Yeah, at first I thought the song was a bit of a dud until I realised the beat was as relentless as it's namesake. To see HMS Dreadnought launched, in a class of it's own, it must have been a truly awesome spectacle. By the end of the song the lyrics were giving me the chills.
Jawohl, Bismarck is how I found out about them, and their naval songs are great. And their aircraft songs. And armor/tank songs. And people…and basically everything
The line "And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all." is really clever. Their role is to inspire fear and dread in their enemies as they come steaming over the horizon. Well done Sabaton, another kickass naval song to add to our collection.
When I first heard that line, I thought it was "and the dreadnoughts did nothing at all" Which is kinda true, both Britain and Germany were very reluctant at using them and really only used them once.
@@sayethvexus8332 both work, I just chose this song because Bismarck was a bit to specific. Dreadnought refers to a powerful battleship (it's more general) and Bismarck is a wee bit too specific for a silly little Lego boat
Dreadnoughts are my preferred shape of Biblically Accurate Angel. "Sir, telegram from the approaching Dreadnought!" "Read it to me." "It says, 'BE NOT AFRAID'. She must be friendly, sir." "She demonstrates the very concept of fear to every seaman on the waves, yet bids us not yet to shake..."
@@takebacktheholyland9306 TL;DR She's already Biblically Accurate. Technically speaking, the "eyes everywhere" is everyone looking at the ASDIC radar in the room (that green circular radar screen that goes PONG every time it reaches the 12:00 position) and the "wings" are simply the fins on each propeller on multiple screws beneath the ship.
It's basically a Sabaton tradition at this point. When Sabaton makes a song about naval warfare, whether it's Dreadnought, Wolfpack, or Bismark, it's going to hit you like a fleet of warships at ramming speed and you *will* love it.
The USS Texas was called the last dreadnought. It had a record holding 12 inches of Pittsburgh steel holding the hull together. The ship also had to go to a port in France to reload during the battle of Normandy, later to come back to find out that the alies had pushed the germans back to far the guns could no longer reach at max turret elevation. So they decided to take the ship from 13000 meters offshore up to 3000 meters from the shoreline. On a last ditch effort the ship then flooded its starbird balast tanks basicaly gangster leaning the ship, so it could shoot further inland.
Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord is credited with being the father of the Dreadnought can you imagine getting into a with the Royal Navy not knowing this thing exists.
I showed this video to my history students as an example of military buildup before WWI, and a surprising number of them remembered the names of British battleships later and even on their test! It made a huge impression on them!
@@Sabaton Oh Wow! It's an honour to get a response from you guys. I'll certainly do my best to not sing too hard but that's difficult when listening to Sabaton! You guys are the best and have been and continue to be my favourite band for the last 4 years. I live in New Brunswick but I'm hoping to come and see you when you are performing in Quebec. Keep up the amazing work that you guys do!
@@colinmackay92 same brother they been my favorite band on a daily I listen to them for the past 7 years I turns into a addiction they make history so impressed
"Unopposed under crimson skies Immortalized, over time their legend will rise" Chills everytime. That chorus is too powerful for an ordinary metal song, but this is Sabaton after all. 🤘
@@tipips the poor uboat was surfaced to charge its batteries. They didn't see her coming in time. HMS Dreadnought rammed it while they were still trying to emergency dive and the uboat sank.
The ship Pictured in this video. The Battleship Texas BB-35 is the last remaining dreadnought In existence. And I just got to see her as she's being moved to drydock. Absolutely massive ship and intimidating. Awe inspiring to see her moving. They even blew the horn once saluting Seawolf park in Galveston.
I am interested in seeing a song about the last Pre-dreadnought (and last British made battleship in existence) currently coated in cement in Japan. Participated in the Russo-Japanese war as a flagship.
@@cp1cupcake Dreadnought refers to a particular era of battleship, just like a pre-dreadnought. Any battleship produced from the time HMS Dreadnought was laid into the water to the end of the Great War can be called a Dreadnought.
This song has really come to be a favourite on this album. I absolutely love the pacing and the powerful undertones of the lyrics. It feels slow,, yet powerful like the Dreadnoughts themselves.
Definitely, This will be one of those defining songs of a band along with Red Barron, Winged Hussars, Field Verdun, and Bismarck. It is ashamed I live in Albania. No way they come here. Originally from New Orleans, Houston 5 hours away.... but it's in October :(
@@pilotbug6100 Which gets weird, because some pre-Dreadnaught battleships were already under construction and were launched after HMS Dreadnaught, notably the Kaiserlich Marine's Saschen and Schelswieg-Holstein. Those two actually stayed in service until the end of WWII.
Best thing about Sabaton’s music is the comments aren’t filled with random people talking about how it cured their 97 year old grandpa’s 7 different types of stage 4 cancer, but rather, badass history facts.
The beat reminds me of that saying "Beating heart of the Navy" along with it's slow nature like the heavy beast that the Dreadnoughts would be. Love it.
“The grand fleet prepares their guns, unleashed as the Dreadnoughts clash at last!” It’s not often a song properly gives me chills, but this managed it. Well done.
Considering the sheer impact Dreadnought had, might as well be considered one. She made *every existing ship in every navy of the time obsolete overnight*. All of them, just by existing. She is the reason we call battleships built after her time dreadnought battleships, as they all followed her idea of uniform main armament calibers and steam turbine machinery to achieve ever higher speeds, carrying ever larger and ever more guns, wielding more armor and defenses every generation. The one to start a race which then lead to the clash of the titans, and decades later the birth of the Leviathan...
@@HyperScorpio8688 Minor correction: not all battleships built after HMS Dreadnought were called dreadnoughts. Discounting predreads that were already in the build process at the time she launched, from the interwar period there were the treaty battleships that were in the build process as of the Washington Naval Treaty or designed according to Washington and London Naval Treaty restrictions and the fast battleships built as countries left the treaties or invoked the escalator clauses in them.
@@mindwarp42 By technicality, the treaty ships still followed the principles of Dreadnought: Uniform main armament caliber, steam turbines for propulsion. Of course the treaty ships, the escalator ships and the ones not compliant with the treaty built upon the principle here, but all later built battleships followed it. Superdreadnoughts were called that because they were a superior version of the dreadnought philosophy: bigger guns, faster speed, more armor. But still, they were not breaking the dreadnought philosophy, they were pushing the envelope on what belonged into that philosophy. So you are technically wrong, but in effect, there were the parts of battleship design you mentioned, so it's really just nitpicking, effectively it was complicated anyway
@@HyperScorpio8688 @BlAckH0le You can tell the naval history fans by our nitpicking to rival Beatty vs Jellicoe supporters. 😉 Personally, I'm glad that the Royal Navy managed to cause one lesser talked about change: improving the looks of battleships elsewhere with the general dreadnought design concept. France going from the ugly floating hotels eventually to Richelieu is a 360 degree turn in overall design. This was a case of Jacky Fisher's ideas just being the right type of crazy at the right time.
@@regalblade8171 How though? It's gonna be difficult making a song about that ship considering how it did practically nothing and got demolished by planes without a fight? The kido butai though, maybe
There are enough metals here to build a full task force of dreadnoughts, and still leaves enough metal to build 3 more bismarcks and reinforce joakim's kneecaps further
As a British man I am so happy I found this I've always taken great pride in my country's military both historically and present thank you Sabaton Greetings from the UK
also from uk and love the dreadnought The irony my history class covered this and I discover the song directly after. Wish we had played it whilst in class.
Interesting things; to know about Dreadnought herself; Because of the newness of her fancy high speed (for the time) engines, she couldn’t actually reverse. She was fitted with a false ram, a holdover from ship designs of old, and one of the last warships to have one. She was the subject of a prank by a group of pranksters called the Bloomsbury Group in 1910 when the group, pretending to be a short-notice Royal Delegation from Abyssinia, wanted to inspect the ship and got a guided tour, speaking only small bits of Latin as none knew the language of the place they were pretending to be from, and supposedly shouting or murmuring the phrase ‘Bunga Bunga!’ As an exclamation of amazement or appreciation. In 1915 Dreadnought rammed and sank the German Submarine U-29 (as that was standard anti-submarine doctrine at the time due to submarines needing to surface to fire). She is he only battleship to sink a submarine by ramming, and amongst the many messages of congratulations she got, one was notably ‘BUNGA BUNGA’ This was her only significant action, she never fired her guns in anger, and missed Jutland in 1916
@@MrBelgosi So? It's a couple neat little bits of info about Dreadnought specifically. Dreadnought is the one who started the idea of Dreadnoughts, its why they bear her name, the fact that the song itself is about Dreadnoughts in general doesn't change anything about my first comment. Your little nitpick was asinine and pointless, and contributed nothing to my comment.
Hail to thee, Warspite, for this is where thine legend began. Amidst Jutland's frozen waves you did excel, and from here to Marazion you filled our enemies with icy dread. Forgive us, grand one, for you deserved not the shameful breakers' yard, but to be immortalised forevermore in the history of Our great Empire.
Glory to the HMS Warspite! You are one of many ships that have saved your country from utter defeat, and it is wrongful of them to simply just being you to the breakers' yard... May you be immortalised in hopefully a new ship named after you! Once again, glory to thee, Warspite!
If there's ONE ship we should've kept, it has to be the Grand Old Lady. Survived both world wars protecting Britain for 50 years and all we gave her was the scrapyard. Such a waste. She deserved better.
Fun fact. HMS Dreadnought had no official flag motto. Why was this when every other ship of the fleet did? Her name was her motto To "Dreadnought" meant to fear nothing. She was the first of her kind & ruled the seas as a queen for 2 years. But her legacy is immortal to be a Dreadnought was to be named for her implacable pride & the wroth of her main calibre.
The caliber wasn’t actually massive, it was 12 inches, which is a fucking foot, but calibers on pre Dreadnoughts could go up to 18 inches, and the race before Dreadnought was on caliber, one of the many reasons why dreadnought was so influential, was the fact it had 5 turrets, and 10 guns (2 per turret), instead of the usual 2 turrets. Shameless plug, on my channel im going to upload a full video on Dreadnoughts soon (im not doing because sabaton, ive been working on it for a month)
well england new missile sub class is called Dreadnought class name after this bb it should be finished in Expected early 2030 other ones are Valiant Warspite King George VI
@@nerdyandstuff most ships pre HMS Dreadnaught was either wooden mast {sailing} or ironclad ships and most was still using canons, the HMS Dreadnaught is the mother of the modern navy
Ok so consider this. _Bismarck:_ -Pride of a nation -Beast made of steel -King of the ocean, he was made to rule the waves across the seven seas Conversely... _Dreadnoughts:_ -Dread *NOTHING AT ALL*
Here after USS Texas BB-35 has reached the dry dock for repairs. The last floating dreadnought in the world and one of two New York class dreadnoughts. Alongside Mikasa they are the oldest steel warships we have left( the others being wooden armada ships with actual small cannons on their sides). Also fun fact: U.S.S. Texas BB-35 took part in the shelling of the shoreline for the D-Day landing during Operation Overlord and has taken out german battery spots. At one point the enemies were out of her gun reach so the captain gave the order for the crew to flood a torpedo blister to flood themselves and tilt to one side, gaining enough elevation to keep firing on the germans. It is currently undergoing a repair schedule that will take around a year and cost around 35 million dollars. It had serious structural damage on its outer shell and bottom due to corrosion . If anybody wants to donate you can search USS texas foundation and read more about the lads -Message delivered by an European who went to a sabaton concert and likes history, ground, air and naval included.
