It appears that an urban based organisation that I consider is nothing more than an astroturf entity for the political right may be behind the new website. Who is behind the protest and what will happen to the personal information harvested by the website? It will harvest information about those people who are for some reason really upset with the Government. Groundswell has a website up and running to coordinate events and no doubt to harvest the details of individuals including those who truly believe that this Government wants to impose world Government on Aotearoa New Zealand and that there are microchips in the Covid vaccine. Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered. In short, this is an album which plays like Manowar were commissioned by the US military to create propaganda music for the War On Terror - except they're apparently doing this voluntarily.Well this is unfortunate. (Subtle hint, America: more or less nobody outside of your borders associates the Confederacy and its regalia and songs with anything other than slavery, so showcasing Dixie as a segment of a song which, so far as I can tell, is meant to sum up the spirit of America feels kind of incongrous.) Songs like Fight for Freedom could be mistaken for parody songs from Team America: World Police, and the use of "Dixie" is particularly tactless. ‘House Of Death,’ ‘Hand Of Doom,’ ‘Warriors Of The World Unite’ and even the ballad ‘Swords Of The Wind’ are all just too good to allow me to say that.Ħ years after showcasing an intriguing new sound on Louder Than Hell, Manowar retreated to a disappointingly conventional and lukewarm musical approach on Warriors of the World, an album notable mainly for the fact that the cheesy fantasy swordplay normally associated with Manowar lyrics is substituted with unsubtle cheerleading for the War On Terror - a simplistic position which might have made sense in 2002, even if it is expressed kind of tastelessly, but which in the wake of the debacle of Iraq feels naive and dated. Can I call it a bad album though? Well, I can’t really bring myself to. It’s the kind of thing you’ll probably only listen to when you’re in the mood or only listen to highlights from. Its very much something I would recommend to fanatics and collectors only. Should a newcomer get it as a first album? No. The songs are similar to old songs but hey, I loved those old songs and I’m glad to hear more. I have to say, I’ve personalized the running order in iTunes so it feels more balanced, and it is overlong but then again that’s extra value, if they’d been called bonus tracks people would accept it more easily. Sounds like a bit of a stinker, right? Well see, here’s the thing… I really like it. So there we go cheesy lyrics, repeating old glories, too many tracks, too many quiet tracks, weird track ordering. I don’t listen to Manowar for thought provoking, soul searching lyrics anyway, I listen to them because they make good music and sometimes it’s a lot of fun. In fairness though, that’s been going on for years now and it didn’t spoil previous albums. On top of that, the lyrics feel like a repetition of previous stuff, taken almost up to a parody level. On an intellectual level it is kind of feels annoying that the songs are repetition of previous Manowar tracks, there’s a sense of Deja Vue for sure. Of the Hard, Heavy Metal songs on the record, some are mid-paced and some are blisteringly fast. It might have served the album better if they had been bonus tracks, regardless of how good they are, it is too long and having three slow non-originals is a bit of a momentum killer. The album feels sort of overlong, and three tracks aren’t even Manowar originals.
Of those quiet songs, three are tributes to Wagner, Pavarotti and Elvis. It just feels like a very unnatural hodgepodge. Not in a gradual rise from slowest to fastest and quietest to heaviest.
However, on this record they’re all bunched up together near the start of the record.
#MANOWAR WARRIORS OF THE WORLD UNITE TAS FULL#
That’s not so terrible in and of itself, some of the band’s most popular albums like Kings Of Metal are full of ballads and slow songs. Its more or less half Heavy Hard Metal songs, and half ballads and slow tracks. This is a bit of a bizarre album the structure feels unbalanced and unnatural. Its fair to say that it isn’t exactly the fan’s favourite album, and in my own opinion, it is easy to see why. Warriors Of The World, the American Metal band Manowar’s ninth full-length studio album, is something of a strange record.
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