Nanowar is a comedy heavy metal band from Rome, Italy. Their name is a pun on the metal band Manowar, and represents their tendency to satirize True Metal, the primary focus of their music. Their work mainly aims to make humorous references to and jokes about the genre, often parodying the way in which power metal bands are perceived to take themselves very seriously.

In 2006 the band changed their name from Nanowar to Nanowar of Steel,[1] as a parody of the Italian power metal band Rhapsody changing their name to Rhapsody of Fire after a legal dispute.[2]

Contents 1 History 2 Members 3 Discography 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History

The 2005 album Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! was published on Jamendo under the Creative Commons-BY-NC-SA licence.[3] The 2010 album Into Gay Pride Ride was published on the same platform under the Creative Commons-BY licence.[4]

In April 2012 they released the videoclip for a new single entitled Giorgio Mastrota, which reached over 100.000 views on YouTube in just two weeks (now over two million). The song became extremely popular in Italy, being broadcast by several radio stations and also appearing on national television on several occasions. In 2013 they started cooperating with Feudalesimo e Liberta’, a well known Italian pseudo-parody political movement which advocates the return of the Empire and Feudal Rights in Europe. They released a music video in August of the same year, which was covered by mainstream newspapers (such as La Repubblica) and echoed through the whole Italian peninsula.[5]

Members Mohammed Abdul (Valerio) - guitar and keyboards, vocals, Gattopanceri666 (Edoardo) - guitar and bass Uinona Raider (Alessandro) - drums, guitars, vocals Potowotominimak (Carlo Alberto) - vocals Baffo (Raffaello) - miscellaneous sound effects, DJ Nanowar of Steele, Line-Up at Rockharz Open Air 2018

Guitarist Mohammed Abdul

Bassist Gattopanceri666

Drummer Uinona Raider

Singer Potowotominimak

Sound Effects: Baffo

Discography True Metal of the World - Demo CD - February 2003 Triumph of True Metal of Steel - Demo CD - July 2003 Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay! - Self-produced album - June 2005 Made In Naples - Live album - Limited Edition Double CD - January 2007 Into Gay Pride Ride (2010, album) A Knight At The Opera (2014, album and DVD) Tour-Mentone Vol.1 (January 2016, EP) The Call Of Cthulhu (July 2018, Single)[6] Stairway To Valhalla (November 2018, album) See also Catarrhal Noise Massacration References ^ Nanowar of Steel, Encyclopaedia Metallum, 29 July 2014. ^ (in French) NANOWAR - Into gay pride ride review, metal-integral.com, 29 July 2014 ^ Other Bands Play, Nanowar Gay!, Jamendo.com, 29 July 2014 ^ Into Gay Pride Ride, Jamendo.com, 29 July 2014 ^ http://www.nanowar.it/band-members/ ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPUJG2jTw9s External links Official Website NanowaR at Metal Storm Nanowar MySpace Authority control MusicBrainz: b879af63-9ff6-49b3-a556-1af86e753119