r/PowerMetal

AleStorM - 2014 - Sunset on the Golden Age - 1741 The Battle of Cartagena

Sailing the raging seas
To distant lands unknown
Porto Bello fell in a day
Now Britannia rules the waves
Thirty thousand men at arms
Red Ensign in the sky
To Cartagena we set sail
With blood and plunder we‘ll prevail
Twice struck, and twice we‘ve failed
But third time works a charm
The greatest fleet the world has seen
To fight the War of Jenkins‘ Ear
Waters lash across the bow
Through Caribbean Seas
The year is 1741
The final battle has begun
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
The sands of time will remember our names
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
History is written today
Across the sea-lashed deck
Our captain gives a cry
„Cartagena lies ahead
The Spanish foe will soon be dead!“
Portents of coming doom
Engulf the battle line
High above, the heavens sigh
A red light burning in the sky
An omen of dread
Which no man can deny
The legends hold true
We must turn back or die
Superstitious fools
Be gone from my sight
Blast the trumpets of war
And prepare for the fight
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
The sands of time will remember our names
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
History is written today
Hard to starboard
Man the cannons
And on my command, unleash hell!
FIRE! Show them your steel
Bring them to death on the battlefield
Ride on the wind, and conquer the foe
The legends be damned, to our deaths we will ago
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
The sands of time will remember our names
The skies are burning with thunder
The seas are ablaze with flame
Set the course for Cartagena
History is written today

I think this song absolutely epic, genuinely incredible song. But there are like 5 different versions of it that have minor changes to them. I would like to know what is the best studio version of the song?

I remember when this album came out over 20 years ago now that when I first heard it I just KNEW these guys were gonna hit it big in the scene. And sure enough, they did. You can say they've gotten stale, or started rehashing themselves, and yeah, I'd be hard pressed to argue it even if I still enjoy most of their work. But what can't be argued is that they were on the road CONSTANTLY(Hell I've seen them 4 times in Dallas), continually working to get their name out there to the point that they genuinely have become one of the bigger names in the modern power metal scene.

The music video is filled with jokes and easter eggs.

The only versions i can find are the ones uploaded by Brandon01, and they are dreadful quality.

Newly forming band! Vocalist is covered and so is one guitarist. Looking for a bassist, drummer, and second guitarist. Must be a good communicator, committed, and available for weekly practice.

Planning to write, release, and perform future original music.

Band members are 19/33. Age preference for new coming members is 19 to 25.

Our influences include Iron Maiden, Avantasia, Edguy, Angra, and King Diamond

And it's come to this. We had the Kai era, the Kiske era, the Deris era, and finally, the combined era!

IRON MAIDEN - 1983 - Piece Of Mind - Quest For Fire

In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth

When the land was swamp and caves were home

In an age when prize Possession was fire

To search for landscapes men would roam.

Then the tribes they came to steal their fire

And the wolves they howled into the night

As they fought a vicious angry battle

to save the power of warmth and light.

Drawn by Quest For Fire

They searched all through the land

Drawn by Quest For Fire

Discovery of man.

And they thought that when the embers died away

That the flame of life had burnt and died

Didn't know the sparks that made the fire

Were made by rubbing stick and stone.

So they ploughed through forest and swamps of danger

And they fought the canN.I.B.al tribes and beasts

In the search to find another fire

To regain the power of life and heat.

Drawn by Quest For Fire

They searched acRoss the land

Drawn by Quest For Fire

Discovery of man.

I've posted one from the Kai-vocals era, one from the Kiske-vocals era, and now one from the Deris-vocals era.

Lordian Guard - 1995 - Woe To The Inhabitants Of The Earth - Lost ArchAngel

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the

Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Woe unto the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:9, 12)

The fallen one has come to rule,

From the holy skies.

Spreading wrath and razing ruin,

'Til the Second Coming of Christ.

The kings they kneel before his throne,

Veiled in scarlet robes.

And in his name their story's born,

And in his name they carve their stones.

The Adversary of the Lord,

He wields his famines and his wars.

The Adversary will be slain,

Christ the King will ever reign!

The Adversary of the Lord,

He seeks to devour, and he means to destroy your soul.

The Adversary, he will fall,

By the wrath of the everlasting God.

Billions of souls will perish in his fires,

In the endless day of the damned,

On the judgment day of man.

Woe to this world and the evils we have chosen,

By the pride and the will of man,

A kingdom built on sand . . .

The Adversary of the Lord,

He wields his famines and his wars.

The Adversary will be slain,

Christ the King will ever reign.

The Adversary of the Lord,

He seeks to devour, and he means to destroy your soul.

The Adversary, he will fall,

By the wrath of the everlasting God . . .

I really like this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerMetal/comments/6rfjzh/mushmancats_15_greatest_power_metal_choruses/. I discovered many new bands and choruses. Can you make a similar list?

Mind is still blown that we pulled it off with only 2 full band rehearsals

I've listened to a handful of Rage songs but never a full album. The thing that is daunting to me is their gigantic catalog, something like 26 albums which is absolutely ridiculous. Which albums would you recommend as "must-listens?"

All too soon we were divided...

Chorus lives rent free in my head