Father

I've been listening through the new EP and I'm stunned... altough it's MANOWAR, I got really surprised by how great the songs on the EP are.. I still had the feeling from "Die with Honor" that there was more great things to come... My favorites so far:

Gor or man
Let the Gods Decide
Thunder in the Sky
Father (Norweigan version)
Father (Japanese version)

Father in Norweigan sounds so great... I really hope Eric will do a song in Swedish. He would do it perfectly.... without being an expert in Norweigan, I think it sounds so good... the translator (Erman Atabay) have done a good job together with Eric.

父

The japanese version sounds so interesting, but I can't really explain why.. I guess it's because it sounds so different from anything I would ever speak or understand.... it makes it exciting.

To summarize, the new EP gets 5/5 Sign of the Hammers :-)

Now I'm about to start to listen through "Father" in all of the other languages.... it's such a nice song.

/Johan (which by the way has the greatest father in the world who's always there for me)

Father - The new MANOWAR song in 16 languages

In case you have missed it - here's a short documentary on Youtube about the new song "Father", recorded in 16 languages.

I'm sure the full song will sound absolutely amazing, altough I think there will be some language errors here and there, but who cares? What a fantastic way to say thank you to all the fans who follows the band around the world.

I'm of course especially curious about the Norweigan version - since Swedish and Norweigan is very close...

"Father" is released on the EP "Thunder in the Sky", which is available this weekend on Provinssirock in Finland, where the band starts of the tour this Saturday. It will also be available for download on this location.

MANOWAR's new EP "Thunder in the Sky" mp3 available for download!

Full version MP3s from MANOWAR's new EP "Thunder in the Sky" is now available for download on this location.

More on the new EP later, now I'm off to listen through all the songs over and over again!!!! :)

/Johan

MANOWAR's new EP "Thunder in the Sky" lyrics

.. and song clips are now available on MANOWAR's official website. /Johan

Interview with Eric Adams and useful links about the new EP "Thunder in the Sky"

I collected some links with useful information about the upcoming MANOWAR EP "Thunder in the Sky":

There's a brand new audio interview with Eric where he talks about the upcoming EP, the recording of the song "Father" in different languages and much more.

1st song preview of what I think would be the title track of the new EP "Thunder in the Sky": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUi3O75MERo&feature=channel_page

2st song preview of the same song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkllfVTRPFA&feature=channel_page

Short clip of another new song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNYyQXtbfJk&feature=channel_page (probably "God Or Man")

And yet another song preview... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HfR-PkPc5k (probably "Let the Gods Decide")

I think it sounds great and really promising.... more guitar oriented stuff, double bass... it's going to be a killer album. And the song names sound like it would be some really epic stuff, and reminds me of Into Glory Ride, The Triumph of Steel etc..

And some footage from the Magic Circle offices getting ready for the tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CucjB3U19JE&feature=channel_page

Message from Donnie Hamzik, the orginally MANOWAR drummer who are going to be playing on the tour.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1HjbGKN1TM&feature=channel_page

Thanks to Neil Johnson for all these great clips!!!

For those of you who don't know Neil, he's the director of MANOWAR's DVD-series "Hell on Earth". Here's the announcement on Thunder in the Sky, the new EP.. http://www.manowar.com/news_body.php?idnews=320

And finally the tour schedule for this summer... Be there! I'm going to Norway and Loreley :) http://www.manowar.com/tour.html

Keep an eye on http://store.magiccirclemusic.com/ hopefully the new tracks will be available for mp3 download there this weekend...

/Johan

MANOWAR announced for the Gorky Park in Russia

It's MANOWAR season! :) There's times when it's pretty quiet from the band but now it's definetely not!

The band just announced that they're playing their first outdoor show in Russia, at the Gorky Park Green Theater on July 24th.

It's just days left to the first show this summer on the "Death to Infidels Tour" which will begin in Seinäjoki, Finland this Saturday. I was hoping to go there but there was no reasonable travel schedule so I think I will have to be happy with going to Norway and Loreley :)

/Johan