History Music / Manowar

'''Manowar''' are a heavy metal band from New York, USA, founded in 1980. Fond of [[HornyVikings Vikings]] and insanely over-the-top EpicRocking. They are the [[RatedMForManly manliest]] band of all time.

* {{Badass}}: The band in general pretty much oozes this.
** Eric Adams is [[ManlyMenCanHunt an actual hunter]], too -- and he doesn't hunt with a gun; he hunts ''with a bow and arrows''. Not only that, he actually teaches ''other'' people how to hunt! Manowar literally makes other people manlier.

* SpokenWordInMusic: ''Defender'' has more words spoken than sung, and even the instrumental doesn't work up for a full minute into the song.

* TearJerker: ''Master of the Wind'' in tone and execution is unlike the majority of Manowar songs, as it was dedicated to a boy in a hospital who wanted to meet the band before he died.
--> '''[=DeMaio=]''': The message suits the occasion: there will be good days again, and if this boy is not around to see the good days here on earth then maybe somewhere else maybe beyond the rainbow.

** The first stanza of ''Blood of the Kings'' on the ''Kings of Metal'' album is mostly a recitation of the band's previous five album titles.

** ''Kings of Metal'' has a chorus which is meant to be a back and forth between the audience and the band, and was recorded at the Thirsty Whale, a hard rock/heavy metal bar in Illinois.

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* HeavyMithril: Possibly the TropeCodifier.

* LikeABadassOutOfHell: "Dark Avenger".

* NorseMythology: Many of Manowar's songs are about this subject. To their credit, they do tend to research the aforementioned in great detail. Odin would be proud.
** Case in point, they directly quote the Havamal in ''Odin''.
-->''Speared'',
-->''Hung upside down'',
-->''Nine days and nights'',
-->''No food or mead'',
-->''The will to be'',
-->''A sacrifice'',
-->''Of myself unto myself''

* RockOpera: ''Gods of War'' is an album heavily influenced by the works of Richard Wagner. The album is a Norse Mythology-influenced tale that tells the story of Odin and his four sons.

* DoingItForTheArt: Basically the point of the band.

** Eric Adams is an actual hunter, too.

'''Manowar''' are a heavy metal band from New York, USA, founded in 1980. Fond of [[HornyVikings Vikings]] and insanely over-the-top EpicRocking. S̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶l̶i̶e̶v̶e̶ they are the [[RatedMForManly manliest]] band of all time.

'''Manowar''' are a heavy metal band from New York, USA, founded in 1980. Fond of [[HornyVikings Vikings]] and insanely over-the-top EpicRocking. Some believe they are the [[RatedMForManly manliest]] band of all time.

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* WarIsGlorious: Several of their songs are about battles (usually medieval or fantastic instead of current) and how honorable it is to kill or die on the battlefield. However, Shell Shock on their debut album seems almost sarcastic with the Vietnam veteran's descriptions of it.

* HeroicFantasy: Manowar was one of the first, if not ''the'' first, heavy metal band to incorporate sword and sorcery themes and imagery into their lyrics and album artwork.

* NightOfTheLivingMooks: ''Battle Hymn'' makes reference to soldiers "brave beyond the grave".
* NorseMythology: 98% of Manowar's songs are about this subject. To their credit, they do tend to research the aforementioned in great detail. Odin would be proud.

* PowerMetal: Some of Manowar's songs have a distinct power-metal feel to them.

* ThudAndBlunder

* WarIsGlorious

* {{HotBlooded}}: Unbelievably so.

* {{Hot-Blooded}}: Unbelievably so.

* Hot-Blooded: Unbelievably so.

* Hot-blooded: Unbelievably so.