When you talk of icons of classic metal they don’t come much bigger than Manowar. Whilst Aussie fans have been starved of their opportunity to catch Manowar in the flesh, this was the next best thing. Co-founder ‘Ross the Boss’ promised to bring ‘True Metal to the Immortal Metal Armies’, as he brought a full Manowar set to Fowlers Live on this Friday night.
The audience was plastered with battle jackets, and even more battle scars as the veteran metal crowd swelled beyond a couple of hundred. Fronted by Marc Lopes, the band hit the stage in an almost anticlimactic way as they just walked onstage before house lights went down and jumped straight into their set. Confronted by a few onstage audio issues the band battled though proclaiming that they “were playing deaf onstage”. Audio issues aside, the band sounded incredible – an audible tidal wave of metal submerged the audience. From ‘Blood of the Kings’ ,’Each Dawn I Die’ and ‘Bridge of Death’ through to the epic ‘Hail and Kill’ – the classics flowed song after song as the crowd became one sweaty mass of fist thumping, devil-horn throwing metal heads.
Each and every track was infused with a sizzling guitar solo as Ross the Boss took centre stage, leaving Mike Lepond (bass) , Steve Bolognese (drums) and the formentioned Lopes to admire the brilliance. It was obvious that this was a tour devoted purely to the fans – and they got to see exactly what they had hoped for with not one damned-soul leaving disappointed.
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Photos by Lindsay at Rock Tsar Photography