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
The Texas is also notable as being the only remaining World War I-era dreadnought battleship, being the first U.S. battleship to become a permanent museum ship; and the first battleship declared to be a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Shortly after her commissioning, Texas made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When American formally entered World War II, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and saw action in the invasions of North Africa, Normandy and Southern France. Upon transfer to the Pacific Theater in 1944, she provided support for the Battles of Iowa Jima and Okinawa. At the end of the war, Texas carried many prisoners of war from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor and brought nearly 5,000 troops home to California.
@@knightblade0188 it was also after she had expended all of her ammo firing during the invasion. By the time she got back into the fight she went as close as she could without grounding and then tilted herself to be able to reach even farther to meet more death to her enemies.
Ships lost during the battle of Jutland: HMS Queen Mary: 1,284 souls, 18 survivors HMS Invincible: 1,032 souls, six survivors HMS Indefatigable: 1,019 souls, three survivors HMS Defence: 903 souls, lost with all hands HMS Black Prince: 857 souls, lost with all hands SMS Pommern: 839 souls, lost with all hands SMS Wiesbaden: 590 souls, one survivor SMS Frauenlob: 333 souls, nine survivors HMS Tipperary: 197 souls, 47 survivors SMS Lützow: 1,391 souls, 1,276 survivors HMS Turbulent: 103 souls, 13 survivors SMS V48: 91 souls, one survivor SMS S35: 88 souls, lost with all hands HMS Shark: 92 souls, six survivors HMS Ardent: 80 souls, two survivors HMS Warrior: 814 souls, 743 survivors HMS Fortune: 74 souls, seven survivors SMS V29: 83 souls, 50 survivors SMS V4: 74 souls, 56 survivors SMS Rostock: 373 souls, 359 survivors HMS Nomad: 80 souls, 72 survivors HMS Sparrowhawk: 78 souls, 72 survivors HMS Nestor: 86 souls, 80 survivors SMS Elbing: 481 souls, 477 survivors SMS V27: 83 souls, all of whom survived Many more were killed aboard ships which were not sunk. In total, 9,832 of approximately 100,000 men who fought during the battle were killed.
@@Liamsaviation123 The HMS Queen Mary was a battlecruiser laid down in 1911. The RMS Queen Mary was an ocean liner laid down in 1930. They were different ships with the same name.
Most of the British navy trouble came from their doctrine of always having a clean ship with fresh paint. They where reluctant to do fire training and missed most of their shot because of this. This problem will also continue during WW2.
HMS Dreadnought was such a revolutionary ship that it actually backfired on the British by making much of their huge fleet obsolete while giving a way for newer navies like the German's the ability catch up.
Not really? The biggest problem was that it damaged Anglo-German relations. The British made too many Dreadnaughts for Germany to ever realistically match, with Churchill's 2 to 1 Dreadnaughts working wonders. The fleet wasn't obsolete, as a Dreadnaughts job was to sink enemy battleships. The rest of the fleet was more useful than the Dreadnaughts. And of course, if a Dreadnaught got damaged, it's repair would cost so much it wasn't worth it unless the Dreadnaught sunk big ships.
it really was a case of bad relations that led to an arms race at the time, the possibility of dreadnoughts was because of industrial development, and at this time, both countries had the capability of just pushing these ships out, and with the bad relations, came worries that England would have enough ships to stop the germans from defending themselves, so there was a certain pressure on the German authorities to order the building of at least so many ships compared to the English, they didnt have to outnumber them, but they wanted to make sure they could at least pose a threat, but England of course didn't really like that, and kept building more dreadnoughts, so the germans would have to keep building them too.
England didn't start production of the Dreadnought until similar ships had already been started in Germany and France. its just a testament to English shipwrights that they got her out first starting a few months behind. and Germany and France where already in a naval race with the Kaiser wanting a fleet to match her standing as a great power and the french realizing that their strike craft doctrine was incorrect.
“Reveal the cannons. Align the guns unleash their wrath.” Literal goosebumps! Especially when you consider the fact that her 76mm guns had a range of just over 5 miles… and she was fitted with 24 of them…
@@sharoonaftab8894 Degree is valuable on it's own, don't matter what it's in. You can get a lot of places to train you on whatever they're doing if you just have a degree.
The Battle of Jutland (30 May-1 June 1916): The most massive trade of blows in the history of the seven seas at the time. Understand at this point of the war the Dreadnoughts of the high fleets hadn't really been engaged in true naval combat. The German and British high seas fleets were lead by commanders a tad to scared to sacrifice any dreadnought in battle. One day, the German Navy decided they had enough of Britain interrupting their shipping routes and Kaiser Wilhelm alongside the high fleet Admirals of the German Navy decided to unleash the High Seas fleet upon the North Sea and Atlantic. The British Navy had a terrifying reputation at this point, only being overshadowed by the fear of German U-Boats. The British Navy decided that they would finally bring out their ships and their dreadnoughts out to fight. The fact that both fleets encountered one another was not just a coincidence, but when they met the first dreadnought fight had commenced. The goal of each fleet were as such. The British Navy had to destroy, route, or keep the German Navy from getting deeper into the Atlantic Ocean. The German Navy's goal was to either retreat to safety back in German ports, destroy the British Navy, or damage as many ships as possible before destruction. The grueling combat rocked the ocean as 151 ships of the Royal Navy engaged 99 ships of the German Imperial Navy. The commanders of each Navy were no push overs or strangers to naval combat. After the battle had finally ended, the German navy lost 11 ships, including a battleship and a battle cruiser, and suffered 3,058 casualties; the British sustained heavier losses, with 14 ships sunk, including three battle cruisers, and 6,784 casualties. Though, goals of both navies were achieved. The British high seas fleet routed the German Navy, and the German Navy severely damaged the British High seas fleet sustaining much less casualties. Both Nations claim victory in this battle to this day......
Jutland was irrelevant in the grand scheme of things to either side. The Germans never wanted a decisive naval battle in WWI; they wanted to overcome the British at sea, but not in a massive fleet engagement, because such an engagement would favour the British (with their bigger fleet). Instead, what they wanted was a drawn-out attritional campaign, where they would engage in many small-scale naval battles instead of major fleet engagements, trying to lure out small groups of British capital ships towards the entire High Seas Fleet. The Germans wanted to bleed out the Royal Navy a few ships at a time, not defeat them in a single stroke with a massive naval battle. The issue is that most of the time the Germans tried this at the operational level (and they actually tried it a few times after Jutland as well, albeit at smaller scales), the British didn’t take the bait at all and sent in no ships, or sent in their entire fleet when the Germans wanted to deal with only a few British capital ships at once. Jutland only happened the way it did because the British did take the bait on that occasion with a smaller number of ships, the Germans sprang the trap, then it turned out that the British had the rest of their navy coming to back them up. The Germans never had any intention of fighting the entire Grand Fleet at once, so even if Jellicoe’s force hadn’t shown up they’d still have done exactly what they historically did-sink some battlecruisers and then flee back to port. Because that was their objective for Jutland and for their capital ship engagements in general. So the Germans ended up actually achieving their goal for the operation that led to Jutland (albeit taking more damage than they planned for), but the British didn’t provide them nearly enough opportunities to try stunts like this, meaning that the RN still held the strategic upper hand since all they needed to do was not be goaded into naval engagements. If Jutland never happened, the situation would have been exactly the same (if not even more one-sided towards the British) as before.
@@bkjeong4302 What is an interesting "What if" for the Battle of Skaggerak is: What would have happened had SMS Bayern been ready. One of the things the german ships lacked were big caliber guns, having long prefered 305mm cannons (though it should be noted that german WWI guns and shells were pretty good, int erms of penetration, tehy could take on the bigger british guns). SMS Bayern was armed 15" guns.
@@bkjeong4302 another German goal for the battle of Jutland was to relieve the Royal Navies blockade in the North Sea. In this the Kaiserliche Marine failed, dooming Germany to starvation and the German Navy to a fate in dockyards, never being repair till it was eventually scuttled in the Treaty of Versailles.
Everytime I rock out to this song (as well as Midway), I can't help but feel the adrenaline flow through my veins, making me ready for battle; the pride of both myself and my predecessors from serving as a sailor of our respective countries; the desperation of fighting for their lives and the lives of their brothers, and the raw POWER that both aircraft, aircraft carriers, and the mighty dreadnought instills inside our hearts and minds just from their presence. Thank you for making my state's flagship, the USS Texas, the poster-child of this song!
I changed my mind about this song. When it came out I thought it was one of the best songs on the album. Now I think it's one of the best Sabaton songs ever. It's more amazing every time I listen to it 🤘
@@kadewiedeman3127 I mean you gotta admit Dreadnought sounds sick as hell and it literally means, "Fear Nothing" For a new class of battleship which could anihilate anything else with ease. How is it not badass.
i love that, for some time, i found strange that the ship that appears in this video is not The Dreadnought, but then i realised that she is the USS Texas, which is the only Dreadnought era Battleship that is still around today, and that's cool af.
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
This song almost perfectly encapsulates my fascination with big vessels carrying big guns. Aircraft carriers are cool and all, but they fail to invoke the sheer awe I feel when I look at a heavily armed battleship.
Carriers are cool but there is nothing like the lines of a battleship. USS Iowa, IJN Yamato, HMS Warspite, HMS King George V, even Bismarck was a fine looking ship.
@@dorn0531 I have a particular weak spot for the old Dreadnoughts, with SMS Bayern being my favorite warship of all time. Just those clean, utilitarian line combined with her gorgeous white paintjob... Perfection.
@@CIoudStriker Dont fogett, maybe the greatest name for a Battleship / Battlecruiser ever: Derfflinger ! Amazingly beautiful ship. And she even has it in her name, to Hurl death and destruction at her enemies.
I don't know what it is but when the song begins and ends, that musical part? For me, I get the sense that something BIG is coming, no one knows what it is, and no one knows how to stop this thing. And just *squee*! It sounds so awesome! 😍
Great song. At first, it didn't really click with me, but after listening to it a few times it's really grown on me. It also makes me desire another song. Dreadnought was The First of her kind. Now we need a song about The Last Dreadnought.
USS Texas is an interesting ship to sing a song about...but the dreadnought that deserves to be immortalized in song the most is HMS Warspite. There is no ship that ever existed with a more storied and legendary career.
In December of 1906, a new ship of war takes the seas by storm. A powerful weapon constructed to serve His Majesty. She made her predecessors obsolete and struck fear in those who heard it’s guns roar. Her steam turbines propelled her faster than any other battleship, and her all-big-gun armament was thought to be to powerful for the hull to handle. But fire she did, and not one rivet lost. Her presence compelled other powers to construct ships to rival her, yet she was the catalyst to start a new era of naval warfare. Her name was the HMS Dreadnought
The effect of post-dreadnought warships was such that two decades later, the Washington Naval Treaty was enacted; partly to prevent the naval powers from either being too ambitious or going broke from the arms race, at least until WW2 threw that out of the window.
@@gandalflotr2898 Nah..... Battle of Jutland because it was and still is (I believe) the biggest battle of capital ship fleets in history. And also it will look badass.
