Manowar - Sign Of The Hammer
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Not many people will admit it, or even know it; however, Manowar had a lot of vision back in their prime during the mid 80s. Albums like Hail to England showed the band in a very aggressive but epic light. Hail was a more aggressive album with songs like "Kill with power" and "Each dawn I die", but Sign of the hammer takes a more melodic route while still keeping the sound they had in their previous effort in the vein of epic songs like "Blood of my enemies". Read more ›› |
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The "epic" approach of Manowar reaches its prime here as well as Hail To England. They later changed hteir style towards a "total metal" sound that a lot of metalheads find boasting etc. This is the last album of their first period (1980-1986 approximately).
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Boring. IMO the only worthwhile songs here are #1 and #8. It definitely sounds Manowar, but it doesn't kill.
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Damn. Manowar actually did once release good albums, it feels so distant. Probably my favourite Manowar album, no real turkeys lying around on this one (Thunderpick is questionable, it's useless but still it's segue into Guyana quite nice so I give it a pass). Good variety in the songs here as well. Two very well written epics (Mountains, Guyana), catchy mid-paced songs (Thor, All Men Play on Ten) and also some awesome speed metal (The Oath, Sign of the Hammer). Eric Adams was bloody amazing during this period!
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All men rate rate this waaay less than 10.
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Posts: 3333 Written by Maasai Mara on 04.01.2019 at 22:02 All men rate this nowhere near 10, never gonna re-vote it higher again 
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Posts: 159 Written by No False Steele on 04.01.2019 at 22:44  It's more to me than just a job.
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Its not best, you can hear downfall, still metal album but 1th downfall album. 2 songs are good one super uber good, their best ''Thor the powerhead'' and I wonder if Tomas Forsberg heard song Mountains because it sounds as his band in epic era
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"Mountains" is the only stand out song on this for me, "Guyana", and "Thor" were ok, but the rest did nothing for me 
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The last of the first period and a good album to close it. For me it´s my 3rd favored album only topped by HtE and IgR. Mountains, Thor and the title track are some of the best Manowar has ever written. But the rest is still good to very good. After that only KoM could reach the greatness of their past!
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