Exalted Dirt - Shake This Place, Violent Tremors (reupload)

More power metal for the masses! Musically, I was inspired a little by the band Divinefire on this one, while the "shake this place" chorus reminds me of the metalcore style of Becoming the Archetype and the bizarre mix of waltz rhythm and odd harmony Tourniquet used in their Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance album. If only I could sing like Guy Ritter! I recorded this song in the hopes of performing it live for the first time this July (2016) as part of Exalted Dirt's first ever live performance! Getting a group together has been a slow process. Come Lord Jesus, by Your Holy Spirit! Reveal Your power in the earth! Many are fascinated by Biblical accounts of manifestations of God's power, but they are content and sometimes angrily and fearfully insistent to leave them there, in the past. I am not them! This song is a prayer derived from a study I did of the Greek and Hebrew in the corporate prayer mentioned in Acts 4:24-31 in the Bible. The Bible text quotes Exodus 20:11 and Psalm 2:1-2, so I studied the Hebrew text of those verses. Much of the song is an expository translation of the original Bible text, meaning that it captures the various literal meanings of the words in the text. Other parts of the song are applications of the original text rather than literal representation. For instance, Acts 4:27 makes mention of Herod and Pontius Pilate. The term Herod means "heroic", Pontius means "bridged", and Pilate means "close-pressed", or "firm". Since Herod and Pontius Pilate were political figures of their time, I used their names as part of an application for the present time. With the U.S. Presidential election circus closing in on us, these words seem more applicable now than when I wrote them a little while ago: They present themselves as heroes, Affirming themselves as bridges to brighter futures, Deluded by unification with a majority Of the people of a nation..., The King James text goes as follows: ...both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together...,