- heavy metal, power metal
- 36 min
- 8 tracks
- EMI Electrola
Battle Hymns is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Manowar, released in June 1982 by Liberty Records. It features the title track "Battle Hymn", and a song featuring a narration from actor Orson Welles, "Dark Avenger". Members of the band Ross "The Boss" Friedman and Joey DeMaio opted to produce the album as a team: the band, as a whole entity, would later assume production credits in succeeding albums.
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Grave, epic, unpretentious and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- 1Death Tone4:51
- 2Metal Daze4:20
- 3Fast Taker3:56
- 4Shell Shock4:08
- 5Manowar3:38
- 6Dark Avenger6:23
- 7William’s Tale1:55
- 8Battle Hymn6:57
8 tracks, 36 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Manowar
- Label
- EMI Electrola
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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