Biography Manowar
The debut album of the group did not cause a big excitement, but managed to arise interest in the team. Manowar endured the style and atmosphere of the Fantasy genre into music, their text was heroic epics, which in themselves were capable of attracting crowds of fans. The musicians gave the first concert in June in Florida. The large British Music For National Firm of Firm. After signing the contract, the new Scott Columbus drummer appeared in the team.
The second album made Manowar popular. On the first day, 5 thousand records were sold; The total number of disks sold only in England was the group, given its celebrity in England, decided to bet on the English market and released the next two albums, both published in the year. The slogan of Manowar was the “struggle for pure metal”, respectively, against the “false metal”, i.e.
a similar slogan liked the fans, but earned a lot of ridicule from criticism. In the years, the team gave a lot of concerts, famous for its stage show with a bias in fantasy heroics and addiction to include in full capacity concerts, which is why some teams refused to perform with Manowar. In the years, the group continued to actively travel around Europe, while looking for a more powerful company for itself.
The composition gave concerts a year, and this could not but affect: in the year, Atlantic was attention to Manowar. The musicians recorded their next album in Chicago, independently producing it. The album was quite successful commercially, and, according to experts, it is the best album of the group today. Toward the end of the year, Ross the Boss suddenly left the team.
The Chicago Dave Shankle guitarist was recruited in his place. In this composition, Manowar recorded their album "Kings of Metal", where they, as it were, let down the line of all their activities. In the year, Manowar went on a European tour with the New York team Virgin Steel. It is curious that in the entire history of the existence of Manowar, only for the second time they went on a warming group; Only a really super-group could afford this.
In the year, for family reasons, for family reasons, the Scott Columbus drummer left the team, bringing his comrade in his place - Rhino, the unusual play style of which is clearly traced on the album. After a six -month pause followed by the tour, Manowar sat down for the composition of their next album. Rumors of the inglorious death of the kings of heroic metal were worn in the press, but this, fortunately, did not happen.
The album "Triumph of Steel" saw the light in September of the year; His record took almost 8 months. The album was cordially accepted, although he did not contain abundance of new ideas. Following this, Manowar began, as usual, to actively travel around the world with tour. By the year, they got to the studio, and the successor of the glorious traditions of Manowar's work - the album "Louder than Hell" appeared.
On the album plays Scott Columbus returning in the year. In the year, Manowar celebrates the release and commercial success of their two -hour video "Hell on Earth Part I", working on the second part. It's really cool. Score, the video will cover the years from software, this implies all the big festivals that we headed in, Dynamo, Gods of Metal in Italy, so the video will be massive.
"In the year, six years after the release of the last studio album, Manowar released a new material called Warriors of the World. Here we hear a slightly updated sound, but the former power and energy remained the main in the music of the group. Puccini "Nessun Dorma". After that, the large world tour "Warriors of the World United Tour" followed, which took them a lot of time until the recording of the new album.
These video releases received gold in Germany. In the year, Dimayo founds his sound recording label, Magic Circle Music, which becomes an official home for the formation. This decision was made for the sake of the need for the Manowar themselves and other groups playing in such a genre. There is a minion, “The Sons of Odin”, the material for which was taken from the record of the performance on Earthshaker Fest in the year.
The recording of the new album was detained due to the fact that during the recording sessions the guitarist of the group Karl Logan got into an accident on his motorcycle and damaged his elbow.
The wounds were so serious that they could lead to damage to the nerve; This would mean the end of his musical career. However, after the months of painful rehabilitation, the guitarist recovered, and now declares that he had never played so well before. The texts of the album, suggested as the first in a series of conceptual albums, is dedicated to the gods of Scandinavian mythology, mainly Odin.
On the "Gods of War" the group showed a noticeable effect of sympho-metal, out of 16 of its tracks, a significant part is made up of instrumental and text interlyudes, executed using choirs, keyboards and an orchestra. Immediately after the release of the album, the group went on the tour "Demons, Dragons and Warriors", together with the Rhapsody and Holyhell groups.As part of this tour, the group visited 13 cities.
In April, Manowar performed in Moscow at the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Manowar performances at the festival took place both days. The performance was short and contained only 9 songs. At the end of the year, the group performed the Christmas song "Silent Night". The record was posted on the website of the group for free download, as a gift to fans for Christmas. Later, this entry was posted again in the year.
In April, the group of Scott Columbus left the group due to professional disagreements with Joey Dimayo. The first half of the year he was replaced by Raino, and then for the shock villages of Donny Khamzik, who remains the session drummer Manowar at the moment. Nevertheless, until June, on the official website of the group, Columbus was listed as the current group participant, and other musicians stated that he could not take part in concerts for personal circumstances.
Manowar Kavarna set a new Record for the duration of Havi-metal concert. The performance lasted five hours and twenty minutes. The record was recorded by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records. The performance of Manowar lasted 2 days out of four, which lasts the festival, for which the group performed all its first 6 albums entirely. Also at this festival on July 12, Manowar set a new sound volume record at the concert.
Before the concert, the audience was warned of health hazard and offered to buy taps for their ears. During the sound of the check, the sound level in DB was registered. At the Magic Circle Festival festival, Joui Dimayo said that the premiere of the new album of the group will be at the festival next year. The album will be sold with the book in the fantasy genre written specifically for this album.
The author of the book will be the German writer Wolfgang Holbine. Also, plans to shoot a film on this book and create a video game. At the same festival, Manowar "Die with Honor" was free of free of charge. In April, it was announced that the new project of the group would be called The Asgard Saga. It will be not just an album, but a media project that includes books, a film, a series of concerts with performances and role -playing games, as well as an interactive website.
The premiere and release of the first book are scheduled for July 18, at the third festival Magic Circle. The song "Father" was recorded in 16 languages. It was announced that the output of a full -format album called Hammer of the Gods was planned at the end of performances at the year's summer festivals were combined on a tour entitled “Death to the Infidels”, within the framework of which Manowar visited Russia for the third time.
The day before the concert, Eric Adams visited the Tok-show "Starkut" A-One TV channel, in which he answered questions from viewers. During this program, he said that the song "Father" will be recorded in three more languages, one of which will be Russian. On Christmas Eve, December 24, versions of the song "Father" in the Swedish and Russian languages were posted for free for download on the website of the official store of the group.
In October, Joey Dimayo officially confirmed that the group is currently writing a new version of the Battle Hymns album. The cause of death is not established. At the beginning of the year, the group continues to work on the new album "The Asgard Saga", whose release was planned for the summer, and conducts concerts as part of the largest metal festivals. The new studio album of The Lord of Steel group first saw the light all over the world on June 16 of the year exclusively through iTunes and through its own online store The Kingdom of Steel.
On the same day, the British magazine Metal Hammer released a special “Steel number”, which includes a CD and a digital copy of the album. In the year, Manowar went on the tour The Final Battle in order to say goodbye to their fans. As part of this tour, 9 cities of Russia were also visited. Donny Khamzika for the time of this and subsequent tour was replaced by the Brazilian drummer Marcus Castellani.
In the year, the guitarist of the group Karl Logan was accused of storing children's pornography, in connection with which he was arrested and then released on bail. His work with the group is suspended. In the year, Manowar reports the output of 3 new singles, the songs from which will be included in their new album. The first of them, The Final Battle I, was released on March 30