My personal top 4: 1. Kings of Metal 2. Battle Hymns 3. Warriors of the World 4. Triumph of Steel I'm simply not old enough (born in '91) to be a "classic" Manowar fan, but I'm proud to state that Manowar was the band which introduced me to the whole metal genre at the age of 12.
That album cemented the idea of metal as religion for me. I mean it has a lot of 'soft' stuff on it... But the overriding thing you get from it is that you just went to metal church. Like you just stood in the presence of greatness that you're almost not worthy of... Someone asks you 'what is metal'? Sure, play them Sabbath, play them extreme metal, play them Painkiller... All correct answers... But play them 'The Crown & The Ring' together with 'Kingdom Come' and they now have been exposed to the unique power & glory of true heavy metal \m/
@@vsear5911 exactly! I love that album but all the riffs sound the same jn that album, its only the vocals and solos which differentiate song from song in that album.
Virgin Steele are amazing and still go under many radars. The unfortunate but serious decline of de Feis’s voice doesn’t help much. However I truly think that up until their early 2000’s albums Virgin Steele were Manowar for the thinking metal fan.
I dont think you mentioned but what really makes the first six albums way better than the rest of thier stuff was Ross the Boss on guitar. He wrote a majority of the classic song from that era and really put down the heavy riffs, and a heavy riff is what specifically makes a song metal. After he left all their stuff (except Metal Warriors, which I've always suspected was a Ross the Boss compossion) had a focus on singing about being metal rather than actually being metal and what is music called that is centered around the vocals kids? That's right, pop!
I totaly agree that Manowar lost some quality when Ross was kicked out. Can't say agree that they go into pop after that. But I think overall all the songs about how "true" they are gets a bit tiresome. The old school brutal war/viking theme is what i mainly love about their stuff. There are still some good songs on newer albums. But yeah you can se a overall decline in quality.
My favorites: 1 - Hail to England 2 - Sign of the Hammer 3 - Kings of Metal 4 - The Triumph of Steel 5 - Battle Hymns 6 - Louder than Hell 7 - Fighting the World 8 - Into Glory Ride 9 - Warriors of the World 10 - Gods of War 11 - The Lord of Steel
Into Glory Ride is one of the best metal albums of all time, eternally filtering plebs with the band's image, the cover and THAT opening track. "Gates of Valhalla" is the uncredited prototype for Viking Metal. It came out long before Bathory ripped it off, sometimes to a comical extent like in "Valhalla". "March for Revenge" is the uncredited prototype for Epic Doom Metal, coming out multiple years before Epicus Doomicus Metalicus.
Aah, here they are... Sensible people who actually get it. Well done for having brains & ears, everyone \m/ We may be few in number but... Fuck the world, hail & kill!
The Triumph of Steel (1992) was my introduction to the band band in 2000/2001 and to this day, it is still my favourite albums of theirs. I don't find the 28 minute track boring at all and the rest of the tracks kick ass, such as Spirit Horse Of The Cherokee, Burning (love the heavy intro riff), The Demon's Whip, The Power Of Thy Sword, and the gorgeous Master Of The Wind (reminiscent of Heart Of Steel from Kings of Metal).
It was first Manowar album I bought after I got in to couple of their songs I had in mp3's. I never really understood that 28 minute epic either, so I definitely agree with RM here. That album opener kind of made me phase out of their discography almost completely.
That album is amazing. The only song I always skip is Metal Warriors, which does not fit the rest of the album. I love the 28-min opener. No issues here.
@@Canuck1000 Hey my fellow Canadian! Yeah, Metal Warriors is also the only song I am not a fan of either. The rest of the album (28 minute song included) is stellar. People think this was where their decline started. I truly don't hear it at all.