The battle of Jutland showed the world the true power of Dreadnoughts, the shear destruction and or damage dealt during the battle of Jutland, take HMS Warspite for example, one of the most well known Dreadnoughts, fought to the point of near destruction, and saving HMS Warrior by accident, while stuck in the "Circle Of Death" after taking a hit to the rear and jamming the rudder. Circling Warrior saved the ship from taking any more damage, though the damage already inflicted was too much for the ship, and she sank soon after. Warspite was nearly unrecognizable when she retreated to port, full of holes, fires everywhere, and taking on water, but still alive, still powering herself. She was one of the most expensive ships to repair, but worth every penny, as she went on to be the Flagship of the Mediterranean fleet in WW2, commanded by Sea Lord Andrew Cunningham, who chose Warspite as she became one of the most feared warships the allies had. Several times she was damaged so badly that the Germans and or Japanese thought they had finally sunk her, but she would remain afloat, and come back to haunt them soon after.
It was a battle of giants all around. And in reality, nobody won it. It was the worst outcome: a draw that satisfied nobody and decided nothing other than the loss of many courageous sailors, and the loss of many great warships...
@@HyperScorpio8688 It is why Dreadnoughts clashing was avoided as much as possible, cause the damage dealt to either ship was extremely expensive to repair, and the loss of men, which there were many onboard Dreadnaoughts, were not worth brawling again. Warspite was likely the most expensive ship to repair after Jutland, because the ship's outer layers were basically rebuilt from the ground up due to the many holes in the hull, which was described by a sailor "like Swiss cheese" and even with all the repairs, she was never fully repaired, as repairs to her rudder for example which was damaged in Jutland, would have involved extensive reconstruction, so only "enough" repairs were done, why her rudder would randomly jam on her throughout he rest of her life, which ironically caused more damage to both the ship, and 2 of her sister ships, would have been cheaper to fully repair the rudder, and lets not mention the many refits and modernization she got, and the extensive repairs made after striking a mine which almost ripped the ship in half, which repairs involved cutting the ship in half to repair the main structure and extending her, so she was, at the end of the war, longer then her sister ships. Warspite did fight another Dreadnought in WW2, the Italian battleship "Giulio Cesare", which she scored the longest hit on a moving target of any warship, 26km, the shell exploding in the funnel of the Cesare, flooding 4 boiler rooms with smoke from fires that broke out immediately, causing her to retreat from the battle, almost as soon as it started, as losing 4 boilers seriously hindered the ships mobility.
@@HyperScorpio8688 I don't know man, I'd say that Britain definitely won the Battle of Jutland. Sure, they took heavier casualties, but they effectively made Germany park their surface fleet as it never reemerged from it's base for the rest of the war.
@@BigAl2-u7e And instead just grabbed the submarines and started to decimate the Royal Navy... It was a minor tactical defeat and a minor strategic victory. As I said, in reality it was a draw. Drachinifel made an excellent video that is talking about it in extensive detail, can recommend
"Unopposed under crismson skies Immortalized over time their legend will rise And their foes cant believe their eyes Believe their size as they fall" 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
As a Texan, I can only say thank you for showing our grand old lady. It made me tear up thinking about the possibility of a collaboration with Wargaming like ya'll did for Bismarck, and bringing the Texas to life. Such a powerful song... Thank you, from a Texan and all Texans who love our beloved Dreadnaught.
@@redthehero3387 They might if they ever do another one on WWII. Having one on Pearl Harbor with Arizona in the background firing her anti-air guns as the planes that seal her fate drop their load on her might be a powerful scene.
Despite being phased out with air power, the Gun Club of any navy is one that serves as the pride of the nation. Nothing screams naval supremacy like thousands of tons of steel, with massive guns, thick armor, and an overall commanding presence. From HMS Dreadnought herself to the Iowas, battleships remain the symbol of a powerful navy.
It says a lot when the very word 'battleship' has become synonomous with the word warship, in the mind of most people. Even if it isn't the correct way to say it, it shows the sheer respect and awe these ships command. You don't hear people say Carrier or Destroyer to describe any warship.
@@imperialhighcommand8535 I'm one who refers to a Battleship as just that type. But then I kind of would have gotten chewed out by dad if I did otherwise. He was a Battleship sailor in the late 40s on the USS Missouri.
@@gravelydon7072 Oh, that's really cool. And yeah, I totally get that. Even I get annoyed when people say 'battleship' when referring to any kind of ship...and I'm nothing more than a fan of naval history. As a sidenote, I wonder what it was like, sailing of a battleship. I've been to the Iowa, and it's certainly a sight to behold.
@@imperialhighcommand8535 Dad enjoyed most of his time on the Missouri. He was mad though when he got yanked off of it and sent to Great Lakes for radio school for a class just before the Korean War broke out. And then they kept him there thru the whole war as an instructor. When they brought the USS New Jersey out for Vietnam, he volunteered to take a reduction in rank, a change back to his old rating, and sea duty. The Navy said no. You can take a sailor out of a Battleship but you can't take the Battleship out of a sailor. A framed picture on the Missouri hangs in the computer room.
I can’t get over the arpeggios in the chorus: the whole song already feels incredibly well composed (like that modulation in the third verse that make you feel things are gonna clash: sick!) but those arpeggios capture all that havoc just brilliantly.
I want to thank all members of Sabaton for your support of Battleship Texas, and using her in this lyric video as the last Dreadnaught means a lot. Hopefully, y’all will be able to visit when she re-opens to the public. Y’all have already done a lot for the ship. Also, this is a badass song to rock out to 🤘
I was listening to this song as i played world of warship legends with the texas ended up being 6 on one and texas never lets me down cant wait till she out of drydock
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
"Align the guns, unleash their wrath" Some of these lyrics make me picture the fiery blasts from the guns. Purely epic. Sabaton does great songs, but their naval oriented ones hit very well with me "In fear of nothing, they lead the Navy into war"
@@mastrblckhwk aircraft carriers are also a brittish invention, back in 1917 they already has a cruiser with a flyng -off plataform an in 1918 the added the landing platform making hms furious the first operational aircraft carrier in the world.
Actually I bet that Jackie Fisher was grinning at that realisation and thinking "Well, that takes care of everything French have build until now, and no one can outbuild our shipyards!"
Not enough people talking about the guitar solo that starts at 2:46. It's one of my favorite guitar solos ever. Tommy Johansson is king. That solo always sends shivers down my spine
Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel Dreadnought in motion, Queen of the Ocean She was made to rule the waves across the seven seas To lead the war machine, to rule the waves and lead to victory The terror of the seas, the Dreadnought lead to victory!
@@DaEpicTable No mate, Dreadnought sunk a U-boat. She was not sank, but lived her life surprisingly peacefully despite WWI, and was sent to the breakers practically unharmed.
@@DaEpicTable Considering the displacement of a submarine at that time, it's absurd to even think that a u-boat ramming her would've done crippling damage. It's like a child punching an MMA fighter in the abs.
Unopposed under crimson *skies* Immortalized over time, their legend will *Rise* And their foes can't believe their *eyes*, Believe their **size** as they fall! And the *Dreadnaughts* dread nothing at *all!* I'm going to be honest and say I did not enjoy a lot of this song sadly, but this part is amazing!
Unopposed under crimson skies Immortalized over time Their legend will rise And their foes can't believe their eyes Believe their size As they fall *And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all*
We need an entire naval album, dreadnought, midway and bismarck are all high tier. Imagine songs about stuff like enterprise, uss johnsson, Trafalgar, Yi sun shin and so much more. Maybe ending with a song about the modern supercarriers...
@@Sabaton If that's the case, may I have the gumption to suggest the Battle of Malacca Strait for this potential album? It's also known as 'The Last Gunfight of WWII', and possibly of all time, in terms of naval combat; a flotilla of Royal Navy destroyers against the last active IJN heavy asset in SE Asia, the heavy cruiser 'Haguro".
Yes, Or maybe 2 Albums with 1 dedicated to the Pacific Theater of WW2 entirely. They currently only have 3 Songs that originate from there, Nuclear Attack, The Ballad of Bull and Midway. It would be so cool to have a song about The Battle of the Philippine Sea, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pearl Harbor, The Kamakazi Attacks and of course and the absurdly insane actions going on with the Submariners. Seriously the American Submarines 100% beat the German submarines in WW2 for effectiveness.
Unopposed under crimson skies Immortalized, over time their legend will rise And their foes can’t believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all. Powerful chorus!!!!
Texas will always be my favorite dreadnaught since I got to visit her with my parents as a child. So glad she is getting her restoration and repairs. I want to take my daughters to see her so they can touch and appreciate her.
Over 10 years ago I heard Metal Machine for the first time and fell in love with the band. Saw them live in Clifton Park, NY a few years back, absolutely electric show. Saw them live just an hour ago tonight in NYC, still as amazing as ever, and just having so much fun on stage. This is my favorite track off the new album. Sabaton forever!
Always loved the term “Dreadnought” though it originated around the world war 1 era it still persists though primarily in fiction. My favorite type of ship in sci fi. Typically referring to a massive extremely powerful warship. Though it is a bit upsetting that damn near anytime there is a dreadnought in something sci fi it’s almost exclusively used by the villains.
I think you should try to read D.Weber's "Honor Harrington" series then, if you haven't yet. Very good military sci-fi with one of the best depictions of space battles in the genre IMO. And all sides actively use dreadnoughts
@@TheRiskyBrothers The D was too much a symbolic exploration flagship. But the E is absolutely the Dreadnought equivalent for it's era. A dedicated warship, the largest in it's nation's service and the most advanced in that half of the galaxy. Designed to dish out and absorb obscene amounts of punishment, a deliberate symbol that the Federation was a power that demanded respect and could bring terrific force to bear if it wished to do so. Even the name is reflective of a cultural shift, the D was of the Galaxy class, a name evocative of size ambition and wonder. The E is a Sovereign class, a name evocative of strength, rule and majesty. It's one of the better examples of such a shift in fiction really and contrasts well with the Defiant class, which was the only other major representative warship of the Federation up to that time. The Defiant being a tiny escort with wildly disproportionate firepower and speed... awfully like the 'fast battleship' design of the Bismarck. (The naming scheme fits as well, since there is basically only one interpretation of the name and it is directly to the point.)
Even the name "Dreadnought" feels like I have to do some heavy lifting just to say it. It's a name which carries weight in just vocals. My God I love my Country and I love the Royal Navy 🇬🇧🤘
The ship in the video is the USS Texas, which served in WWI and WWII being decommissioned in 1948. Judging by the Marine Raider logo in your profile picture I’m going to assume you’re an American, so you can take pride in being from the same nation as the USS Texas.
@@robertcurry389 nope, I'm English through and through. I have had the marine raider patch due to an old crew I was in on GTA. I mean, I live in a different port city to HMS Dreadnoughts building city, but still proud of British achievements.
@@rhysandmike3373 um American, but even i can recognize that the British built some badass warmachines. The dreadnought, the hood, and who can forget the mk 4 tanks
@@JazzKazoo0930 oh, us Brits must have the most innovative armed forces in the world. Just saying, I mean, we practically created modern special forces, tanks and Dreadnought style ships
@@robertcurry389 the song itself doesn’t actually sing about the Texas. It’s about the Royal Navy’s Dreadnoughts, hence the line “The Grand Fleet prepares their guns”. The USS Texas is used in the background to pay home-age as it is the last Dreadnought in service.
