Why this word is great
DRUMFIRE — [Noun] Heavy, continuous, rapid gunfire or a sustained attack. From drum + fire, a calque of German Trommelfeuer (literally "drum fire"). Unlike "barrage" (which implies a concentrated, overwhelming artillery attack) or "volley" (which suggests a simultaneous discharge of many weapons at once), drumfire captures the relentless, rhythmic intensity of gunfire—a staccato machine-gun rattle, the ceaseless hammering of bullets on a trench wall, or the way a distant battle sounds like a storm rolling in, each shot a drop in a downpour of violence. It is war reduced to its most elemental pulse: the heartbeat of destruction.