OPERATION WINTER MIST

Origen: Calgary, Canadá

Formados: 1998-2001, 2001-?

Estilo: Black

Temática: Historia de Canadá, invierno y militarismo alemán.

Enlaces: Facebook

Miembros:

• Dreadnought Bajo y voces
• Nebelwerfer Guitarra
• Private S. Tanner Batería

Discografía:

• Rehearsal Demo Demo 2001  
• Frontal Assault Demo 2001  
• Winter Warfare EP 2002  
• Live Dec. 20, 2002 Video 2003  
• Winter Warfare II Recopilatorio 2004
• Imperial Grand Strategy CD 2005
• Allegiance of the Profane Pack Split 2007

WINTER WARFARE II (2004)

En este "recopilatorio" encontramos material variado de lo editado por la banda canadiense hasta aquel momento, temas de su segunda demo, tres temas de la remasterización del Ep, una revisión del Sadist de Bathory y cuatro temas más en directo. Su música se encuadra dentro del war metal, el black metal y el death sonando de manera bastante directa y contundente y recogiendo variadas influencias que van desde el sonido clásico de bandas como Darkthrone a influencias de otras bandas más afines a su temática como puede ser Marduk. Es cierto que la temática y el estilo musical de Operation Winter Mist puede llevar a pensar en una banda de doble bombo omnipresente, que no deja títere con cabeza a su paso, sin embargo la propuesta está más elaborada y aunque el ambiente bélico y la intensidad de su música esta presente, también podemos encontrar momentos más tranquilos, donde los medios tiempos se intercalan con momentos más directos y crudos dando muestras de la versatilidad de los músicos y de la propuesta. El carácter directo de su música no es impedimento para que los riffs sean completos y variados, capaces de enervar al oyente en ciertos momentos, la batería aunque sencilla cumple y dinamiza el apartado musical así como las voces que se amoldan a la contundencia de la propuesta. Los temas en directo permiten disfrutar de la intensidad de su música, sonando más sucios pero más cercanos de la mano de un publico enardecido. Tal vez esperábamos un recopilatorio más al uso, en donde se recogieran temas antiguos de una forma más estructurada, sin embargo falta una línea que de coexistencia al conjunto, resultado este aspecto tal vez el más mejorable. (8).

Regimental records

1. Frostbitten Northern War 04:42

  Occupate, assimilate to eliminate

Four our will to survive is strong

Crusader, invader, enslaver

You can''''t take away our freedom

Foreign Christian ideology

No match for technology

Out flank, out rank, out gun

Mobilize for unrestricted warfare

Operation Winter Mist declares total war!

Empires rise, kindgoms fall

Human scum, kill ''''em all

Prince of peace, God of war

Death to peace, there''''s only war

Diplomacy is futility

For I bear the sword

We the agressor

From the bitter cold mighty north

Frost bitten northern war

Whose side are you fighting for

Right hand raised

In a sign of victory

Of winter storm, in battle born

Free from religious scorn

Set us free in savagery

Mark this cold day in vengeance

Our banners snap in the wind

As we march forth onto victory

Frost bitten northern war

Whose side are you fighting for

Right hand raised

In a sign of victory

All Hell''''s fire falls from the sky

A witness to our enemie''''s demise

Instrument of fear for intervention

From our conquering intentions

Genocide we won''''t hide

We fight with heathen pride

Executioners take no prisoners

Strike with thunder

A lust for plunder

For terror is a weapon

Arctic northern legions

Elite combat divisions

Let war crimse be your ordnance

Show no mercy

And strike fear into their hearts

2. Forever Frost 05:25

Beyond this frozen tundra

Far from the lush borealis

This land of ice and snow

Rolling drifts lap a frozen sea

From the cliffs of Rocky Mountains

Her peaks pierce the blizzards sky

To the barren glacier ice fields

Behold the great pillars of ice

And they hand like jagged wolf fangs

Sparkles like crystal

From the northern lights

A mystical sight so precious indeed

This is our home, the Winterland

Forever frost, unforgiving

In this land that we live in

Forever frost, God forsaken

Can''''t break the arctic pack

Welcome to the kingdom of snow

Cold mysteries are unknown

Welcome to the Winterland

The snow fall will forever remain a mystery

Just like this never ending winter

This land of eternal snow and fog

Penetrating frost like an icy stone

Cold is the heart that wields the sword

Carving out the ancient landscape

Glacier riddled northern badlands

A place that I call my home

Icicles like diamonds

Are just as precious to me

A jewel in the crown of Vinland

Eternal winter’s fury reign

3. Blood on Ice 04:46

Six feet deep buried beneath my feet Under drifts of snow Where the north wind blows Snow piled high under a northern sky Rested those who fell and died well Winter burial like a memorial In a frozen cemetery Tramping through red snow Blood spilt, guts poured frozen to my feet Freezing cold stopped the flow From open wounds Slit throat, gushed poured From a shattered neck Blood formed crimson jagged icicles That sparkled like crystals Under a freezing moon Of those whose stories of victory told On frosty breath by those who cheated death From the north dawned forth The supremacy of man In the dead of winter Bodies emerge from the snow Like a whitened milestone Terror frosted on pale blue faces Preserved for eternity, written in history Iced sword blood poured, frozen to my hands Battles rage in this age for Vinland 

