMaio.
  • Guyana (Cult of the Damned) is a song about the mass suicide of Jim Jones ' sect Peoples Temple in 1978 in Jonestown , northwest Guyana .

Trivia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.manowar.at/mwg//site/backgrounds/guyana.php#ch1