Excuse me, waiter? There's a hair metal in my cheese metal.

Cheese Metal?

And now, the musical stylings of Flaming Cheddar!

Hey, Kings of Metal was a good song!

Manowar Manowar livin on the road!

*heavy riff*

When we're in town, speakers explode!

*another heavy riff*

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

*more riff*

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 their ASS!


/memory
//80s metalhead

Manowar is properly classified as Power metal. But they are cheesy, that's for sure. At least Manowar has stayed true to their metal roots and consistently and unashamedly carried the banner of metal for 20 years.

"Hair metal" was really just pop music that corporate America wrapped up in snakeskin boots and marketed to teenage girls.

There's no such thing as "leather metal".

/takes metal really seriously.

Across the rainbow bridge/to Valhalla/Odin's waiting for me.

RagingLeonard: There's no such thing as "leather metal"

Orly? Tell that to this man.

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/Couldn't resist

Polartank13: Orly? Tell that to this man.

Serisouly. It seemed like your couldn't through a bullwhip in the 80's without hitting a leather-clad metalhead.

/ not that there's anything wrong with that

Manowar has been a guilty pleasure of mine since I first discovered them as a nerdy D&D obsessed metal fan in middle school back in the 80's. Their output is very uneven in terms of good vs bad cheese, anything they did with the word metal (and they did tons) in it pretty much sucks.

That said, every once in a while a little faux viking metal hits the spot.

Also, I played bass and Joey DeMaio was pretty damn good.

RagingLeonard:
Korpliklaani (new window)

or

Finntroll (new window)

Those two are some of the only metal that's interested me in the last 20 or so years.

Dear Gorsh, I would have loved to have seen this "back in the day" I wish I hand't been such a music snob. Like most things that testeronified, I can appreciate it now for it's unintentional comic value. Anyone that is willing to pose in a leather Speedo with a warhammer and be completely unironic about it is a-ok in my book.

Of course "back in the day" with my rapier thin fore-arms and Kajagoo-goo hair I imagine they would have chained me to the back of their bikes and made me their biatch - but it probably would have been worth it.

Polartank13 Orly? Tell that to this man.

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/Couldn't resist

Needs a bigger codpiece.

Manowar is from upstate New York, which is also where my family is from. They were kind of like hometown heroes. Which if you know anything about upstate New York in the 80s you won't be surprised.

Odd. For no reason whatsoever, I had "Kings of Metal" pop into my head as I was driving to work this morning, and thinking that it would be a great addition to Rock Band's play list.

Then later, on Fark, is posted a Manowar video, with the lyrics to "Kings of Metal" as the fourth comment.

Ah, synchronicity. Time to start concentrating on finding quarters on the sidewalk...

Manowar was OK, but Guitarist Ross "The Boss's" other band The Dictators was (and is) Sooooo much better. Godlike in fact. They still kick ass after almost 35 years. Hears a pic of him I took at the 'Tators gig a few years ago at the 31st street pub in Pittsburgh

I watched with the sound off, but I gotta say that is the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life*.


_{/*not that there's anything wrong with that}

RagingLeonard: If you guys like Viking metal, check out Tyr (new window)or the more "commercial" Amon Amarth .

But the really fun stuff is the pagan folk metal with viking leanings (Troll metal):
Korpliklaani (new window)orFinntroll (new window)

Win, win, win, and win.

/Additionally, Ensiferum, Turisas, Svartsot, and TrollfesT are all great.

I won't talk trash about ManoWar. Sure they look cheesy, but then so do Black Metal bands. It's the music that counts and they put out some fine slabs of Metal.

For those who mentioned Viking Metal, go check out Moonsorrow. Their last album consisted of two half hour long songs and they have an EP coming out containing a 27 min long song and a Viking Metal version of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

/Hail and Kill!
//Where's my loincloth and baby oil?

soze: Excuse me, waiter? There's a hair metal in my cheese metal.

Obligatory: No, you got your cheese metal in my hair metal!

I live around the corner from a custom cycle shop, so I'm getting a kick out of this.

/Custom = far cooler than the bikes those guys are riding.

RagingLeonard:
Korpliklaani (new window)
or
Finntroll (new window)

So THAT'S what Renaissance Faire carnies do in the off season?

CZMisfitsFan:
For those who mentioned Viking Metal, go check out Moonsorrow. Their last album consisted of two half hour long songs and they have an EP coming out containing a 27 min long song and a Viking Metal version of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

/Hail and Kill!
//Where's my loincloth and baby oil?

Moonsorrow's not bad, but they never grabbed me like some of the other bands mentioned. Not really sure why...

Also, Eluveitie (new window, not a RickRoll).

Subby, all of those names describe the same thing, you could also use Butt Rock or Weak-Ass Psuedo-Metal.

Motley Crue, GnR, Def Lepard, Ratt, Warrant, White Snake...pretty much any band that thought long hair and make-up made them metal.

Bathory do viking metal right.

Link

Guy Innagorillasuit: Also, I played bass and Joey DeMaio was pretty damn good.

Still is, as far as I know.

Man-o-War really has some seriously kick ass stuff, although their last couple albums haven't done anything at all for me.

RagingLeonard: If you guys like Viking metal, check out Tyr (new window)or the more "commercial" Amon Amarth .

But the really fun stuff is the pagan folk metal with viking leanings (Troll metal):
Korpliklaani (new window)orFinntroll (new window)

Is that anything like a DethTroll?

Dictators/Manowar/Manitoba's Wild Kingdom = Rock and roll that ROCKS.

Guy Innagorillasuit: RagingLeonard:
Korpliklaani (new window)

or

Finntroll (new window)

Those two are some of the only metal that's interested me in the last 20 or so years.

You have mail.

MN2: pretty much any band that thought long hair and make-up made them metal.

psst Whitesnake and Def Leppard never claimed to be any sort of metal. As for big hair and makeup? Glam rock was there first.

I still haven't figured out whether Manowar are a Spinal Tap-style spoof or not. Either way, they farking suck.

/the Tap are better
//but so were Stryper
///and getting cancer

And don't forget Guiness has named them the loudest band on Earth several times over. I laughed when Oasis challenged them on that.

I remember a side piece they did on "The Day The Earth Shook", and it was very very close to the volume you'd get out of 12 air craft carriers, and near to the ultimate recorded volume, the A-bomb. I saw them live years back, and trust me, back the fark AWAY FROM THE AMPS!!!!

Love em or hate em, they've never yielded one inch or bent down to trends.

Oh yeah, as for Viking Metal, since people mentioned it:



Moonsorrow is something you owe yourself to sit through and listen to. No one else does it quite like these guys. It's none of the odd party vibe of most folk metal or Viking metal, but it totally harnessed and done right. The songs are incredibly long, but trust me you won't ever notice the time go by listening to it.

Is anyone else going to Paganfest? I'm going, despite the fact that the date I will be attending coincides with the NE Metalfest. I will have to endure a wall of insufferable crap, but it will be worth it to see Ensiferum, Turisas, Eluveitie and Tyr.

Songs like Heart of Steel always had a good message, I thought.

That Iliad monstrosity was a crime against nature though.