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(YouTube) Cool There was leather metal, hair metal, cheese metal... and then there was all three wrapped into one big angry package: ManOWar   (youtube.com) divider line 34
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soze [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 02:40:42 PM  
Excuse me, waiter? There's a hair metal in my cheese metal.

 
Feel_the_velvet 2008-04-04 02:54:30 PM  
Cheese Metal?

And now, the musical stylings of Flaming Cheddar!

 
beerrun [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 02:57:51 PM  
images.amazon.com

 
StinkyFiddlewinks 2008-04-04 03:02:20 PM  
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

 
RagingLeonard [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 03:03:11 PM  
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.

 
naveline 2008-04-04 03:04:35 PM  
Across the rainbow bridge/to Valhalla/Odin's waiting for me.

 
Polartank13 [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 03:13:43 PM  
RagingLeonard: There's no such thing as "leather metal"

Orly? Tell that to this man.

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/Couldn't resist

 
KellyLockhart [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 03:45:51 PM  
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

 
Guy Innagorillasuit [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 03:46:57 PM  
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 [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 03:59:25 PM  

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)

or

Finntroll (new window)


 
Guy Innagorillasuit [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 04:14:39 PM  
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.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 04:22:57 PM  
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.

 
InternetLOL 2008-04-04 04:51:15 PM  
Polartank13 Orly? Tell that to this man.

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/Couldn't resist


Needs a bigger codpiece.

 
vernonFL [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 05:02:24 PM  
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.

 
phlegmato 2008-04-04 05:04:07 PM  
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...

 
nitroglycerine 2008-04-04 05:04:12 PM  
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
media.twango.com

 
Ant 2008-04-04 05:28:57 PM  
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

 
groverXIII 2008-04-04 05:39:26 PM  
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.

 
CZMisfitsFan 2008-04-04 05:40:30 PM  
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?

 
dbirchall [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 06:02:38 PM  
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.

 
amindtat 2008-04-04 06:09:40 PM  
RagingLeonard:
Korpliklaani (new window)
or
Finntroll (new window)


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

 
groverXIII 2008-04-04 06:10:29 PM  
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).

 
MN2 2008-04-04 07:03:33 PM  
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.

 
Great_Milenko 2008-04-04 07:05:01 PM  
Bathory do viking metal right.

Link

 
ekdikeo4 2008-04-04 07:22:45 PM  
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.

 
chechcal 2008-04-04 07:52:53 PM  
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?

squee.podomatic.com

 
nicoffeine 2008-04-04 08:35:49 PM  
Dictators/Manowar/Manitoba's Wild Kingdom = Rock and roll that ROCKS.

 
RagingLeonard [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 09:53:18 PM  
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.

 
WhyteRaven74 [TotalFark] 2008-04-04 11:14:42 PM  
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.

 
MikoSquiz 2008-04-05 02:57:41 PM  
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

 
kling_klang_bed 2008-04-07 06:32:34 AM  
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.

 
kling_klang_bed 2008-04-07 06:39:26 AM  
Oh yeah, as for Viking Metal, since people mentioned it:

www.hardrockclub.ee

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.

 
Pasty White Angst 2008-04-07 02:02:03 PM  
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.

 
wh0mprat 2008-04-10 02:28:48 PM  
Songs like Heart of Steel always had a good message, I thought.

That Iliad monstrosity was a crime against nature though.

 
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