4. Intro 01:05  

5. In the Trenches 03:17

Over the top

You who call yourselves men

Filthy dogs of war

In your blood stained uniform

(With a mple leaf on your uniform)

Arise from your trenches

Scatter across no man''''s land

Mustard gas fills your lungs

Vapours burn as you pass away

Emerge from the trenches

Asnwer freedom''''s call

A great prize awaits

On the outcome of Viny Ridge

Through dense smoke and gas

Emerged a true offenzive power

Advanced with fixed bayonets

Wave after wave of shock troops

Storm the stronghold

And take the high ground

This elite fighting force

That hammered hill 145

Bore the maple leaf

You will not die

But step into immortality

Where Canadians are engaged

There can be no giving way

In the hard fought field of battle

The enemy was overcome

The tide of war reversed

A great prize was awarded

The birth of a nation

6. At All Cost 03:59

It''''s a terrible sight to see

Formations of steel machines

Men standing poised in the turret

Blood splattered on the chassis

Tank tracks caked in flesh and bone

Moving fast to defend our homes

We the knights of old

Command fire breathing dragons

On a steel mount we ride

Racing towards the objective

Into battle iron clads collide

Belching smoke and fire

The foundation trembled before our wake

To this place that bears the tyrant''''s name

Advance makes the earth quake

Broken be the morale to resist

The scent of diesel fills the air

Expel the fumes in clouds of exhaust

Rallied by the panzer''''s roar

As all guns open fire

It''''s a terrible sight indeed

Formations of steel machines, let''''s roll

Take this city at all cost

Burn their homes, take their lives

At all cost

A great city lay before us

We must take it at all cost

Take this city at all cost

Burn their homes, take their lives

At all cost

Siege guns take up positions

One by one each building crumbles

Brick by brick, street by street

We''''ll tear the walls down

Make their guns fall silent

And the enemy is buried in the rubble

Of their once beloved city

There is nothing left but the suffering

One bullet to end their misery

In this graveyard of a once great city

The infernal cauldron empty and in ruins

And all that remains

Are tombstones and mass graves

7. Iron Coffins 05:21

Battle of the Atlantic rages

In a war that seems to last for ages

Kriegs Marines, Killing merchant marines

Submerged in their war machines

Wolf Packs and torpedo attacks

U-boats are the Iron Coffins

Iron crosses and heavy losses

The brave Kriegs Marines always come back for more

Convoys, decoys, we destroy

Where the hunter becomes the hunted

U-boats are the wolves at sea

In stealth and in silence stalking their prey

Attack, tear and sink

At periscope depth they''''re targeting death

With gyroscopes set

The objective will be met

Full speed ahead, engage the convoy

Iron coffin, bare your fangs

With nerves of steel in this war of tonnage

The wolf now sinks its teeth in

A sonar ping is a haunting sound

Destroyer above our position found

Depth charge breeds panic as the warship comes back around

Splashes in the water

Depth Charge!

Destroyer sweeping, sonar seeking

To detect the Iron Coffin below

Depth charge detonates to rock the vessel

Shock waves ear ring to muffle the sonar ping

Torpedo spread, target acquired

Under the surface, prepare to die

Torpedos loose streaming towards the ships

Lines cut into the water, covers broken

Warship steams towards their source

All guns blazing, hell raising

A steady decent into the deep

Pressure gauge reads one hundred feet

Air thins, breath suffocating

In anxiety the walls are closing in

Heart stopping, sounds of the engines above

Destroyer sweeping, sonar seeking

Break the surface, man the guns, lock and load to finish them off

Start the engines, turn the screws, crank the shaft

To avoid another hit

Breach their hulls, take on water, forced to scuttle dead in the water

Let''''s send them to a watery grave

Flood the tubes, release the fury, level her off as bulk heads snap

Bow to the sky, slipping away beneath the deep

Commit their bodies to the deep

On a one way ticket to hell

In an Iron Coffin

8. Sadist (Bathory cover) 02:54

I love to see you writhe in throe

The more you suffer my lust grows

I slit your throat and tear your flesh

My desire will be your death

SADIST (Tormentor)

I welter in blood I rape and slay

Stab sliver lacerate

so many lusts to satisfy

To still my hunger another must die

SADIST (Tormentor)

"But now the sand of time is running out"

I feel old (so cold)

Can hear the bell toll

So week (must sleep)

Can hear my victims shout

Can''''t stand their cries their call

I gotta pay for my lusts...

They''''re dragging me down...

