I was previously only really familiar with Logan's work on the new Battle Hymns which suffice to say hadn't endeared me to him but here he sounds, if not particularly amazing, tight and fun to listen to. Shit lyrics, not many riffs but a very angry american delivering cliche martial lyrics with such authority and enthusiasm that you'll fall in behind Manowar with no reservations.īut y'know, while the rest of the band (even DeMaio's pretty reserved on this album) are there mostly in service of the godlike vocals, they do a good job and serve the songs unfailingly, so credit where credit's due.
Certainly some of the strongest choruses in Manowar's catalogue 'Call to Arms' is a highly underrated song with a real rousing chorus, whereas the last few tunes on the album tend towards much speedier realms but with a similar dedication to cheesy metal valour. Function over form though most of the songs aren't what you'd call complex but they work for what they are simple, epic songs with tight arrangements, heaps of energy, and a solid production. Interesting to note that there's not really many- if any?- good riffs at all throughout the entire album there's a heavy 'Euro power' thing in that most every rhythm guitar part is just a chord progression for huge vocals.
So it's no real surprise that when there's actually good material to sing over, shit gets really off the hook. Not that the competition's fierce, but still it works I think? It's catchy, it's patriotic without being too vomit inducing, and it's catchy, and it's really catchy. He even pulls off 'Fight for Freedom'- another one that should maybe sound like an Iced Earth b-side at best, but instead is perhaps the best 9/11-never-forget song ever written. Despite the flute, piccolo bass, constant talk about living in Dixie and the fact it's some sort of super old civil-war era song or something I've apparently played it 11 times the whole way through.
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Sure, 'Nessun Dorma' is nothing if not proof that opera is damn hard to pull off and best left to professionals, but how many other metal vocalists could make 'An American Trilogy' sort of (sort of) work? It should sound awful, and I guess if you're looking at it objectively than it is, but as it's hard to hate, say, a retarded duckling, so it is hard to hate Adams' full on, give-everything-to-the-song-and-sing-glory-glory-hallelujah-unironically-over-and-over-again thing that he does in that tune. Adams' vocals are always goofy, but always super earnest, as charismatic as Hitler, always passionate, manly as shiiiit and they always sound supremely excellent. The vocals here are a big part of what makes the filler tolerable and the better (heavier) tunes so excellent. This probably requires some explaining I guess the simplest way to put it is that an album is an album is an album, not merely a collection of random songs thus, if the album as a whole gets my dick hard and my neck hurting, I can and will sing its' praises irrespective of how head scratchingly weird some of the song choices are. Ninety percent for an album in which near half the songs could best be described as 'eccentric' or 'strangely endearing' at best, or 'godawful' or perhaps 'what the hell, an opera cover?' at worst, depending on mood.
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