MythsOfMetal wrote:I can't say I like them one bit. They just sound really cheesy, bland, boring and too filled with cliches for me to enjoy. Also, don't even try saying I don't have taste because I dislike them.

I dare say I could name 100 bands better than Manowar.
While their later albums tend to be pretty much what you describe, I find their first four albums mostly among the best of their period. Despite the idea that the lyrics are cheesy and clichéd, the weren't when Manowar started doing this. On the first albums, the lyrics are often actually well written, they do their job, are not afraid to do it, they fit the music and are very evocative. That, too, is something lost after about 1992 the latest. As far as the music goes, while simple in a particular way, was harmonically inventive and catchy. The song writing similarly was often quite good, incorporating a lot of seventies sensibilities at a time when via the NWOBH, metal had mostly abandoned it's psychedelic roots.
So, it's OK to not like it, of course. But you might consider considering that they did something right back in the 1980ties...
Also, out of curiosity, is the song "Guyana (The Cult of the Damned)" about The People's Temple members who committed mass suicide in Guyana in 1978?
Yes.
Also, this song is pretty much free of any of the metal clichés you bemoan
