… Read Full Bio ↴Avalanch is a heavy/power metal band formed in Asturias, Spain in 1993.
Led by composer, producer and guitar player Alberto Rionda, the band has released 6 studio albums, plus a handful of compilations, DVDs and English versions of their works.
The Asturian band Avalanch takes to one long trajectory combining Heavy Metal of its beginnings with a more modern rock of doubtless metallic influence in the present, incorporating to its music elements of hard rock, pop and folk. Their discs are published in several European and American countries, and habitually make tours outside of Spain, mainly in Latin America. In 1993, a scale model long play in called vinyl format is published Ready To The Glory, with a totally different formation. That same year is gotten up to the band Alberto Rionda, that from that moment assumes the workings of composer and main guitarist and producing musical comedy of Avalanch. Fruit of this work, in 1997 sends their first professional disc, La llama eterna (eternal flame), recorded in Búnker Studies, study of Inn of Llanera (Asturias) that later would end up directing Alberto Rionda. With this disc, Avalanch causes a great impact in the Spanish scene heavy metal. It would not take in appearing the version in English of the disc, Eternal Flame, and in some countries as Italy or Japan were published editions of that English and Spanish work in.
Half-full the tour of this disc, Avalanch decides to do without its vocalist (Juan Lozano) and contacts with Victor Garcia (singer) so that one to them, beginning in Barcelona. It is then when Weeping of a hero enters the study to record El Llanto de un Heroe, a disc in which power metal was the predominant note, and that rotated to them by all Spain. From that tour arose Días de Gloria, a direct one that showed the moment that lived the band, and included a version in study of Queen, "Save Me", who was published like single. In 2001 the sold disc of the band is published more to date, El Ángel Caído, a disc that turns about Biblical, with one more a épica and evocative ambientación. Finalized the tour of presentation, the battery Alberto Ardines and the Víctor singer Garci'a ] leaves the group to form WarCry. Ramon Lage, Ex-Paco Jones, (that already had participated with the band doing choirs in previous albums) take the witness to the voices, and the battery would be Frame Alvarez, coming from Stormy Mondays and previously the Distillery. Also in this disc it collaborates Leo Jiménez, vocalist of Stravaganzza and Ex-Saratoga. They make an European tour in 2002 and are the only Spanish group in touching in the Wacken Open Air of that year, celebrated in Germany.
Once in Spain, more changes in the band. The tecladist White Iván and the guitarist Robert Garcia leave the formation and are replaced by the guitarist Dany Leon (of long trajectory in bands like the Distillery, Faith of Rats and many others) and the tecladist Junquera Robert (originating of the Asturian scene folk); giving rise to the present formation of Avalanch.
In 2003, Avalanch publishes its room disc of study, Los Poetas Han Muerto, where they let along the epic and fast sound to make a more personal rock, than it incorporates influences not strictly from metal.
Run To The Hills
Avalanch Lyrics
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White man came across the sea,
Brought us pain and misery.
Killed our tribes, killed our creed,
Took our game for his own need.
Out on the plains we gave him hell.
But many came, too much for Cree,
Oh will we ever be set free?
Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes,
Galloping hard on the plains.
Chasing the redskins back to their holes,
Fighting them at their own game.
Murder for freedom, a stab in the back.
Women and children and cowards attack.
Run to the hills, run for your lives.
Run to the hills, run for your lives.
Soldier blue in the barren wastes,
Hunting and killing for game.
Raping the women and wasting the men,
The only good Indians are tame.
Selling them whisky and taking their gold,
Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
Run to the hills, run for your lives.
(repeat to end)
The song "Run to the Hills" by Avalanch is a cover of the original song by Iron Maiden. The lyrics address white colonialism in America and the genocide of Native American tribes. The first verse describes the arrival of the white man, who brought pain and misery to the native people, killing their tribes and taking their land and resources. The second verse describes the native resistance to the invaders, fighting hard but eventually overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the colonizers. The chorus is a call to run for their lives, reflecting the constant threat that Native Americans lived under during the colonial era.
The third verse shifts focus to the role of the military in the genocide, depicting soldiers as both hunters and killers who also rape and pillage native communities. It further highlights the exploitation of Native Americans by white settlers, particularly through the theft of their gold and enslavement of their young. The song ultimately paints a bleak picture of the colonization of America by white Europeans and the devastating impact it had on the indigenous people.
Line by Line Meaning
White man came across the sea,
The colonialists arrived by sea
Brought us pain and misery.
The colonialists caused harm and unhappiness
Killed our tribes, killed our creed,
The colonialists killed the indigenous tribes and their belief systems
Took our game for his own need.
The colonialists took the land and resources of the indigenous peoples for their own profit
We fought him hard, we fought him well,
The indigenous peoples fought back against the colonialists with great effort and skill
Out on the plains we gave him hell.
The indigenous peoples vigorously opposed the colonialists on the open grasslands
But many came, too much for Cree,
The arrival of more and more colonialists was overwhelming for the Cree people
Oh will we ever be set free?
The Cree people are asking if they will ever be able to escape from the oppression and control of the colonialists
Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes,
The colonialists rode through dusty and inhospitable regions
Galloping hard on the plains.
The colonialists rode quickly on the grasslands
Chasing the redskins back to their holes,
The colonialists pursued and forced the indigenous peoples to retreat and hide
Fighting them at their own game.
The colonialists were engaging in conflicts using the same tactics as the indigenous peoples
Murder for freedom, a stab in the back.
The colonialists were killing to gain freedom, which is a betrayal to the indigenous peoples
Women and children and cowards attack.
The colonialists attacked women, children, and those who they deemed as weak and cowardly
Run to the hills, run for your lives.
The indigenous peoples are urging each other to run to the hills to escape from the terrifying and violent colonialists
Soldier blue in the barren wastes,
The image of the blue-clad soldiers in the lifeless land
Hunting and killing for game.
The colonialists were enjoying the act of hunting and killing the indigenous peoples
Raping the women and wasting the men,
The colonialists were raping the women and killing the men
The only good Indians are tame.
The colonialists believe that the only good indigenous peoples are those who behave subserviently
Selling them whisky and taking their gold,
The colonialists were exchanging alcohol for the indigenous peoples' gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
The colonialists were enslaving children and killing elders
Run to the hills, run for your lives.
The indigenous peoples are once again urging each other to run to survival
Writer(s): STEVE HARRIS
Contributed by Charlotte D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.