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.

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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