Red Banner Falls
Dark military folk metal, gothic war anthem, plague-march orchestral metal with ranger-hunter influences Tone: Ruthless, disciplined, victorious, relentless, grimly patriotic Voice: Deep commanding male vocals with martial choir backing, occasional whispered battlefield narration
Red Banner Falls
Dark military folk metal, gothic war anthem, plague-march orchestral metal with ranger-hunter influences Tone: Ruthless, disciplined, victorious, relentless, grimly patriotic Voice: Deep commanding male vocals with martial choir backing, occasional whispered battlefield narration
Lyrics
Verse 1
Cold wind on the pikes
Over broken fields
Wagon wheels complain
Through the ash and reed
Zoilon keeps the line
Eye on every crest
Kujoh hits the shield-wall
Leaves the front in wreck
He studies lantern gaps
He reads the boots
He knows where captains stand
He knows their routes
Pre-Chorus
One breath
One range
One mark in the gloom
The scouts go quiet
When the first shaft blooms
Chorus
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
One shot and another
Red banner falls down
Through smoke and ruin
Our standards still rise
The dead march onward
Beneath haunted skies
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
(One shot)
Red banner falls down
Verse 2
Frontier fenceposts burn
By the chapel road
Forsaken in the wheat
With a hidden load
Apothecaries grin
At the bitter cure
Deathguards in the mud
Hold the breach secure
Zoilon counts the steps
Between fear and flight
One arrow in the throat
Ends the line tonight
Kujoh breaks the flank
Like a siege engine
Bones and banners split
At the rutting scream
Pre-Chorus
Every field he crosses
Teaches him more
How a commander dies
How a rank unmoors
Chorus
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
One shot and another
Red banner falls down
Through smoke and ruin
Our standards still rise
The dead march onward
Beneath haunted skies
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
(One shot)
Red banner falls down
Bridge
A little silver lingers
Deep under the blade
In the count of distance
In the perfect shade
But the pine is behind him
And the hunt is changed
Now he serves the grave
And the graves are arranged
Final Chorus
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
One shot and another
Red banner falls down
Through smoke and ruin
Our standards still rise
The dead march onward
Beneath haunted skies
One shot for the captain
One shot for the crown
(One shot)
Red banner falls down
One shot for the captain, one shot for the crown
One shot and another red banner falls down
Through smoke and ruin our standards still rise
The dead march onward beneath haunted skies