SABATON - En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg) - REACTION - First TIME hearing
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- SABATON - En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg) - REACTION - First TIME hearing
Hell of a band with hell of a CROWD, great visuals but for me it was mostly the message - great song! What do words like that say to you?
#sabaton
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This song is about the Thirty Years' War that dominated central Europe in the 17th century (1618-1648). To this day it is one of the longest and bloodiest wars in history, with the death toll falling between 4 million and 8 million. Many of the fatalities were not even from active warfare, but famine and disease also plagued the area, upping the casualties that much more. Casualties reached such a high number that many Swedish men were forced to fight when they had barely reached manhood, and sometimes even before then. Which really makes the title of the song ("A Lifetime of War" in English) hit a little harder. Men basically spent their entire lives at war, no chance for a peaceful life.
The was about the battle between Catholics and Protestants, and at some point during the war almost every major player/Country in Europe was a part of it.
This Swedish version of the song tells the story from a Swedish soldier's point of view. You should also check out the English version; it is not a direct translation from the Swedish, but it rather tells the story of the war from the perspective of the outside people, those not involved directly in the war but were affected by it.
This was my first time here, but certainly not the last, and as you said the lyrics hits hard, but it also shows that even when times change, new technology comes, one thing remains constant and that is the horrors of the war, both those who fall in it and those who survive and have to live with nightmare every day (ptsd).
Greetings from Denmark.
Just to give an idea how much life sucked at that time is that king of Sweden had to replace 20% of his armies every year due to disease and desertions EVEN when there was no major battles going on.
Also, as a result of that war in Finland there was about twice as many woman of marriage age as men. This led to certain reforms that gave women more rights than before.
Tack för din story. Inte för mig. Utan mer tack för att det är den bästa sammanfattningen jag sett. Våran historia är så fin men brutal. Vi ska inte glömma bort vart vi kom ifrån och vad vi härdats av. För Sverige i tiden.
nothing to say, but i love accurate answers online. a hard to find good nowadays
sabaton is the only band that teach us history about wwr 1 and 2 and all heroes that never gonna be forgotten thx to their music..i also recommend.. no bullets fly animated story version..they also have a history channel called sabaton history where they talk about every video they done and history behind it..they are big in russia and poland and the public there is about 600k up to 1.5 million..was about 15k in gothenburg thats screamed their lungs out..ty for a great reaction =)
just pointing this out, they sing about more than ww1 & 2.
Yeah I'd recommend No Bullets Fly as well. Probably my favorite video from them.
Oh my, you need to check out Sabaton Woodstock 2012 Uprising or 40-1. It's in Poland you will get amazed how big they are 🇵🇱 🤟🇸🇪. Going down Sabaton is a rabbit hole, but you will love it ❤️
I was in that crowd, people where litteraly singing the entire song, one of the best concert experiences I've had. Sabaton is all about War history, every song is about important battles, wars or specific notable soldiers and divisions. The 30 year war that this song is about is when Sweden became one of the major powers in Europe and it always end up with the crowd singing along when Sabaton play in Sweden. But the cool thing is that they have songs about pretty much every country, and most of their songs are in English. Some songs from them about American soldiers. 82nd All the way (about Alvin York), To Hell and back (about Audie Murphy) and The Lost Battalion (about, well the Lost battallion).
same here, sitting somewhere in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage.
I am a Sabaton fan from England and have been for some time, they are the greatest band in the world with incredible songs about history, military history and songs about heroes. I've been to Stockholm in Sweden and it's my favourite City that I've ever been to. 💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️💂♂️🏴🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇸🇪🇸🇪
I agree with you Adrian! They are the best band in the world!😎🤘❤️ Sabaton is my favorite band!😎❤️🇸🇪 Kind regards from Northern Sweden! 🇸🇪❤️🇸🇪
I bet you know the story about the US Marines? Or Alvin York? Or the battle of Midway? Or the story about the 101st Airbourne in the Ardennes? Well, Sabaton have a song for them all. (Devil Dogs, 82nd all the way, Midway, and Screaming Eagles). I know you are a little intrigued. ;-)
They sing about history, so we don't forget it, or the heroes, or the losses.
