Vietcong Invasion / Charly's Back in Town
1988 · Metal Enterprises ME 513 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Expect No Mercy
- Title
- Vietcong Invasion / Charly's Back in Town
- Release
- Watch Your Ears and Save Your Neck We Are Back to Our Second Attack!
- Year
- 1988
- Label
- Metal Enterprises # ME 513
- Format
- Album
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Genre
- Metal · Heavy Metal · Power Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Heavy Metal / Power Metal group, formed in 1981 in Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Members included Michael Cloud (vocals, 1986-present), Simon Simonson (guitar, 1987-present), Jörg Vitt (bass), Mike Külpmann (drums), Eberhard Stettner (vocals, 1981-86), and Frank Thoms (guitar, 1981-86). The song "Vietcong Invasion / Charly's Back in Town" (Metal Enterprises # ME 513) imagined that the Vietcong - (or "VC") - the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Vietnamese: Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam) (NLFSV or NLF), the political and military resistance to the US and South Vietnamese government from within South Vietnam - was invading the US: "blew up the Statue of Liberty... slaughter in America". The narrator defended the country with the veterans: "we fought with veterans, born to kill like us".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Heavy Metal / Power Metal group, formed in 1981 in Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Members included Michael Cloud (vocals), Simon Simonson (guitar), Jörg Vitt (bass), Mike Külpmann (drums), Eberhard Stettner (vocals, 1981-86), Frank Thoms (guitar, 1981-86).