MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio revealed long-awaited details about a secret project. He announced that next year MANOWAR would perform its new (as-yet-untitled and unreleased) album onstage. And it is not just a normal album... it will be written in collaboration with the biggest-selling German author Wolfgang Hohlbein (over 35 million books sold), and will include a tie-in novel and feature film and video game. When Wolfgang appeared onstage during MANOWAR's Saturday performance, he was joined by his manager Dieter Winkler and close friend Ralf Buxa.


A seven-minute video clip conaining highlights from this year's Magic Circle Festival, which was held July 9-12 in Bad Arolsen, Germany, can be viewed below.

Over 35,000 rabid fans braved the cold winds and rain to witness the "Spectacle of Might" known as MANOWAR and their special guests between July 9-12. MANOWAR headlined the Friday and Saturday nights of the festival, performing their first six albums back to back. The highlight of their performance was the 20th anniversary of the "Kings of Metal" album, which boasted a 20-person men's choir onstage. In addition, they performed their new single, "Die With Honor", 20,000 copies of which were given away to those in attendance (in addition to 20,000 free beers and the giving away of four custom built choppers owned by the band).

Very special guest ALICE COOPER headlined the Thursday night presenting his classic live stage show. Heavy metal legend Doro Pesch, and her band performed all their greatest hits and wooed the crowd. One of the big surprises was HOLYHELL. Being no strangers to Germany in the past few years. HOLYHELL had one of the best responses from the Saturday crowd. The played two new songs from their yet-to-be-released debut album, proving they are force to deal with in the metal scene.

Other highlights were performances by W.A.S.P., TED NUGENT, MSG, BENEDICTUM, TITANIUM BLACK, Jack Starr's BURNING STARR, DEATH ANGEL, BELOVED ENEMY, MOB RULES, SIXTH SENSE, GOTTHARD, BRAZEN ABBOT (featuring Joe Lynn Turner), STORMWARRIOR, KRYPTERIA, KOBUS and METAL FORCE (featuring ex-MAJESTY singer Tarek).

Thousands of fans thrilled to the chance to have an autograph with all members of MANOWAR, and due to overwhelming demand, the band signed non-stop for 12 hours over a two-day period. They were not able to complete all the autograph requests, and next year they will be adding an extra day of autographs to make every fan happy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdEjXNIiGB8

Je suis le seul à avoir envie de pleurer en voyant la nature du projet ?

Ce groupe n'en finit plus de faire n'importe quoi.

Oh putain...

Tiens, ils ont abandonné l'idée de faire une suite de Gods of War ? (remarque, à la place ils sont bien partis pour faire pire )

Il semblerait qu'ils envisagent de continuer leur saga conceptuelle de mes couilles après ce projet foireux.

Un roman ? Un film ?? Un jeu vidéo ??? Putain, j'ai tout pigé ! Luca et Joey ont échangé leur place et cachés qu'ils sont derrière leurs skleumus, on n'a rien vu !

C'était pas turilli qui avait un projet de jeu video??

J'ai comme la vague impression que De Maio s'est empressé de tuer Rhapsody pour mieux prendre leur place.

Enfin, ça promet d'être rigolo et megalo, comme d hab.

Une belle connerie que cette alliance, finalement RHAPSODY avait tout à y perdre... Vivement qu'ils se débarrassent de leurs soucis et qu'ils les "écrasent" avec un album fantasmabuleux !

Putain, ça commence à me saouler, toutes ces conneries. Que De Maio se rachète un cerveau, reprenne Ross the Boss et arrête enfin de faire n'importe quoi.

Mec, la douleur te fait divaguer.

Pfff c'est craignosse. Je connais pas Wolfgang machin, mais qui que ce soit je sens que le truc va pas voler haut.

Pour le retour de Ross, les Manowar doivent attendre de voir si son album va marcher pour prendre une décision.

Enfin, vivement l'album solo de Scott Columbus, ça ça va être metal.

ça ressemble franchement au chant du cygne d'un groupe qui n'a plus rien à dire.

Multiplier les "évènements" pour faire illusion...

Clair. Mais la dernière tournée revival avait l'air sympa.

Le nouveau single Die With Honor joué durant le Magic Circle Festival. Joey nous sort ses plus belles lignes de basse.

Sinon le titre est efficace, j'aime bien le refrain. Dans le genre pilotage automatique, c'est réussi.

Juste pour poster ça, je trouvais que ça valait le coup.

La perspective avec ta signature est intéressante.

T'as vu comme il a l'air remonté le pépère ? Il est prêt pour sortir un grand album de Manowar (s'il se mange pas en moto d'ici là).

Et chez Loréal aussi il a une "signature" ?

Et moi qui pensais que BC Rich faisait les guitares les plus moches du monde...

Un DVD tiens, ça faisait longtemps :

Sortie du DVD le 27 novembre 2008
DVD 1
MANOWAR
- The Fight For True Metal
- The Making Of Battle Hymns
- Manowar
- Fast Taker
- Shell Shock
- Death Tone
- The Making Of Into Glory Ride
- Hatred
- Revelation (Death's Angel)
- The Making Of Hail To England
- Black Arrows Of Doom
- Hail To England
- Die With Honor
- Warriors Of The World United
- The Making Of Sign Of The Hammer
- All Men Play On Ten
- God Of Thunderpick
- Animals
- The Making Of Fighting The World
- Blow Your Speakers
- Violence And Bloodshed
- Defender
- Drums Of Doom And Destruction
- The Making Of Kings Of Metal
- Blood Of The Kings
- How To Marry A Metal Man
- Pleasure Slave
- Kingdom Come
- The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)
- Bridge Of Death
BONUS SECTION FROM BULGARIA
- Mila Rodino
- The Crown And The Ring (Lament Of The Kings)


DVD 2
FESTIVAL BANDS
- Cassock
- Bitch
- Sixth Sense
- Rasputin
- K.O.B.U.S.
- Amen
- Titanium Black
- Stripped
- Jack Starr's Burning Starr
- Evil Never Sleeps
- MetalForce
- Freedom Warriors
- MetalForce
- Metal Law
- HolyHell
- Dream On
- HolyHell
- Prophecy
BONUS SECTION
- Lighting The Eternal Flame Of Metal
- Breaking The World Record Again
- Fire And Faith
- Battle Of The Bands
- Backstage Tour
- The City Of Steel
- Autograph Session
- Words Of The Metal Warriors
- The Son Of Odin Sings
- 5 Hours Of Power
- Bulgarian Speeches
- German Speeches