It's not about any specific country or place to love SABATON, We Indians also love them man... By the way very good reaction I have to admit
It is, though
@@321findus Just denna handlar om trettioåriga kriget och är skriven ur en svensk soldats perspektiv, ja, men man kan applicera texten och principen på hela världen och varje människa som utnyttjats för detta syfte
This is one of my favorite live shows of all time. in fact all of sabaton's shows are some of my favorite. They sure know how to work a crowd
Goosebumps! As everytime I listen to this song
There is a US tour THIS YEAR late summer to fall 2021 all Sabaton music deserves a listen and there is a history UA-cam channel that tells the history behind each song
i get to be the 1st 1 to say it the Drummer is married to Floor Jansen the lead singer of Nightwish , you can't go wrong with Sabaton , also they have their own 'Sabaton History Channel " on youtube were they cover the history of the topic and a little behind why they did the song. and then "THE WINGED HUSSAR"S ARRIVED!!"
Tremenda banda! Tremendo tema! Tremenda letra! Hay un video de la guerra de Malvinas con este tema traducido! Las lagrimas caen!
never ever stop a sabaton video before its end, many times you get some history after the song, all they sing about is real events, take a look at no bullits fly animated story, and DONT stop it before it end
you got it!
@@ReactionsbyD you are in for a treat my man ! Welcome to the Sabaton crew !
Once you've gone down the Sabaton-rabbit hole ... ;)
@@luffegasen7711 for sure dude..
Welcome to Sabaton world 🤟You have to react to Uprising ,40:1 Live in Woodstock Poland 🤟🤟
Great reaction! 🤘 Check out Sabaton's "Bismarck" (official music video. They sing in English, like in most of their songs). Also check out Sabaton's "No bullets fly" (animated story video. Make sure you watch the whole video, there's a lot of cool stuff. Some American/German history there. It's also very emotional) and "Devil dogs" (official music video. It's about the U.S. Marines. The footage is from the North American tour, 2 years ago. )
Greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪
Not to forget 82nd all the way about the American figther Alvin york during the first world war. And primo victoria about dday
@@andersstromqvist2211 Of course!🤘
@@andersstromqvist2211 LOL My list is already growing out of control but I shall do my best!
@No O will do
lets also not forget to hell and back about Audie Murphy
I'll just put it out there... That whole album is just amazing! I'm neither very patriotic nor am I religious, but the lyrics of those songs still get my blood pumping and I feel a sense of pride (I'm Swedish) as well as sorrow for all the dead... From the opening track that leads into the song about Gustav Adolf - The Lion From the North to the final track about the death march of the Caroleans after the death of Carolus Rex - Karl XII, they hit hard and I have nothing but respect for the way Sabaton handled the history behind the songs, not shying away from uncomfortable truths (Ett Slag Färgat Rött / Killing Ground is a perfect example)
This song is about the 30-year war 1618-1648 in Europe.
Are they Sweden's Metallica probably not but big enough to have huge world wide fanbase.
Sweden and Finland has most metal bands per capita in the world so there are something for everyone.
This is Sabaton's most emotional and probably slowest song, but still powerful.
I've seen this some hundred times and I get chills every time (and I was there (I'm the one with the cellphone lit up))
12500+ was there and I promise every one sang along.
Right before the song:
Joakim: tomorrow we will perform in Stockholm (capital of Sweden) so let's have contest who sings better Gothenburg (the 2nd city of Sweden or Stockholm
(my note: well what city is on the video :) )
Joakim: nobody has lighters nowadays but every single of you have cellphones so light them up.
