@@VergilTheMenace tbh i hope they go back to midway, the song is very general about pacific naval warfare, while the battle of midway had so much crazy shit that isn't really talked about in the song.
Fun fact, the motto of the HMS Dreadnought and the new Dreadnought class SSBNs of the Royal Navy is "Fear God and Dread Nought" pretty bad ass motto if I do say so myself.
@@erichvondonitz5325 late reply but "fear god and dread nought" was only ever the motto of admiral jackie fisher, the guy who concieved hms dreadnought (he named dreadnought after his motto)
For those curious, the name Dreadnought is derived from the HMS Dreadnought, the first of what would become its class. It is literally 'Dread Nought', basically a fancy way of saying 'Fear Nothing'. The HMS Dreadnought itself never fired her guns in anger,never partook in any major battle, including Jutland, however to my knowledge it was and still is the only battleship to ever sink a submarine by way of ramming.
The Dreadnoughts truly showed their raw power in the battle of Jutland, 1916. The "Clash of Titans" was inevitable as the German High Seas Fleet needed to break the British Grand Fleet blockade, and when the battle begun, saw the mighty Dreadnoughts open fire with their massive cannons. The largest sea battle in history saw the rise of true legends like HMS Warspite, one of 5 brand new Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships at the time, which 4 of the 5 "Super Dreadnoughts" took part, as HMS Queen Elizabeth missed the battle. HMS Warspite along with Valiant and Malaya (I think those 2 were with Warspite at the time) as well 2 other Battleships for a short period of time, faced the whole of the German High Seas Fleet alone while being caught before they could regroup with the Grand Fleet. Among the 5 battleships, 2 were completely destroyed by detonating propellant charges, since they ships were overloaded in preparation of bombardments that could last a really long time. Warspite and her sister ships took heavy damage, and dished out major blows of their own before regrouping with the Grand Fleet. Warspite would continue to be targeted by many ships of the High Seas Fleet, but would shrug off the damage and keep fighting, even when she took major damage to the rear of the ship, jamming the rudder, and causing her to do a "Circle Of Death", turning into the High Seas Fleet, making her an irresistible target. This however, had 2 positive effects, it drew fire away from some of the most heavily damaged Grand Fleet ships, and in doing circles, inadvertently saved HMS Warrior, by not only drawing fire away, but shielding the smaller ship from incoming fire, allowing her to withdraw to a safe distance before the crew were forced to abandon ship as Warrior was not able to stay afloat. Warspite was stuck in the "Circle Of Death" for nearly 10 minutes before the rudder was freed, and the now severely damaged Warspite could make her own getaway, and return to port for emergency repairs Warspite, a Royal Navy Super Dreadnought, had sustained damage unlike anyone had ever seen of a ship still floating, and under her own power... but was a survivor. Warspite, even though she never made it through the whole battle, was given honors much higher then most that did make it through the whole battle, and even though her repairs would cost the Navy more then it was really worth to save the ship, they saved her anyways. Warspite played many major roles in WW2, serving as Sea Lord Andrew Cunningham's flag ship, fighting battles in the Pacific against the Japanese, Fighting the Italians in the Mediterranean, and the Germans in the Atlantic and North Atlantic. She would be nearly destroyed 3 more times, with many more attempts made, setting records that still stand today, like scoring a hit on a moving target at 26km, or being the only battleship who sunk a U-Boat using the onboard float plane with a jerry rigged torpedo strapped to the bottom. She was even given the honor of being the first ship to open fire on the beaches or Normandy, D-Day. She brought glory to the name "Warspite", and became the Royal Navy's most decorated warship. The "Grand Old Lady" as she was called, wouldn't be lucky enough to survive after WW2, as the state of the British economy was basically in ruins, and scrapping ships was the best choice for them. Warspite in 1947, was decommissioned, stripped of her armaments, and sent off to be broken up, despite a huge outcry to save Warspite, even by Winston Churchill himself, who took a liking to Warspite, even before Jutland. The Grand Old Lady however, wasn't going out like that, and what seemed like ship itself defying those who were taking her to be scrapped, broke free of the towing ships, and sailed for 22km on her own, before ramming the rocks and mud of the shallow waters of Prussia Cove, where she took on enough water to link deep into the mud, unable to be moved by any ship. She defied all who tried to suppress her, which was true to vary end. Warspite was broken up on the spot in Prussia Cove, taking 3 years to do so. The point of land closest to where Warspite rested, was named "Warspite Point", and has part of her mast stuck in the ground to honor her, and a small museum called "Warspite museum" sits not far from there, with a bunch of artifacts from the warship inside for everyone to see, and there is a memorial carved into a large rock that is dedicated to the ship and her crew. Possibly the greatest battleship, or Super Dreadnought to have ever sailed the seas, will forever be remembered, a real legend.
