MANOWAR — Fighting the World (review)

MANOWAR — Fighting the World album cover Album · 1987 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
TerryDactyl
Where to begin, where to start? This one...well...

Okay so I have one of those nostalgic stories that relate to this album in a way that very few things I listen to resonate, and I must admit this is my favorite of all Manowar albums though in many ways it is (as so many have pointed out, said, written about) the absolute worst thing they had made to this point. Overproduced as hell. Filled with the most idiotic lyrics ever, piece of mega metal shit, just listen to Manilla Road and that's not nearly as bad (oh! Road of Manilla, we shall come to you shortly, visiting like lecherous incubi upon your falling breast!) as this stupid shit, but okay, yes they did write a letter to the MTV! And they did ask why their videos were ignored even though they were on a major label, had a quality vid, and FUCKING ORSON WELLES WAS ON THEIR GODDAMNED RECORD! (sorry if this offends anyone, but I'm thinking this is a metal forum and we are trash mouthed often!)

Seriously, Orson Welles is on this album, and really I don't think one has to be a super film buff expert on anything at all to understand and know to the depths of their souls that Welles being involved with an album makes it have WAY MUCH MORE IN COMMON with Citizen Kane than most metal albums.

But the real of it all is that when I was thirteen I found a copy of "Power Chords" which was an Atlantic/Megaforce sampler from 1987 with a bevy of awesome tracks on it, and the very end of the second side, thereby being the end of the whole mind-blowing experience, was Manowar's "Black Wind Fire and Steel" which is really still probably my favorite song of all time. My conservative Christian sister heard it as I played it in my boombox for the first time on the back driver's side floorboard whilst I huddled on the seat, my head touching the speaker, and Eric Adams going WAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHAHAAAAAA" for however many minutes while I experienced true love for the first time, saying "Is that a cop? Was there a siren" and I replied "No, it's this song," and she says "Why would anyone want to listen to that?" I said naught, but thought easily "That you don't know is your greatest tragedy" and thought about Conan. It's okay if you don't get it. I do.
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