NANOWAR: Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! PROMO CDR. Killer parody of modern Manowar!!

Full-length
Release date: June 2005
Label: Self-released/independent
1. Intrue 00:39
2. Tricycles of Steel 04:05
3. True Metal of the World (Ah-Ah) 04:56
4. Burger 00:55
5. King 04:38
6. Introducing the Power (Potentia Magni Gladi Vobis) 02:07
7. Power of the Power of the Power (Of the Great Sword) 00:08
8. Pino 00:52
9. Metal-La-La-La! 04:49
10. Gioca True (Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!) (C. Cecchetto/Manowar Parody) 03:33
11. The Number of the Bitch (Iron Maiden Parody) 05:12
12. Entra L'uomo di Sabbia (Metallica Parody) 04:54
13. Triumphant March of the Nano-Warrior 03:19
14. Outrue 02:30

a parody of modern Manowar -- that’s Triumph of Steel onwards, basically. No-one except really passionate Germans likes that stuff, anyway (bringing to mind that other time they really got passionate, er, so, when David Hasslehoff brought down the Berlin Wall, right?). There’s so much more that’s funny about this era of Manowar that Nanowar haven’t touched upon -- where are the ponderous, overindulgent interludes (‘Overture to the Underture of the Over-the- Underture Parts I-IV’ etc)? The ridiculous bass solos that absolutely no-one enjoys? Hell, even the cover art isn’t as funny as Gods of War’s was. Methinks a lot of Nanowar’s parody is based around the “Ha, Manowar look like homosexuals” school of thinking (and regardless of your opinion on Manowar; they do have sex with more ugly German women) rather than a more musically-based parody, which is ultimately more funny when done right.
Nanowar are the sort of joke band you’ll want to play this again and again just like you did with Tap or Bad News. It’s a step-up from the “fat people shout at each other” comedy of Tenacious D.