now obviously, i appreciate the fine qualities of certain manowar tracks. but i do wonder many points about them. for example:
* are they serious?
* how popular are they.. really?
* has anyone been to a manowar concert? any good?
* can anyone sit through a whole album of their material?
*As Davey says, unbelievably serious. And massively up themselves. Will not play a festival if they aren't a headliner, which is why they don't appear at many, charge £300 for meet and greets (taking place in their required own, dedicated merch tent "The Kingdom of Steel: By The Fans, For The Fans", stipulations about the degrees by which any band playing before them must be quieter, come with Must-Be-Booked additional bands. Had a guy booked to do Manowar drum covers for main support in Birmingham not long ago. Bunch of wa
nks, essentially.
* Depends on the territory, very big in Germany and some other parts of Europe, sell out Academies for one-offs in the UK. Thin they're near nobodies in their native US, might be wrong.
* Yes. Well, a set at Hellfest in France. They played for three hours and it was awful. We watched a handful of tunes out of curiosity and fled to the campsite. Where you could still hear them clearly. Until 4am. Several lengthy tirades about metal during it, with obvious plants from the crowd getting up to worship them. "One Manowarrior is worth a thousand false-metal fans!" and so on.
* Gods no.
