So we all agree that Joey DeMaio and the boys men of Manowar are more METAL then we could ever dream to be.
They could kick all our asses, then drive over us with their motorcycles, then play Black Wind Fire and Steel to a crowd of 40,000 screaming Brazilian METAL fans, then sleep with some really hot women and it wouldn’t even be in their top 10,000 “most METAL” days ever.

But when you are feeling down, and the thoughts that you have lost your way in the life long quest of being true METAL, remember this…

These grown men put on these ‘outfits’ and stood around in a studio waiting to get their picture taken by someone who didn’t dare laugh or even crack a smile as they got oiled by the assistants and tried to figure out if they looked tougher with a stuff animal puppet on their right hand or left hand.

Manowar, I take my cod piece off to you and salute.
HAIL TRUE METAL

Big thanks to Paul at Museum Of Pop Archaeology for proudly posting this album cover on his shameless self promoting Facebook Group.

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.

If you are feeling a bit down, I know what will pick you up

4 minutes and 15 seconds of MANOWAR

They said hold your head up high
Raise your fist up in the air
Play Metal louder than Hell
Louder than Hell

They can't stop us
Let 'em try
For Heavy Metal
We will die!

"loudest metal band"

Go ahead and google "loudest metal band"
You will notice the first page that comes up is Manowar’s Wikipedia page

Only a few paragraph’s for "loudest metal band"? WTF? I do like the timeline (below)
I sometimes forget that Ross the Boss and Kenny Earl Edwards never played together. A visual reference helps.

I’ll be listening to Black Wind Fire and Steel if anyone needs me.

Full moon light is calling me
My kigndom lies within
The mystic soul and lions heart
Brought by the talisman
The ecstasy of battle takes me
Where the falcons fly
Immortal youth was granted me
I will never die

Born of black wind fire and steel
Born of black wind fire and steel
Born to teach them all to heel
Born of black wind fire and steel

Pounded by the hammers
Of the giants of the world
I can see in darkness
Im the overlord
Single combat I await
My shadow brings them fear
The spikes upon my chariot
Will grind them when theyre near

Born of black wind fire and steel
Born of black wind fire and steel
Born to teach them all to heel
Born of black wind fire and steel

I am an outcast on the path of no return
Punisher and swordsman
I was born to burn
Black wind always follows
Where my black horse rides
Fires in my soul
Steel is on my side

Born of black wind fire and steel
Born of black wind fire and steel
Born to teach them all to heel
Born of black wind fire and steel