Violence and Bloodshed
1987 · Atco 790 563-1 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Manowar
- Title
- Violence and Bloodshed
- Release
- Fighting the World
- Year
- 1987
- Label
- Atco # 790 563-1
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Genre
- Metal · Heavy Metal · Power Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Manowar, an American Heavy Metal / US Power Metal band, formed in 1980 in Auburn, NY, with a revolving line-up, but consistently headed by the lead singer Eric Adams and the bass and keyboard player Joey DeMaio. "Battle Hymns" (Liberty Records # LBG 30349), the first album they recorded, included a couple post-war Vietnam-related songs, called "Death Tone" and "Shell Shock". The track "Violence and Bloodshed" (ATCO Records # 790 563-1) featured a typical 80s theme of going back to Vietnam to rescue American soldier left behind (either M.I.A. or P.O.W.s), also frequently seen in 1980s films like Rambo: First Blood Part II. The songs is narrated in the first person from the perspective of a vigilante in the US (possibly a Vietnam veteran): "blew it 'Nam, shot up my friends, I'm back on the street". He pledged to defend freedom and civilization. He then told the listener that "my brother's still in Da-Nang" and that he would go "back to 'Nam 'cause no one else will".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Manowar, an American heavy metal band, formed in 1980 in Auburn, NY, with a revolving line-up, but consistently headed by the lead singer Eric Adams and the bass and keyboard player Joey DeMaio. Battle Hymn (Liberty Records # LBG 30349), the first album they recorded, included a couple post-war Vietnam-related songs, called "Death Tone" and "Shell Shock". The track "Violence and Bloodshed" (ATCO Records # 790 563-1) featured a typical 80s theme of going back to Vietnam to rescue American soldier left behind (either M.I.A. or P.O.W.s), also frequently seen in 1980s films like Rambo: First Blood Part II. The songs is narrated in the first person from the perspective of a vigilante in the US (possibly a Vietnam veteran): "blew it 'Nam, shot up my friends, I'm back on the street". He pledged to defend freedom and civilization. He then told the listener that "my brother's still in Da-Nang" and that he would go "back to 'Nam 'cause no one else will".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Civilization crumblin' fast, end the world with a blast / People afraid walkin' the streets, scums have their day 'til they run into me, are you ready? / Livin' in fear / Ain't livin' to me / I'm armed with a gun defending the free / They blew it in 'Nam, shot up my friends / I'm back in the street, the fight never ends / I was born with a gun in my hand, I'll die for my country but I'll die like a man / Violence and bloodshed, violence... / Now that we're back to animal law, the payback's a bitch / I'm paying all, all my life I been waitin' to see / Who's gonna win, crumbs or me, are you ready? / My brother's still in Da-Nang, puttin' an ad in the back of Kerrang / I'm lookin' for people who just wanna kill / We'll go back to 'Nam 'cause no one else will / Land of the free, home of the brave, now that's how it is
About the artist
American heavy metal band formed in 1980 in Auburn, New York, by Joey DeMaio and Ross the Boss. [Source: Wikipedia]