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soloud
Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 32
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: Historical based songs |
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I'm looking for metal songs based on actual historical events/people. Anyone with some ideas they are willing to post?
I've got the recent ones by Iced Earth and of course several ones from Iron Maiden...looking for others
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JesseR72
Joined: 17 Feb 2002 Posts: 414 Location: PA
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:57 pm Post subject: Historical based songs |
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"Rest In Pieces" by Metal Church is about the Titanic......can't think of any more off the top of my head....I know their out there though. |
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Here's a few...
Krokus: Russian Winter. Great tune.
Sabbath: War Pigs and Iron Man are about the German General Staff and Hitler.
Sabbath: Who are You? is about Stalin.
UFO: Lights Out in London is about the blitz, 1940.
Accept: Balls to the Wall is about the cold war and Germany's desire to overthrow COmmunism in the east and be re-united.
Prong: The Rude Awakening album is a concept record about Communism. Great record.
Crimson Glory: Red Sharks is about Stalinism.
Metallica: Harvest of Sorrow.
Finally, there are several Guns & Roses songs that are about how mad Axl Rose was when he learned that he has a small penis. They re-create his venting.
Motorhead: A cool tune about the first world war. Forget the name.
Saxon: Crusader and Sailing to America. Both good tunes. Also "The Eagle has Landed." |
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69mopar
Joined: 12 May 2001 Posts: 136 Location: Hurlburt Field AFB Ft Walton Beach Florida
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Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 7:30 pm Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Dont know if it would be considered metal or not..
Rush..Manhattan Project |
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Wyvern
Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 2214 Location: Costa Rica
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 1:53 am Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Motorhead - 'Death Or Glory' (several historical war related episodes).
Motorhead -'1916' (World War I)
Iron Maiden - 'Alexander The Great'
Iron Maiden - 'The Trooper' (Battle of Balaclava)
Iron Maiden - 'Aces High' (Battle of England)
Iron Maiden - 'Tailgunner' (WWII bombers)
Impaled Nazarene - 'Total War/Winter War' (Finnish-Russian war during WWII)
Saxon - 'Shadows On The Wall' (Hiroshima)
Saxon - 'Broken Heroes'
Baron Rojo - 'Hiroshima'
Grave Digger - 'Enola Gay (drop the bomb)'
Metal Church - 'Rest In Pieces (april 15, 1912)'
Black Sabbath - 'Hand Of Doom' (Vietnam war)
Thin Lizzy - 'Roisin Dubh' (Irish history)
Thin Lizzy - 'Massacre'
Thin Lizzy - 'Genocide (the killing of the buffalo)'
Thin Lizzy - 'Angel of Death' |
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chrisbjackson
Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 52 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 2:44 am Post subject: Historical based songs |
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[url=http://www.hardradio.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic &f=7&t=009371&p=]Here[/url] is a thread I started last year listing metal songs about the World Wars.
Grave Digger - the whole [i]Tunes of War[/i] album, about the history of Scotland
Grave Digger - the whole [i]Knights of the Cross[/i] album, about the Crusades
Hammerfall - Steel Meets Steel, also about the Crusades
Nazareth - 1692 (Glencoe Massacre)
Aska - Imperial Rome |
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iwarrior
Joined: 05 Apr 2002 Posts: 3526 Location: Pittsburgh,PA
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:20 am Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Steel Prophet-"Ides of March" |
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Valhallen
Joined: 17 Jan 2000 Posts: 411 Location: US
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:08 am Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Hitorical songs:
Iced Earth - The entire Glorious Burden CD
Slayer - Angel of Death (life in Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp)
Slayer - The Crooked Cross (life of a soldier in the SS)
Vanden Plas - End of Days (JFK's assassination?)
More to come... |
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Jim McCormick
Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: Historical based songs |
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Blue Oyster Cult, "Godzilla"- About a giant nuclear breathed Tyrannosaur/Stegosaur hybrid that stomps Toyko to the ground.....oops, that's not world history, just movie monster history, sometimes I get it mixed up....sorry. [img]images/smiles/icon_redface.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] |
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