Hail to England
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Hail to England is Manowar's third album which was released in 1984. This album is often considered the best of the "classic" era of Manowar and is also known for the interest stirred in English fans, due to its name. The album was also reported to have been recorded in its entirety in only six days. The album peaked at #83 on the UK charts.

Track listing

  1. "Blood of My Enemies" (Joey DeMaio
    Joey DeMaio
    Joey DeMaio is an American bass player and main songwriter for the heavy metal band Manowar which he co-founded in 1980. He is also the founder and CEO of Magic Circle Music....

    ) – 4:15
  2. "Each Dawn I Die" (Ross the Boss, DeMaio) – 4:20
  3. "Kill with Power" (DeMaio) – 3:57
  4. "Hail to England" (DeMaio) – 4:24
  5. "Army of the Immortals" (the Boss, DeMaio) – 4:24
  6. "Black Arrows" (DeMaio) – 3:06
  7. "Bridge of Death" (DeMaio) – 8:58

Cover versions

  • "Blood of my Enemies" was covered by Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     death metal
    Death metal
    Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

     band Edge of Sanity
    Edge of Sanity
    Edge of Sanity was a Swedish death metal band. Edge of Sanity are regarded alongside Opeth as being the first to fuse extreme metal styles like death and black metal with progressive rock.- History :...

    , on their album The Spectral Sorrows
    The Spectral Sorrows
    The Spectral Sorrows is the third full-length studio album by the Swedish death metal band, Edge of Sanity, recorded by Börje Forsberg in July–August 1993 and released by Black Mark Productions in 1993.-Track listing:...

    .
  • "Blood of my Enemies" was covered by Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     power metal
    Power metal
    Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...

     band Power Symphony
    Power Symphony
    Power Symphony is a Heavy metal band from Milan, Italy. The band formed in the beginning of the '90s. The band released two full length albums and one EP. Although no official statement has been made to the public as to the disbanding of the group, lack of activity seems to point in that direction...

    , on their EP Futurepast.
  • "Kill with Power" was covered by Swedish melodic death metal
    Melodic death metal
    Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

     band Arch Enemy, on their EP Dead Eyes See No Future
    Dead Eyes See No Future
    Dead Eyes See No Future is an EP by melodic death metal band Arch Enemy. It was released on November 2, 2004 through Century Media Records.The title track is taken from Arch Enemy's Anthems of Rebellion album....

    , and is often covered live by Brazilian parody metal band Massacration
    Massacration
    Massacration is a Brazilian satirical heavy metal band, the self-proclaimed "greatest and most classic heavy metal band, the inspiration behind most heavy bands since 1985, whose members' hairdos and posing influenced the whole heavy metal culture"...

    .
  • "Each Dawn I Die" was covered by the Greek black metal band Necromantia on their 1997 EP 'Ancient Pride' which was re-released with new artwork and two bonus tracks in 2006 by Black Lotus Records.

Personnel

  • Eric Adams
    Eric Adams (singer)
    Eric Adams has been the singer of the heavy metal band Manowar since 1980. Before he became the band's singer in 1980, he had sung for a group, called LOOKS. In the band was also future Manowar bassist and childhood friend, Joey DeMaio.-Early life:Eric Adams was born on 12 July 1954, in Auburn,...

     - vocals
  • Ross the Boss - guitar
    Electric guitar
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  • Joey DeMaio
    Joey DeMaio
    Joey DeMaio is an American bass player and main songwriter for the heavy metal band Manowar which he co-founded in 1980. He is also the founder and CEO of Magic Circle Music....

     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Scott Columbus
    Scott Columbus
    Scott Columbus was an American musician and the former drummer of Manowar. Reportedly he was discovered by a female fan of the band, beating aluminium in a local foundry...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

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