Comments on: Retro-Review: Manowar – Into Glory Ride

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:04:56 +0000

Mick – Talking about musclebound poseurs; Manowar were outdone and predated by Thor and his 1978 heavy metal release Keep The Dog’s Away!

By: Mick the Wiz

Mick the Wiz — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:13:50 +0000

Jimmy, I totally agree – riff-tastic indeed. However I remember thinking that the cover was embarrassing even back then – seriously, they look like complete drongos.
JR – I recall that there were plenty of complaints about this album being too slow – “Manowar can’t play fast”. Their response of course was the Hail to England album and the awesome Kill With Power.
It was a great time to be a headbanger.

By: JR

JR — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:05:21 +0000

I put this baby on today. It had been a while. I remember that Kerrang! were absolutely wetting themselves over Manowar and this album. It was deliberately left with a raw almost unmixed mix – hence the absolute power on this opus. Albeit, very, very raw.

It was around about this time that Manowar were calling themselves the heaviest and fastest band in the world.

Thrash didn’t really exist as yet.

And then, by the end of the year… an album called ‘Kill Em All’ was released by a bunch of spotty faced dweebs known as Metallica…

I think we know what happened next!

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:56:54 +0000

I actually like this album – a lot, at the time of release I picked up a copy purely on the basis of the favourable reviews which were doing the rounds in the music press. At the time Manowar did not look out of place and musically the album stands up as a formidable Metal record, it is riff-tastic!

By: JR

JR — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:27:12 +0000

It’s scary I know, but I remember actually buying this one – practically on the day of its release.

1983. I wagged school. Jumped on the number 6 Glen Iris tram and rode it all the way to Flinders Street and bought it from Metal For Melbourne – which stood, pretty much where Federation Square is now.

I played that sucker to death then, I play that sucker to death now.

It’s raw brutality just screams absolute power – and if you can ignore the shenanigans on the cover – you’ll still get mass enjoyment from this slab or pure Metal goodness even today.

I love this band to this day. Sure they can be as corny as hell – but beneath it all – they can cave your skull in before you even realized what’s happened.

Now, if they would only tour these shores…