So glad first four are tops, completely AGREE! My favorite is Sign but sometimes it’s Into Glory Ride. Such an influential period, Quorthon definitely took a thing or two from Manowar for his Viking metal period of Bathory
I somewhat agree with this list..... The first time i ever heard ManOwaR was in 1987... the FtW album. I was 12 and my slightly older cousin bought it from Columbia House just because he loved the name and it turned out to be the best tape out of all the bunch. I was in love with it from the first time he played it for me and then i wore out 2 FtW cassettes myself over the next 3 years or so. The music was great but Eric Adams voice just captivated me beyond this world. At just about the same time i got a hold of KoM in '88 and from that point on they were my favorite band over Anything else. Years later after the ToS album came out i immediately bought it when i saw it at the record store (Now only knowing of 3 ManOwaR albums) I sent off to join the Army Of Immortals fan club and got a booklet (The Oracle Vol 2) And it had an order form in the back with all their older albums for sale on cassette. That Is when i discovered all their earlier stuff, I still have all four black cassettes today as well as my well-worn out KoM shirt i had bought too. Its no secret their newer albums are almost on trash level.. But they will always be 80s ManOwaR to me as when i originally discovered them............ Leaving out all KL junk... Here Is My ranking starting with #7 TRIUMPH of STEEL #6 BATTLE HYMNS #1 IGR,HTE,SOTH,FTW,KOM
The first 6 albums are all great ( despite how cheesy the whole Manowar image is ) Fighting the world will always be my favourite as it was the first album of theirs I heard . Brings back lots of good memories from the 80's
@@RuthlessMetalYT Yeah that will be an epic hair splitting contest... That's one band I've never even tried making a full ranked list of. I mean I may get near half way, but then they all start to blur quality wise ;)
1982 "Battle Hymns" - 10/12 1983 "Into Glory Ride " - 10/12 1984 "Hail to England " - 11/12 1984 "Sign of the Hammer " - 11/12 1987 "Fighting the World " - 11/12 1988 "Kings of Metal " - 12/12 1992 "The Triumph of Steel " - 10/12 1996 "Louder than Hell " - 10/12 2002 "Warriors of the World " - 10/12 2007 "Gods of War " - 8/12 2012 "The Lord of Steel " - 6/12
1982 "Battle Hymns" - 6/12 1983 "Into Glory Ride " - 16/12 1984 "Hail to England " - 16/12 1984 "Sign of the Hammer " - 12/12 1987 "Fighting the World " - 11/12 1988 "Kings of Metal " - 10/12 1992 "The Triumph of Steel " - 7/12 1996 "Louder than Hell " - ?/12 2002 "Warriors of the World " - 8/12 2007 "Gods of War " - 1/12 2012 "The Lord of Steel " - ?/12
Guyana is an underrated masterpiece. Probably the coolest bass solo played with a pick that I can think of. It's a nice break from the sword and sorcery theme as well.
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Pretty great ! I'd forgotten about this band. man, late '80s, i stroll into a local record store and ask the owner to play Hail To England after all the 'real men play on 10' stuff. A guy walks in, "George, wtf is this ???!!!" "I'm playing it for a customer". That was that.
1 Hail to England 2 Into Glory Ride 3 Sign of the Hammer 4 Battle Hymn 5 Kings of Metal 6 Triumph of Steel 7 Fighting the world 8 Warriors of the world 9 Louder than hell 10 Gods of War 11 Lord of Steel (love blacklist from that album)
I started out listening mainly to death, black, and power metal in my youth. I've shifted to 80's and traditional metal in my middle age, and your videos (especially Ranking videos) always prove a great guide to listening to the bands I ignored in my youth.
I always thought Manowar were OK in their early days, but silly. However, I enjoyed them right up to Kings of Metal, even with all the tweaks in their sound. After that, the music became more hit or miss, and the gimmick got old. Those bass solos were horrible wastes of time on albums. Anyway, I guess my favorites are: 1) Hail To England 2) Sign of the Hammer 3) Fighting The World 4) Kings of Metal 5) Battle Hymns
Yeah it can look a bit silly with todays standards, but I love this stuff, this is the essence of metal. the first four are more or less perfect. Hail and Cheers! 🤘
For bass solos, Guyana was pretty darn good, but the worst were the rambling distorted messes that Joey would play in live concerts on a piccolo bass. Even the die hard fans couldn't contain their annoyance.
MANOWAR is an interesting band. Outrageous. Proud. Loud. Kinda like THOR was, but really really good musicianship. I heard the drummer died somewhat young. That bugged me. And Ross the Boss reveals in interviews that the bassist was the boss.
Just discovered your channel a few days and it totally kicks ass brother! I often have different rankings than you but enjoy hearing your opinions of these iconic bands. This one though I was exactly the same lol. Thanks again!
Battle Hymns and Into Glory Ride swap back and forth between 1 and 2 for me depending on the month. The rest is spot on. I actually never listened two their last two albums because I was a bit disappointed with Warriors of the World and didn’t bother checking out anything after. It’s hard to say which album was the first I listened to because I bought all their CDs that had come out before Warriors of the World at the same time. I discovered them randomly on Yahoo Music back in the 90s and wanted their entire discography. So I did full immersion.
I would definitely put their 90's albums before FtW, but I agree with this list. Into Glory Ride is by far their greatest album. Their first four albums are pretty much filler free.
into glory ride - a dark epic masterpiece - well chosen sir i'd put either hail or sign next, battles hymns has two killer tunes (title track, dark avenger) but lacks significantly as a whole i feel
1. Hail to England 2. Into Glory Ride 3. Battle Hymns 4. Sign of the Hammer 5. Kings of Metal What do you think about Imperial editions and their production? I personally prefer them over the 'originals', because they sound 'firmer"
1. Into glory ride 2. Hail to England 3. Battle Hymns 4. Sign of the Hammer 5. Kings Of metal 6. Fighting the World 7.Triumph of steel 8. Louder Than Hell 9. Gods of war 10. Warriors of the World 11. Lord of steel
Say what one will about "God's of War", "Sons of Odin" is a banger. Despite being a very lackluster album, that song alone is in my top ten Manowar songs. Got to see them play that one live a few years ago. First four are still my favorites though.
It is the year 1989. Two German High School student discovered the „Kings of Metal“ album and can‘t stop listening to it. In particular the lyrics of the last song „Blood of the Kings“ is most interesting. The band is listing within the lyrics their studio albums in chronological order. But two albums were totally unknown. Unknown to us, unknown by the record shop. At times where there was no internet it took us weeks to find out, that these two albums „Hail to England“ and „Into Glory Ride“ where not available on German market because of legal issues. A few months later I found them as a bootleg on CD (both on one CD). I still keep it as a treasure. Real masterpieces!
Yeah I remember Manowar being quite popular amongst a few friends when I was a kid but I don't remember hearing much from them myself until I've heard them through the internet.
Manowar was the band that finally made me a metal head with the song Hand of Doom. I love the band and accept that they are cheesy, over the top, and sometimes ridiculous, but I love them regardless. I think your list is great. The only thing I'd change is I'd move Gods of War higher on the list because I find it enjoyable to listen to personally. I think I like both Gods of War and Warriors of the World more than Louder than Hell and The Triumph of Steel.
My personnal favourite is Kings of Metal and i like a lot The Triumph of Steel he left a good impression on me afterwards I really liked his concept 🤘🔥
Been a Manowarrior since 2005. They are very much influential and inspiring to me, both in terms of true metal might and to fight on in this life as life is like a battle and we just fight on. They had a good influence on me on my college days. Call to Arms is my first Manowar song I ever heard, however I did start with listening to Battle Hymns and went up from there. For the old ones, I consider Kings of Metal to be their best as well as Hail to England. Gods of War is still fantastic to me because of the orchestration, the Norse themes and a number of songs that I like, though it is kinda long with the narration. However, honestly, The Lord of Steel is rather disappointing and lame, even though there are a few songs that I like there. I really wonder how things will be like if they went on with their Hammer of the Gods album. Hail to Manowar and true metal! My personal rating: 1 - Kings of Metal 2 - Hail to England 3 - Gods of War 4 - Warriors of the World 5 - Into Glory Ride 6 - The Triumph of Steel 7 - Sign of the Hammer 8 - Louder Than Hell 9 - Battle Hymns 10 - Fighting the World 11 - The Lord of Steel
1. The Triumph of Steel 2. Gods of War 3. The Lord of Steel 4. Into Glory Ride 5. Hail to England 6. Sign of the Hammer 7. Fighting The World 8. Kings of Metal 9. Louder Than Hell 10. Battle Hymns 11. Warriors of The World Love all the albums, and this was pretty hard. Great video! MANOWAR KILL!
I pretty much agree with the ranking, the first albums being the best, and the newest the worst. But I also have to say that in my opinion Manowar is generally difficult to rank because almost all albums have awesome songs and weird fillers as well. Not the most consistent band ever!
Good list. I'm not super fan of Manowar but I'd very like early albums. Maybe next 'Album ranked' you will do about Manilla Road? Many young metalheads don't know this awesome band, pioneers of Epic Metal. My top is: 1. Hail to England 2. Into Glory Ride 3 Sign of the Hammer 4. Battle Hymns 5. Fighting The World 6. Louder Than Hell 7. Warriors Of The World (good album return except Nessun Dorma) 8. Kings of metal. Up the hammers and down the nails.
