Operation Ground and Pound

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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.

"Operation Ground and Pound"
Song

On 21 August 2008 it was made available as a download to play on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock alongside "Revolution Deathsquad" and "Heroes of Our Time".[1]

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). It starts with the microphone flying toward ZP when the guitar starts. Similar to the Through the Fire and Flames music video, his eyes do not open until the song starts. During the duet, guitarists Sam Totman and Herman Li are shown playing a guitar game on a PC Engine 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. 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.

Footnotes

  1. ^ "DragonForce Guitar Hero III download pack!". Roadrunner Records. Retrieved 2008-07-27.