Manowar ruined a masterpiece

[carnut]

I concider "Battle Hyms" as a metal masterpiece, Manowar decided to re-record it and the result is ....DREADFUL !! uke:

 

[Hell Patrol]

Wow... I thought Sign of the Hammer sucked.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

I would advise emailing Manowar at there official website http://www.manowar.com/ and tell them what you think.

 

[poundingmetal74]

On the plus side, this has Christopher Lee.

 

[wdiv]

Eh... I've heard worse. Not sure what they were hoping to accomplish here though.

 

[kuier]

also not the worst I've heard. It's still a good song. But from 3:50 onwards it becomes exceptionally gay.

 

[SickBoy]

Yeah, this sounds as "Battle Hymns" should have sounded...
But who cares for a nice package when the contents suck. The performance is so lame and uninteresting, there's not even a spark of the burning flame that was '82 performance...

 

[ElectricWiz]

People give Manowar a hard time...and they deserve it. The first several records were really good, unique sounding, and just plain cool. Everything after Fighting the World, and that one is borderline, is more or less the same, plodding, nonsensical crap. There are a couple of good songs, maybe...but mostly it seems as if they completely forgot how to write songs, and how to sound inspired. Factor into that their tireless self-promotion (in a bad way), and you get the cheese everyone accuses them of. When you mean it, even the silliest sentiment is at least a little worthwhile. But when you care more about attitude and posturing than music, it shows.

 

[Marco Spain]

On the plus side, this has Christopher Lee.

But not Orson Wells...

"Battle hymn" sounds awful. No epic, no magic, no power,... nothing! uke: