The spirit of resistance and the madness of the war Then with a final set of lyrics, and Mustaine doing a sort of death metal scream under it, the song ends with a sustained cymbal hit. Thou shalt go no further it was said they shall not pass The only lyric from this point on is eradication of earths population loves-Polaris, with Friedman throwing an excellent solo after the first round of this, and metronomic riffs fill in the blanks between. Though a million shells have scarred the land, no one has the upper handįrom the ground above to trenches, where the soldiers make their standĪs the trenches slowly turn to mud, and then quickly start to floodĭeath awaits in every corner, as they die in the mud, fill the trenches with bloodįields of execution turned to wasteland from the grass Heavily defended, now the trap has been sprung and the battle has begun The bombardment lasted all day long, yet the forts were standing strong = Fields of Verdun LYRICS =Īs the drum roll started on that day, heard a hundred miles awayĪ million shells were fired and the green fields turned to grey It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war with over 700,000 combined casualties. At great cost and under the rallying cry “They shall not pass!” France successfully defended Verdun from the The nine martyr villages of the Verdun ridge were officially designated as “villages that died for France,” six of which remain uninhabited.ĭue to such costly battles along the western front, France was forced to conscript men up to the age of 45, fathers and sons fought and died side-by-side in Eight other nearby villages were erased from the face of the earth that Shell craters filled with water, becoming so slippery that troops who fell or took cover in them could drown if they couldn’t climb out.ĭefensive positions were gained and lost on a daily basis and neither side could maintain the upper hand the village of Fleury changed hands sixteen times and by the end of the battle was deemed Rain combined with the constant tearing up of the ground turned the clay of the area to a wasteland of mud full of human The concentration of so much fighting in such a small area for so long devastated the land, resulting in miserable conditions for troops on both The first day of the battle began with a 10-hour bombardment of over 1 million artillery shells by the Germans, the rumble of which could be heard almost 100 miles In 1916, The Battle of Verdun (known as Operation Judgement by the Germans) was the longest single battle of the war lasting for 303 The Official Lyric Video for Fields of Verdun by Sabaton from the album The Great "Fields Of Verdun" Lyrics, Composers, Record Label
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