To recommend something more typical Sabaton stuff
-Ghost Division
-Night Witches
-40:1
-Bismarck
-82nd all the way
Thanks for all that info brotha
Saw them in Hamburg (Ger)
Same Tour. Loved it (like in 2017, 15, 13 ... 06)
BUT: I felt some sort of offended at 82nd all the way without Amarathe ;(
#1stWorldProblems
@@charliefoxtrott1048 yeah I feel with you. I felt the same way when they were here in Gothenburg, my home town and also Amaranthes home town. But one can't have it all. Still an amazing show.
Sweden and Finland are real metalcountries! We have the most rock and metalbands per capita.
Joakim conducting a choir of thousands...
This is about the 30 Years War, Sweden was a major power in that war.
That being said, this song had many elements that are true to this day.
P.S. As Joakim said in an interview: They do not have 1 tank they have two, for logistical reasons.
10 albums to go...
yup audie and murphy and i do believe both where on stage during heroes on tour
great band
Many of them influential
Welcome into the world of Sabaton.🤟🇸🇪🤟
With them you get great music combined with history. I saw you did a reaction on Devil dogs and got hooked, so I thought I would give u some of their top songs.
Music videos;
Screaming Eagles
Bismarck
82nd all the way
Fields of Verdun
Great war
Angel's Calling ft Apocalyptica
Carolus Rex
Lion from the North
Superb live;
Uprising live Woodstock
Swedish pagans live Wacken
Ghost Division live Woodstock
Animated;
No bullets fly animated story
Nightwitches animated story
This is a good start in order to get a grip on Sabaton and their music. I have liked and subscribed.
❤🇸🇪
More Sabaton
The Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg, about 14.000 capacity.
From a Q&A session with Sabaton: "- Is it true that Sabaton has a Tank?" "- No, that it not true... ... ... Sabaton has 2 Tanks!". / B.
Sabaton is fucking epic. They go hard! Ghost might be a bigger rock band from Sweden, but I’m not sure!
Sabbabb is more epic🥰
sabaton is put to the side by much of mainstream media over here because some closeminded people seem to relate metal with nazis or racists somehow.
couldn't be further from the truth.
(edit) i realise that this is most likely because of how sweden and the rest of scandinavia feels about patriotism. we have always been somewhat modest about that topic in all of scandinavia, so it might also be because of how our society views the patriotism in these songs as a whole, not simply because they think sabaton might be nazis or racists.
translated lyrics say 'destroy' as in you or something, but more meanigfull its more like 'war deatroys' not because '(you) destoy a man"
If you are doing ”Nightwitches” or ”No bullets fly” later on, make sure it is the longer animated story versions. Amazing videos.
Coming from a native Swede - Landowners would give peasants (of all ages) as a tax right-off to kings and queens of the countries part of the Thirty Years’ War, and in that way, soldiers were sent to go off to fight the war (adding a small fact to the comment written by the Dane below ⬇️)
Here's my translation that also goes well with the melody. Let me know what you think.
I turn around to see my homestead fade away
I wish I could have stayed there, just another day
Not yet a man, though called to arms to do my part
Will I see my home again, I wish with all my heart
With kinsmen from my village I went out to war
In a world of flames
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who won't come home again
But who mourns over me?
Went out to war for Sweden, baptized in blood
No gallantry awaits us, dying in the mud
In fields where friends has fallen, there’ll be no songs
Our fate once more we challenge, and marching on
Far away from home
(To be baptized and die in war)
In a world of flames
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who won't come home again
But who mourns over me?
And when my time is finally here
Who’ll sing my song?
They’re fighting on
I hope to die without much fear
I fall asleep, and fade away
And never wake up
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who won't come home again
But who mourns over me?
