Product Description

MANOWR was epic, majestic, powerful and defined a whole genre. Albums like "Battle Hymns", "Into Glory Ride", "Sign Of The Hammer" and "Kings Of Metal" are unmatched classics of Heavy Metal. THE DICTATORS were the key ingredient between The New York Dolls and The Ramones and some say the very founders of Punk Rock. The main man behind this amazing music was Mr. ROSS THE BOSS. Ross was the guitarist and main songwriter of Manowar's classic early albums and the guitar genius with the legendary Dictators - he has put his stamp on both the Metal and Punk worlds like none other! His new band spreads the magic of the early Manowar and makes clear how timeless and classy this music is. "Hailstorm" is the second attack, and it shows the ROSS THE BOSS band in excellent shape and the epitome of a Heavy Metal force!

Review

The second album by former Manowar guitarist Ross "the Boss" Friedman, following 2008's New Metal Leader, offers another thundering dose of power metal of more or less the same type his former bandmates used to make, minus the pompous epics that have clogged their latter-day (i.e. after he quit the band) work. This shouldn't come as a surprise, since the band he's using (vocalist/guitarist Patrick Fuchs, bassist Carsten Kettering, and drummer Matthias Mayer) were a Manowar cover band in their native Germany before being recruited to back him at a festival. So they've got the anthemic, screaming-guitars sound down to a T, and Ross' brutarian, rock-informed leads (which gave Manowar's first six albums a bite that their later albums, which stole more from classical music, lacked) cut through everything like a pavement saw. This is fist-pumping metal, with catchy choruses, high-pitched screams, and thunderous drumming, and the lightning-speed riffing of the title track is proto-thrash not unlike Accept's "Fast as a Shark" or early-'80s Judas Priest at their most hell-for-leather. Old-school metal fans will find much to love here, and younger listeners could learn a lot about the genre's roots, and its true heart, from Ross the Boss and band. -- Phil Freeman - All Music Guide

• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 5 x 0.28 inches; 3.46 ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Afm Records
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2010
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2010
• Label ‏ : ‎ Afm Records
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1