Ho Chi Minh Trail
2014 · Hellthrasher XXXVII · Finland
- Artist
- Decaying
- Title
- Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Release
- One to Conquer
- Year
- 2014
- Label
- Hellthrasher # XXXVII
- Format
- CD · Album
- Country
- Finland
- Genre
- Metal · Death Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Death Metal group, formed in 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. Members included: Matias Nastolin (bass, guitar, vocals), Olli "Otu" Suurmunne (guitar, 2010-11), Benjam Lahdenpää (drums, 2011-present), Otso Polenius (guitar, 2011), Henri Hirvonen (guitar, 2011-present). This album contained two Vietnam War-related songs. The first, the song "Fall of Saigon" (Hellthrasher Productions # XXXVII), which kicked off with machine gun sound-effects, recalled the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975: "red flags will dominate... the war is over, the republic has fallen". The narrator also recalled the US presence and objective: "halt the red disease, Cold war at its peak, stop the communists". The second, the song "Ho Chi Minh Trail" looked at the Ho Chi Minh Trail (Đường mòn Hồ Chí Minh, also know as the Annamite Range Trail), a network of road and trails, from North to South Vietnam, via Laos and Cambodia, to provide manpower and resources to the Viet Cong: "this supply route reigns supreme". It noted the North Vietnamese tactic compared to the US: "focused on guerrilla warfare... B-52s sweep the sky, the US air force". It referred back the First Indo-China War against the French: "origins are from…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Death Metal group, formed in 2010 in Helsinki, Finland; members include Matias Nastolin (bass, guitar, vocals), Benjam Lahdenpää (drums), Henri Hirvonen (guitar).
Themes
Ho Chi Minh Trail · VC · B-52 · Air Force · First Indo-China War · Tet Offensive · Westmoreland