To answer your question about the gun's range, most Dreadnought-class ships during WW1 had effective ranges of anywhere from 8-10 miles, which is the preferred range, and a maximum of about 15 miles, which was really risky, with an average accuracy of hitting once per 50 shots fired. This is why these ships also had many double-barreled cannons, to increase the likelihood of actually landing a hit.
Every time I hear that it amazes me. The other day I was looking at a world map for some reason, don’t remember what for. Distance from Calais, France to Dover, England is around 20 miles. The range of WW2 battleships is around 20-25 miles at a max. 20 miles looks surprisingly large at a world-scale, let alone a 20 mile RADIUS.
@@rhysgoodman7628 Yup, these ships would be shooting at each other, calculating the distance, the projectile's arc, and even the waves themselves, from a distance greater than the areas of entire cities!
A fun thing you can also look up is the V3 rocket artillery gun. It was an artillery cannon that was never completed, but if it ever was, could theoretically hit Britain from Germany.
@@dylanmorris5352 it’s truly amazing! A ship rocking in rough seas, calculating and pulling off shots on moving ships, traveling a different direction, a different speed, rocking in different-intensity waves, etc. Especially impressive considering those old computers they used that were based on optical range-finding. Really cool stuff.
Well there's differences. Great Britain and Germany, who had the 2 largest navys that time had differences between their dreadnoughts. British dreadnoughts usually had the higher range while german ones had a faster rate of fire
Fun fact: the last military Dreadnought ship to ever existed is USS Texas 110 years strong i believe. Also there is also a effect called the Dreadnought effect.
By definition: through the introduction of a new and radically better weapon to one's own force. The effect can well be to make obsolescent all the existing critical military force.
I think the biggest warship I have seen in person was a frigate or something (it was French in an Irish port) and it blew my mind. I can't imagine how much bigger ships like this would be.
Dreadnaught was anything but slow. With a max speed of 21 knots she could easily run down any other battleship of her day, and keep pace with most cruisers. She out gunned practically everything. Her new all or nothing armor scheme made her incredibly durable as well. The name "dreadnaught" literally means "fear nothing" and it certainly fits.
The cover image is the USS Texas, the last surviving dreadnought in the world and a museum you can still visit (though she is scheduled to go into a drydock for a while for some much needed repairs). Fun fact about the battle of Jutland close to 64 battleships of the dreadnaught, pre-dreadnaught, and battlecruiser classes fought against each other that day.
This song is oddly different, sounds like Sabaton from over 10 years ago tbh. And I like it, it's so nostalgic! Here's littlebit about the Battle of Jutland: Just before four o’clock on the afternoon of May 31, 1916, a British naval force commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty confronts a squadron of German ships, led by Admiral Franz von Hipper, some 75 miles off the Danish coast. The two squadrons opened fire on each other simultaneously, beginning the opening phase of the greatest naval battle of World War I, the Battle of Jutland. The Battle of Jutland-or the Battle of the Skagerrak, as it was known to the Germans-engaged a total of 100,000 men aboard 250 ships over the course of 72 hours. The Germans, giddy from the glory of Scheer’s brilliant escape, claimed it as a victory for their High Seas Fleet. At first the British press agreed, but the truth was not so clear-cut. 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. Ten more German ships had suffered heavy damage, however, and by June 2, 1916, only 10 ships that had been involved in the battle were ready to leave port again (Jellicoe, on the other hand, could have put 23 to sea). On July 4, 1916, Scheer reported to the German high command that further fleet action was not an option, and that submarine warfare was Germany’s best hope for victory at sea. Despite the missed opportunities and heavy losses, the Battle of Jutland had left British naval superiority on the North Sea intact. The German High Seas Fleet would make no further attempts to break the Allied blockade or to engage the Grand Fleet for the remainder of World War I. Fun fact: USS Texas, the only dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II.
Today i watched interview with Joakim done by the Charismatic voice and the man himself said exactly the same, form your first sentence man. That this song kinda represent the album even though its tricky cause this album is very different. But also that this song is like Saboton from 10-15 years ago. Amazing..
@@marcusson1983 Yup, I watched it aswell after listening this album and was surprised that it was most likely one of their goals to make it more oldschool!
Another fun fact: the USS Texas was the only american ship to hit its targets on d-day due to the captain ordering the starboard torpedo bay to be flooded
about the german losses: if you count also pre-dreadnoughts as battleships, yes, they lost one (Pommern) if you don't count them as battleships (which many people do), they didn't
@5:00 You mentioned the damage the dreadnoughts could output, although they were slow. The thing about the original _HMS Dreadnought_ was that it also had the new steam turbine engines, so it was tougher, meaner and _faster_ than any battleship afloat. There are multiple reasons that battleships are classified as pre- and post-dreadnought, it was revolutionary.
Fun fact two years later. During WW2 I believe the Navy wanted to put a metric on how much their ships could take. This is when the term HP, hit points, first came up. To the Navy a HP is how many 16in shells it can take.
Fun fact: the dreadnought used on the lyric video is the U.S.S. Texas. It's still around as a museum ship though it is planned to be in dry dock to be repaired. Also the Texas has ten 14" main guns. This means that the shells it fired out of those big guns are 14" wide. It's an incredible amount of firepower.
HMS Dreadnought herself carried 12" guns. These could fire a shell weighing 850 lbs, and could fire out to a maximum range of 25,000 yards (14.2 miles). Effective range (when you actually start hitting reliably) was about 2/3 that. The most famous of the Dreadnoughts is HMS Warspite, which served in both World War 1 and World War 2. Warspite carried a total of 8 15" guns, with shells weighing 1,938 lbs, and firing out to a maximum range of 33,500 yards (19 miles). Again, effective range was roughly 2/3 of that number
Another thing about all of Sabaton's naval-subject songs is that they always seem to capture the roiling, rampant and wrathful nature of the ocean in song form; that the seas are, to a fault, a fickle yet majestic mistress to be sure, where the men who sail them are nothing less than the steel that shields them from a cold and watery grave, yet even man's greatest creations are barely motes of dust in the vast and cold expanse of the world's oceans.
"Immortalized over time", when you hear the term battleship, 9 times out of ten the image that pops into your head is of the dreadnought battleships. These things were so big, so heavily armed, and so heavily armored that, even to this day after the battleship era had ended, that many still think of battleships as the symbol of a Navy's might and power. And it's funny because a lot of people who don't know better will look at something like a destroyer and call it a battleship. Yeah, I'd say dreadnoughts have most certainly become naval legend and immortalized.
Awe inspiring. Paved the way for the bigger and more powerful battleships. Iowa. Bismarck. Yamato. Dreadnought and the follow ons, which includes HMS Warspite, who was at the Battle of Jutland, with their armor and the caliber of main guns, were truly terrifying.
warspite, during the battle of jutland, got her rudder jammed for a long time, bringing german attention to her, causing her to be focused by several german ships damaging warspite heavily but it did save other british ships as those werent shot upon as they focused on warspite instead. warspites rudder was never fully fixed even after her major refits before ww2, she still had problems with it through all of ww2, despite that issue, she did a lot of great things during ww2, like at the third battle of narvik (northern norway), warspites scouting floatplane dropped a bomb on a german submarine in narvik harbour sinking it, then proceeds to sail into the narrow norwegian fjord towards narvik despite there being a torpedo threat from german submarines and destroyers in narvik. warspite is also credited with the longest hit alongside the german battlecruiser scharnhorst, both managed to hit an enemy ship at about 24km range, in warspites case it was against the italian battleship giulio cesare with a hit to giulio cesares smoke stack, in scharnhorsts case it was against the british aircraft carrier hms glorious. warspite is considered a "super dreadnought" btw, one of the last dreadnought battleships before the washington and london naval treaties were in effect limiting the displacement and amount of new ships, after that you get "treaty battleships" such as uss new york, uss south dakota, uss north carolina, hms king george v, hms nelson, ijn nagato (japan didnt use a prefix on their ships but many uses ijn where needed) and such.
