monowav’s review of the albumBlack Wind, Fire and Steel: The Atlantic Albums 1987-1992

Yes, the loincloths. Everyone gets as far as the loincloths and stops there. It's 1992, grunge has eaten the charts, and Manowar open Triumph of Steel with a 28-minute song about Achilles in eight parts. Name me a braver bad career move in metal. Kings of Metal has the better songs, sure, but Triumph is where they quit caring what anyone thought of them. The 2020 remasters are louder and nobody wrecked the bass, which with Joey DeMaio in the band would have been a crime. When did you last actually sit through Achilles start to finish?