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I'm trying to build my library of good metal music. Any suggestions?

Black Wind Fire and Steel
Battle Hymns
Thor (the Powerhead)
Defender
Heart of Steel
Master of the Wind
Manowar

Also
Williams Tale is some excellent guitar work.

God, I love cable.

I can list a ton more, I have all thier albums on my now slightly dead hard disk so feel free to get in touch.

Or if need be me....who has all their stuff (thanks to keevan) on a not so dead hard drive

Other bands play...Manowar kills!

Want some great Manowar tunes? I would consider these to be their best:

Brothers of metal
Retrun of the Warlord
Battle Hymns
Crown and the Ring
Gods Made Heavy Metal
Carry On
Kings of Metal
Hail and Kill
Army of Immortals
Animal
Thor the Power Head
Blood of my Enemies
Mountains
Holy War
Blood of the Kings
Burning
Bridge of Death

of course EVERY song of theirs is pure metal gold, but off the top of my head these are the very best.

Just FYI, essential albums:

Louder Than Hell
Kings of Metal
Sign of the Hammer

and if you want to check out Joey DeMaio's aboslutely mind-boggling bass work, check out his bass solos on Sting of the Bumblebee and Williams Tale--they're bass solo version of the classical music pieces Flight of the Bumblebee (is that the name?) and the William Tell Overture. God that man has fast fingers.

Actually, the entire Sign Of The Hammer album is recommended.

Also, there's "Achilles" - Manowar's longest song yet with its 28 minutes, found on the Triumph Of Steel album. (and, for that matter, the album's best track!)

BTW - as for the "Louder Than Hell" album, I haven't listened to that - but it seems like fans either dislike it or consider it to be one of their best albums since "Hail To England".... What's your opinion?

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Actually, the entire Sign Of The Hammer album is recommended.

Also, there's "Achilles" - Manowar's longest song yet with its 28 minutes, found on the Triumph Of Steel album. (and, for that matter, the album's best track!)

BTW - as for the "Louder Than Hell" album, I haven't listened to that - but it seems like fans either dislike it or consider it to be one of their best albums since "Hail To England".... What's your opinion?

I can never decide between Louder Than Hell, Kings of Metal or Sign of the Hammer--theres not a single bad track on all three disks. Louder Than Hell is probably my favourite but Sign and Kings are complete classics. Louder Than Hell would probably get a lot more respect if it werent so recent. I for one cant understand how anyone could hate this album. Maybe because Eric Adams sounds more like Lemmy Kilmister most the time (i disagree, as he still retains soaring vocals on the ballads, and his gruff vocals give the album a distinctive hard edge).

I find "Achiles, The Agony and Ecstancy (in 8 parts)", the 28 minute epic on Triumph of Steel to be dissapointingly boring and mundane. There are definitly some astounding moments of pure heavy metal genius here and there, particularly in the beginning and ending sections, but for about 10 minutes there is nothing but repetetive drum solos. The track could have been cut in half and come out sounding exactly the same and even more intense. It seems to me that much of the track is typical Manowar indulgence, just to say that they made a song that lasts a half hour.

Louder Than Hell is the heaviest, loudest and tightest Manowar album out there. Every song screams with unbridled heavy metal power--it is loud, hard and the songwriting is top notch. The style here stands as the most unique and heaviest of all the Manowar albums--imagine combining Motorhead and Metallica with the typical Manowar sound and adding a touch of Judas Priest and thats what Louder Than Hell basically sounds like. Theres songs on the album that are thrash metal (something i dont think Manowar have ever completely attempted before) but written with the epic scope of Manowar's style, songs that are piano-tinged ballads that still sound like powerful call-to-arms in typical Manowar fashion, instrumental tracks that are dark and epic and do successfully what they attempted to do with Achilles on Triumph of Steel, and songs that are pure unrelenting classic heavy metal.

zombie84 wrote:I find "Achiles, The Agony and Ecstancy (in 8 parts)", the 28 minute epic on Triumph of Steel to be dissapointingly boring and mundane. There are definitly some astounding moments of pure heavy metal genius here and there, particularly in the beginning and ending sections, but for about 10 minutes there is nothing but repetetive drum solos. The track could have been cut in half and come out sounding exactly the same and even more intense

I agree that there were too many drum solos, but those don't make it a bad track.