I think one thing that makes songs feel powerful as well is the words they choose. Like, immortalize, legend, rise, even the title itself - dreadnought. Those are powerful sounding words. It wouldn't have the same oomph if it was like...idk...puppies, flowers, butterflies. The words you choose can convey power themselves and make it sound even heavier.
Fun fact: HMS Dreadnought while helping revolutionize ship design for capital ships, wasn't in much combat. They did however kill a submarine that surfaced in front of them after attacking another vessel by ramming into it. I believe they're the only battleship to have intentionally done so (Though I have heard rumors that a New York clsas did kill a sub as well)
The Dreadnought song Is for me like when is autumn and it's depressing weather and everyone having a depressing days and meanwhile me in nowhere I'm just vibes to that song
Light up the night when cannons roar that lyric sends a shiver down my spine because the way he reverberates when he says roar honestly feels like a cannon firing and bellowing, and the part where he sings a contest of titans commence really gets my blood flowing
Also, neat little fun fact. The ship depicted in the video is the USS Texas, the LAST remaining dreadnought class still afloat today. Furthermore, on D-Day, she was (as far as I know) the ONLY ship that landed her artillery onto targets, furthermore, she couldn't hit the targets, so the captain ordered a controlled partial flooding to roll the ship to get her guns aligned at the angle needed to hit said targets.
Yes us Texans we love our ship fun fact she has five battle stars and also the first ship to fight the enemy head on and only suffered one casualty her helmsman at Okinawa and she proudly become the first US museum
Imagine being on something about 18,600 tons and through the mist something looking about double that comes charging out- that was the power of Dreadnought
1:03 The entire song feels more like a darker, dirge-style twist on a common sea shanty. Especially with the opening lyrics: "It splits the waves, commands the seas and defies the wind..."
Crimson Skies could refer to an old sailor's adage. "Red Sky at night, Sailor's delight. Red Sky in the morning, Sailor's warning." Of course, the battle of Jutland didn't happen in the morning, but it could've been red skies to warn of the carnage to come. Also, the warship depicted in the lyric video is none other than USS Texas BB-34, which served in both World Wars, and is the last remaining dreadnought-type battleship remaining in the entire world. She's an absolute treasure.
The eras of battleship development and construction plus some historical tidbits: -Ships of the Line, Age of Sail Large wooden hull ships carrying much thicker hulls, more internal space, and many more black powder cannons. -Ironclads, Early Industrial Age Smaller iron hulled ships carrying much fewer guns but largely immune to all guns of their time. Very limited effective range. -Pre-Dreadnoughts, Later Industrial Age Intermediate sized steel hulled ships with total armor coverage and as many guns of as many different calibers and diameters as possible. Advancement from standard cannonballs to more modern artillery cannons firing shells more visually similar to a bullet meant to penetrate armor. Gun diameters ranges from 3in for secondary batteries carried in mass to 8-10in main batteries carried in small numbers 2-6. -Dreadnoughts, Very Early 1900s Intermediate-Large steel hulled ships with total (or "Balanced") armor coverage, standardized uniform caliber main and secondary battery guns while drastically increasing the amount of guns carried both secondary and main. Main guns increased in size to 11-13.5in while most secondaries increased to a minimum of 4in. -Super Dreadnoughts, 1910-1920s Several revolutionary breakthroughs in armor quality and design as well as artillery development led to much bigger, better armored, and much more heavily armed ships which carried even more and even bigger guns than ever before of both secondary and primary types. Main guns increased in size to 14-16in and secondaries ranged from 4-6in. Saw the US develope the "All-Or-Nothing" armor protection scheme giving it's ships unparalleled protection of their vitals at the cost of non-vital parts of the ship being essentially unarmored. In conjunction they developed the "Internal Raft/Reserve Buoyancy" construction scheme. Meaning that they retained a lot of buoyancy in the center of the hull in a space so we'll compartmentalized and we'll armored that the bow and aft of the ship could be severed and the ship would still not sink if the bulkheads were intact and the watertight doors sealed. This made US designed Super Dreadnoughts