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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
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Don't ask me I'd never heard of them till today. On the Spirit of Metal page Manowar has 2181 fans and Wicked Lady 8.
So I don't feel so bad about not knowing them.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Gave those a listen, and while I'm sure Manowar drew influence from earlier bands -- no band completely reinvents the wheel after all -- those songs really only sounded superficially like anything off of Manowar's early albums. Can you really compare a song like "March for Revenge" off of Into Glory Ride to any of those songs you posted? If so then you'd have to call Iron Maiden a shameless Judas Priest ripoff.
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The Batlord is probably the truest metal fan on this whole forum as he just about appreciates the good things in every metal sub-genre and not just the poseur crap like Tool etc.
Manowar live and breathe metal, they're like the chosen disciples and even when the songs are bad, they're still kind of great anyway.
Into Glory Ride is their greatest statement as a band, it's big, bold and cheesy and only they dared to release something like this and didn't give a crap what anybody thought. Into Glory Ride is a blueprint for power metal as Paranoid was a blueprint for 70s metal making it a legendary album.
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
And yes, "March of Revenge" does sound like one of the songs I posted. Lucifer's Friend's "In the Time of Job" captures the same epic imagery, the same power vocals, the same riff-based attack. To me, they're much more than "superficially similar" (also, the song kind of reminds me of Dio, especially vocally). However, i'm not completely unreasonable, and I can understand your point of view.
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I wouldn't really compare Lucifer's Friend to a band like Manowar or any of the bands that you've suggested, odd songs here and there yer, but a band like Lucifer's Friend were an organ driven progressive rock-metal band that were putting out a sound similar to what Uriah Heep were doing at this time, probably darker but still similar. Organ driven bands at this time were two a penny as there were just so many of them. Whereas Manowar by their second album had turned into something unique in metal regardless of their quality.