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Review: Manowar- The Final Battle (Part 1)

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Manowar are a band that in recent years, have had an unprecedented amount of bad luck and bad will encumber their status of being the “Kings of Metal”. Lawsuits, albums recorded and then outright scrapped, the death of longtime drummer Scott Columbus, re-recordings of some of their classic albums, and..well we’ll leave the other recent big event alone because there’s been plenty of talk of that controversial (as well as devastating) subject. The band has encountered controversy after controversy in recent years, and in many ways, been denigrated to be a running joke in the metal community.   Any regular reader of this blog is probably familiar with many of my takes on the various controversies, and how I view much of their recent trajectory (that is, not so favorably). That said, when it comes to the music, the question on many fan’s minds is what they would do next. After announcing their final tour, they have now decided to release a series of EPs to mark their “final” t