incredibly hard to sink in battle ready condition. (They also subscribed to the Firepower and Armor over all else ideal of battleship construction so these ships would become some of the best armored and armed battleships of all time, some rivalling the legendary Yamato in effective armor thickness). -Fast Battleships, Late 1920-1946 Vast advancements in technology and naval architecture enabled ship builders to build ever bigger and better armed ships by increasing their size, hull shapes, and installing much more powerful engines in their ships. The only cost being that generally Fast Battleships tended to have less armor than the more heavily armored ships of the last generation. As opposed to common misconception though for most of them they were not under-armored rather the previous generation was over-armored in a lot of cases. Tge only examples of a fast battleship being under armored for it's time would be the North Carolina Class and Richelieu class. North Carolina was rated against American 14"/50 MKB guns with about comparable penetration to Bismarck's SKC/34 15"/51 guns when it's most likely opponents were the Japanese fielding up to 16" guns (just like the NC class carried) with slightly better penetration. This was offset a bit by The US having much better penetrating guns, better shell quality, generally carrying more main guns per battleship, having much greater range, incomparable quality of radar systems, greater armor quality per thickness, and some of the best fire control practices in the world but the slightly armor still wasn't an exactly appreciated aspect of the ships. The second example the Richelieu class simply didn't have any of those factors going for it. It carried fairly standard 15" guns and only 8 of them, it's armor was shown to be completely inadequate against US made 16" guns even when firing out dated WW1 era shells due to poor early war supply (look at USS Massachusetts' utter dismantling of incomplete, but fully armored, Battleship Jean Bart at port). Richelieu only had the advantage of being fast for it's time and at least average in all other categories.
@@ThatGuyOrby Actually there is a distinction. The standards were mostly American exclusive with a few being built per the WNT post war. But the Super Dreads and Standards are differing beasts from each other. The standards set and where the standard for a battleship, according to treaty and international naval doctrine at least. Fast Battleships were the illegitimate children that really only America and the nascent Nazi Germany wanted or had doctrinal need/desire for in the fleet. *Nevada* _and_ *Oklahoma* _were the USN's last Supers and the progenitors for the Standards of the USN._ *Arizona* _and_ *Pennsylvania* _were also considered Supers._ *New Mexico* _and onwards were standards and fast battleships._ *Tennessee* _is were the standards became popularized in the fleet._ All U.S. Battleships laid down from 1935 onwards were Fast types. Of course the details are a bit hazy and people & source wildly differ.
Dave just picture a Battleships, congratulations you just pictured a dreadnought. HMS Dreadnought was the sign of a new naval design for the early 20th century, previously guns were aligned along the side of the ship and still maintained wooden structure, even the Ironclad. Armor went through the roof and even larger caliber gun were able to be mounted in turrets providing excellent combat capabilities. After the launch of HMS Dreadnought all over previous battleship designs were obsolete. The longest range of a battleship is 16-18 miles, this is of course the last of the battleships to be build like the Iowa class (USS Iowa is sitting in Long Beach, CA).
I agree with you about how finding Sabaton is amazing. I found them listening to random on Pandora while working on some graphic design school project with Primo Victoria. Been hooked ever since.
I always thought the lyrics were "And the dreadnoughts did nothing at all" because they only fought once and nobody wanted to send them out because of how expensive they were
So before HMS Dreadnought, meaning "fear nothing", was launched, battleships only had 2-4 "big guns" usually 12-13.5" bore size and dozens of smaller guns in secondary, tertiary, some quartinary, and even a few cases of quintinary batteries. Then Dreadnought launched with 10 12" guns, thus the line "all big guns to serve the fleet." And the ships that came after her were dubbed "dreadnoughts." The beat and rhythm of this song truly feels like these ships were: slow and powerful. And the lyrics are spot on for how the world views these ships. Also the ship in the video looks to be either a Queen Elizabeth or a Revenge-class but with an American fire control spotting tower.