This is so much better than the official translation in the video. Not only is the grammar way better, it also matches the melody just like you said and conveys the meaning of the song much better. Seriously, "Because a war, destroy a man" is laughably bad, I have no idea how that even made it into the video
@@321findus Thank you =) I know the grammer isn't perfect but I did my best =) The way to build sentences might be more scandinavian in some parts, but some artistic freedom must be allowed to make it work wwwith the melody =)
check out Swedish pagans live in Wacken open Air 2019 it is Wacken 30 and sabaton 20 years anniversary fantastic concert wishes that this pandemic will soon end so you can go to concerts! have seen Sabaton live Manny tims
Wacken open air reactions will get copystrikes and take videos down, Woodstock 2012 is a better choice if you wanna see them with a big crowd 🤟
Look for the Bismarck video
The subtitles in this video bug the hell out of me. They are basically taken from google translate so they don't do the song justice :/
Grammatically correct, the lyrics hit even harder because they make more sense.
man if they hit even harder! wow
this... the captions seem like a 10 year old made them as a school project. They don't make the song justice
@@CryOutLoud89 We need a pro to write the full song in English! :)
Polski power ❤️
in Sweden, si does not care about soldiers' problems, we are worth nothing
Sabaton is strangely unknown in Sweden.
Never in mainstream media, as they are not "commercial"
But draws enormous crowds all over the world. Look at their Polish or German concerts, to see 100k people sing war song is really something.
if you want to see a SERIOUS audience, look at 40 to 1, live in Poland.
yes in Sweden onlysabston
Because the war destroyes a man, not because the war, destroy a man, ok!?
We always go all in so we try to hold back. No need for a war that last for 30 years. If you not make us
every swedish man aged 20-40 maybe even older Knows sabaton
they are amazing, but copyright everything :(
You have order bands but not with historical content. But you also have Hammerdal, Europe, Therion for instance
Yes they are an amazing band. And yes they are huge everywhere outside of America. Especially in Europe. Sorry to say but most of Americans are arrogant cause they don’t like to listen to anything that not from America it seems. But not everyone.
Thanks for cheking this band up. Sabaton is a band that makes songs about different war/military related songs and they tell the real story. As American you should definently chek out their song devil dogs. It is about your Marines and where they got their name. ua-cam.com/video/rJuR6vBMJ7s/v-deo.html
Stay safe.
This version has better lyrics because the official version almost seems Google-translated:
ua-cam.com/video/fTFtUtfTa_I/v-deo.html
May i suggest another of their song - closer to home maybe ... ua-cam.com/video/sphuv7tTNKs/v-deo.html Greetings from Sweden
"gothenburg" you mean JÖÖTTEPURI
So funny "Is this their Metallica" yse Metallica is also ours already ;)
Swedish military is diffrent from US here they get low respect and not enough love tbh
Because how Sweden is weird about nationalism, Sabaton is not that known in Sweden. They are much bigger abroad. Like most snowflakes that have heard of Sabaton in Sweden think they are a Nazist band, or at least Racist band. But in Metal circles they are well known in Sweden, but well, you pretty much see the entire metal audience of Sweden in that stadium.
good info , thanks!
i have never met a single swede saying that Sabaton is a nazi band. just sayin
That's not correct, maybe religious fanatics say so, but Sabaton is well respected in most of Sweden. I'm a woman, 59 yo and loves them
@@carinalundstrom7566 Find me a Swedish journalist, especially a culture journalist that isn't a religious fanatic.
But to my point, Sabaton is not as know in Sweden as many artists from other genres. They are not as famous as Zara Larsson or Carola Häggkvist. And I think one key factor is they sing parotitic songs and that is looked down upon by the cultural establishment. Also when it comes to handing out prizes like "Artist of the year" Sweden is more about Oppression Olympics than actually what is good.
Okay, MaskinJunior metal has been neglected since Siewert Öholm's time. But I've seen many music journalists write about Sabaton with respect, not all are religious fanatics.
But you're right, metal doesn't get the cred it deserves
Lose more than half of what this is about if you dont have subtitles on or you dont understand swedish so no watch for me
Ummmmmm The subtitles ARE on 😆
@@ReactionsbyD My mistake, sry dude