Magic Circle Music reports:

The response to 'Father' has been phenomenal! The first song released from MANOWAR's new EP Thunder In The Sky was recorded in 16 languages and included as a bonus CD. As soon as the fans heard their respective languages, the mail started pouring in!

"Hi, my name is Ayten Karasakal from Turkey. I am 15 years old. I love your 'Baba'/'Father' song. I love Manowar so much. You are the greatest. You'll always carry heavy metal's flag. We want to see you in Turkey! Please, please, please, please, please come to Turkey. Thanks for your Turkish song."
"There is no such words, that can express my feelings when I listen to this song in my national language. It was a great idea to record it in so many languages. I think that you gave a feeling of being special to all fans, if not, you gave it to me. Congratulations to Eric for singing in Polish, because it's quite difficult for foreigners to even speak in it. You did very well, Eric! My woman said that she would like to sing this song to her parents on the day of our wedding. I'm sure I'll do it with her cause I sing in band and it would be great to sing it in two voices! hehe... Manowar song on my wedding party. Just thinking about it is making me crazy! HAIL TO YOU ALL!!!" Merin "I want to thank you for amazing show you did Finland at Provinssi rock. I watched a documentation about the song 'Father' on Finnish fan page of Manowar and you talked about the song and how it touches many with its message. The lyrics truly are touching and compelling, I don't know whether you write your songs from your own experiences or not, but the song is really profound. To me this song is important because I'm not that close to my father and the lyrics don't really reflect the relationship between me and my father, but Eric's voice and the sound of this track makes me feel content that I even have a father. I want to say you that your songs touch me deeply and help me carry on."
"Hail from Romania! My name is Mihai Popescu , I am 16 years old. You are the truly kings of metal. This song, 'Father' ('Tata'), WOW it's... like I don't know how to say, but my grandfather has listened to it and he loves this song, and he doesn't listen to metal. He lost his father in WW2. Anyway... you are the first band doing this... and this is absolutely awsome."

Check out the video for 'Father', below.

As previously reported, details regarding Manowar's new EP, Thunder In The Sky, have been revealed. The artwork can be seen on the left (click to enlarge).

The introduction to The Asgard Saga, Manowar's collaboration with Germany's best-selling fantasy author, Wolfgang Hohlbein, will feature six songs and a bonus CD with 'Father' recorded in 16 different languages. The EP is the prequel to the complete CD Hammer Of The Gods due to be released at the end of 2009.

Destined to be a collector's item, the tour edition of the EP will be available at all the festivals Manowar headlines on The Death to Infidels Tour 2009. The downloadable version of the EP will contain the exact same content as the version on sale during the tour: 'Thunder In The Sky', 'God Or Man', 'Let The Gods Decide', 'Father', 'Die With Honor', 'The Crown And The Ring' (2008) and versions of 'Father' recorded in German, Italian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Spanish, French, Greek, Turkish, Polish, Japanese, Croatian, Portuguese and Finnish.

The EP is only available for sale online in high-quality, DMR-free, MP3 format only at The Kingdom Of Steel Online Store here.

According to the The Kingdom Of Steel Online Store: "All of our MP3s have been created in the legendary Manowar studio, Haus Wahnfried, using state of the art digital equipment. Great care has been taken to ensure the quality of the digital transfer in making these files. Each track is available as a High Fidelity file: Recorded at bit rate of 256 kbps and sample rate of 44.100 kHz for higher than CD quality sound, these files are usually 6-12 MB per song."