Drumfire: the sound of a massive WW1 artillery barrage

REUPLOAD This is a very light attempt at making a somewhat realistic sound effect that conveys what World War One artillery barrages sounded like. No movie (exception maybe for the attack scene from Paths of Glory), sound effect, and certainly no video game, i have ever seen comes even close to representing the fury of thousands of guns turning an area into the moon. This is what the soldiers who fought at Verdun, Ypres and the Somme had to deal with for days on end; but i think this doesn’t even come close. if it was fully realistic, you would only hear white noise, a constant crackling and rumbling that’s more like the sound of the ocean, or being inside of an erupting volcano. That is exactly how many veterans put it. Nobody would want to re-live that, not even as a videogame. The game Verdun is like uplifting slapstick comedy compared to the real thing. I mean, who would want to play a game where you die 50% of the time during the ten hour slog through corpse-mud-soup filled ditches that
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