And of course Tyr's "Ragnarök" bout the final battle...serious, passionate and moving....

Stone - Back to the Stone Age

It gives a really simple and grotesque picture about modern warfare
"a tale of rhinos and ants"

Hmm..Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden. It's about when the English came to America. Hope that's helpful.

Hmm... I'm partial to 2 Minutes To Midnight, by Iron Maiden, myself. This song is about the cold war. We were "two minutes from midnight" (a nuclear holocaust). The unborn in the womb was the action of launching. "Killing it" would be to press the button and destoy all.

And Neuraxis' Cyberwar.

I think "Blackmail the universe" or "Amerikhastan" from Megadeth

Written by [user id=24776] on 03.12.2007 at 19:56

Stone - Back to the Stone Age

It gives a really simple and grotesque picture about modern warfare
"a tale of rhinos and ants"

The ants ofcourse symbolize the countries that have a minor role in the world politics and the rhinos, well obviously the super powers such as U.S.A , Russia and China.

Well dah . . .

i have finished my assignment, and i thank everyone who posted a song or something, but keep posting for other people who may want to know some war songs

hmm...
the trooper - iron maiden
this is the war - vader

Is it any war in particular?

well would 'One' by Metallica be one? not sure...

Written by Oracle on 05.12.2007 at 06:36

Is it any war in particular?

well would 'One' by Metallica be one? not sure...

no war in particular, but if it was about a particular event it would be better

but yes, 'one' is a good one

Ill also put in Gettysburg (1863) Trilogy by Iced Earth from The Glorious Burden Album. Actually i think that whole album is about war anyway...

Written by BurbotsRevenge on 04.12.2007 at 22:31
i have finished my assignment

So which song did you use? Or would you rather keep secrets until you have received your mark so you aren't jinxed... I'm like that with some things

Written by Syk on 05.12.2007 at 07:36

Written by BurbotsRevenge on 04.12.2007 at 22:31
i have finished my assignment

So which song did you use? Or would you rather keep secrets until you have received your mark so you aren't jinxed... I'm like that with some things

i think ill wait till i recieve the mark b4 i say anything but thanks for all the feedback everyone

Written by Oracle on 05.12.2007 at 06:43

Ill also put in Gettysburg (1863) Trilogy by Iced Earth from The Glorious Burden Album. Actually i think that whole album is about war anyway...

I agree also in one of them was song Waterloo

Written by Bad English on 05.12.2007 at 23:18

Written by Oracle on 05.12.2007 at 06:43

Ill also put in Gettysburg (1863) Trilogy by Iced Earth from The Glorious Burden Album. Actually i think that whole album is about war anyway...

I agree also in one of them was song Waterloo

Yes Gettysburg is a brilliant one, each individual tune in this song is related to either side of the war, in my opinion, one of the greatest war epics ever released that ive heard.

@ K7: Yep theres Waterloo, a great famous battle

Eyes of the insane by Slayer is about the post tramatic stress of war

well everyone, the mark i recieved was nothing... they didnt give me a mark, it was like an end of year assignment (or "personal interest project") so they didnt give a mark but just a comment

everyone else in my class was doing a movie or something else, and i recieved the comment:

interesting topic and thoughtful observations

i like the interesting topic part

songs used were the ones in my openeing post (i arleady had some of their stuff ready) as well as some megadeth songs and a couple iron maiden songs

thanks everyone

my favorites metal songs about war are:

Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Manowar - Hail and Kill
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Iced Earth - When the Eagle Cries

and i almost forgot
Rhapsody on Fire - Holy Thunderforce
Hammerfall - Back to back
Dream Evil - The Chosen ones

Written by Metalbound7 on 08.12.2007 at 04:16

my favorites metal songs about war are:

Iron Maiden - Paschendale
Manowar - Hail and Kill
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Iced Earth - When the Eagle Cries

I hope you know what was Paschendale, but read my firts post because there are more songs about war waht written IM

1)disposable heroes by metallcica

hense

solidier boy
made of clay
no an empty shell..
21
only son..

2)welcome home(sanitarium)

like being sent to mental assylms after war

3)one by tellica
it has a good video

and 4
DIE FOR YOUR GOVERNMENT
by anti flag
not so much metal
but yeah..


mm.. 5)
M.I.A
missing in action
by avenged sevenfold


6) war pigs by black sabbath
7)trooper-ironmaiden
8)killing fields - slayer

well there is my contribution

Written by BurbotsRevenge on 06.12.2007 at 07:17

well everyone, the mark i recieved was nothing... they didnt give me a mark, it was like an end of year assignment (or "personal interest project") so they didnt give a mark but just a comment

everyone else in my class was doing a movie or something else, and i recieved the comment:

interesting topic and thoughtful observations

i like the interesting topic part

songs used were the ones in my openeing post (i arleady had some of their stuff ready) as well as some megadeth songs and a couple iron maiden songs

thanks everyone

Been there . . .
I made a speach about "Finland as a metal country" for my finnish class. Teacher was speachless, although not due to perfect level of my speach, but because she didn't have any information to comment my work to be bad neither good.
All of us don't unfortunately value metal.

