Artist: MANOWAR
Album: LOUDER THAN HELL (CD)

Release date: 1996
EAN/UPS: 0720642492529
Media type: CD

The band scored again in Germany during 1996 with the 'Louder Than Hell' opus reaching no.7 in the charts. MANOWAR visited Brazil in November 1996 before touring Europe once more during April 1997, culminating in a massive show at the Forest National in Brussels, a 7'000 or so capacity venue. The shows were being filmed and recorded for a live album and video. Universal Records picked up the double concert album 'Hell On Wheels'.

The group’s standing in Europe was at an unprecedented high. Fortune truly had favoured the brave and the group found itself not only with an enviable redoubt of hardened and resolute fan support but also elevated to the echelons of the revered in the new power metal stakes. Previously mocked, MANOWAR now basked in the vocal appreciation of the bands forming up the European power metal wave. Ignoring convention as was their tradition, MANOWAR capitalised the live 'Hell On Wheels' with another twin blast of concert recordings with 'Hell On Stage'.

For this outing the band signed to the aggressive Nuclear Blast label, this partnership undoubtedly taking MANOWAR to new heights. 'Hell On Stage' exceeded all expectations in Germany when it went on to sell in excess of 40'000 copies on the first day of release. The DVD format would later break into the national top ten.

During 2001 German Metal band POWERGOD would cover 'Kill With Power' on their 'Bleed For The Gods' album. MANOWAR themselves would break their silence in April of 2002 with a new single 'Warriors Of The World United’. This single would not only enter the German national charts high but rise over the next two weeks to number 15- the highest chart placing ever for a Nuclear Blast act, selling over 80'000 copies in the process.

The band also pleased their fanbase by announcing a North American 'Gods Of War' tour. Initial dates saw HAVOCHATE and USURPER as support with Norwegian Black Metal act IMMORTAL and American Death Metal unit CATASTROPHIC added for a second leg. Select supports also came from Chicago's BLUDGEON, a Thrash Metal act signed to MANOWAR's own newly founded Magic Circle Music label.

TRACKLIST:

01. Return Of The Warlord
02. Brothers Of Metal (Part One)
03. The Gods Made Heavy Metal
04. Courage
05. Number One
06. Outlaw
07. King
08. Today Is A Good Day To Die
09. My Spirit Lives On
10. The Power

LINE-UP 2006:

Eric Adams (Vocals)
Karl Logan (Guitar)
Joey DeMaio (Bass)
Scott Columbus (Drums)