Manowar Week: Warriors of the World United

I went ahead and posted a Manowar song for Monday Metal and found out that a single song by that band isn’t a proper contribution to the Metal Gods. To save my soul from eternal damnation and banishment from Valhalla I’m promptly declaring this week Manowar Week. Every day this week I’ll be posting a song by Manowar and hopefully satisfy the Metal Gods with my offering. This evening the song is Warriors of the World United:

Monday Metal: We Drink Your Blood by Powerwolf

I’ve been on one hell of a power metal kick lately and in my search for new lead me to Powerwolf. The thing I noticed instantly was the fact the band members wear corpse paint, which is rare for a power metal band but is a nice touch. Musically there really isn’t anything I dislike about this band but to my ears the vocals really shine. Their vocalist, Karsten Brill, (who appears to use the stage name Attila Dorn) studied classical opera and it really shows in his singing. Even though I’m not a fan of opera (perhaps I’d enjoyed the opera equivalent of an action film, who knows) I generally find operatic male vocals very enjoyable.

Needless to say combining a male opera singer with a power metal band and an organ thrown in for good measure (I love the sound of organs) is just fucking awesome. Don’t take my word for it have a list yourself, just note that if your religiously sensitive this song is probably not for you (in fact the entire Monday Metal series is probably not for you considering the content):

Monday Metal: The Final Solution by Sabaton

This week’s Monday Metal entry is another song by the amazing power metal band Sabaton. I find this week’s song to be an incredibly emotional song, which is rare as I seldom have emotional reactions to music, as the lyrics deal with the Holocaust. The video contains photographs from Nazi concentration camps, which are quite disturbing so be advised. Either way it’s a great song that expresses the horrible toll inflicted upon those shipped to the Nazi concentration camps. I admit that this song is a rather depressing way to start off the week but I also believe a great injustice is served when we fail to remember the horrible toll inflicted upon our race by our race:

Monday Metal: Third Immortal by Battlelore

I fully admit that I’m not a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fiction. It’s not that I think his fiction is bad, I’m just not big into the fantasy genre. With that said I am a big fan of the undertones in much of his work regarding the dangers of politics. You’re probably wondering why discussion of Tolkien is appearing in a Monday Metal post. The answer is quite simple, this week’s entry is by the band Battlelore. All the lyrics for Battlelore’s music is inspired by Tolkien’s Middle-Earth. While I’m not familiar with the fiction I really dig the band and their music. Stand up and bang your head to some fucking great metal: