Manowar - Defender(1983, 12'' version)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- When you are old enough to read these words
Their meaning will unfold
These words are all that's left
And though we've never met, my only sun
I hope you know
That I would have been there to watch you grow
But my call was heard and I did go
Now your mission lies ahead of you
As it did my so long ago
To help the helpless ones who all look up to you
And to defend them to the end
Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You're the defender
God has sent
Father,father,father
I look up to you and heed thy call
This letter ends my search
I'll live your dream now passed on to me
And I now wait to shake the hand of fate
Like the dusk awaiting dawn
So wizards cast your spell
With no heart to do me well
So it is written, it shall be
Defender
Ride like the wind
Fight proud, my son
You're the defender
God has sent
By far the best version, even though I heard the album version first.
This is raw and shall we say produced without loads of fancy nonsense.
I do like both versions, this has something different, Eric's vocals for one.
All hail ManOwaR, h&k ftw \m/ =T=
you're absolutely right, sir. Both are great but this is the best
Orson FUCKIN' Welles on one of the best songs ever written. Period.
I do understand that the image of Joey, Eric and the bunch are subject to arguing .... but one thing is undisputeble:
Manowar had been one of the most innovative and daring Metal bands in the history of Metal!
Everything that is now common in "epic metal", "viking metal" and what not ... Manowar did 30 years ago!
And they didn't give a fuck what people said.
I still remember 1989 when I floped the "Kings of Metal" on the turntable - and yeah, I still have the damn poster that came with the first printing (though it had seen better days) - which had been a bloody enlightement. You may say whatever you want about their image but Manowar is one of a handful of deeply influential bands in the Heavy Metal genre.
I often wonder if Ross’s guitar solo in this was improvised! He’s just one of those impressionable guitar players who can just drop a magical guitar solo into anything! God look at Battle Hymns! That was done in one take and is regarded as one of the greatest guitar solos in true metal history! Man if only this line up could have stayed forever! For a band who swore to never change and to never resort to gimmicks...comparing their old shows on the small dark stages with the killer amp walls and sword fights to the giant stages with lights,huge screens and the production they put on today! I mean it’s great and I know they wanna give their fans their moneys worth but the Manowar I miss the most is from the early days!
The bulk of the studio time was set aside for Eric . By the time of IGR my reputation as a 1st take guy was set in stone . IGR/ Defender was my 6th record . I was last to record so 1-3 takes at the most and we had it . Still goes today
Ross has the same ear as Leslie West. Not tearing up the fretboard, but playing what is good. This is the better version of Defender. Death to false metal.
I can disinctively guess the part of the solo you're thinking about... Absolute magic ❤️❤️❤️
@@bosstheross hey dude, you are magic ❤️❤️❤️
@@bosstheross See you soon in Portugal Boss.
Greatest song ever!
EPIC METAL....This is the real thing!
This is still part of my heavy metal socialization to this day.
This, this right there is the definitve version of Defender, at least in my opinion. The Ross the Boss solo is just pure awesomeness! So Bluesy and yet like a straight punch to the face!! AWESOME, all hail Manowar!! - Ou and SlauterXstroyes? Thank´s for the upload!! =)
Yeah, that's his best, along with Blood Of My Enemies
...and-...c'mon!...Ross's solo, here, is UNBEATABLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yes. I love the rawness of the original version.
lol. too much rawness. :) Thankfully they did "remade" it".
I agree!! This is the BEST version of Defender!!!
@@bradleyrohr6726 Let us sing together . . . Uuuuuuuhuuuuuhuuuuuuhuuuuu . . . ! ! !
...ome of those (rare, very rare) songs that you'd like it would never ends..............................
By all that is holy, that Guitar Solo is so damn good. . .
Eric Adams, a true menestrel
1"dislike" from the enemy of the Defender who is 100% deaf!
SlauterXstroyes now its 4
5 infidel defilers...they shall all drown in lakes of blood...now they will know why they are afraid of the dark, now they will learn why they fear the night!!
I can only imagine they are missclicks!