9. At All Cost (live) 04:00

 It''''s a terrible sight to see

Formations of steel machines

Men standing poised in the turret

Blood splattered on the chassis

Tank tracks caked in flesh and bone

Moving fast to defend our homes

We the knights of old

Command fire breathing dragons

On a steel mount we ride

Racing towards the objective

Into battle iron clads collide

Belching smoke and fire

The foundation trembled before our wake

To this place that bears the tyrant''''s name

Advance makes the earth quake

Broken be the morale to resist

The scent of diesel fills the air

Expel the fumes in clouds of exhaust

Rallied by the panzer''''s roar

As all guns open fire

It''''s a terrible sight indeed

Formations of steel machines, let''''s roll

Take this city at all cost

Burn their homes, take their lives

At all cost

A great city lay before us

We must take it at all cost

Take this city at all cost

Burn their homes, take their lives

At all cost

Siege guns take up positions

One by one each building crumbles

Brick by brick, street by street

We''''ll tear the walls down

Make their guns fall silent

And the enemy is buried in the rubble

Of their once beloved city

There is nothing left but the suffering

One bullet to end their misery

In this graveyard of a once great city

The infernal cauldron empty and in ruins

And all that remains

Are tombstones and mass graves

10. Blood on Ice (live) 04:07

 Six feet deep buried beneath my feet

Under drifts of snow

Where the north wind blows

Snow piled high under a northern sky

Rested those who fell and died well

Winter burial like a memorial

In a frozen cemetery

Tramping through red snow

Blood spilt, guts poured frozen to my feet

Freezing cold stopped the flow

From open wounds

Slit throat, gushed poured

From a shattered neck

Blood formed crimson jagged icicles

That sparkled like crystals

Under a freezing moon

Of those whose stories of victory told

On frosty breath by those who cheated death

From the north dawned forth

The supremacy of man

In the dead of winter

Bodies emerge from the snow

Like a whitened milestone

Terror frosted on pale blue faces

Preserved for eternity, written in history

Iced sword blood poured, frozen to my hands

Battles rage in this age for Vinland

11. Iron Coffins (live) 05:17

Battle of the Atlantic rages In a war that seems to last for ages Kriegs Marines, Killing merchant marines Submerged in their war machines Wolf Packs and torpedo attacks U-boats are the Iron Coffins Iron crosses and heavy losses The brave Kriegs Marines always come back for more Convoys, decoys, we destroy Where the hunter becomes the hunted U-boats are the wolves at sea In stealth and in silence stalking their prey Attack, tear and sink At periscope depth they''''re targeting death With gyroscopes set The objective will be met Full speed ahead, engage the convoy Iron coffin, bare your fangs With nerves of steel in this war of tonnage The wolf now sinks its teeth in A sonar ping is a haunting sound Destroyer above our position found Depth charge breeds panic as the warship comes back around Splashes in the water Depth Charge! Destroyer sweeping, sonar seeking To detect the Iron Coffin below Depth charge detonates to rock the vessel Shock waves ear ring to muffle the sonar ping Torpedo spread, target acquired Under the surface, prepare to die Torpedos loose streaming towards the ships Lines cut into the water, covers broken Warship steams towards their source All guns blazing, hell raising A steady decent into the deep Pressure gauge reads one hundred feet Air thins, breath suffocating In anxiety the walls are closing in Heart stopping, sounds of the engines above Destroyer sweeping, sonar seeking Break the surface, man the guns, lock and load to finish them off Start the engines, turn the screws, crank the shaft To avoid another hit Breach their hulls, take on water, forced to scuttle dead in the water Let''''s send them to a watery grave Flood the tubes, release the fury, level her off as bulk heads snap Bow to the sky, slipping away beneath the deep Commit their bodies to the deep On a one way ticket to hell In an Iron Coffin

12. Frostbitten Northern War (live) 04:16

Occupate, assimilate to eliminate Four our will to survive is strong Crusader, invader, enslaver You can''''t take away our freedom Foreign Christian ideology No match for technology Out flank, out rank, out gun Mobilize for unrestricted warfare Operation Winter Mist declares total war! Empires rise, kindgoms fall Human scum, kill ''''em all Prince of peace, God of war Death to peace, there''''s only war Diplomacy is futility For I bear the sword We the agressor From the bitter cold mighty north Frost bitten northern war Whose side are you fighting for Right hand raised In a sign of victory Of winter storm, in battle born Free from religious scorn Set us free in savagery Mark this cold day in vengeance Our banners snap in the wind As we march forth onto victory Frost bitten northern war Whose side are you fighting for Right hand raised In a sign of victory All Hell''''s fire falls from the sky A witness to our enemie''''s demise Instrument of fear for intervention From our conquering intentions Genocide we won''''t hide We fight with heathen pride Executioners take no prisoners Strike with thunder A lust for plunder For terror is a weapon Arctic northern legions Elite combat divisions Let war crimse be your ordnance Show no mercy And strike fear into their hearts 

  49:09

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