So, back in 1984 I'm listening to a local high school radio station and I hear this wicked song come on. I absolutely loved it, but after it was over I only heard the DJ say Manowar. I didn't catch the name of the song. Next day I go to Harmony House and head straight for the metal section. I find Manowar and end up buying Battle Hymns because I didn't know the name of the song I heard the day before. I ended up loving Battle Hymns anyway. The title song is one of my favorite Manowar songs. Later I find out that the song I heard on the radio was Each Dawn I Die, so I ran out and bought Hail To England. I loved that album from the first time I heard it. Those two albums are my favorites from them.
for me there is really no "weak" album from Manowar, yeah of course some are "weaker" than others, but overall the style and quality is in every album great for me. But I do have the absolute album "Triumph of Steel" this is masterpiece beyond masterpiece for me. Achilles Agony And Ecstasy in eigth parts is the best song ever, period. No debate! I listen to all albums regularly on my phone from time to time. What I think that most people doesn't realize is Eric and Joey are 60+ years old, it's understandable they will not rock crazy 200mph fast songs as in their 30s. So it must (I think) reflect on their latest albums, but I still honestly like those album. The only thing I agree with many people is, it would be nice to release proper full length album. Btw, Thunder in the Sky and last Final Battle pt1 are also great... just the same thing, very short... we need full album
1. Kings of Metal 2. Fighting the world 3. Hail to England 4. The triumph of steel 5. Warriors of the world 6. Into Glory ride 7. Louder than hell 8. Sign of the Hammer 9. Battle Hymns 10. Lord of the steel 11. Gods of War Hail! HAIL! hail! ✊🏻😉
The first Manowar album I bought was Fighting the World. I love that album. I also like Kings of Metal, Warriors of the World, Battle Hyms, Hail to England and Louder than Hell. Eric Adams is an awesome singer.
After Ross the Boss left the band it wasn't the same. My favourite is Hail to England!! Into Glory Ride's main problem is shitty quality of mixing. And I have all the first five albums in original LP formats
Into Glory Ride was actually a demo they decided to release as an official album. Btw, the version of Defender from that period is far superior to the Fighting the World version in my opinion. If you find the single (Defender from 1983) I Highly recommend picking it up. I have it on vinyl
11. Lord of Steel 10. Louder Than Hell 9. Fighting The World 8. Gods of War 7. Warriors of the World 6. Triumph of Steel 5. Manowar 4. Into Glory Ride 3. Sign of the Hammer 2. Hail To England 1. Kings of Metal I love all Manowar albums. Even their worst album is great, to me. Its production is a bit obnoxious but it's so epic heavy and brutal at the same time. Born in a Grave, Righteous Glory, Touch The Sky, and Kingdom of Steel are great songs! Warriors of the World with the bonus songs: I Believe and Dawn of Battle is the version to get, they make the album better. Also their EP Thunder in the Sky is one of their best! Eric Adams is the greatest Heavy Metal vocalist of all time.
My list is as follows 11. Gods of War 10. The lord of steel 9. Warriors of the World 8. Louder than hell 7. Triumph of Steel 6. Into Glory Ride 5. Hail to England 4. Sign of the hammer 3. Battle Hymns 2. Fighting the World 1. Kings of Metal
Depending on my mood I will go between Hail to England, sign of the hammer and triumph of steel as my absolute favourites. That being said you can't go wrong with any of the 80s albums and the later stuff has quite a few classic songs on each album.
My actual rank: 1.Hail To England 2.Into Glory Ride 3.Kings of Metal 4.Triumph of Steel 5.Sign of the Hammer 6.Fighting the World 7.Battle Hymns BTW I don't skip bass solos like infamous Black Arrows... I'm listen to this with smile on my face :) Best band to listening at any workouts!
Ive cut/separated the Triumph 28min track so i can listen the tracks individually and skip the drum and bass solos. Triumph is one of the best power aggressive metal albums of all times. All albums till Louder are amazing, Warriors is half good and all the others are EPs in the best option.
My favorite song from Manowar is Fighting the World. There is the hookiest vocal melodies that little kid me just fell in love with. When little kid me listened to music I would love anything with a killer riff and anything with guitar harmonies as well. I need to take a trip back to the other earlier albums and see what I can remember from this band. Always cheesy, almost homoerotic, but without a doubt full on METAL!!!!!!
1. Battle Hymns 2. Into Glory Ride 3. Sign of the Hammer 4. Hail to England 5. Kings of Metal 6. Fighting the World (The live version from '92 of the title track is probably my favorite Manowar song of all time.) 7. Louder Than Hell 8. Warriors of the World 9. The Triumph of Steel 10. Gods of War 11. The Lord of Steel
The first three albums are the best for sure. Here's my ranking.. 1 Battle Hymns 2 Into Glory Ride 3 Hail To England 4 Louder Than Hell 5 Sign Of The Hammer 6 The Triumph Of Steel 7 The Lord Of Steel 8 Warriors Of The World 9 Fighting The World 10 Kings Of Metal 11 Gods Of War
"Manowar, Manowar living on the road..." 😁. For me, their best song is The Secret Of Steel. I always get goosebumps when i listen to it. If all of their art sounded like that, they would have been even better band. BUT - why you didn't include the "Thunder In The Sky" EP?
