Track: Gallipoli
Album: The Dungeon Era - Box Set (Previously from "The Final Chapter")
Year: 2014
Music: T.Grose / T.Yatras
Words: T.Grose
Liner Notes: LT: “Probably the most difficult song on the album from a guitar and drum point of view. The main riff isn’t so bad when you get your head around it but once you put all of the parts together, it’s actually really complex. I remember sitting there in the studio while T.Y. smashed out the blast beat before the breakdown and thinking to myself ‘this guy is off the hook — that’s amazing!’ We tried all kinds of fun things like setting up two ride cymbals so we could get some cool stereo effects happening when he was doing the groovy breakdown, with Mav’s very 90s Helloween inspired solo over the top. It’s also nice that we were able to continue the tradition of writing songs from Australia’s rich history, I think that’s something that’s overlooked by Australian artists quite a lot because we just take that stuff for granted here.”
Lyrics:
So southern sons
Swallow propaganda
And set sail to leave our shores
So far away, a distant war
No voice to say
No word opposed
The orders handed down from feckless hands
All condemned to die in foreign lands
Eight thousand men to lose their lives
Honour ’til death, the ANZAC pride
Orders taught, we storm the Dardanelles
A futile task, all men condemned to hell
A legend born there as our children fell
ANZACS stand taller than all
Nowhere to hide
The raining fire of guns
Now turn the sapphire waters red
Survivors few and far between the dead
So the time has come
To scale the walls
And run the deadly gauntlet – No Man’s Land
The time to stand or fall is now at hand
SOLO: LT / MAV / LT
LORD - Australian Heavy Metal
Track: Gallipoli
Album: The Dungeon Era - Box Set (Previously from "The Final Chapter")
Year: 2014
Music: T.Grose / T.Yatras
Words: T.Grose
Liner Notes: LT: “Probably the most difficult song on the album from a guitar and drum point of view. The main riff isn’t so bad when you get your head around it but once you put all of the parts together, it’s actually really complex. I remember sitting there in the studio while T.Y. smashed out the blast beat before the breakdown and thinking to myself ‘this guy is off the hook — that’s amazing!’ We tried all kinds of fun things like setting up two ride cymbals so we could get some cool stereo effects happening when he was doing the groovy breakdown, with Mav’s very 90s Helloween inspired solo over the top. It’s also nice that we were able to continue the tradition of writing songs from Australia’s rich history, I think that’s something that’s overlooked by Australian artists quite a lot because we just take that stuff for granted here.”
Lyrics:
So southern sons
Swallow propaganda
And set sail to leave our shores
So far away, a distant war
No voice to say
No word opposed
The orders handed down from feckless hands
All condemned to die in foreign lands
Eight thousand men to lose their lives
Honour ’til death, the ANZAC pride
Orders taught, we storm the Dardanelles
A futile task, all men condemned to hell
A legend born there as our children fell
ANZACS stand taller than all
Nowhere to hide
The raining fire of guns
Now turn the sapphire waters red
Survivors few and far between the dead
So the time has come
To scale the walls
And run the deadly gauntlet – No Man’s Land
The time to stand or fall is now at hand
SOLO: LT / MAV / LT
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