Excellent album, every song stands on its own, even the more elusive ones like "Hatred"(where you can clearly hear the Sabbath influence) or "Gates of Valhalla"(with some excellent atmospheric bass work in the intro).

The sound can be good, but the cover is a big crappy maybe the worst artwork ever.

My favourite Manowar album. "Gloves of metal" and "Secrets of Steel" are just outstanding.

Cheesy artwork but great content (the songs). The album material shows a progression from their early style to a heavier approach. This should be the "entry level" Manowar release. Listen to this before anything else by the band.

Written by Infernal Eternal on 24.06.2015 at 20:24

Cheesy artwork ...

I'm just looking through the booklet, these costumes

Well it's metaller and heavier Manowar than on the debut. A solid album from the beginning to the end, even if it doesn't have any really killer songs IMO.

Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 07.07.2016 at 17:13

Well it's metaller and heavier Manowar than on the debut. A solid album from the beginning to the end, even if it doesn't have any really killer songs IMO.

It has an absolute killer of a song on it in the form of Revelation (Death's Angel)
This album and Hail To England are the Pinnacle of Manowar's discography.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 07.07.2016 at 17:15

Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 07.07.2016 at 17:13

Well it's metaller and heavier Manowar than on the debut. A solid album from the beginning to the end, even if it doesn't have any really killer songs IMO.

It has an absolute killer of a song on it in the form of Revelation (Death's Angel)
This album and Hail To England are the Pinnacle of Manowar's discography.

Maybe my vote is misleading since it's not based on logic. The album "deserves" better than 6, because it's good and consistent, but my feeling says it's missing real highlights. The album works good as whole, but I cannot listen to its songs 1by1.

Massive letdown from the debut. What Manowar intended to achieve with the intro to warlord is a mystery. The last album in which the lyrics of Manowar were tolerable.

This is their best 2 killer songs Revelations and Glowes blows away many other songs, those are band sbest 80's songs and also this is best album,. its pure metal if we can say so ... band will say true metal hehehhe. This is best and most metal album from this band.

Written by Bad English on 17.07.2019 at 15:33

This is their best 2 killer songs Revelations and Glowes blows away many other songs, those are band sbest 80's songs ...

Nah, Battle Hymn blows these two songs (and the rest of this album) out of the water

Written by JOPE OF STEELE on 17.07.2019 at 18:30

Written by Bad English on 17.07.2019 at 15:33

This is their best 2 killer songs Revelations and Glowes blows away many other songs, those are band sbest 80's songs ...

Nah, Battle Hymn blows these two songs (and the rest of this album) out of the water

Seconded

You can definitely hear where Atlantean Kodex got their inspiration from. They took the formula from this album and made it better in every single way.

It's a nice album even if it feels a bit unfinished. There's not many songs here I can call great but luckily there's nothing disastrous either. My favourite is Secret of Steel followed by Revelation. Hatred is possibly the weakest one and could have been traded off to the more solid Defender (which got left off the album). If that was the case I think the 7 would be given. Lands on a 6 for now.

This album is not as macho as the cringy album cover has led me to believe. There are a few good moments, alot of cheesiness, and a poor production, much like the debut really. There are a few stand out tracks being "Gates Of Valhalla", and "Revelation", but even they had their cringy moments. I would say this is one of their more enjoyable and engaging albums, although the songwriting isn't quite to the same standard as other Manowar releases.