Manowar's Reviews

Fighting The World

Early 80's Metal Warriors who set the stage for the rest!

The thing that impressed me the most of this quartet was the mass of extremely raw talent. No where else have I found or worked with a group that could flawlessly reproduce their sound from either the stage or pre-recorded material.

Now for some that may lend heavily to Milli-Vanilli scandal of the later 80's, but I am here to say that if there was money to be made from this stage show, I have no idea if the band actaully made any revenue whatso ever. The reasons for this assumption are as follows.

One, what you hear on the album is the real thing. This basically means that they used absolutely no gimmics. There were no drum machines, no double step peddles, no synthesizer enhancements - other than for sound effects(say thunder or automotive sounds).

Sure Celine Dion has a beutiful voice and can give a flawless falsetto, but nowhere that i have been in my 17 year R&R career have I heard her hold onto a primal yell that seemed to last the length of "Stairway to Heven".

Fighting the World is one of the 1st works that was released to the US. Saddly it was during a time that drug related titles were getting attention and anything that didn't follow the bubble gum recipe was deamed as the sinful wayfare. These 4 young men had and still have a raw unadulterated talent that still has several hundred soldiers marching proudly into the battlefield.

Several of the songs contained in this early work deal with the strength of ones inner soul. Oddly enough, when listened to properly actually have you finding the inner strength that you never felt that you had.

Fighting the World is not only a hymn for the weak of heart and down troden of the 80's, but can also be a song of hope for those struggling up the ladder of life for the here and now.

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