The Battle Has Started

the battle has started

Editorial Reviews
Mark Dildin, www.hiswaytv.com
Been in this business for years. Great CD. "I Want A Walmart Girl" is a hit!

Product Description
"The Battle Has Started" is Christian Rock that makes you feel good! The strong lyrics and message pierces your heart. You will feel better than you did before! WARRIOR's hit, I Want A Walmart Girl" is tearing up the radio and internet radio charts! The music picks up where the early nineties left off and has progressed higher, with some nu punk, strong straight-ahead rock, and intense ballads! If you want to enjoy excellent rock with real melodies, great hooks, intricate leads (not these girlie-man leads), and lyrics that fill your soul with truth, purchase "The Battle Has Started", enjoy it, and turn it on to a friend or relative that needs help. Join the Warrior Army!

The Battle Has Started

The Battle Has Started,Warrior,Warrior Records

The Battle Has Started

Average customer rating:

WARRIOR is a breath of fresh air compared to today!
WARRIOR (America's Rock Band) Takes It!
Not the 80s Warrior who is on the comeback trail
Novelty CD at best
Not too good. Fun for a few moments, but it disappoints.

The Battle Has Started

Manufacturer: Warrior Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00067WGMM
Release Date: 2004-09-10

Album Description

"The Battle Has Started" is Christian Rock that makes you feel good! The strong lyrics and message pierces your heart. You will feel better than you did before! WARRIOR's hit, I Want A Walmart Girl" is tearing up the radio and internet radio charts! The music picks up where the early nineties left off and has progressed higher, with some nu punk, strong straight-ahead rock, and intense ballads! If you want to enjoy excellent rock with real melodies, great hooks, intricate leads (not these girlie-man leads), and lyrics that fill your soul with truth, purchase "The Battle Has Started", enjoy it, and turn it on to a friend or relative that needs help. Join the Warrior Army!

Customer Reviews:

WARRIOR is a breath of fresh air compared to today!.......2006-03-03

I saw the cover and I had to check it out. They came right out with "Cry As One", which talks about the separation between churches and that we all need to stop this isolation and get on our knees and "Cry As One" in these last days. Each song's music blends with the focus of the lyrics easily and you listen to each song with a perspective that either aligns with your wisdom or teaches you something. It's all positive, man. The melodies are real ones that seem to have elluded us these last 14 years. It's reminiscent of a caring to a higher calling when it comes to songwriting and respect for music and the profession that is both refreshing and completely different from the "I hate my parents", "I hate Warrior", "I hate myself", "I could care less about you" attitude that started when Nirvana entered the scene and beyond to now. I like 70's and 80's pop metal. I always will. Warrior belongs with the best.

WARRIOR (America's Rock Band) Takes It!.......2005-12-02

This CD is great! All the songs have great verses, choruses, hooks that go just right with the lyrics. Strong and compelling, I was impressed with this pop metal, rock n roll style that seems to have progressed to this time of age if 80's rock was allowed to progress to this time. That's how well this CD is! It is dated for now if not twenty years from now. Like Boston, Dokken, Led Zepplin, some things never die... and these guys belong with them! To hear the Gospel advanced in such a way as to make sense to anyone, WARRIOR has succeeded. I'm sure any age would appeciate this CD. Thank you guys for a little breath of fresh air. Look for to the next one.

Not the 80s Warrior who is on the comeback trail.......2005-06-01

First off, I bought this, sight unseen, thinking it was from the 80s band Warrior who did Fighting for the Earth. It is not.

Secondly, I got it from another online house (one without pictures of the cover, which would have let me know that it wasn't the same band - maybe...)

Lastly, I don't usually write reviews, but there seems to be quite the war going on here. One or two guys write a bad review, they are immediately followed up by one or two 5 star reviews who all seem to know the band personally. So, on that I will say that I suspect the 1 star reviews are from people with some sort of axe to grind and that the 5 star retorts are coming from guys that are either in the band or are affiliated with them.

That said, my review:

First off, I am not a lyrics guy. religious, satanic, uplifting, or bleak lyrics aren't going to make much difference to me. I have bought a few CDs with lyrics so silly that they ruined the song. The Billy Idol sung track on Tony Iommi's solo album comes to mind with a chorus so bad I can't bring myself to retype it here. This CD isn't one of those. The lyrics are fine. They don't approach the poetry of Agalloch or Tribe or After Tribe, but they aren't as bad as the aforementioned Idol song or Fatal if Swallowed by Overkill. Just getting that out of the way.

This is 80s music, which is a good thing since some of the best metal (most?) came from that decade and I applaud this band for paying homage to their forefathers. There are some interesting musical ideas presented here too.

So where does it go wrong?
Well, first is the track Walmart Girl that gets a lot of mention here on this page. The song really seems like another band. It is kind of funny, but is not representative of the band in general. It is kind of like only knowing Anthrax from the I am the Man single.
The rest of the CD is in the 80s pop metal realm (that isn't a dig by any means) and a few of the tunes really start to draw the listener in after Walmart Girl. Then, "The Better High" hits and really ruins things. The son is written like an army or boyscout march. Really.
Say a line and repeat. Say another and repeat it, all with military pattern. Think Stripes or other films with the "Sound off. One Two Three" march section and make up your own anti drug lyrics and you'll have this tune. The disc low point.
That could be fine, but it goes on through every verse.
The center of the song is a really cool, 70s rock inspired lick and solo that remind me of old Bad Company or BTO. Shame to find it sandwhiched in here.
Many of the other songs will present a good chorus or verse but repeat it a lot. Those of you who listened to the first (and obscure) Great White CD will be familiar with I am talking about.

Tad Donley has a pretty good, clean voice. He reminds me of someone, but try as hard as might, I haven't pulled the name out of my head yet.

Ultimately, the song writing is still a bit more cliched than I would like and I don't see the CD getting many more spins from me. I will probably come back here when the next CD comes out and check out the samples to see if the song writing moves up to match the musicianship. Maybe outside writing help (also not a dig - I play in a band and, despite being an accomplished guitarist, I find song writing extremely difficult without someone else to provide the occasional initial melodic ideas).

I would have liked to give this band 2.5 stars, as the CD has some real shining moments, but Amazon only allows whole numbers and I have given much better CDs 3s (without writing reviews).

Good luck to these guys. I hope the next CD adds some more varied writing within each track.

Novelty CD at best.......2005-06-01

I heard I want a Wallmart Girl and picked this CD up.
I wish I hadn't. After just a few listens I grew tired of the blandness. You can get my copy it the used bin if you hurry.

Not too good. Fun for a few moments, but it disappoints........2005-06-01

The album is just lacking something that makes me want to play it a second time.

I can recommend trying White Cross or Messiah Prophet is you like this style of music and want Faith based lyrics.
I am also partial to Barren Cross, Saint (Judas Priest styled band), and even the first few Bride Cds.

If you aren't as worried about the message, Dokken and a few other 80s bands will do.

Hoping they grow with the followup as there is potential here (good musicianship and a talented vocalist) but the songs are just really lacking.

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The Battle Has Started
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Manufacturer: independent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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