@@SlauterXstroyes these words are from my all times favorite movie! 😄
Or, I should say, from one of my two all times favorite movies... 🤔
Greetings from Italy!
best Manowar song ever........
best lyrics
@@robertlansing643 well, this song was planned to be on Into Glory Ride
@@JorgeSanchez-lk6ht I did not know this! Yes, it would indeed have been one more masterpiece on that album. Of all Manowar's albums it would be probably my favorite, if I'd have to choose (glad that I do not have to 😄, because I really like most other albums too); too bad that is not well recorded and produced! Still a masterpiece of epicness, but imagine it with the production of Triumph of Steel!
Greetings from Italy!
I loved this single and was sad that it wasnt this version on the album.
I love this version faaaaar better than the ‘87 version from Fighting the World
Still got it in vinyl....
me too
old style of Eric's singing = superior to later version!
Absolutely agree, brother. By later version you mean from Fighting the World onwards?
I bought this on vinyl as soon as it came out! I still have it and still love it.
I love Orson Welles narration on both this and Dark Avenger, awesome pair of tracks that seem to live hand in hand with each other.
And they play it live in a row. Saw them last two weeks 6 times. It was awesome.
Amazing version , the drums still like from the album into glory ride
i think both versions are good, each its own charms
Rugged, raw, and immortal.
Heard this song before 25yrs back.. but still.. it's fresh.. But this version is better than other one... For me.. Because the solo version really gives Goose Bumps..
Orson Welles cannot be beaten - Christopher Lee did a version of Dark Avenger - but Orson Welles still holds fast for me ...
Christopher Lee has an epic voice, but Dark Avenger wasn't really his best work - in my opinion!
This version is simply amazing.
Both versions are amazing
For you dad
Always Father I'll carry on till I die and the story goes on sadly for others to have to endure it
... legendary long-lasting MANOWAR 🇺🇸 from the USA, Heavy-Metal institution and still considered as the one and only 'Kings Of Metal' ... 🤘 🇺🇸
Thank You !!
I've cried my eyes out hearing the version of Fighting the world 😭
This is the only perfect and epic one! 👍🤟♥️
Really bad ass version, love it so much.
That's the real stuff!
I've never heard this cut... Until now...
remix Version from 1993
@@mumu5013 Damn... I was still in highschool
@@mumu5013 no this is the original 1983
thank you SaluterXstroyes for this original version
Essencial forever🤘
😭AWESOME
Something higher from a song..!!
Brutal!!!!!
Wenn du alt genug bist, um diese Worte zu lesen
Ihre Bedeutung wird sich für Dich entfalten
Diese Worte sind alles, was noch übrig ist
Und obwohl wir uns nie getroffen haben, mein einziger Sohn
Ich hoffe du weißt
Dass ich da gewesen wäre, um dich wachsen zu sehen
Aber mein Anruf wurde gehört und ich ging
Jetzt liegt deine Mission vor dir
So wie vor so langer Zeit
Um den Hilflosen zu helfen, die alle zu dir aufschauen
Und sie bis zum Ende zu verteidigen
Verteidiger
Reite wie der Wind
Kämpfe stolz, mein Sohn
Du bist der Verteidiger
Gott hat Dich gesandt
Vater, Vater, Vater
Ich schaue ich zu dir auf und beachte deinen Ruf
Dieser Brief beendet meine Suche
Ich lebe deinen Traum, der jetzt an mich weitergegeben wird
Und ich warte jetzt darauf, die Hand des Schicksals zu schütteln
Wie die Dämmerung, die auf den Morgen wartet
So verzaubern Zauberer deinen Zauberspruch
Ohne Herz, um mich gut zu machen
So steht es geschrieben, so soll es sein
Verteidiger
Reite wie der Wind
Kämpfe stolz, mein Sohn
Du bist der Verteidiger
Gott hat gesandt
Danke!!!1!!
@@egonmoll5968 Danke Dir Bruder!
Defender, so nahe war er noch nie!Man glaubt wirklich das Odin Heimdal, den Freund der Menschen geschickt hat!
I love it so much
HAIL !!!
Thank you for finding and posting, it's awesome
lots better than the '87 version, and ironically it sounds more modern-timeless
This song is credited on the Music For Nations The Singles album with the likes of Metallica, Mercyful Fate, Loudness etc. but it is not actually on the record. Manowar pulled it at the last second, saying the they would never appear on a metal compilation album.
...Death to false Metal🤘⚡🤘Hail MANOWAR
WHAT IF THEY have a new album... i really wonder it will bring me to space and back....