Mine are 1. Sarajevo, Stormtroopers, Dreadnought, The Unkillable Soldier, Soldier of Heaven, Hellfighters, Race to the Sea, Lady of the Dark, The Valley of Death, Christmas Truce, Versailles
Ну не знаю на вкус и цвет как говорится. Мне вот сейчас оч зашло Volbeat. Sabaton всегда был на слуху а вот Volbeat - Lasse's Birgitta чем-то зацепило.
Just heard this song for the first time today and I loved it. Musically it brought to mind when I think of with dreadnoughts and battleships as a whole. The historian in me loved the references for WWI and Jutland. The art was spot on with Texas featured prominently and being the last of the dreadnoughts. The song and video was a love letter to the great Leviathans that once ruled the waves.
Me and my father discovered this band over a year ago now, when he finally had his apartment and his car after my parents' divorce. So when I go on vacation with him and I'm not with my mother we're spending like 6 hours in a car by screaming Sabaton songs together. Actually he and I weren't into metal music before, and while I still don't listen much to other metal groups, I just love your songs guys. I strongly believe in pacifist opinions but you are honoring heroes and speaking perfectly about war to provoke both honor and reflection about the uselessness of war, strongly discouraging it (at leats it seems like it to me). Speaking about untold enough heroes, singing about the horrors of war but in a way that surpass other metal groups by far. And I'm not speaking about the fact that it creates another cool bond between me and my father, and that it makes some memories to remember to later. Thanks from a 17 years old french guy.
As a Texan thank you for showcasing the old war queen, my great grandfather was at Normandy in WW2 (I know it's a different war) and she was watching and protecting him on those beaches. Thanks Joakim and friends.
"And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all...."
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1.47M subscribers Will you guys one day be doing a Music Video version of this song "Dreadnought"? I really enjoyed this song?
This album came out on my birthday! Couldn't have asked for a more awesome present. 🤘
The coolest name for any kind or ship, like sure battleship sounds sick but dreadnought just carries this weight behind it.
The ship cares not for your dread.
@@siva9492 oh no it’s you
Shame that they are among the weakest ships now...
@@phantomaviator1318 Yeah, its irrelevant if a dreadnought can withstand any barrage of cannons, but cant stop a missile or torpedo
It gets better when you realise its name roughly translates to Fear Nothing
Holy shit, this is one of their most unique sounding songs... when it comes to battleships, Sabaton knows its craft.
I never noticed how true that is, with Bismarck, Wolfpack, Midway, all great
They have said before they love navel war, hell one of them almost served on a Swedish submarine
@@bubla2659 and Joakim loves aerial warfare as he wanted to be a fighter pilot as a kid.
And that's a fact
what about soilder of heaven that one sound even more diffrent
Love how the music comes as big, slow, unstoppable metal.
Just like a dreadnought.
Slow? Tell that to Admiral Fisher lol
Yeah, at first I thought the song was a bit of a dud until I realised the beat was as relentless as it's namesake. To see HMS Dreadnought launched, in a class of it's own, it must have been a truly awesome spectacle. By the end of the song the lyrics were giving me the chills.
dreadnought slow? he was kinda fast for his time
If it’s too slow for you, it still slaps at 1.25x playback
Dreadnoughts were three things:
-fast
-sturdy
-strong
They are the hammer to break the Anvil
There is no "best" Sabaton song. In order for there to be a best Sabaton song, there must exist Sabaton songs which are not the best.
These songs aren't to glorify war, but to take unspoken stories and share them to say "we haven't forgotten you".
We know.
Yes ,. I can relate to that, I learnt a lot because of sabaton
@@MetalFan10101 And yet many dont, sadly.
There is Glory in War.
All warfare is based.
-Sun Tzu
Without fail, Sabaton's navy songs KICK ASS
Wolfpack goated
@@ayushpadhi2173 oh shoot. I almost forgot about Wolfpack in my Sabaton Naval playlist. Thanks for reminding me.
I’ll correct it for you. “Without fail, Sabaton’s song KICK ASS”
Jawohl, Bismarck is how I found out about them, and their naval songs are great. And their aircraft songs. And armor/tank songs. And people…and basically everything
Wolfpack, Bismark and Midway are probably my all time favorites, this one might make the list too.
The line "And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all." is really clever. Their role is to inspire fear and dread in their enemies as they come steaming over the horizon. Well done Sabaton, another kickass naval song to add to our collection.
they do dread something, the scrapyard
When I first heard that line, I thought it was "and the dreadnoughts did nothing at all"
Which is kinda true, both Britain and Germany were very reluctant at using them and really only used them once.
@@BigAl2-u7e same
I think the dreadnought dread nought at all would sound pretty cool as well
@@BigAl2-u7e The UK lost 4dreadnoughts in Jutland, Germany lost none. But from an objective perspective, the battle was still a victory for the UK
POV: your lego boat floats
😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I prefer Bismarck for that. "He was made TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS"
@@sayethvexus8332 both work, I just chose this song because Bismarck was a bit to specific. Dreadnought refers to a powerful battleship (it's more general) and Bismarck is a wee bit too specific for a silly little Lego boat
@@mr.fighterbomber3345 The silliness is why it works!
I've always found the name "Dreadnought" oddly comforting.
It's as if the ship is saying "Have no fear, and follow me."
Dreadnoughts are my preferred shape of Biblically Accurate Angel.
"Sir, telegram from the approaching Dreadnought!"
"Read it to me."
"It says, 'BE NOT AFRAID'. She must be friendly, sir."
"She demonstrates the very concept of fear to every seaman on the waves, yet bids us not yet to shake..."
@@kristofevarsson6903 I now have the mental images of battleships with biblically accurate angel eyes everywhere on it with wings
@@takebacktheholyland9306 TL;DR She's already Biblically Accurate.
Technically speaking, the "eyes everywhere" is everyone looking at the ASDIC radar in the room (that green circular radar screen that goes PONG every time it reaches the 12:00 position) and the "wings" are simply the fins on each propeller on multiple screws beneath the ship.
"have no fear, have me"
"I´m not here to fear, I am the fear"
The name literally means "Dreads not/nothing"
It's basically a Sabaton tradition at this point. When Sabaton makes a song about naval warfare, whether it's Dreadnought, Wolfpack, or Bismark, it's going to hit you like a fleet of warships at ramming speed and you *will* love it.
Its like that for all Sabaton songs
@@Cherno35 true
You think?
@@perryplayzzz no I don’t
@@MeganeuraARK ?
The USS Texas was called the last dreadnought. It had a record holding 12 inches of Pittsburgh steel holding the hull together. The ship also had to go to a port in France to reload during the battle of Normandy, later to come back to find out that the alies had pushed the germans back to far the guns could no longer reach at max turret elevation. So they decided to take the ship from 13000 meters offshore up to 3000 meters from the shoreline. On a last ditch effort the ship then flooded its starbird balast tanks basicaly gangster leaning the ship, so it could shoot further inland.
Cool, thanks for sharing this
That ship commander: i dont Care if we cant move. Get us Closer and fire
And you can go see her today.
Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord is credited with being the father of the Dreadnought can you imagine getting into a with the Royal Navy not knowing this thing exists.
@@trumpetedeagle2 yeah cuz its not a fish museum like the "Best battleship in the world" aka the bismarck and yamato.
I showed this video to my history students as an example of military buildup before WWI, and a surprising number of them remembered the names of British battleships later and even on their test! It made a huge impression on them!
It's inspiring to read this, thanks for sharing it.
Teachers like you are the ones I remember and appreciate most.
Sabaton was used to teach a history class, unreal
me who remembered the names of battleships thanks to playing my a** away on world of warships: cool...
I wish I had teachers like you
I've literally nearly blown out my vocal cords yelling the "They lead their Navy into War" part lol what an awesome song.
Take care of those so that you can keep doing it!
@@Sabaton Oh Wow! It's an honour to get a response from you guys. I'll certainly do my best to not sing too hard but that's difficult when listening to Sabaton! You guys are the best and have been and continue to be my favourite band for the last 4 years. I live in New Brunswick but I'm hoping to come and see you when you are performing in Quebec. Keep up the amazing work that you guys do!
@@colinmackay92 same brother they been my favorite band on a daily I listen to them for the past 7 years I turns into a addiction they make history so impressed
@@Johnsmith-gm4qq its not an addiction. we can stop at any time. OH who are we kiiding with that. Yes we are addicted but in a good way.
What an awesome thing to say 🫡🎖
"Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized, over time their legend will rise"
Chills everytime. That chorus is too powerful for an ordinary metal song, but this is Sabaton after all. 🤘
“And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all”. Excellent chorus, I agree
"And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all" is the high point of the chorus
"And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all"
@@dorn0531 that line could have been great, but that's literaly why those ships are called that, it isn't original
Yes
Fun fact: HMS Dreadnought is by far the only battleship to have sunk a submarine by ramming it
Holy shit thats possible? WOW
Fun fact 2: Dreadnought was the first British battleship that didn’t have a bow built for ramming
@@tipips the poor uboat was surfaced to charge its batteries. They didn't see her coming in time. HMS Dreadnought rammed it while they were still trying to emergency dive and the uboat sank.
Bunga Bunga
@@woxof46 error commited sucsessfully
The ship Pictured in this video. The Battleship Texas BB-35 is the last remaining dreadnought In existence. And I just got to see her as she's being moved to drydock. Absolutely massive ship and intimidating. Awe inspiring to see her moving. They even blew the horn once saluting Seawolf park in Galveston.
Sabaton actually just Visited her!
@@mattb5056 yep! I was at their houston show last night where they announced that!
I am interested in seeing a song about the last Pre-dreadnought (and last British made battleship in existence) currently coated in cement in Japan.
Participated in the Russo-Japanese war as a flagship.
I think the WW2 battleships are all technically dreadnoughts. They were built on the same lines just bigger/more armored/ bigger guns.
@@cp1cupcake Dreadnought refers to a particular era of battleship, just like a pre-dreadnought.
Any battleship produced from the time HMS Dreadnought was laid into the water to the end of the Great War can be called a Dreadnought.
This song has really come to be a favourite on this album. I absolutely love the pacing and the powerful undertones of the lyrics. It feels slow,, yet powerful like the Dreadnoughts themselves.
Thank you for appreciating it
fancy seeing you here
@@Sabaton He's not the only one having an eargasm
It's a power ballad
Definitely, This will be one of those defining songs of a band along with Red Barron, Winged Hussars, Field Verdun, and Bismarck. It is ashamed I live in Albania. No way they come here. Originally from New Orleans, Houston 5 hours away.... but it's in October :(
"in fear of nothing, they lead the Navy into war"
why is this such a hard hitting line
It's the one I like the most too, it brings out the colossal presence of dreadnoughts
It must be true if Jesus says it
Our Lord and Saviour is a Sabaton Fan! Hallelujah!
I guess that your best sabaton song is the last stand or caroleans prayer
FOR THE GRACE FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD
The fact that a single ship's *name* marked an entire subclass is crazy
And any battleship made before then was then called a pre dreadnought
@@pilotbug6100 Which gets weird, because some pre-Dreadnaught battleships were already under construction and were launched after HMS Dreadnaught, notably the Kaiserlich Marine's Saschen and Schelswieg-Holstein. Those two actually stayed in service until the end of WWII.
