Too Bad. They are very solid band with a great singer with two fine releases and great production. Check out Spirit Never Die or Crystal Night from the first cd. Crystal Night a haunting classic. Those two songs alone are worth checking out the band. The only downfall being that Jorn Lande isn't in the band anymore having been replaced by Mike Dimeo from Riot.
for me.
Energy they have,talent they have bag loads and metal they are.But for me(and i am fussy) they seemed to lack that final ingrediant.I admit i have only heard 7 or 8 songs(what i could find on you tube ect).But for me they seemed to be playing metal for matels sake.I personaly don't get it.If it makes you strap on the old air guitar and bang yer head then thats cool,and maybe in a rock club after 8 or 9 beers i would be there with you,but they just don't have the XFactor
Manowar for me are the D album as a band.Never before has one band been so shit.I wish they had the balls to meet up with Dee Snider in the 80's.I would love to see him kick the living shit out them.I know that sounds harsh but if ever there was a band that made metal fans look like a bunch of brain dead morons it was them.
Most of my friends are music nerds like me,and most don't get metal,but they respect it as an art form.But i find it so hard to defend metal sometimes and it's mainly because of bands like manowar.
They are a bunch of sexist,homophobic wankers who are not worthy of my bad grammer.
That was an enjoyable read for me, i used Manowar as an example in that last post purely because i had a feeling you loved them as much as me.... lol.... 
