Operation Ground and Pound
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| “Operation Ground and Pound” | |||||
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| Single by DragonForce from the album Inhuman Rampage |
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| Released | January 6, 2006 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Power metal | ||||
| Length | 7:45 | ||||
| Label | Sanctuary Records (UK) Roadrunner Records (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Sam Totman, ZP Theart | ||||
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"Operation Ground and Pound" is the fourth track of power metal band DragonForce's third album, Inhuman Rampage. The track was the second music video to be released by the band, although as with their previous single, Through the Fire and Flames, the song is edited to reduce the running time to around 5 minutes compared to the album version of nearly 8 minutes. The lyric "smashing through the boundaries" is immediately comparable to the lyrics of the song "Battery" by Thrash band Metallica.
[edit] Music Video
The music video shows the band playing on an alien world as enormous space battleships fly overhead pounding the ground with lightning bolts (some shots are reminiscent of the cover to Sonic Firestorm). During the duet, guitarists Sam Totman and Herman Li are shown playing a guitar game on a TurboGrafx-16 while they duel on the screen (Herman Li being the victor). In one shot during the duet, singer ZP Theart can be seen drinking what appears to be coffee from a styrofoam coffee cup in front of a green screen, looking bored and shrugging. This is an example of the tongue-in-cheek humour the band uses. At the end, it goes back to the entire band playing, during which time special effects continue, with the battleships crashing into the ground. Just before the end, some portions are shown backwards and the planet's sky changes from orange to blue and the scene becomes more peaceful.
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