My bro I had the same fucking PFP
@@ostlandr Not weird at all, those two were pre-dreadnaught designs, mixed gun size.
@@somercet1 the spanish warship Destructor says hi
Best thing about Sabaton’s music is the comments aren’t filled with random people talking about how it cured their 97 year old grandpa’s 7 different types of stage 4 cancer, but rather, badass history facts.
This made me Crack up thank you
why not both? Their war veteran grandpas
Yes,badass histories,like the HMS Dreadnought sunk a submarine by raming it XD
This made me laugh XD
Then give me facts
sabaton still making qualitative music even through age,they are litteraly historian bards
modern day bards
Sabaton: A Bard's Tale
I call them Tank Bards, but you have a point there, they talk about things other than tanks
What does age have to do with it?
Hey, let's set the whole of military history from Thermopylae to 1945 to music!
The beat reminds me of that saying "Beating heart of the Navy" along with it's slow nature like the heavy beast that the Dreadnoughts would be. Love it.
or the beating heart of a dreadnought
Dreadnought: the beginning of a legend, the kings of the ocean
@@MiguelCMB made to rule the waves across the seven seas?
@@YataTheFifteenth Pride of a nation?
@@wildwyatxbox a beast made of steel?
“The grand fleet prepares their guns, unleashed as the Dreadnoughts clash at last!”
It’s not often a song properly gives me chills, but this managed it. Well done.
I found this comment and read it at the exact time the lyrics were sung in the song
That line reminds me of Jutland, probably a nod to it
@@pedrofelipefreitas2666 It definitely is due to the mention of the North Sea
@@midnight_rap_battles Most definitely Jutland since it's from their The War To End All Wars album
@@marallenrondez2606def Jutland because that was, If memory serves the only time dreadnoughts clashed
I love how the song makes dreadnoughts seem like not just an advanced Battleship but instead some kind of force of nature
Considering the sheer impact Dreadnought had, might as well be considered one. She made *every existing ship in every navy of the time obsolete overnight*. All of them, just by existing. She is the reason we call battleships built after her time dreadnought battleships, as they all followed her idea of uniform main armament calibers and steam turbine machinery to achieve ever higher speeds, carrying ever larger and ever more guns, wielding more armor and defenses every generation. The one to start a race which then lead to the clash of the titans, and decades later the birth of the Leviathan...
@@HyperScorpio8688 Minor correction: not all battleships built after HMS Dreadnought were called dreadnoughts. Discounting predreads that were already in the build process at the time she launched, from the interwar period there were the treaty battleships that were in the build process as of the Washington Naval Treaty or designed according to Washington and London Naval Treaty restrictions and the fast battleships built as countries left the treaties or invoked the escalator clauses in them.
@@mindwarp42 By technicality, the treaty ships still followed the principles of Dreadnought: Uniform main armament caliber, steam turbines for propulsion. Of course the treaty ships, the escalator ships and the ones not compliant with the treaty built upon the principle here, but all later built battleships followed it. Superdreadnoughts were called that because they were a superior version of the dreadnought philosophy: bigger guns, faster speed, more armor. But still, they were not breaking the dreadnought philosophy, they were pushing the envelope on what belonged into that philosophy. So you are technically wrong, but in effect, there were the parts of battleship design you mentioned, so it's really just nitpicking, effectively it was complicated anyway
@@HyperScorpio8688 @BlAckH0le You can tell the naval history fans by our nitpicking to rival Beatty vs Jellicoe supporters. 😉 Personally, I'm glad that the Royal Navy managed to cause one lesser talked about change: improving the looks of battleships elsewhere with the general dreadnought design concept. France going from the ugly floating hotels eventually to Richelieu is a 360 degree turn in overall design. This was a case of Jacky Fisher's ideas just being the right type of crazy at the right time.
@@mindwarp42 While I generally favor function over form
I gotta say you're damn right
why are all of your naval songs so good? Bismarck, Wolfpack, Midway, and this masterpiece, perfection all around.
Imo bismarck is so fucking overrated
Don't forget Midway
For now all they miss is iirc a Last Stand-like song about Yamato
@@regalblade8171 I wait every day for a Sabaton Yamato song.
@@mload45 maybe when they make another WW2 album
@@regalblade8171 How though? It's gonna be difficult making a song about that ship considering how it did practically nothing and got demolished by planes without a fight?
The kido butai though, maybe
Тhere's enough metal in this song to build a new fleet of dreadnoughts.
There are enough metals here to build a full task force of dreadnoughts, and still leaves enough metal to build 3 more bismarcks and reinforce joakim's kneecaps further
@@richie_23 and still leave enough metal to build a Yamato and Texas fleets
Well put.
Quick! Where's the Best Comment Award?
As a British man I am so happy I found this I've always taken great pride in my country's military both historically and present thank you Sabaton
Greetings from the UK
Thank you for writing, greetings from Sweden!
British chap here too and I love this song!
also from uk and love the dreadnought
The irony my history class covered this and I discover the song directly after. Wish we had played it whilst in class.
Interesting things; to know about Dreadnought herself;
Because of the newness of her fancy high speed (for the time) engines, she couldn’t actually reverse.
She was fitted with a false ram, a holdover from ship designs of old, and one of the last warships to have one.
She was the subject of a prank by a group of pranksters called the Bloomsbury Group in 1910 when the group, pretending to be a short-notice Royal Delegation from Abyssinia, wanted to inspect the ship and got a guided tour, speaking only small bits of Latin as none knew the language of the place they were pretending to be from, and supposedly shouting or murmuring the phrase ‘Bunga Bunga!’ As an exclamation of amazement or appreciation.
In 1915 Dreadnought rammed and sank the German Submarine U-29 (as that was standard anti-submarine doctrine at the time due to submarines needing to surface to fire). She is he only battleship to sink a submarine by ramming, and amongst the many messages of congratulations she got, one was notably ‘BUNGA BUNGA’
This was her only significant action, she never fired her guns in anger, and missed Jutland in 1916
Good info, but the song is not only about the HSM Dreadnought.
@@MrBelgosi and? Never implied it was. It was just info about the ship
@@MrBelgosi but is about the type of ship named after her
@@m4sherman926 Yes, but still the song is not about only her...
@@MrBelgosi So? It's a couple neat little bits of info about Dreadnought specifically. Dreadnought is the one who started the idea of Dreadnoughts, its why they bear her name, the fact that the song itself is about Dreadnoughts in general doesn't change anything about my first comment. Your little nitpick was asinine and pointless, and contributed nothing to my comment.
Hail to thee, Warspite, for this is where thine legend began.
Amidst Jutland's frozen waves you did excel, and from here to Marazion you filled our enemies with icy dread.
Forgive us, grand one, for you deserved not the shameful breakers' yard, but to be immortalised forevermore in the history of Our great Empire.
The grand lady spat in their honourless eyes grounding herself off the coast just to live to her name HMS WARSPITE!
British patriotism detected, accusations of racism incoming.
Glory to the HMS Warspite! You are one of many ships that have saved your country from utter defeat, and it is wrongful of them to simply just being you to the breakers' yard... May you be immortalised in hopefully a new ship named after you! Once again, glory to thee, Warspite!
If there's ONE ship we should've kept, it has to be the Grand Old Lady. Survived both world wars protecting Britain for 50 years and all we gave her was the scrapyard. Such a waste. She deserved better.
The ship is likely the USS Texas
Fun fact. HMS Dreadnought had no official flag motto.
Why was this when every other ship of the fleet did?
Her name was her motto To "Dreadnought" meant to fear nothing. She was the first of her kind & ruled the seas as a queen for 2 years. But her legacy is immortal to be a Dreadnought was to be named for her implacable pride & the wroth of her main calibre.
Her motto was "Fear God and Dread Nought"
The caliber wasn’t actually massive, it was 12 inches, which is a fucking foot, but calibers on pre Dreadnoughts could go up to 18 inches, and the race before Dreadnought was on caliber, one of the many reasons why dreadnought was so influential, was the fact it had 5 turrets, and 10 guns (2 per turret), instead of the usual 2 turrets.
Shameless plug, on my channel im going to upload a full video on Dreadnoughts soon (im not doing because sabaton, ive been working on it for a month)
well england new missile sub class is called Dreadnought class name after this bb it should be finished in Expected early 2030 other ones are Valiant Warspite King George VI
@@nerdyandstuff most ships pre HMS Dreadnaught was either wooden mast {sailing} or ironclad ships and most was still using canons, the HMS Dreadnaught is the mother of the modern navy
The Brits sure knew how to name ships.
This song sounds like a battleship.
Slow, steady, and hits like a damn freight train!
Maybe a Trilogy. The Dreadnaught, Bismarck and the Indianapolis. That's one hell of a story🇺🇸😎
Ok so consider this.
_Bismarck:_
-Pride of a nation
-Beast made of steel
-King of the ocean, he was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
Conversely...
_Dreadnoughts:_
-Dread *NOTHING AT ALL*
Better to have died in battle then be scrapped,
YES!
The terror of the sea's vs the dreadnought that dreads nothing at all.
@@connorirons4542 the King of the Ocean vs. a lady who murked a UBoat by ramming it
I honestly can't wait for them to do one about one of the Iowa class battleships. That would be lit.
"And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all."
Sent chills up my spine, one of the best Sabaton lines ever.
1 A.M. My neighbours are listening to Sabaton, and i don't care if they want or not
О так ми в однакових часових поясах.
For once I'm fine with a disrespectful neighbor lol
My sister is room below minr with her one month old son. We have to tech them young what is a good music
🤣🤣🤣Awesome 🤘🏽🖤🤘🏽
The only disrespectful neighbor that you can tolerate
Here after USS Texas BB-35 has reached the dry dock for repairs.
The last floating dreadnought in the world and one of two New York class dreadnoughts. Alongside Mikasa they are the oldest steel warships we have left( the others being wooden armada ships with actual small cannons on their sides).
Also fun fact: U.S.S. Texas BB-35 took part in the shelling of the shoreline for the D-Day landing during Operation Overlord and has taken out german battery spots. At one point the enemies were out of her gun reach so the captain gave the order for the crew to flood a torpedo blister to flood themselves and tilt to one side, gaining enough elevation to keep firing on the germans.
It is currently undergoing a repair schedule that will take around a year and cost around 35 million dollars. It had serious structural damage on its outer shell and bottom due to corrosion . If anybody wants to donate you can search USS texas foundation and read more about the lads
-Message delivered by an European who went to a sabaton concert and likes history, ground, air and naval included.
As a European, don't overlook the battleship Georgios Averof tied up at Athens.
It’s sad that the Warspite wasn’t preserved.
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
Olympia is actually older than both of us
The Avrora is also around Mikasa's age.
The Texas is also notable as being the only remaining World War I-era dreadnought battleship, being the first U.S. battleship to become a permanent museum ship; and the first battleship declared to be a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Shortly after her commissioning, Texas made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. When American formally entered World War II, Texas escorted war convoys across the Atlantic and saw action in the invasions of North Africa, Normandy and Southern France. Upon transfer to the Pacific Theater in 1944, she provided support for the Battles of Iowa Jima and Okinawa. At the end of the war, Texas carried many prisoners of war from the Philippines to Pearl Harbor and brought nearly 5,000 troops home to California.
