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Meet Me at the Stronghold

from XII in XII #5 - Take on a Tank by Toehider

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The first track is total vintage speed/power metal. I love songs where there's no mucking around, no dramatic or elongated spacey intro, just get smashed in the face instantly with double kicks and guitar harmonies (guitharmonies). One day I'll start a power metal side project and call the band "Meet Me at the Stronghold"

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Once again out on the battlefield, faces a'splattered with blood
Charging with the courage of our forefathers before us
Fighting this war now for decades and none of it does any good
United as one, with our war cry in a chorus
Steadfast and tireless - determined & glorious
I spot him from my tower, behold that warrior!
Formidable, with nay a dent in his armour
Please send this message to him -

"MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD, YOU'RE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!
MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD, THIS FIGHT, IT MUST COME TO AN END”

I wish to greet this individual - together we could form a truce?
Arrows in the night sky & broadswords in the daylight
Realistically no-one can win this - is all this death of any use?
Tripping on the corpses of our fathers and our brothers
Cursing at our gods and at our kings with their orders
I've tried new strategies and changes in combat
And I can't admit defeat - there's no honour in that!
Maybe this hero knows of some grand magic spell?
His insane king must yield, this conflict we must quell
I'd like to meet him, tell him -

"MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD, YOU'RE A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!
MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD - THIS FIGHT, IT MUST COME TO AN END
MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD” RIDE HORSE O'ER TO BECKON HIM,
“MEET ME AT THE STRONGHOLD, THE LIVES OF ALL MY MEN DEPEND”.

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from XII in XII #5 - Take on a Tank, released December 1, 2023

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Toehider Melbourne, Australia

The work of musician Micheal Mills and artist Andrew Saltmarsh.

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