Manowar's Reviews
The Triumph Of Steel (Average Rating: 8.76 out of 10)
To be or not to be.... (Rated this album with 6 out of 10)
Reviewed by
A music fan
from Australia
I'm not entirely sure I dig this album... one or two tracks were good, particularly 'Master of the wind'.
Metal warriors and Cherokee are good too, but having 2 new members in the band will ultimately change their sound, and some will probably argue its not REAL Manowar as it is now 1/2 a new group.
The driving bass and screeching vocals are still intact, but the drums and Guitaring have certainly changed.
Only a 1/4 of the guitar solos are actually solos! ....the rest are weird noises churned out by an uncreative (in a sense) axeman... no pun intended. It is also very hard to distinguish if they have either recruited the world's most accurate and precise drummer or just used a drum machine for the studio.Other than that, its a much Darker album.... it dives a little too deep into the black pool than I care for.
Manowar were always about gloom and doom, but the earlier albums had a more uplifting feel to it... (its hard to explain) it was just the chemistry between all 4 original members that gave them the 'feel' that is noticeably absent in this album, perhaps Manowar belong to the 80's more so than the 90's.
Buy this album on Amazon at $9.98
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