Another fun fact the Texas during Normandy partially sunk to hit their target who was out of range
@@knightblade0188 yup, the captain had her bilges flooded to gain angle for her guns. What I'm curious is how much distance was gained
@@scottthompson3670 if I remember correctly the list was actually rather small, only two degrees if I remember
@@knightblade0188 it was also after she had expended all of her ammo firing during the invasion. By the time she got back into the fight she went as close as she could without grounding and then tilted herself to be able to reach even farther to meet more death to her enemies.
USS Texas is undergoing dry docking now to help preserve her for hopefully the next century!
Ships lost during the battle of Jutland:
HMS Queen Mary: 1,284 souls, 18 survivors
HMS Invincible: 1,032 souls, six survivors
HMS Indefatigable: 1,019 souls, three survivors
HMS Defence: 903 souls, lost with all hands
HMS Black Prince: 857 souls, lost with all hands
SMS Pommern: 839 souls, lost with all hands
SMS Wiesbaden: 590 souls, one survivor
SMS Frauenlob: 333 souls, nine survivors
HMS Tipperary: 197 souls, 47 survivors
SMS Lützow: 1,391 souls, 1,276 survivors
HMS Turbulent: 103 souls, 13 survivors
SMS V48: 91 souls, one survivor
SMS S35: 88 souls, lost with all hands
HMS Shark: 92 souls, six survivors
HMS Ardent: 80 souls, two survivors
HMS Warrior: 814 souls, 743 survivors
HMS Fortune: 74 souls, seven survivors
SMS V29: 83 souls, 50 survivors
SMS V4: 74 souls, 56 survivors
SMS Rostock: 373 souls, 359 survivors
HMS Nomad: 80 souls, 72 survivors
HMS Sparrowhawk: 78 souls, 72 survivors
HMS Nestor: 86 souls, 80 survivors
SMS Elbing: 481 souls, 477 survivors
SMS V27: 83 souls, all of whom survived
Many more were killed aboard ships which were not sunk. In total, 9,832 of approximately 100,000 men who fought during the battle were killed.
so the RMS Queen mary sunk in the 1910s?
No
@@Liamsaviation123 The HMS Queen Mary was a battlecruiser laid down in 1911. The RMS Queen Mary was an ocean liner laid down in 1930. They were different ships with the same name.
Most of the British navy trouble came from their doctrine of always having a clean ship with fresh paint.
They where reluctant to do fire training and missed most of their shot because of this.
This problem will also continue during WW2.
@@TheREALMcChimp Ohhh Okay.
Thx for telling me, I thought is was the RMS Queen Mary.
I should mention that the ships lost were either battlecruisers, cruisers, or destroyers
HMS Dreadnought was such a revolutionary ship that it actually backfired on the British by making much of their huge fleet obsolete while giving a way for newer navies like the German's the ability catch up.
Really?
Not really? The biggest problem was that it damaged Anglo-German relations. The British made too many Dreadnaughts for Germany to ever realistically match, with Churchill's 2 to 1 Dreadnaughts working wonders.
The fleet wasn't obsolete, as a Dreadnaughts job was to sink enemy battleships. The rest of the fleet was more useful than the Dreadnaughts. And of course, if a Dreadnaught got damaged, it's repair would cost so much it wasn't worth it unless the Dreadnaught sunk big ships.
it really was a case of bad relations that led to an arms race at the time, the possibility of dreadnoughts was because of industrial development, and at this time, both countries had the capability of just pushing these ships out, and with the bad relations, came worries that England would have enough ships to stop the germans from defending themselves, so there was a certain pressure on the German authorities to order the building of at least so many ships compared to the English, they didnt have to outnumber them, but they wanted to make sure they could at least pose a threat, but England of course didn't really like that, and kept building more dreadnoughts, so the germans would have to keep building them too.
England didn't start production of the Dreadnought until similar ships had already been started in Germany and France. its just a testament to English shipwrights that they got her out first starting a few months behind. and Germany and France where already in a naval race with the Kaiser wanting a fleet to match her standing as a great power and the french realizing that their strike craft doctrine was incorrect.
Dreadnought made _every other_ navy obsolete. The side that had it, had both the new superweapon as well as their existing fleet.
Reveal the cannons, align the guns unleash their wrath
That really gives me chills
Unupposed under crimson skies immortalized over time their legend will rise. That line did it to me
“Reveal the cannons. Align the guns unleash their wrath.”
Literal goosebumps! Especially when you consider the fact that her 76mm guns had a range of just over 5 miles… and she was fitted with 24 of them…
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The dreadnought had 309mm guns, 10 of them in fact, 76mm were the secondary armament.
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Sabaton has me feel like an expert on a subject after a 5 min lyric video.
Phenomenal work!
I have a history degree and learn more from a Sabaton song than hours of lectures.
@@eliz_scubavn just curious what can you do with a history degree ?
@@sharoonaftab8894 Degree is valuable on it's own, don't matter what it's in.
You can get a lot of places to train you on whatever they're doing if you just have a degree.
The Battle of Jutland (30 May-1 June 1916):
The most massive trade of blows in the history of the seven seas at the time. Understand at this point of the war the Dreadnoughts of the high fleets hadn't really been engaged in true naval combat. The German and British high seas fleets were lead by commanders a tad to scared to sacrifice any dreadnought in battle. One day, the German Navy decided they had enough of Britain interrupting their shipping routes and Kaiser Wilhelm alongside the high fleet Admirals of the German Navy decided to unleash the High Seas fleet upon the North Sea and Atlantic.
The British Navy had a terrifying reputation at this point, only being overshadowed by the fear of German U-Boats. The British Navy decided that they would finally bring out their ships and their dreadnoughts out to fight. The fact that both fleets encountered one another was not just a coincidence, but when they met the first dreadnought fight had commenced.
The goal of each fleet were as such. The British Navy had to destroy, route, or keep the German Navy from getting deeper into the Atlantic Ocean. The German Navy's goal was to either retreat to safety back in German ports, destroy the British Navy, or damage as many ships as possible before destruction. The grueling combat rocked the ocean as 151 ships of the Royal Navy engaged 99 ships of the German Imperial Navy. The commanders of each Navy were no push overs or strangers to naval combat.
After the battle had finally ended, the German navy lost 11 ships, including a battleship and a battle cruiser, and suffered 3,058 casualties; the British sustained heavier losses, with 14 ships sunk, including three battle cruisers, and 6,784 casualties. Though, goals of both navies were achieved. The British high seas fleet routed the German Navy, and the German Navy severely damaged the British High seas fleet sustaining much less casualties.
Both Nations claim victory in this battle to this day......
Jutland was irrelevant in the grand scheme of things to either side.
The Germans never wanted a decisive naval battle in WWI; they wanted to overcome the British at sea, but not in a massive fleet engagement, because such an engagement would favour the British (with their bigger fleet). Instead, what they wanted was a drawn-out attritional campaign, where they would engage in many small-scale naval battles instead of major fleet engagements, trying to lure out small groups of British capital ships towards the entire High Seas Fleet. The Germans wanted to bleed out the Royal Navy a few ships at a time, not defeat them in a single stroke with a massive naval battle.
The issue is that most of the time the Germans tried this at the operational level (and they actually tried it a few times after Jutland as well, albeit at smaller scales), the British didn’t take the bait at all and sent in no ships, or sent in their entire fleet when the Germans wanted to deal with only a few British capital ships at once. Jutland only happened the way it did because the British did take the bait on that occasion with a smaller number of ships, the Germans sprang the trap, then it turned out that the British had the rest of their navy coming to back them up. The Germans never had any intention of fighting the entire Grand Fleet at once, so even if Jellicoe’s force hadn’t shown up they’d still have done exactly what they historically did-sink some battlecruisers and then flee back to port. Because that was their objective for Jutland and for their capital ship engagements in general.
So the Germans ended up actually achieving their goal for the operation that led to Jutland (albeit taking more damage than they planned for), but the British didn’t provide them nearly enough opportunities to try stunts like this, meaning that the RN still held the strategic upper hand since all they needed to do was not be goaded into naval engagements. If Jutland never happened, the situation would have been exactly the same (if not even more one-sided towards the British) as before.
@@bkjeong4302 Shhh, its a cool story, thats all that matters.
@@bkjeong4302 What is an interesting "What if" for the Battle of Skaggerak is: What would have happened had SMS Bayern been ready. One of the things the german ships lacked were big caliber guns, having long prefered 305mm cannons (though it should be noted that german WWI guns and shells were pretty good, int erms of penetration, tehy could take on the bigger british guns). SMS Bayern was armed 15" guns.
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@@bkjeong4302 another German goal for the battle of Jutland was to relieve the Royal Navies blockade in the North Sea.
In this the Kaiserliche Marine failed, dooming Germany to starvation and the German Navy to a fate in dockyards, never being repair till it was eventually scuttled in the Treaty of Versailles.
Everytime I rock out to this song (as well as Midway), I can't help but feel the adrenaline flow through my veins, making me ready for battle; the pride of both myself and my predecessors from serving as a sailor of our respective countries; the desperation of fighting for their lives and the lives of their brothers, and the raw POWER that both aircraft, aircraft carriers, and the mighty dreadnought instills inside our hearts and minds just from their presence. Thank you for making my state's flagship, the USS Texas, the poster-child of this song!
Happy to hear it has this effect on you @The_Sly_Potato! Thank you for listening 🤘🤘🤘
I changed my mind about this song. When it came out I thought it was one of the best songs on the album. Now I think it's one of the best Sabaton songs ever. It's more amazing every time I listen to it 🤘
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
things just went from slap in the face to high five real fast
The only thing missing is a song dedicated to HMS Warspite. The battleship that served in and survived both World Wars.
She even fired the first shot a D day . Warspite is my favorite ship, she didn't even go to the breakers without a fight.
The Grand Old Lady
with a list of battlehonors longer than you can shake a stick at
A badass name, and a list of achievements that can do a 15-minute song.
My favourite Battleship. As a British guy warspite I am proud of. A ship that was made a star during jutland and worked her ass off during WW2 😀
@@sanguiniusonvacation1803 she also had the turret C at the stern disabled after a fritz X bomb hit her before d day
Sabaton is just the best
Yes
@Codger Gunslinger You really are saying its bad to shame a war criminal?
@Codger Gunslinger and i don't give a flying rats arse what you think
The fact that another guy is getting hate over Putin's actions is sad.
@@Nexandrits not Even funny to have a putin pfp tho at a time like war in ukraine
Man the person who named the HMS dreadnought must be so proud of himself to give a battleship such a badass name.
Like you've gotta wonder, was it badass then, or has it just formed into that mould over the years?
Jackie Fisher. The most badass first sea lord ever.
@@kadewiedeman3127 HMS Dreadnought immediately made every other pre dread obsolete compared to it. The mould was always the same
@@kadewiedeman3127 I mean you gotta admit Dreadnought sounds sick as hell and it literally means, "Fear Nothing" For a new class of battleship which could anihilate anything else with ease. How is it not badass.
Interestingly, the famous HMS Dreadnought was the 10th Royal Navy ship of that name.
i love that, for some time, i found strange that the ship that appears in this video is not The Dreadnought, but then i realised that she is the USS Texas, which is the only Dreadnought era Battleship that is still around today, and that's cool af.
