1741 (THE BATTLE OF CARTAGENA)
Desde el Reino Unido, desde Escocia llegan estos chicos con su power metal pitata, de corte folk, que tanto y tan merecido exito estan cosechando disco tras disco. Formados en 2004 bajo el nombre de Battleheart, tras sacar dos EP's con dicha denominación despertando grandes expectativas, consiguen firmar con la discográfica Napalm Records, con la "condición" de cambiar de nombre a la banda ya que a juicio de la discográfica se parecía demasiado al nombre de la banda Battlelore, tambien en ese mismo sello. Deciden así cambiar su nombre por Alestorm en 2007, comenzando a editar material de estudio bajo dicho nombre en 2008. Desde entonces, y hasta la fecha de esta reseña, 4 discos de estudio y un EP dan forma a la historia de este buen grupo caracterizado por su temática pirata. Quiero dejar en el blog esta canción, 1741 The battle of Cartagena, de 2014, una canción de su cuarta y de momento última obra de estudio Sunset on the golden age, salida hace tan solo unos meses, y que a pesar de ser una canción de más de 7 minutos en nigún momento se hace larga, virtud de las cosas que se hacen con calidad, y es que Alestorm destila calidad por todas partes, de hecho hace ya tiempo que dejaron de ser una promesa para empezar a encabezar carteles de conciertos con cierta garantía de llenado. Dejo un enlace a youtube.
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 Carribean 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 go
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
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 Carribean 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 go
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
By Nash
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