Sign of the Hammer

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Sign of the Hammer
Sign of the Hammer cover
Studio album by Manowar
Released 1984
Genre Heavy metal
Length 40:33
Label 10 Records
Manowar chronology
Hail to England
(1984)
Sign of the Hammer
(1984)
Fighting the World
(1987)


Sign Of The Hammer was released in 1984 by Manowar.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "All Men Play On Ten" – 4:01
  2. "Animals" – 3:34
  3. "Thor (The Powerhead)" – 5:23
  4. "Mountains" – 7:39
  5. "Sign Of The Hammer" – 4:18
  6. "The Oath" – 4:54
  7. "Thunderpick" – 3:31
  8. "Guyana (Cult Of The Damned)" – 7:10

All tracks written by Joey Demaio except 'The Oath' written by Joey Demaio and Ross the Boss.

[edit] Additional information

"Sign of the Hammer" is considered by certain Manowar fans as the last great album made by the band before they changed their sound to more straightforward and less epic one for their major label debut, Fighting the World.

"Guyana (Cult Of The Damned)" is a song about the 1978 mass suicide led by Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple cult, at Jonestown, northwestern Guyana.

"Thor (The Powerhead)" is about the Norse God Thor (as the name suggests), destroying the evil of the world and the Giants(enemies of the Gods) as well. The song often brings but the Norse version of the apocalypse, with "Live to fight on that final day" stated many times. The Norse people believed that at the end of the world the Gods and the Giants would battle for control. It is forseen that the Gods would lose, and many of their deaths have been fortold before the battle. Reguardless the Gods still will fight on the final day for the right to control Earth.