Hot take: Am I the only one that likes the Nessun Dorma cover? I can see people why dislike it but I see it as a big flex and pretty much proves Eric Adams can sing pretty much anything.
1. Sign of the Hammer 2. Kings of Metal 3. Into Glory Ride 4. Hail to England 5. Fighting the World 6. The Triumph of Steel 7. Battle Hymns 8. Gods of War (Sleipnir is easily the best track, album otherwise contains much filler) 9. Louder Than Hell (Brothers of Metal and Power, even though it would have been sub-par on their 80's albums). They made only 1 weak track with Ross The Boss and that's Violence & Bloodshed, not counting the bass solos, well, Kings of Metal title track ain't good either, a song straight out of the Spinal Tap notebook). The Triumph of Steel has a mindless shred guitarist in Shankle, but still has fantastic tracks like Power of Thy Sword (album's only brilliant guitar solo, just before the fade out), Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, Ride the Dragon and Master of the Wind. Ross is one of the best and sorely missed in Manowar. The other 2 albums are shite. 80's Manowar is the so called gold standard of American power metal, as are Crimson Glory, Savatage and Riot.
WTF? TOS is actually a masterpiece! Beside it, JP Painkiller sounds lighter. Remember the first time I listened to "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy", that masterpiece blowed my brain! My personal top 5 1. Triumph of Steel 2. Battle Hyms 3. Hail to England 4. Kings of Metal 5. Into Glory Ride
1- Into Glory Ride 2- Hail To England 3- Battle Hymns 4- Sign Of The Hammer 5- Kings Of Metal 6- Fighting The World The rest seems like a parody of themselves IMO. First four records are epic!
For me it is 1. Hail to England 2. Into Glory Ride 3. Sign of the Hammer 4. Kings of Metal 5. Battle Hymns 6. Fighting the World All the rest I don’t really care about. First six are metal legend. HtE is in my top 3 Metal albums of all time.
Goog ranking!!! When I want tray something new I like listen to the song Mountains fro the Sign of the hammer disc, this part: "Like a man is a mountainside Greatness waits for those who try None can teach you it's all inside Just climb"
My favourite albums are of course Into Glory Ride and Hail To England, absolute masterpieces. But I really love The Lord Of Steel album, just because of the production, really raw.
I agree that the first four are their best and IGR is their very best. Sign of the Hammer was release seven or eight months after Hail To England. I know online sources list HTE as being released in July, 1984, but it had to of been released in February or March. I bought it when it was new (my first Manowar album) and I still had two or three months left in my freshman year of high school (I am CERTAIN of this). My freshman year ended in late May or very early June.
I totally agree with this ranking, I think all 4 are about equal. Sign of the Hammer had the really intense Mountains, Guyana, and Thor ( Hammerhead) , but also the awful Animals, and the funny All Men Play On Ten. Hail To England musically was great with the exception of Black Arrows , but the silly over the top Cut off my head release all my evil, impale me on the horns of death speech followed by the gospel sounding chorus of I Know the Man who waits , Satan is his name, Across the Bridge of Death there he stands in Flames, Satan don't forsake me , I wait for you to take me impressed me when I was 16 , but I have since found it embarrassing to listen to. Into Glory Ride other than the intro to Warlord, which must have been a premonition of the guitar player who would join replace the mighty Ross the Boss , but it says she's only 16 , to correctly predict the future guitar player it would have had to say he's only 6. Even Nostradaumus didn't predict the future with 100% accuracy, so it was close enough. I remember when I first bought Battle Hymns on vinyl, and the groovy rhythm of Death Tone kicked in with lyrics like you were sitting home when I got sent to Nam , I went to the Big House you just work a job, my social worker keeps me out of jail so the paper reads his name, and he likes it. I was thinking WTF is this crap , I immediately skipped to Metal Daze and was much more impressed. I got to say though Manowar - Death Tone and Cirith Ungol - Atom Smasher might be 2 of the most unique songs ever done. Accept - I'm a Rebel kind of unique as well. Those 3 tracks back to back would be total insanity
1. Sign Of The Hammer 2. Hail To England 3. Battle Hymns 4. Into Glory Ride They lost me after the first four albums, but those four I do love (except for the bass noodles).
Mi list. (From worst to Best) : 1- The Lord of Steel 2- Gods of War 3- Warriors of the World 4- Into Glory Ride 5- Battle Hymns 6- Fighting the World 7- Sign of the Hammer 8- Louder than Hell 9- Kings of Metal 10- Hail to England 11- The Triumph of Steel
