The self-appointed “Kings of Metal” - ManOwar – topped their own Guiness World Record for “Longest Heavy Metal Concert” (hey, you – stop that smirking!) by playing for five hours and one minute on July 5, in Kavarna, the “rock capital” of Bulgaria. Specially invited Guiness representatives attended the spectacle along with 20,000 true “ManOwarriors”. The band ripped through a set that spanned their entire career (how could they not? They had to play for five fuckin’ hours!) and included a classical string orchestra and a choir of the Sofia Philharmonics at the peak of the concert. Near the end of the performace, Kavarna mayor Tsonko Tsonev, known as “the Metal Mayor”, congratulated the group and thanked them for performing in his town. Of course, ManOwar vowed to return to Kavarna for another round of beer-drinking, hog-riding, sword-wielding, maiden-deflowering, blood-spilling, fist-thrusting, flag-waving, loincloth-wearing, muscle-oiling, mustache-growing, string-orchestra-plagiarizing, Satan-mentioning, DVD-filming, Odin-loving, motherfucking METAL.

Oh, yeah – they also performed the hella-rockin’ BULGARIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!

In other news, ManOwar has announced that their next record will be released in conjunction with a novel, an interactive game and a feature-length film all linked by the same theme.

That theme will be WE LIKE MAKING MONEY.

Hail and Kill, y’all.