''The Dawn of Battle'' is a three song EP released in 2002 on the

Nuclear Blast Nuclear Blast is a record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label mov ...

label by heavy metal band

Manowar Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980, the group is known for lyrics based on fantasy (particularly sword and sorcery) and mythology (particularly Norse mythology and Greco-Roman mythology), as well as ...

. This peculiar disc is a CD on one side and a

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on the other side; the outer (unused) region of each side is painted black like a regular CD or DVD back side. The EP also contains some video material from ''

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'', a promotional trailer for the '' Fire and Blood'' DVD, and a link to a special website. To promote the EP, a promotional music video was made for the song "I Believe". "The Dawn of Battle" was featured in the 2009 video game ''

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''.

Track listing

2003 EPs Manowar albums Albums with cover art by Ken Kelly (artist) Nuclear Blast EPs {{2000s-metal-album-stub