Manowar facts

January 25, 2010

This thursday Manowar will play in 013. Did you know they are:

*The first metal band to include sword & sorcery imagery in both their lyrics and on their album covers.

* The only band ever to record with Orson Welles.

* Among the first metal bands to record with an orchestra.

* The first band to design and build their own speaker cabinets and now their
own guitars as well.

* The first metal band to record in Dolby 5.1 and be the spokespersons for SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc.)

* The loudest band in the world (a record they have broken on
three separate occasions.

* The first metal band to record a song in 16 (and counting) different languages.

* The first metal band to collaborate with Germany’s bestselling fantasy author, Wolfgang Hohlbein, on a concept album to compliment an adventure book based on Norse mythology, specifically involving Thor, the God of Thunder.


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