Interesting. But shows that there's a reason they choosed another version for the LP.
Magnific
"...Rosebud..."
Love it.2017.
"And Thought we never met, my only son" not sun HAIL MANOWAR \m/
ΕΠΟΣ
EPIC
Hail Defender 2Q2Q!
WWG1WGA!!!
Powerful one. But 87’s version is awesome!
They were going to mix his “Dark Tower (game) “ add to another tune be it got scrapped
🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻
Да! Моя молодость. Привет из России
I prefer the 1987 version.
This version blows away the FTW version. The ending here is beautiful and masterfully crafted, but in FTW, it's irritatingly simplistic and unoriginal.
I like that version too, but this original is undoubtely my favorite, since I heard it back in '85. One of the most heroic and epic songs not only in the discography of Manowar but in the entire History of Rock music. You are right in saying that the ending of the second version is worst: the generic fading at the end does not compare with this ending with the voice, even though the orchestraction in the beginning of the 87's version adds even more epicness to the song. Let's just say that it is good to have two great version (both the original and the remake) 😄!
I cannot say the same for the new versions of Battle Hymns and Kings of Metal, it is something that I find really not necessary!
Greetings from Italy!
@@sergiodambrosio363 Seems they play this version live, at least the part "Father, Father, I look up to you" is sung live like in this version, not the FTW version.
La primera y mejor.
Бальдра Бог Защитник!!!
In Liebe Christofer Lee!!1!
ja , aber das hier ist orson wells
Once you hear one of these versions for so long, you just cant like the other one. For example, because i had the AC/DC Live 1991 CD for 10 years before really hearing any of the studio version, i just dont care for the studio versions, they seem bland. So because I've heard the album version for so long, i dont really care for this version. I like the really slow build without the drums. I love the cool sucking effect on the "so wizards..." section. This version is much more raw and under-produced, and i can certainly understand a desire for that in this day and age, but i do like a little bit of production in my music. Lol maybe thats the priveledged millenial talking 😂
Dios existe y Manowar también pero prefiero a Manowar
The sound of drums not can be from 1983 (in my opinion). And voices too. It seems like one of the first variants of album version.
Is this really the vinyl from 1883 or the maxi version from 1993/1994?
haha... 1983 for sure... 🙂
@@floydian_83 it is the original version
@@SlauterXstroyes THX. Great.
... 🤘 🇺🇸
The solo is better.
Dickjoke Dandy no, release is better)
but release of "brothers of metal" worth than version 86th, just try it ua-cam.com/video/ObDKNjRBBGg/v-deo.html
Manowar was in america before they left so they american might be why god left this song for me i was just hellbent
Lo más grande que hay con la droga
Не слышал я такую версию раньше! Странный вокал....
Аналогично. И непонятно, откуда цифры 1983. Но басы отличнейшие
Да, хорошая версия...Может внатуре из 83-го...бонус-треком вышла на каком-нибудь японском диске...
@@ДмитрийНовиков-щ7ц была пластинка с двумя песнями, этой и Gloves of Metal. Я скачал с рутрекера отдельно от всей дискографии и был приятно удивлён.
The other version is better, this one sounds disconnected
It's the original, raw unproduced version, not re -released until early '90s
Far better imo. It's not's so much different!!!!!!!!!!
for me better! h&kFtW
I like the FTW mix better... its better timed... and better production...
This 83 version have the same feeling and rawness as a live version vs. a well prodjuct album version (87)
this should be the national anthem of Ukraine
For the world
Putin was forced by the US to go in the Ukraine. The true evil is Biden and the Deep State. They want this war.
@@MetalisForever666 lol. Putin planned this invasion for years, at least since 2014 when he criminally took over Crimea
@@radiozelaza Bullshit. Where is your proof? He got in because he don't can accept a Ukraine that is in the Nato and put nuclear missiles at his border. Biden and the deep state are the true evil.
@@MetalisForever666 if he can't accept Ukraine in NATO, then tough luck. Now he will have to accept Sweden and Finland in NATO lol. Do you realize Ukraine wanted to be in NATO so Russia would not threaten it again? You forgot 2014?
The new version sucks big time!! (compared to the original)
Esta versión……. NO