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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A joy-ride all the way through!, April 29, 2003
While rumaging through the CD's at my local Used CD store, my eyes fell upon a used copy of Kings Of Metal. I quickly picked it up. The album just blew me awy. Sure Manowar my be a little oon the cheesy side with their ourtagous costumes and unique lyrics, but their music is fun and fast. It was a nice change from listening to all the nu-metal withieir their moaning aobut how bad their life is and how society [messed] them up. Manowar is totally different. Manowar seems to be happy their metal artisits and they love to show it with their music. Belive it or not,, Manowar can be seen as an uplifting Metal group. KINGS OF METAL is so much fun. The album can make you feel aggressive and as well as make you laugh. It's a joy ride all the way through. The instrumental Sting of the Bumblebee was a real treat. Soon after my experience with Kings of Metal. I went of and bought Warriors of the World and was equally blown away. So if your sick of all the nu-metal groups complaing about their so called "bad" lives, give Manowar a try, they just may surprise you! MANOWAR, THE KINGS OF METAL!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
True Metal , January 7, 2005
This is Manowar's best album, the best introduction for a neophyte, and just a sick album. Plus it's Ross the Boss' last. Each of the recent reviewers I read, however, don't understand metal, just their ass and its peculiar needs.
"A music fan"? This anonymous, little twig of a person loves saying, "naturally growing psychoactive drugs." Besides being lame, how old are you? Grow up and do some drugs, quit tucking it between your legs, and take your pseudo-intellectual lingo elsewhere. You said nothing.
"Prehistoric Predator" has a problem with the "arrogant and cheesy lyrics." Prehistoric Predator? What are you saying? Cheesy? You suck, just like your crappy name, and have no idea what you're talking about. Again, I'd say that P.P. is another know-nothing teen who, due to a paltry knowledge of heavy metal, needs some guidance. I mean, look at the cover-you know what you're getting, dummy.
"Deathraider2000" (sounds like an evil dildo) also has a problem with this classic cd. Says "silly tracks like Warriors Prayer" ruin things. You, like the others, are not a Manowar or a metal fan, sound extremely young, and fail to grasp what the music of the band is all about. Go think about it for a while, you twerp, and show that you have an inkling of what heavy metal is all about.
"Rayotron" was completely set off by the ubermensch review that said that Manowar was better than the Beatles. Now, one gets the impression that Rayotron was never going to write a review at all, until those gods of his were mentioned. Who knew? All of the sudden 'Manowar sucks, Judas Priest is number one, you all have small penises,' etc. Dude just flipped out. He even forgot how to spell half the words he was using. They must have some killer weed down there in Mexico.
Look, this album is Manowar's best, and instills in one a feeling that any of life's difficulties may be conquered. Besides being great music with heartfelt lyrics, this album has inspired people all over the world and continues to do so.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This One's Got It All..., May 10, 2004
This is a band who's gotten a bad rap by most metal fans throughout the world, everyone just seems to write them off as the "cheesiest metal band ever." Blender magazine (corporate junk) made them one of the top 50 worst acts of all time. Gimme a break! I was hesitant to buy this at first but i wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I am more then happy with my purchase.
The opening track "wheels of fire" could really be compared to the opening track on Metallica's "Kill em All" debut. It's about riding your bike at night and not caring, the rebellious attitude that goes hand in hand with heavy metal music, just in with the Metallica line "no life till leather..." A fantastic way to open an album, the song is catchy, memorable, and will have your fist in the air in no time. The second track is really kind of egocentric, basically about how Manowar kills every other band out there, a good song, another fisterupper, but the lyrics you just gotta appreciate for their again, rebellious attitude. The third track is a pretty good ballad, but I've heard better. Good acoustic work... yes, they use ACOUSTICS! Although the vocals really weren't made for acoustic ballads. Next there's a bass guitar solo that's so fast and energetic it's amazing on "sting of the bumblebee." A fast high note bass guitar really does sound like a bee!
After this there seems to be a break in the album's attitude, which is a really cool thing, the songs "Crown and the Ring" and "Kingdom Come" are fantasy oriented power metal tracks, one which mostly sticks to keyboards and clean vocals, slows down but has a very epic stand-atop-a-cliff-with-sword-in-hand feel to it, creative and highly melodic.
Afterwards there's "Pleasure Slave" which starts out by hearing women having sex and loving it, it's a pretty sleazy sounding song and displays Manowar's love (or disrespect depending on which way you look at it) for sex and women, a surprise track which further enhances the variety of the record. Track 8 is somewhat mediocre but still decent, another hard hitting metal track. Track 9 is just an old man telling a boy a story, a fantasy tale of war an battle, which works as a good opener for the final amazing track "Blood of the Kings." Now this is a GREAT fantasy metal track, their use of choir type vocals during the chorus makes this one extremely catchy and melodic.
In the end i really have to say that this record emcompasses everything a passionate heavy metal band loves, whether it's fantasy, rebellious leather clad attitudes, sex, or a sensitive acoustic ballad, it all goes to show that these guys, though image wise are seen as idiots, really are imaginative, creative, sensitive and passionate human beings. This MUST be in EVERY metal fans collection, it's a classic!
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