Vinyl Record

Manowar - Fighting The World

Manowar - Fighting The World on LP vinyl. A 1987 Metal record currently sold out at Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Metal · 1987

Sold out at Kilmorna Collection, retained online as part of the catalogue archive.

Fighting The World is Manowar in 1987 turning their true-metal mythology toward a bigger, brighter and more technologically polished frame. It was their fifth studio album, their first for a major-label audience, and the first Manowar cover painted by Ken Kelly, whose heroic visual language became inseparable from the band's later identity. The music keeps the group's core vocabulary intact: battle cries, brotherhood, defiance, theatrical masculinity and riffs designed to feel carved rather than merely played. Fighting the World and Blow Your Speakers aim straight at fist-raised arena metal; Carry On turns loyalty into a communal chorus; Holy War and Black Wind, Fire and Steel push the epic side harder; Defender gives Orson Welles' spoken presence a mythic role after his death. The album's digital recording context adds to its period feel: 1980s metal entering a cleaner, louder, more monumental phase.

Fighting The World matters because it marks Manowar's move from cult defenders of metal purity into a more visible late-1980s arena language. It also established visual and sonic traits that would carry directly into Kings of Metal and the band's larger legend.

For a Manowar shelf, this is the bridge between the rawer early records and the fully iconic late-1980s image. Collectors value it for the Ken Kelly artwork era, the Orson Welles-linked Defender, and the way the band turns its slogans into polished battle-metal spectacle.

Triumphant 1980s heavy metal with clean digital punch, martial choruses, heroic guitar lines, thunderous bass, spoken-word drama and an arena-ready sense of scale.

Recommended for: Collectors tracing Manowar's move into late-1980s metal grandeur; Fans of heroic heavy metal with maximal conviction; Listeners who want battle-anthem choruses and theatrical power.

What year was Fighting The World released? Fighting The World was released in 1987 as Manowar's fifth studio album. Why is Defender notable? Defender features a spoken contribution from Orson Welles, giving the song a dramatic presence that became part of the album's mythology. Where does Fighting The World fit in Manowar's catalogue? It comes after Sign of the Hammer and before Kings of Metal, bridging the early cult sound with the band's larger late-1980s identity.