Song · Manowar
“Defender” by Manowar
From the album Fighting the World (1987)
“Defender” by Manowar appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1987 on the album Fighting the World. Its best result is #272 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,277 hard rock song of all time.
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On Fighting the World, Manowar's fifth album, out on ATCO in February 1987, "Defender" hands the floor to the actor Orson Welles. His spoken passage wasn't cut fresh: the band carried it over from their original 1982 demo of the song, and the album, arriving two years after Welles died, is dedicated to him.
Joey DeMaio wrote the words and music and plays bass, Eric Adams sings lead, Ross the Boss covers guitar and keyboard and Scott Columbus drums and adds percussion, with the strings credited to a "General VanClibreen Philharmonic". The band produced it, Jason Flom was executive producer, and Rich Breen recorded and mixed it for a record Manowar tracked and mixed entirely on a 32-track digital machine at Universal Recording Studios in Chicago. It's heavy metal as grand opera, all thunder and ceremony.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 272 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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