Free Spirit Soar

Legendary US Metal band Warlord was formed in 1981 by Mark Zonder and William J. Tsamis. One year later, in 1982, the song \"Lucifer's Hammer\" (based on a novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) appeared on the prestigious compilation album \"Metal Massacre II\". This resulted in a deal with Metal Blade Records, with Warlord recording their debut mini-album. \"Deliver Us\" was released in 1983 and is today considered as the blueprint for what was later to be called \"Epic Metal\". \"Deliver Us\" was followed by \"And The Cannons Of Destruction Have Begun...\" in 1984. After a long hiatus, \"Rising Out Of The Ashes\" appeared as the comeback album for Warlord in 2002, while it took another eleven years for the follow-up \"The Holy Empire\" to see the light of day in 2013. Up until the present day, \"The Holy Empire\" would remain the last Warlord studio album with all new material, as William J. Tsamis sadly passed away on 13th of May 2021 at the age of 60.