Tunnel Rats
2023 · Into It IIR 067 · Sweden
- Artist
- Just Before Dawn
- Title
- Tunnel Rats
- Release
- Battle-Sight Zeroing
- Year
- 2023
- Label
- Into It # IIR 067
- Format
- EP
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Metal · Death Metal
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song "Tunnel Rats" focused on a task performed by US soldiers, and its allies, whereby they performed underground search and destroy missions, entering into North Vietnamese or Viet Cong tunnel complexes. The narrator described the locations: "beneath jungle soil...complex underground network". The US soldiers entered and faced attack: "sneak attack, foxhole, slit throat". It commented on the VC: "determined Vietcong, no fear of death".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Deep beneath jungle soil / A labyrinth was created / Dug by thousands of soldiers / To Undermine the red-neck suppression / Concealed with a trap door entrance / Under leaves in dark woods / To surprise the US Doughboys / As a family of rats they stood / Blind maze, underground, jungle rot, never found / Buried Congs, sudden death, these are the tunnel rats / Sneak attack, foxhole, slit throat, burned soul / Charlie´s here, combat, these are the tunnel rats / A complex underground network / Beneath skeletal remains / Afraid for the gateway to open / In the ever pouring rain / Determined Vietcong no fear of death / Crawling in a claustrophobic death bed / Waiting patiently and for sudden death / Of a US army green beret / Blind maze, underground, jungle rot, never found / Buried Congs, sudden death, these are the tunnel rats / Sneak attack, foxhole, slit throat, burned soul / Charlie´s here, combat, these are the tunnel rats
About the artist
Death Metal group formed in 2012, based in Stockholm, Sweden; members include Anders Biazzi (guitar, bass), Brynjar Helgetun (drums), Jonny Pettersson (guitar, vocals).
Themes
Search & Destroy · VC · Jungle · Foxhole · Tunnel Rats
From the release Battle-Sight Zeroing