The Gettysburg Trilogy from Iced Earth's Album Glorius Burden.

Written by Oracle on 05.12.2007 at 06:36

Is it any war in particular?

well would 'One' by Metallica be one? not sure...

//Yeah because its based off a movie (i think its called johnny got his gun or something like that) and he got everything blown off in a war and is living against his will. Also a whole plethora of Megadeth like Holy Wars, Blackmail the Universe, and Washington is next, kind of indirectly though. Idk if you could say Sacrificed Sond by Dream Theater or not. LaBrie's talking about 9/11 which led to the war, but doesnt talk about the war directly//

I was actually thinking about how well war and Metal seem to go together as I was watching Arnie's 'Commando' movie late last night. What popped into my head, just now, as I'm sure someone has said is Slayer's "War Ensemble." A great song indeed. I especially love their performance of it at Download 2005 in this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CnNwykfIWQw

Metallica has a lot of war songs. Most things off of Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All are about war.

One is about someone being kept alive in a war hospital even though they have nothing left and their life is like hell. I believe it's based on Johnny Got His Gun.

Written by Metal_Militia on 14.04.2008 at 05:38

Written by Oracle on 05.12.2007 at 06:36

Is it any war in particular?

well would 'One' by Metallica be one? not sure...

//Yeah because its based off a movie (i think its called johnny got his gun or something like that) and he got everything blown off in a war and is living against his will. Also a whole plethora of Megadeth like Holy Wars, Blackmail the Universe, and Washington is next, kind of indirectly though. Idk if you could say Sacrificed Sond by Dream Theater or not. LaBrie's talking about 9/11 which led to the war, but doesnt talk about the war directly//

Nonononononono

There were many similarities between the lyrical content of One and the book (and movie) Johnny Got His Gun, but One was not based on JGHG. The band was actually made aware of the similarities after they already had come up with the concept (and a large portion of the lyrics) for One during the Master of Puppets sessions. Specifically, they were discussing what it would be like to be alive but totally cut off from the world. The idea of making the central character a soldier actually came out of the writing for Disposable Heroes and this is what ultimately led to them using the footage from the movie in the video.

This is a general misconception that was well-documented back in the day when the album/song/video were all new. It was usually part of the same discussions as "Metallica made a video? Fucking sell-outs!" and "The Wizard of Oz in a Metallica song? Fucking poseurs!" and "Cliff didn't write 'To Live is To Die' man, that's bullshit and just way too convenient - James and Lars made that shit up so Cliff would go down as some sort of prophet. Fucking sell-out poseurs!"

However, most of the information you will find on the internet today will claim that the song was based on the book/movie - and James himself has even alluded to as much in interviews over the past few years - amazing how history changes, isn't it? Too bad I don't have all my old Hit Parader and Circus mags or I could probably scan in a dozen or more quotes where both James and Lars denied the connection and explained it as I have explained it above.

Wow, I've never heard that before. I always thought they were fully aware of the connection.

//I never heard that before either. i think you might be a little off because they released a DDVD called Metallica : The Videos and in the interview about one, lars says that they got the idea off the movie and talked about the process they had to go through to get the rights for it//

Written by Metal_Militia on 14.04.2008 at 20:34

//I never heard that before either. i think you might be a little off because they released a DDVD called Metallica : The Videos and in the interview about one, lars says that they got the idea off the movie and talked about the process they had to go through to get the rights for it//

They got the idea for the video from the movie, but not for the song itself. After they came up with the concept, someone (not sure if they ever said who it was) told them about the similarities between their song concept and JGHG. It was then that James read the book and watched the movie and thought that it captured the mood and emotion they were going for perfectly, so they bought the rights to the film for use in the video. I believe James may have re-written portions of the song around the new concept, but the song itself was never "based on" JGHG.

As I mentioned before, this was a topic of much discussion back in '88 & '89 and there were numerous interviews in which both James and Lars discussed it. What we need is some more old-timers that remember it or, better yet, some back-issues of the big magazines of the time (Hit Parader, Creem, RIP, Circus, etc.) that have interviews in them.