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
This song almost perfectly encapsulates my fascination with big vessels carrying big guns. Aircraft carriers are cool and all, but they fail to invoke the sheer awe I feel when I look at a heavily armed battleship.
Carriers are cool but there is nothing like the lines of a battleship. USS Iowa, IJN Yamato, HMS Warspite, HMS King George V, even Bismarck was a fine looking ship.
@@dorn0531 I have a particular weak spot for the old Dreadnoughts, with SMS Bayern being my favorite warship of all time. Just those clean, utilitarian line combined with her gorgeous white paintjob... Perfection.
@@CIoudStriker Dont fogett, maybe the greatest name for a Battleship / Battlecruiser ever: Derfflinger !
Amazingly beautiful ship.
And she even has it in her name, to Hurl death and destruction at her enemies.
I could not agree more.
I don't know what it is but when the song begins and ends, that musical part? For me, I get the sense that something BIG is coming, no one knows what it is, and no one knows how to stop this thing. And just *squee*! It sounds so awesome! 😍
Bismarck: “what are you?”
Dreadnaught: “your ancestors nightmare”
"Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all" is my new phrase for being a fearless badass.
The irony is that they rarely saw combat, since high command feared to commit them to battle, because they were bloody expensive.
Great song. At first, it didn't really click with me, but after listening to it a few times it's really grown on me.
It also makes me desire another song. Dreadnought was The First of her kind. Now we need a song about The Last Dreadnought.
Thanks for that Evan
Especially since they used an artwork of the last Dreadnaught for this video!
USS Texas is an interesting ship to sing a song about...but the dreadnought that deserves to be immortalized in song the most is HMS Warspite. There is no ship that ever existed with a more storied and legendary career.
Well the ship in the video is the last dreadnought alive
@@lordnaarghul How about both? Warspite gets her own song like Bismarck, while USS Texas gets the title song "The Last Dreadnaught"
I swear with every next album, I fall in love with Sabaton more and more
Mission accomplished then 😎
They always get better and better.
In December of 1906, a new ship of war takes the seas by storm. A powerful weapon constructed to serve His Majesty. She made her predecessors obsolete and struck fear in those who heard it’s guns roar. Her steam turbines propelled her faster than any other battleship, and her all-big-gun armament was thought to be to powerful for the hull to handle. But fire she did, and not one rivet lost. Her presence compelled other powers to construct ships to rival her, yet she was the catalyst to start a new era of naval warfare.
Her name was the HMS Dreadnought
Very beautifully said. That gave me shivers.
Hope this ends up as the narrative of this song.
It's so good I can imagine the entire scenery.
I can hear the narrator of yarnhub while reading this
The effect of post-dreadnought warships was such that two decades later, the Washington Naval Treaty was enacted; partly to prevent the naval powers from either being too ambitious or going broke from the arms race, at least until WW2 threw that out of the window.
Hilariously enough Dreadnought damaged her own navy and nation more than anyone else could ever dream about.
The beat is slow and steady, moving unhesitantly forward at an unstoppable force. That makes this song so potent
I would love nothing more than to see an official music video for this song
Yeeees.
Jutland in a Bismarck video style.
Yes.
Only reason Bismarck got an actual music video was due to the check they got given by war gaming
Yes yes and more yes
They should use Texas
@@gandalflotr2898 Nah..... Battle of Jutland because it was and still is (I believe) the biggest battle of capital ship fleets in history.
And also it will look badass.
The battle of Jutland showed the world the true power of Dreadnoughts, the shear destruction and or damage dealt during the battle of Jutland, take HMS Warspite for example, one of the most well known Dreadnoughts, fought to the point of near destruction, and saving HMS Warrior by accident, while stuck in the "Circle Of Death" after taking a hit to the rear and jamming the rudder. Circling Warrior saved the ship from taking any more damage, though the damage already inflicted was too much for the ship, and she sank soon after. Warspite was nearly unrecognizable when she retreated to port, full of holes, fires everywhere, and taking on water, but still alive, still powering herself. She was one of the most expensive ships to repair, but worth every penny, as she went on to be the Flagship of the Mediterranean fleet in WW2, commanded by Sea Lord Andrew Cunningham, who chose Warspite as she became one of the most feared warships the allies had. Several times she was damaged so badly that the Germans and or Japanese thought they had finally sunk her, but she would remain afloat, and come back to haunt them soon after.
It was a battle of giants all around. And in reality, nobody won it. It was the worst outcome: a draw that satisfied nobody and decided nothing other than the loss of many courageous sailors, and the loss of many great warships...
@@HyperScorpio8688 It is why Dreadnoughts clashing was avoided as much as possible, cause the damage dealt to either ship was extremely expensive to repair, and the loss of men, which there were many onboard Dreadnaoughts, were not worth brawling again. Warspite was likely the most expensive ship to repair after Jutland, because the ship's outer layers were basically rebuilt from the ground up due to the many holes in the hull, which was described by a sailor "like Swiss cheese" and even with all the repairs, she was never fully repaired, as repairs to her rudder for example which was damaged in Jutland, would have involved extensive reconstruction, so only "enough" repairs were done, why her rudder would randomly jam on her throughout he rest of her life, which ironically caused more damage to both the ship, and 2 of her sister ships, would have been cheaper to fully repair the rudder, and lets not mention the many refits and modernization she got, and the extensive repairs made after striking a mine which almost ripped the ship in half, which repairs involved cutting the ship in half to repair the main structure and extending her, so she was, at the end of the war, longer then her sister ships.
Warspite did fight another Dreadnought in WW2, the Italian battleship "Giulio Cesare", which she scored the longest hit on a moving target of any warship, 26km, the shell exploding in the funnel of the Cesare, flooding 4 boiler rooms with smoke from fires that broke out immediately, causing her to retreat from the battle, almost as soon as it started, as losing 4 boilers seriously hindered the ships mobility.
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I don't know man, I'd say that Britain definitely won the Battle of Jutland.
Sure, they took heavier casualties, but they effectively made Germany park their surface fleet as it never reemerged from it's base for the rest of the war.
@@BigAl2-u7e And instead just grabbed the submarines and started to decimate the Royal Navy... It was a minor tactical defeat and a minor strategic victory. As I said, in reality it was a draw. Drachinifel made an excellent video that is talking about it in extensive detail, can recommend
@@AngryCanine May they all rest in peace, and the spirit of those ships lost never forgotten...
I was never to this point disappointed, but this time... this time I'm not as well. Can Sabaton even disappoint?
Got me in the first half, not gonna lie
@@leserb9228 r/beatmetoit
They only get better with time, I swear.
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
No they can not disappoint
"Unopposed under crismson skies
Immortalized over time their legend will rise
And their foes cant believe their eyes
Believe their size as they fall" 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
As a Texan, I can only say thank you for showing our grand old lady. It made me tear up thinking about the possibility of a collaboration with Wargaming like ya'll did for Bismarck, and bringing the Texas to life. Such a powerful song... Thank you, from a Texan and all Texans who love our beloved Dreadnaught.
I'm glad I'm not the oly one who recognized the old girl.
If only they did one about the Arizona
@@redthehero3387 They might if they ever do another one on WWII. Having one on Pearl Harbor with Arizona in the background firing her anti-air guns as the planes that seal her fate drop their load on her might be a powerful scene.
Yes that is the Texas! They have to make a song about the beauty shes the last one
@@blue_squadron4271 I actually believe this is about Texas due to the Grand Fleet line.
Despite being phased out with air power, the Gun Club of any navy is one that serves as the pride of the nation. Nothing screams naval supremacy like thousands of tons of steel, with massive guns, thick armor, and an overall commanding presence. From HMS Dreadnought herself to the Iowas, battleships remain the symbol of a powerful navy.
It says a lot when the very word 'battleship' has become synonomous with the word warship, in the mind of most people. Even if it isn't the correct way to say it, it shows the sheer respect and awe these ships command. You don't hear people say Carrier or Destroyer to describe any warship.
@@imperialhighcommand8535 I'm one who refers to a Battleship as just that type. But then I kind of would have gotten chewed out by dad if I did otherwise. He was a Battleship sailor in the late 40s on the USS Missouri.
@@gravelydon7072 Oh, that's really cool. And yeah, I totally get that. Even I get annoyed when people say 'battleship' when referring to any kind of ship...and I'm nothing more than a fan of naval history.
As a sidenote, I wonder what it was like, sailing of a battleship. I've been to the Iowa, and it's certainly a sight to behold.
@@imperialhighcommand8535 Dad enjoyed most of his time on the Missouri. He was mad though when he got yanked off of it and sent to Great Lakes for radio school for a class just before the Korean War broke out. And then they kept him there thru the whole war as an instructor. When they brought the USS New Jersey out for Vietnam, he volunteered to take a reduction in rank, a change back to his old rating, and sea duty. The Navy said no. You can take a sailor out of a Battleship but you can't take the Battleship out of a sailor. A framed picture on the Missouri hangs in the computer room.
In the words of Laserpig, "Don't worry, I'll save you with the power of *FIFTY-THOUSAND TONS OF RAW OFFSHORE BOMBARDMENT!!"*
Insanely powerful chorus.
I feel the awe.
Best chorus they've ever done, hands dowb
Me with a float in the pool
That chorus is simply amazing! Love it!
UNOPPOSED UNDER CRIMSON SKIES
I can’t get over the arpeggios in the chorus: the whole song already feels incredibly well composed (like that modulation in the third verse that make you feel things are gonna clash: sick!) but those arpeggios capture all that havoc just brilliantly.
At first this song was like its alright. But now this song is growing on me and I am starting to love it
For me, this hit so hard in first listening and still do. My favorite from new album, no doubt!! One of the best Sabaton has ever done
funnily enough i experience this with alot of Sabaton songs. from "its alright" to 2-day non-stop obsession
Same
It's the perfect walk of swag song!
Much like the rhythm, it's slow but it creeps up
I want to thank all members of Sabaton for your support of Battleship Texas, and using her in this lyric video as the last Dreadnaught means a lot. Hopefully, y’all will be able to visit when she re-opens to the public. Y’all have already done a lot for the ship. Also, this is a badass song to rock out to 🤘
I was listening to this song as i played world of warship legends with the texas ended up being 6 on one and texas never lets me down cant wait till she out of drydock
Kind of disappointing they used art for USS Texas, when the ship was not involved in any battles during WW1. The song lyrics are clearly about the Battle of Jutland, between the British Empire and Germany.
@jamesg9468 the reason for the use of texas is she is the last ww1 dreadnought to exist. The last of the style of ship that fought in jutland
"Align the guns, unleash their wrath"
Some of these lyrics make me picture the fiery blasts from the guns. Purely epic. Sabaton does great songs, but their naval oriented ones hit very well with me
"In fear of nothing, they lead the Navy into war"
British: We just made every warship besides a dreadnought obsolete, hurray!
British: Oh no! We just made every warship besides a dreadnought obsolete!
America: laughs in aircraft carrier
@@mastrblckhwk aircraft carriers are also a brittish invention, back in 1917 they already has a cruiser with a flyng -off plataform an in 1918 the added the landing platform making hms furious the first operational aircraft carrier in the world.
@@ricardoagreste3223 your right they were but the Americans and the Japanese were the ones who used them to make the Era of the dreadnoughts obsolete
British: "Fortunately we have a massive shipbuilding industry."
