Manowar

Crystallion, the Bavarian power metallers who will be opening for German veterans Grave Digger at the Boogaloo club in Zagreb on Thursday, April 23, 2026, among other dates, have dropped their take on the Manowar original "Shell Shock".…

Ross "The Boss" Friedman - former guitarist of Manowar, The Dictators and Shakin' Street - has passed away. He was 72. The news was confirmed by the Metal Hall of Fame in a statement released just a few weeks after the start of a…

Ross "The Boss" Friedman, founding guitarist of power metal titans Manowar and cult punks The Dictators, has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The news was shared in a statement…

ManOwaRFriday, February 15, 2025Munich / Zenith / Germany "Other bands play - ManOwaR kill!!!"Manowar — I last saw and heard them in 1999 at the Gods of Metal festival in Milan. Then came a string of questionable albums, starting…

"The band has apparently decided to play only songs written after 2000 from now on. That's pretty sad, since the stuff from the eighties is cult, not to mention the unforgettable classic "Triumph Of The Steel" (1992). DeMaio snapping every…

Author: Aleš PodbrežnikPhotos: Aleš Podbrežnik Location: Tolmin / SloveniaConcert date: 11.07.2010Attendance: 4000Ticket price: 60,00€ What's a person even supposed to say when the World Cup final and Magic Circle festival collide -…

For some, Manowar are the "kings of metal"; for others, they're an incorrigible collection of the worst metal clichés, kitsch, intolerance and over-the-top excess, which has earned them the not-so-flattering title of metal's biggest clowns…

Writing about Manowar is actually a pretty thankless job. Why do I say that? Because Manowar are considered one of the biggest, maybe even best bands in metal... yet they're also a target of mockery and contempt for plenty of people. Just…

Say what you want about Manowar. You can think their music is silly and shallow, mostly thanks to their mantra "We are metal – we are power!", which after 25 years sounds downright clichéd and