Manowar - Louder Than Hell
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"Louder Than Hell" is the return of the band from the studio again, after 1992. In my opinion this is one of their best albums. It may have the same usual sound and the same lyrical themes, but it's actually a very good piece? On the front cover, we see this "macho" guy, who's breaking his chains by hitting his hand on the anvil! It's an image of what you're going to be listening to; pure Heavy Metal! The innovation that caught my attention when I opened the album for the first time was that the cover picture is actually a part of a poster! This poster is the booklet of the album and it consists from the band's mascot in the front and the lyrics in the back. A very good idea, which many other bands copied later? I could easily stick this fine work of art on the wall, but then the album would be left "naked" since the booklet is essential? Read more ›› |
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Louder Than Hell is perhaps the first Manowar album that is not in some capacity amazing. On Battle Hymns, they decided that it was their mission in life to be Manowar - the loudest, manliest, most ridiculously pretentious heavy metal band in existence. They spent the next several albums casting about for the perfect way to achieve this; always highly successful, but still looking to go different places. On Kings Of Metal, they found the TRUE Manowar sound and produced some of their greatest works to date. Louder Than Hell was when they stopped trying. Read more ›› |
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Their last listenable release. Most songs are quite good, but I think the cheesy parts are more present than before.
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Pretty good IMO. To me "Return Of The Warlord", "King" and "Outlaw" are some of the Manowar classics 
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One good song and its opening rest is weird drumming muscle nonsense.
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Unlike The Triumph of Steel (and to a large degree Kings of Metal) this one is fun to listen to. The opening trilogy is convincing heavy metal. Courage is garbage. Outlaw, Number One, King on the other hand is good stuff again, not mindblowing but fun. Then a long instrumental, luckily it's not 10 minute of Black Arrows, it's a more atmospheric instrumental with guitar soloing over pounding drums. It's not that bad. After that comes 2 minutes of Black Arrows signed by Karl Logan before ending with The Power, a fast number with good hooks. The biggest flaw of the album are the drums which are extremly monotonous and real killer guitar riffs shines with its absence.
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I think it is quite ironic that this album is called "LOUDER than Hell" because it sounds so thin and fragile like the instruments are being played in the next room. I love the cheese heavy lyrics about steel and brothers and blood... but here it sounds like the vocalist is giving his all, performing on 11, while the band is coasting along playing at 3... There are of course great songs here, Brothers of Metal, The Gods Made Heavy Metal, Number 1... but they would be so much better with more bite in the instruments. For a moment I thought my copy of the album was faulty hearing the opener because it sounds so empty, so devoid of instruments, but no, is just like that all the way. After accepting that fact, you can still have a lot of fun hearing this ...
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I think this is a fantastic album if you take out the instrumentals. Maybe not the best produced but the songs themselves are glorious.
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This is one of Manowar's better albums, the riffs are decent, the bass and guitar tone is heavy, and sounds good. But as expected, the lyrics are pretty bad, borderline cringy at times. It's the simple crowd pleasing stadium anthems, with cheesy choruses, which reminds me very much of KISS, only trying to be alot heavier in sound. The production again is pretty bad also.
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Their last very good LP for me but far away from masterpieces like the first three, SotH and KoM. There is no bad song but also no song to find it´s way in my top Manowar list. Maybe Courage is the best here.
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