Actually I bet that Jackie Fisher was grinning at that realisation and thinking "Well, that takes care of everything French have build until now, and no one can outbuild our shipyards!"
"Fear God, and Dread nought." - Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
Not enough people talking about the guitar solo that starts at 2:46. It's one of my favorite guitar solos ever. Tommy Johansson is king. That solo always sends shivers down my spine
You’re so right! Such a beautiful guitar solo!
An absolutely Beautiful lick 3:07
Man…. 3:17
Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel
Dreadnought in motion, Queen of the Ocean
She was made to rule the waves across the seven seas
To lead the war machine, to rule the waves and lead to victory
The terror of the seas, the Dreadnought lead to victory!
Dreadnought sunk by a uboat,not sure if it can rule the waves
@@DaEpicTable No mate, Dreadnought sunk a U-boat.
She was not sank, but lived her life surprisingly peacefully despite WWI, and was sent to the breakers practically unharmed.
@@bairdrew ooops
@@bairdrew i forgot she rammed a u boat, mustve misread as the uboat ramming her
@@DaEpicTable Considering the displacement of a submarine at that time, it's absurd to even think that a u-boat ramming her would've done crippling damage.
It's like a child punching an MMA fighter in the abs.
Dreadnaughts dread nothing at all sends shivers down my spine every time, you did a great job with this song, this battle, and the whole album.
gave me chills too!!
Unopposed under crimson *skies*
Immortalized over time,
their legend will *Rise*
And their foes
can't believe their *eyes*,
Believe their **size** as they fall!
And the *Dreadnaughts* dread nothing at *all!*
I'm going to be honest and say I did not enjoy a lot of this song sadly, but this part is amazing!
Well they dread CVs but sick song anyway....Sabaton + ships = magic
English is not my first language so only now I figured that Dreadnaught = Dread not = fearless
The Dreadnought they show is the USS Texas
Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized over time
Their legend will rise
And their foes can't believe their eyes
Believe their size
As they fall
*And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all*
The cutting torch.
must... not... woosh... guy above...
*eargasm*
They make Dreadnoughts sound like dragons, or the giant mech suits from pacific rim. Sabaton makes you realize how epic real life is.
We need an entire naval album, dreadnought, midway and bismarck are all high tier. Imagine songs about stuff like enterprise, uss johnsson, Trafalgar, Yi sun shin and so much more. Maybe ending with a song about the modern supercarriers...
Thanks for your suggestion!
@@Sabaton If that's the case, may I have the gumption to suggest the Battle of Malacca Strait for this potential album? It's also known as 'The Last Gunfight of WWII', and possibly of all time, in terms of naval combat; a flotilla of Royal Navy destroyers against the last active IJN heavy asset in SE Asia, the heavy cruiser 'Haguro".
Yes, Or maybe 2 Albums with 1 dedicated to the Pacific Theater of WW2 entirely. They currently only have 3 Songs that originate from there, Nuclear Attack, The Ballad of Bull and Midway. It would be so cool to have a song about The Battle of the Philippine Sea, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Pearl Harbor, The Kamakazi Attacks and of course and the absurdly insane actions going on with the Submariners. Seriously the American Submarines 100% beat the German submarines in WW2 for effectiveness.
I cant imagine how great song about Warspite or Enterprise would be, pls make this happen
Don’t forget the uss Indianapolis
I hope there's eventually a music video for this song. That would be epic.
We note down your suggestion Christopher
The Greatest achievement
Unopposed under crimson skies
Immortalized, over time their legend will rise
And their foes can’t believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall
And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all. Powerful chorus!!!!
Definitely one of the most badass songs Sabaton has done in a while. These mid tempo pounders are one of the things they do best.
I don't think they can get more epic than Panzerkampf, or more metal than Stalingrad.
Texas will always be my favorite dreadnaught since I got to visit her with my parents as a child.
So glad she is getting her restoration and repairs.
I want to take my daughters to see her so they can touch and appreciate her.
Love how the music and beat is unintentionally doubling as a beat like in a military march.
Just adds that extra "HELL YEAH" for me
I want to hear "Panzerkampf" played by a marching band, preferably a military one. Now THAT is a march!
Just like the Dreadnought this song will be immortalized over time..
Over 10 years ago I heard Metal Machine for the first time and fell in love with the band. Saw them live in Clifton Park, NY a few years back, absolutely electric show. Saw them live just an hour ago tonight in NYC, still as amazing as ever, and just having so much fun on stage. This is my favorite track off the new album. Sabaton forever!
Thanks for your message Erik!
Damn
Always loved the term “Dreadnought” though it originated around the world war 1 era it still persists though primarily in fiction. My favorite type of ship in sci fi. Typically referring to a massive extremely powerful warship. Though it is a bit upsetting that damn near anytime there is a dreadnought in something sci fi it’s almost exclusively used by the villains.
I think you should try to read D.Weber's "Honor Harrington" series then, if you haven't yet. Very good military sci-fi with one of the best depictions of space battles in the genre IMO. And all sides actively use dreadnoughts
Definitely could see some more dreadnought respect in scifi. Though you could make the argument that both the Enterprise-D and E are dreadnoughts.
@@TheRiskyBrothers The D was too much a symbolic exploration flagship. But the E is absolutely the Dreadnought equivalent for it's era. A dedicated warship, the largest in it's nation's service and the most advanced in that half of the galaxy. Designed to dish out and absorb obscene amounts of punishment, a deliberate symbol that the Federation was a power that demanded respect and could bring terrific force to bear if it wished to do so. Even the name is reflective of a cultural shift, the D was of the Galaxy class, a name evocative of size ambition and wonder. The E is a Sovereign class, a name evocative of strength, rule and majesty. It's one of the better examples of such a shift in fiction really and contrasts well with the Defiant class, which was the only other major representative warship of the Federation up to that time. The Defiant being a tiny escort with wildly disproportionate firepower and speed... awfully like the 'fast battleship' design of the Bismarck. (The naming scheme fits as well, since there is basically only one interpretation of the name and it is directly to the point.)
The Destroyermen Series by Taylor Anderson is a good WW2 fiction series, with them obtaining a French dreadnought.
@@nickcher7071 *The need to liberate Peep shipping and collect the prize money intensifies*
Even the name "Dreadnought" feels like I have to do some heavy lifting just to say it. It's a name which carries weight in just vocals. My God I love my Country and I love the Royal Navy 🇬🇧🤘
The ship in the video is the USS Texas, which served in WWI and WWII being decommissioned in 1948. Judging by the Marine Raider logo in your profile picture I’m going to assume you’re an American, so you can take pride in being from the same nation as the USS Texas.
@@robertcurry389 nope, I'm English through and through. I have had the marine raider patch due to an old crew I was in on GTA. I mean, I live in a different port city to HMS Dreadnoughts building city, but still proud of British achievements.
@@rhysandmike3373 um American, but even i can recognize that the British built some badass warmachines. The dreadnought, the hood, and who can forget the mk 4 tanks
@@JazzKazoo0930 oh, us Brits must have the most innovative armed forces in the world. Just saying, I mean, we practically created modern special forces, tanks and Dreadnought style ships
@@robertcurry389 the song itself doesn’t actually sing about the Texas.
It’s about the Royal Navy’s Dreadnoughts, hence the line “The Grand Fleet prepares their guns”.
The USS Texas is used in the background to pay home-age as it is the last Dreadnought in service.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Sabaton song, I click on it
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I believe this is what Gen Alphas mean when they say "aura"
Indeed
This is my favourite song from the album let's go!
My favorite songs of this album are
1. Stormtroopers
2. Dreadnought
3. Valley of death
Mine are
1. Sarajevo, Stormtroopers, Dreadnought, The Unkillable Soldier, Soldier of Heaven, Hellfighters, Race to the Sea, Lady of the Dark, The Valley of Death, Christmas Truce, Versailles
@@aurexify you just listed the album in order, still you got a point they are all good
@@nikoclesceri2267 maybe you can listen to Sabaton's song called The Art of War.
@@sethfrisbie3957 while I still enjoyed art of war I found it to be fairly underwhelming
@@imperatortenebrarum6472 there is also Bismarck and The End of The War to End All Wars.
This is my absolute favorite song of the album.
Christmas Truce, Dreadnought, Soldier of Heaven, Stormtroopers. Just incredible songs
same with the Christmas Truce and Solider of Heaven.
Damn! Joakim! That high part is so cool and satisfying! You have become such a good singer!!!
And the Dreadnoughts DREAD NOTHING AT AAAALLLLLL \m/
This may be one of the best choruses they've made in a long time. It sticks in your brain like glue.
2:16
@@psychee1 UNAPPOSED UNDER CRIMSON SKIES
Agreed, though that’s not to say their other choruses are bad.
@@chasetoyama8184 it just goes to say how brilliant this one is that it stands out
@@Redbikemaster fair.
This is not music. This is pure art. God bless you Sabaton.
2:47 seems to me a very nostalgic part. As like as that the era of giant battleships was already in decline in the first decade of XX century
В который раз новая песня, бьёт в самое сердце! Музыка неземная! Я такое называю, талант от Бога! Спасибо, ребята! Успехов вам 🙌 всегда!
каждый раз, когда думаешь, что крутость их песен достигла максимума, они снова поднимают эту планку)
@@1092beto Согласен
Ну не знаю на вкус и цвет как говорится. Мне вот сейчас оч зашло Volbeat. Sabaton всегда был на слуху а вот Volbeat - Lasse's Birgitta чем-то зацепило.
@@NewEra1917 я послушала, спасибо, но вот ближе к душе Сабатон! Всего желаю самого доброго, пусть музыка дарит эмоции!
Just heard this song for the first time today and I loved it. Musically it brought to mind when I think of with dreadnoughts and battleships as a whole. The historian in me loved the references for WWI and Jutland. The art was spot on with Texas featured prominently and being the last of the dreadnoughts. The song and video was a love letter to the great Leviathans that once ruled the waves.
Welcome on board Nathaniel!
Me and my father discovered this band over a year ago now, when he finally had his apartment and his car after my parents' divorce. So when I go on vacation with him and I'm not with my mother we're spending like 6 hours in a car by screaming Sabaton songs together.
Actually he and I weren't into metal music before, and while I still don't listen much to other metal groups, I just love your songs guys. I strongly believe in pacifist opinions but you are honoring heroes and speaking perfectly about war to provoke both honor and reflection about the uselessness of war, strongly discouraging it (at leats it seems like it to me).
Speaking about untold enough heroes, singing about the horrors of war but in a way that surpass other metal groups by far.
And I'm not speaking about the fact that it creates another cool bond between me and my father, and that it makes some memories to remember to later.
Thanks from a 17 years old french guy.
As a Texan thank you for showcasing the old war queen, my great grandfather was at Normandy in WW2 (I know it's a different war) and she was watching and protecting him on those beaches. Thanks Joakim and friends.
I remember visiting the USS Texas and saying to myself, “ So this is it, the last dreadnought”.
@@greenknightofwar7024 unimaginable pride I would feel when I ever get to visit USS Texas
Uss Texas the last dreadnought.
beautiful words, amazing music, powerful voice, INCREDIBLE SOLO, 100/10 my favorite song from the new album
Thank you for appreciating it!
"Light up the night when cannons roar, in fear of nothing, they lead the navy into war." Goes indescribably hard.