Manowar - Reveal New Album Title And Digital Release Date
Legendary US heavy metallers Manowar have revealed via their official Facebook page that the band's upcoming album, due to be released on June 16th, will be entitled The Lord Of Steel. It will be out first exclusively on iTunes and on the band's own online store, The Kingdom Of Steel.
On the same date, Metal Hammer UK will release a special 'Steel Edition' of Metal Hammer #233, including the CD and a digital copy of the album.
In contrast to the 2007 release Gods Of War, this new album is not a concept album. The album will be mixed and mastered at the legendary Wisseloord Studios by long-time collaborators mixing engineer Ronald Prent and two-time Grammy award-winning mastering engineer Darcy Proper.
The band recently announced that "El Gringo" will be the theme song of the action western El Gringo, featuring Scott Adkins ('Expendables 2', 'The Bourne Ultimatum') and Christian Slater and produced by After Dark Films ('An American Haunting') and Joel Silver's ('Matrix', 'Lethal Weapon') Dark Castle Home Entertainment. The trailer for the film 'El Gringo' featuring a short sample of the theme song can be seen here.
Joey DeMaio explained: "We were talking about a concept album but then got inspired to go in a different direction. This is where we are right now. I've been doing research on getting the best microphones and pre-amps for the guitars. The bass sound is death defying. We've done a lot of work on drums too, giving Donnie room to stretch out. And Eric will simply sound bigger than life as always."
On the same date, Metal Hammer UK will release a special 'Steel Edition' of Metal Hammer #233, including the CD and a digital copy of the album.
In contrast to the 2007 release Gods Of War, this new album is not a concept album. The album will be mixed and mastered at the legendary Wisseloord Studios by long-time collaborators mixing engineer Ronald Prent and two-time Grammy award-winning mastering engineer Darcy Proper.
The band recently announced that "El Gringo" will be the theme song of the action western El Gringo, featuring Scott Adkins ('Expendables 2', 'The Bourne Ultimatum') and Christian Slater and produced by After Dark Films ('An American Haunting') and Joel Silver's ('Matrix', 'Lethal Weapon') Dark Castle Home Entertainment. The trailer for the film 'El Gringo' featuring a short sample of the theme song can be seen here.
Joey DeMaio explained: "We were talking about a concept album but then got inspired to go in a different direction. This is where we are right now. I've been doing research on getting the best microphones and pre-amps for the guitars. The bass sound is death defying. We've done a lot of work on drums too, giving Donnie room to stretch out. And Eric will simply sound bigger than life as always."
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 62092  |
Film probobly be better how Manowar album
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| serega25 Posts: 168  |
My God,the title is soooooo original !:D How many months they compose this really incredble album title ?  
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| BudDa Elite Posts: 887  |
The bass esp in the mix in their recent records is abit excessive and also annoying.
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| quirin Posts: 105  |
So, "Lord Of Steel" eh? Bound to be fucking original. And featuring "El gringo"... really? A soundtrack of some sort? Would I even bother checking out the sample? The one thing Manowar has taught me over this last decade is to not expect too much (at all). At least they spared us another concept album à la Gods Of War.
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| RavenKing Posts: 1941  |
So original. I never ever could have imagined, even in my wildest dreams, that they could use the word 'steel' in an album title.
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| BitterCOld The Ancient One Admin Posts: 15289  |
Lords and steel in the title... that's 2 drinks right there.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
They didn't promise this album would be the ______est album ever recorded. Clearly this news is fake.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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^ the last paragraph is full of self praise - death defying bass, wtf does that even mean? 
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
Written by [user id=17278] on 12.05.2012 at 03:25 Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Account deleted Written by Troy Killjoy on 12.05.2012 at 03:32 the bass player is either walking a tight rope and playing bass at the same time or playing Russian roulette while playing the bass; isn't it death defying enough?
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
I'm so excited and amazed by this news, I've already pre-ordered my copy! 
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Account deleted Written by Angelic Storm on 12.05.2012 at 04:14 are you serious or just sarcastic?
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Written by [user id=17278] on 12.05.2012 at 04:23 Sarcastic. I've still yet to hear a single thing from Manowar that has in any way impressed me, and I highly doubt this new album will change that...
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Written by Baz Anderson on 12.05.2012 at 05:02 I probably will listen to it, but I'll be amazed if it changes my opinion about them. lol 
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| Baz Anderson Staff Posts: 13254 |
"King Of Kings" and "Sleipnir" from the last album were fantastic songs... they still can do it... I just hope this album is a bit more comprehensive!
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| Kingface Posts: 335  |
Should be interesting. 'El Gringo' song is boring aside from the Solo though. Hopefully the album will be an improvement over the last few. We'll see.
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7585  |
Will look forward too.
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
What an exercise in boredom from the crowned lords of cheese. At least their last EP had some interesting tracks (the title track mostly) which kindof rekindled my interest in Manowar, but that song is ridiculous and this "new" album filled with rehashed ideas will probably be a waste of time. Manowar can still put on a good live show if they really want to, but ever since 1996 they have been on a constant downward spiral and I expect this album will represent a new low.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Just about the only good thing I can say about "El Gringo", is that I've heard far worse both by Manowar themselves, and by other bands. But still, "El Gringo" makes "El Dorado" by Iron Maiden seem like an absolute classic of metal by comparison!
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| RavenKing Posts: 1941 |
Written by Angelic Storm on 13.05.2012 at 22:22 It has to be really bad to achieve this because Maiden's song sucks.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675 |
Written by RavenKing on 14.05.2012 at 00:40 Well, I don't think that it sucks, but nor do I think it's a classic song of all time. But it is compared to "El Gringo". It probably is telling though, that a lesser song of Maiden can be made to look so great in comparison to a Manowar song... and Manowar have done even worse than "El Gringo", so... that tells it's own story I think.
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| @gent_-_orange Posts: 905  |
The Triumph of Steel, The Hell of Steel, Secrets of Steel, The Kingdom of Steel, Steel Warriors and finally the Lord of Steel. Is this another bullshit Manowar world record attempt?
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| enumaelis Posts: 266  |
Written by [user id=111774] on 12.05.2012 at 05:21 "We've done a lot of work on drums too, giving Donnie room to stretch out" Yeh, "du pah dudu pah" never sounded better!
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