MANOWAR — Warriors of the World (review)

MANOWAR — Warriors of the World album cover Album · 2002 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
0.5/5 ·
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6 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.

Songs like Fight for Freedom could be mistaken for parody songs from Team America: World Police, and the use of "Dixie" is particularly tactless. (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.)

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. So much for being renegades and rebels who stick it to the man, eh?
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Tupan wrote:
more than 2 years ago
“...more or less nobody outside of your borders associates the Confederacy and its regalia and songs with anything other than slavery... ”

True.

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