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Can you tell rock’s most ridiculous lyrics from these cherished national hymns?

Can you tell rock’s most ridiculous lyrics from these cherished national hymns?

National Anthem Or Heavy Metal?

_"We swear by the lightning that destroys! / By the streams of blood being shed! / When we spoke, nobody listened / So we took gunpowder’s rhythm / And machine guns’ melody / The day of reckoning has come! / Prepare yourself! Here’s our answer / Bear witness! Bear witness! Bear witness!"_

It's the [Algerian national anthem](http://www.algeria-un.org/default.asp?doc=-anthem)!

_"The sky is turning red / Return to power draws near / Fall into me, the sky’s crimson tears / Abolish the rules made of stone."_

It's ["Raining Blood"](http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/slayer/reigninblood.html#1) by Slayer!

_"Down below’s the carnage / The rebels charging onward /
Push the slaughter forward, the peach orchard /Through the wheat field and devil’s den / We’ll know what we’re made of / 
When up against all odds, we hold our line / For the cause that we so love / We must hold at all costs when our nation needs us / We’ll stay the course for the union we so love."_

It's ["Hold At All Costs"](http://www.metrolyrics.com/hold-at-all-costs-lyrics-iced-earth.html) by Iced Earth!

_"Sadness and despair his companions / Sea of blood beneath his feet / Ocean of flame above / Castle stood, now heap of stones / Happiness and joy fluttered / Groans of death weeping now sound instead / And aaaah! Freedom doesn’t bloom / From the blood of the dead! / Torturous slavery’s tears fall / From the burning eyes of the orphans!"_

It's the [Hungarian national anthem](http://korossy.org/magyar/himnusz.html)!

_"What madman can put me in chains? I defy the thought! / 
I’m like the roaring flood, trampling and overflowing! / I’ll tear apart the mountains, fill up the plains and gush out! / Let it howl! Don’t be afraid! / How can this fiery faith ever be killed / 
My broken tombstone will bow a thousand times in ecstasy / 
And tears of fiery blood will flow from all my wounds / And my lifeless body will burst from the earth!"_

It's the [Turkish national anthem](http://www.turkishculture.org/music/marches-and-anthem/national-anthem-lyrics-694.htm?type=1)!

_"The bloody flag is raised!The bloody flag is raised! / Can you hear in the fields how these savage soldiers howl? / They are coming! To cut our sons’ and lovers’ throats! / To arms! Form battalions! Let’s go! Let’s go! / Let’s douse our ditches with an impure blood!"_

It's the [French national anthem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_France)!

_"Forced out, brave and mighty / Hold on to pride and tradition / Love the land and fellow man / Peace is what we strive to have / Territory, it’s just the body of the nation / The people that inhabit it make its configuration."_

It's ["Indians"](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/anthrax/indians.html) by Anthrax!

_"At the cry of war, prepare the steel and the steed! / May the earth shake to its core! / To the cannon’s resounding roar! / War! War without truce! / ... Pennants soaked in waves of blood! / ... May your fields be watered in blood! / May they tread in blood!"_

It's the [Mexican national anthem](http://www.inside-mexico.com/anthem.htm)!

_"The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes / Then Egypt fell to the Macedon king as well / ...Hellenism he spread far and wide / The Macedon learned mind / Their culture was a way of life / He paved the way for Christianity / Marching on, marching on / The battle weary marching side by side."_

It's ["Alexander The Great"](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/i/iron+maiden/alexander+the+great_20068056.html)) by Iron Maiden!

_"The distant rumble of the guns mingles with this song / The path to glory is over the bodies of our foes... / Rush to the battlefield! Forward! / ... Let’s stand and break our chains! / For too long we’ve swallowed our hatred! / Prepare for the ultimate sacrifice... / Rush to the battlefield! Forward!"_

It's the [Vietnamese national anthem](http://bit.ly/1uLyLVq)!

_"Armed with weapons, with fire in their veins, they shout
Live free or die! / Priests, lead with your crucifixes! / ... Better to die in battle full of glory / Than to be slaves again on this ancient ground!"_

It's the [Romanian national anthem](http://www.nationalanthems.me/romania-desteapta-te-romane/)!

_"And where is that band who so vauntingly swore / That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion / A home and a country should leave us no more? / Their blood has washed out of their foul footstep’s pollution! / No refuge could save the hireling and slave / From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave!"_

It's the [American national anthem](http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx)!

_"In the dawn they will pay with their lives as the price / History’s written today in this burning inferno / Until nothing remains... Victory’s ours, their forces will fall / Through the gates of hell / As we make our way to heaven."_

It's ["Primo Victoria"](http://artists.letssingit.com/sabaton-lyrics-primo-victoria-lj969hc#axzz3KCIl9HCn) by Sabaton!

Note: some of the lyrics (both national and metal) are edited highlights, rather than consecutive lines.

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