Alliance of Guns and Valor — Hammerhold | Dwarven Folk Metal

A dwarf will grumble about the short-lived all day — until the dark comes. "Alliance of Guns and Valor" is Hammerhold's hard-stomping tribute to their human allies: restless, scheming, their powder-gadgets blowing up as often as they fire — and yet, when the grey tide broke loose, the short-lived stood at the wall and bled beside the clan. None can match a dwarf, of course. But a debt carved in granite is always paid. Powder and iron, fire and steel, back to back against the dark. 🎵 Hammerhold — a fictional band of exiled dwarves who carry their lost hold's name down every road. Proud dwarven heavy metal: power/heroic anthems with a folk and shanty edge. 🔔 Subscribe and march with the clan. — Lyrics — Short-lived! Restless! Scheming to the bone! We are the mountain, they are smoke off stone! They twist a straight road crooked, sell the oath they swore, their powder-pipes go thunder, then they blow apart the door; a tower up by morning is a ruin by the night, clever little surface folk, their clever's never right! We never bend the knee, we never call them kin, but when the grey tide broke the dark, they stood and waded in; they cannot match a dwarf, no, none can match our kind, but the short-lived held the line, and that we keep in mind! Pour for the humans, the reckless and the brave! Shoulder to our stonework, every soul they gave! Powder and iron, their fire and our steel, forged in powder and valor, and the bond is real! We'll mock them for their follies till the mountains fall away, but a debt is carved in granite, and a dwarf will always pay! They bled the road beside us, so we raise the horn and swear: we are proud to fight and proud to fall with the short-lived standing there! Their kings are gilded swindlers and their merchants worse than thieves, they'll cheat you on a wagon-load and grin between their teeth; but a human in the shield-wall, when the black blood starts to flow, plants his boots beside your own and he will not let go! We never bend the knee, we never call them kin, but when the dark came howling down, they stood and waded in; they cannot match a dwarf, no, none can match our kind, but the short-lived earned the horn, and that we keep in mind! Side by side! The debt is owed! Side by side! We hold the road! We'll forge them blades that never break, we'll raise them gates of stone, proud to bleed beside the short-lived, for they never left us alone! Side by side! The debt is owed! Side by side! We hold the road! Pour for the humans, the reckless and the brave! Shoulder to our stonework, every soul they gave! Powder and iron, their fire and our steel, forged in powder and valor, and the bond is real! We'll mock them for their follies till the mountains fall away, but a debt is carved in granite, and a dwarf will always pay! They bled the road beside us, so we raise the horn and swear: we are proud to fight and proud to fall with the short-lived standing there! Powder and valor! The debt is owed! Short-lived and steadfast, we hold the road! #dwarvenmetal #powermetal #battlemetal #folkmetal #fantasymusic #epicmetal #Hammerhold