Old music: Manowar – Blood of My Enemies

Mixing Sabbath heaviness with Wagnerian bombast, this ludicrously OTT anthem thrills me now as it did when I was 15Even as an impressionable, not very discerning 15-year-old determined to buy every heavy metal album that had ever been released, I knew Manowar were fairly ridiculous, and professing any interest in them was probably not a fast-track route to success with the opposite sex. They took the cartoonish element of metal one step further than anybody else either dared or thought sensible,...

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