Album Info
| Artist: | Doro |
| Album: | Forever Warriors |
| Released: | USA & Europe, 2025 |
Tracklist:
| A1 | All For Metal | 4:02 |
| A2 | Bastardos | 3:49 |
| A3 | If I Can't Have You - No One Will | 5:09 |
| A4 | Soldier Of Metal | 4:35 |
| B1 | Turn It Up | 3:23 |
| B2 | Blood, Sweat and Rock'N'Roll | 4:22 |
| B3 | Don't Break My Heart Again | 4:41 |
| B4 | Love's Gone To Hell | 4:16 |
| C1 | Freunde Fürs Leben | 3:53 |
| C2 | Backstage To Heaven | 3:51 |
| C3 | Be Strong | 3:01 |
| C4 | Black Ballad | 5:46 |
| C5 | Bring My Hero Back Home Again | 2:34 |
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Description
Doro’s Forever Warriors landed on 17 August 2018 via Nuclear Blast as the heavier half of her double studio set, Forever Warriors, Forever United. It plays like a love letter to battle-ready heavy metal, tightened by decades of road work and that unmistakable voice that can rasp, roar, and suddenly lift into a triumphant chorus. If you grew up on Warlock records or have caught her leveling festival fields, this disc feels like a victory lap that still swings hard.
The opening salvo sets the tone. All For Metal is a big-booted anthem built for fists and flare guns, with a gang-chant hook and enough guitar bite to cut through a festival wind. Then Bastardos barrels in on a meaner riff, the kind of track that reminds you Doro always kept a boot in the street while the chorus aimed for the rafters. The momentum barely dips. If I Can’t Have You, No One Will brings in Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg for a grizzled duet that works better than it has any right to, her molten belt sparring with his growl over a stomping midtempo groove. It is a highlight, and one of the heaviest things in the Doro catalog without losing her melodic core.
What keeps Forever Warriors lively is the band’s balance of punch and shine. Johnny Dee’s drums are stout and no-nonsense, the kick tight, the snare cracking right where a crowd would clap along. Longtime bassist Nick Douglas threads sturdy runs that keep the riffs moving. On guitars, Luca Princiotta and Bas Maas trade crunch and flash with a seasoned sense of what serves the song. Solos cut in at the right moments, bright enough to lift the choruses but short enough to keep the engine revving. This is classic, European-styled heavy metal, not polished into sterility, but honed to gleam on a loud system or through a decent pair of headphones.
The songs lean into different shades of fight music. Soldier of Metal is pure hearts-on-sleeves devotion, a marching singalong that could sit alongside Raise Your Fist in a setlist without anyone leaving for a beer. Blood, Sweat and Rock ’n’ Roll does exactly what its title promises, a barroom-sticky rocker with a grin, the kind of tune that makes you miss small stages and low ceilings. The hooks feel built for communal release. You can hear the blueprint for the live show in the way the verses set up the shout lines, the way the bridges step aside to give the audience space to yell back.
There is also a sense of gratitude threaded through the record. Doro has weathered trends, lineup changes, and the metal industry’s ups and downs, and Forever Warriors sounds like she is saluting the people who kept the flame with her. The choirs on All For Metal thicken that feeling, a literal crowd lining up beside her. The production keeps everything punchy and clear without sanding off the grit. Guitars feel warm and muscular, vocals ride high, and the rhythm section hits like a touring band that knows its cues and trusts its instincts.
As a standalone listen, this disc is the muscle and leather part of the 2018 project, while its sister, Forever United, leans more into melody and warmth. Together they show why she remains such a reliable force. She still writes choruses you can actually remember, still champions heavy metal as a community, and still sounds like she means every word.
If you are crate-digging, keep an eye out for the Forever Warriors vinyl. Nuclear Blast did right by the format, and this material breathes on wax, the low end rounding out and those gang vocals getting extra body. For collectors who swear by Doro vinyl, this belongs on the shelf beside Warrior Soul and Raise Your Fist. You can buy Doro records online without much hunting, but it is more fun to stumble on a copy at a Melbourne record store, or in a crate of vinyl records Australia listings where someone clearly priced it too cheap. However you find it, Doro albums on vinyl tend to age well, and this one feels built to spin.
More than 35 years in, Doro still writes like the pit is just opening. Forever Warriors doesn’t reinvent anything, and it doesn’t need to. It’s a sturdy, spirited addition to a catalog that keeps the faith and keeps the flame bright.
