See my chariot run to your ships
I'll drive you back in the sea
You came here for gold
The wall will not hold
This day was promised to me
ManOwaR, I think, are a band that needs no introduction. If you do remain a skeptic, I beg you to tuck your sense of irony safely in its bed and just let go. Get caught up in the glorious celebration of Heavy Metal that is ManOwaR. And just in case that isn't enough, perhaps they aren't so ridiculous, when one considers this appraisal of the albums centrepiece;
De Maio's lyrics imply a careful and scrupulous reading of the
Illiad. The songwriter has focused his attention essentially on the crucial fight between Hector and Achilles, has paraphrased some passages of the poem adapting them to the melodic structure with a certain fluency and partly reinterpreting them, but never altering or upsetting Homer’s storyline. The purpose of the lyrics (and of the music as well) is to evoke some characteristic Homeric sceneries: the raging storm of the battle, the barbaric, ferocious exultance of the winner, the grief and anguish of the warrior who feels death impending over him. The whole action hinges upon Hector and Achilles, who are represented as specular characters, divided by an irreducible hatred and yet destined to share a similar destiny. Both are caught in the moment of the greatest exaltation, as they savagely rejoice for the blood of their killed enemies, but also in the one of the extreme pain, when the daemon of war finally pounces on them. Furthermore, differently than in the irreverent and iconoclastic movie
Troy, in
AAaE the divine is a constant and ineluctable presence, determining human destinies with inscrutable and steely will: and, despite the generic reference to 'the Gods', the real master of human lives is Zeus, the only God to whom both Hector and Achilles address their prayers.
Now, if Mrs E. Cavallini, the Classics professor at Bologna University can appreciate a good bit of True Metal of Steel, I'm sure you can too!
Artist: ManOwaR
Album: Triumph of Steel
Genre: Heavy Metal
Track Listing:1. Achilles, Agony and Ecstacy in Eight Parts
2. Metal Warriors
3. Ride the Dragon
4. Spirit Horse of the Cherokee
5. Burning
6. The Power of Thy Sword
7. The Demon's Whip
8. Master of the Wind
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75OPK4GF
