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Manowar - Kings of Metal (live)

Kings of Metal is the sixth album by heavy metal band Manowar. It was released in 1988 by Atlantic Records. The album was the last to feature guitarist and founding member Ross "The Boss" Friedman, who later went on to rejoin punk band The Dictators.

Drummer Scott Columbus left the band after this album as well, but rejoined for 1996's Louder Than Hell and remained with the band until 2008.

Review by Vincent Jeffries

On their anthemic mission statement "Kings of Metal" Manowar once again proclaim their metal superiority thusly: "Other bands play, Manowar kills." The twin sentiments of the group's metal mastery and the majesty of medieval heroism in battle are repeated on their sixth full-length release, Kings of Metal.

There aren't too many surprises on the disc, with the possible exception of bassist Joey DeMaio's blinding 64th-note bass playing on a reworking of Russian classicist Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" entitled "Sting of the Bumblebee."

Considered by some fans to be a classic of its own, the 1988 release has quite a few ballads, though speedier tracks like "Wheels of Fire" demonstrate the groups talents best.

Besides their refreshingly totalistic loyalty to form, Manowar's most admirable trait is their prodigious metal musicianship.

The lyrics:

Manowar Manowar living on the road

When we're in town speakers explode

We don't attract wimps 'cause we're too loud

Just true metal people that's Manowar's crowd

They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill

Other bands play Manowar kill

We like it hard, we like it fast

We got the biggest amps, man they blast

True metal people wanna rock not pose

Wearin' jeans and leather, not cracker jack clothes

They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill

Other bands play Manowar kill

We're the kings of metal comin' to town

When we light up, have the roof nailed down

Don't try to tell us that we're too loud

'Cause there ain't no way that we'll ever turn down

They wanna keep us down

But they can't last

When we get up we're gonna kick your ass

Gonna keep on burnin'

We always will

Other bands play Manowar kill

Other bands play Manowar kill