MANOWAR bassist Joey DeMaio has provided an replace on the studio classes for the upcoming re-recorded model of the band’s fourth studio album, “Signal Of The Hammer”, which celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2024. Writing on his official website online, Joey stated: “Manowarriors, We simply celebrated the anniversary of ‘Signal Of The Hammer’ — an album that’s meant the world to us and to you for over 40 years. Now let me provide you with an replace on the re-recording.
“We introduced this venture some time again, and plenty of of you’ve got been asking: The place is it? Honest query. You deserve an sincere reply, so right here it’s: Re-recording a beloved album is a large duty for us. These songs are a part of your lives. They’re hymns which have carried you thru your hardest moments.
We do not take that frivolously.
“So here is what occurred: We recorded every part. We listened. And we weren’t glad. The sound wasn’t there but. It wasn’t the crushing, earth-shaking energy we demand from ourselves — and that you simply deserve.
“So what did we do? We took aside our studios, tried new gear configurations. We recorded once more. However nonetheless not fairly ‘it’. After which it was time to prep for tour and hit the highway.
“Might we’ve rushed it out? Certain. However that is not who we’re.
We have by no means compromised, and we’re not beginning now.
“Relaxation assured: ‘Signal Of The Hammer’ re-recorded might be launched. And new music, too. And when it drops, it’ll sound meaner, heavier, and extra highly effective than something we have completed earlier than.
“Thanks in your endurance and loyalty. Keep tuned!
“Hail and Kill! Joey“.
Final December, DeMaio spoke to Elena Rozberg of Radiocast BG in regards to the upcoming re-recording of “Signal Of The Hammer”. He stated: “I believe that it provides us the prospect to have a look at the songs and hold the entire parts of the track itself that individuals favored — you understand, the choruses and so forth, the message, the lyrics — but in addition enhance the standard of the sound of the recording. As I take heed to it at present, I believe every part is way more clear, lots of pleasure, lots of power. And, yeah, the followers who’ve already purchased the [original] document could have that perpetually. After which the brand new model of it’s a completely different model. It is like having two shirts or two jackets — one is likely to be just a little completely different, completely different buttons, however related fashion. And that is the best way it is coming throughout to me. I believe individuals are going to take pleasure in it. And in the event you like the primary model, I believe you may like this model. It is just a bit bit completely different, just a little one thing — just a little one thing. Perhaps just a little magic. I do not know. We’ll see. See what individuals assume. You may inform me when you hear it.”
Throughout the identical chat, DeMaio weighed in on a debate about individuals utilizing synthetic intelligence (A.I.) to create music. He stated: ”Properly, proper now I have never delved a lot into synthetic intelligence. I imply, in fact, everyone can not help utilizing it with e-mails and issues like this. I believe it has been good within the e-mails while you get spam to have the ability to block it; it does it mechanically or it acknowledges it. I believe like every part else, it is a software and I believe it would discover its place in everyone’s life. I believe some individuals will use it to create music, to create artwork and issues. They’ve already began doing that. And I simply take a look at it as if for anyone who would not play an instrument, if that is a method for them to specific a musical concept, then that is their software. I occur to have the ability to play a guitar, so I can do it. However for anyone that may’t, they’ll then simply say, ‘Write me a track like such and such,’ and that is how they will create. And who’s to say — nice music would possibly come of it. I do not know. Or nice artwork. I believe it is too new to guage and see what is going on to occur. However I believe there’ll all the time be a spot for individuals who actually write one thing lovely, whether or not it is poetry, whether or not they paint one thing by hand that is a good looking portray or whether or not they write a track. I believe there’s all the time going to be a spot for inventive those who have expertise. In case you do one thing nice, I believe it would reside perpetually, and I do not assume it is something to be afraid of.”
In 2005, “Signal Of The Hammer” was ranked quantity 418 on Rock Exhausting journal’s listing of “The five hundred Best Rock & Steel Albums Of All Time”.
MANOWAR performed an unique U.S. live performance on November 30, 2024 at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. The sold-out occasion marked the band’s first reside look in MANOWAR‘s residence nation in a decade.
In November 2023, DeMaio stated in a video message that MANOWAR‘s live performance in New York would coincide with the fortieth anniversary of “Signal Of The Hammer”. “It is gonna be the one present in America, sadly, as a result of our recording and touring schedule will not enable for extra, however it will likely be the total present,” he stated.
Previous to the Kings Theatre live performance, MANOWAR‘s final U.S. exhibits had been believed to have taken place in February 2014 when the band celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of its “Kings Of Steel” album on the “Kings Of Steel MMXIV” tour.
Again in September 2014, MANOWAR canceled its beforehand introduced U.S. tour dates which had been scheduled to happen in November of that 12 months. On the time, the band claimed it was scrapping the exhibits “because of scheduling conflicts” in addition to to focus on work on a brand new studio album.
The 71-year-old DeMaio and 73-year-old singer Eric Adams are the only real remaining unique members of MANOWAR, which fashioned in 1980 in upstate New York.
In February 2023, MANOWAR launched a brand new track referred to as “Laut Und Hart Stark Und Schnell” devoted to the band’s loyal German followers.
“Laut Und Hart Stark Und Schnell”, which interprets into “Loud And Exhausting Sturdy And Quick”, is an anthemic mid-tempo hymn within the vein of MANOWAR‘s basic “Warriors Of The World United” that invitations followers to sing alongside and lift their palms in celebration of their favourite style and band.
“Laut Und Hart Stark Und Schnell” was first launched digitally on February 10, 2023 on all main platforms and was made out there throughout MANOWAR‘s German tour.
Three years in the past, MANOWAR introduced that it had recruited Michael Angelo Batio, a veteran each within the studio and on stage, to play guitar for the band on its 2023 “Crushing The Enemies Of Steel” tour. The information got here within the wake of guitarist Evandro “EV” Martel‘s announcement that he was taking a break from touring for some time for “private causes”.
Though MANOWAR has launched a few EPs in recent times — together with “The Revenge Of Odysseus (Highlights)”, which got here out in June — the group hasn’t issued a full-length effort since 2012’s “The Lord Of Metal”.
MANOWAR‘s two “secret” warm-up exhibits in June 2022 at Jovel Music Corridor in Münster, Germany marked the band’s debut reside appearances with new drummer Dave Chedrick, who has beforehand performed with RAVEN and KILL RITUAL, amongst others.
Chedrick joined MANOWAR because the substitute for Anders Johannson who introduced that very same month that he could be unable to hitch MANOWAR on the band’s “Crushing The Enemies Of Steel Anniversary Tour ’22/’23” because of “household commitments.”