This was a very good reaction, well done brother, and i can say that coz i have an adopted brother from Zenegal. He likes to sing mostly soul music but sometimes when we have our deep musical discussions and listen to both soul and metal he sounds alot like u do.
On the speed part, the dreadnought was actually faster than any capital ships before them because they were equipped with new engine technology(turbine engines)
The HMS Dreadnought had BL 12-inch MK X naval guns as her main cannons with a maximum firing range of 22,860 m (25,000 yd) and a muzzle velocity of 823 m/s (2,700 ft/s)
One bit that's anachronistic is that the dreadnought used in the video - the USS Texas, which served in both the European (at D-Day no less!) and Pacific theatres and is the sole surviving dreadnought in the world - is in its post-WW1 configuration, which is a little odd considering the album is all about WW1. The USS Texas, like many battleships of its time, had cage masts during WW1 (you can look them up online, and yes, they look very weird) and the superstructure you see in the video was only after the post-WW1 refit, which is how it looked in WW2 and today as a museum ship.
Pretty sure they chose her in her current configuration, since she is the last of her class, after all this time, so showing the ship as she is in my opinion more respectful than showing her as she used to be.
Well, about Dreadnoughts... Ever since HMS Dreadnought and the birth of this ship class it is marked as a new era of Naval battlefield, and now Dreadnought is used all over the media for a big f*cking battleship... Yea, they were a most powerful class of ship at the time, and for good measure, as most of them could fire all 12 heavy guns at the same time in barrage... I ain't an expert, but if ship class is used to mark the end of one era of warfare and the beginning of the other named also after that class, IT MEANS THEY WERE MORE THAN GOOD, THEY WERE NEW LEVEL OF POWER. Also, they were not only heavier armed( Up to 12 main canons usually over 300mm, so Big Bois, but one I believe had 16 of them), But also used better bulkheads, making it harder to sink them after penetrating, more armor, and actually faster than previous ones. Just generally they were better at everything.
Dreadnoughts were, for the longest time, the unquestionable heavy weight fighters of the seas. The king of the waters. Able to take hit after hit that would sink lesser vessels and keep going... they were to be feared. if you were an ally, they would defend you. a superior, they obeyed you. an enemy, god help you.
These sobs got within 30 miles of you and they could lob shells through your hull as fast as they could reload if dialed in. The battle of Jutland is the one and only time dreadnoughts met in mass in a battle. After that the fleets were kept close to their respective harbours in safety before plane technology reached the point of long distance bombers and aircraft carriers as in WWII. It was the battle of Jutland that began, immortalized and ended the era of the dreadnoughts, and the battleship as a successful super weapon in itself
This is definitely my favorite off their new album, and an easy top 3 of theirs full stop. Sabaton is always phenomenal at painting a picture with their music and lyrics, and this song might be the perfect example of this. It's slow, it's imposing, and makes you glad you never had to see one of these titans turn broadside over the waves in your direction. "and their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size..." It's so good. You wouldn't have the modern battleship without these beasts. If you want a boner-inducing photograph, there's one out there of the HMS Victory with the HMS Dreadnought in the same frame. You can see a little ol fishing boat or something between them. That boat is dwarfed by the two legendary ships of the Royal Navy.
These things had guns on top, in front, in the back, the sides, EVERYWHERE. Dreadnoughts led to Battleships, and they still have such an incredible legacy.
The Intro reminded me of starting up an engine, takes a second but then it gets fired up. This song definitely grew on me. I didn’t much like it at first but I distinctly remember it getting stuck on my head and me humming the melody for ages until I listened to it again. I remember I thought the lyrics were “but the dreadnoughts did Nothing at all!” Almost as if the lyrics are building the battleships up as these mighty beasts and then breaking them down since the dreadnoughts were pretty much only used once at the battle of Jutland.
The sound is akin to the main guns firing. It's lost on newer generations, but there is Gulf War era footage of Iowa class battleships firing salvos. Two barrels per turret in the case of Dreadnought. The battle line closes in and the fire picks up.
I know the history (and tend to skip you talking about it, sorry), but you're teaching me so much about the music I didn't realise. The songs are so much better after you point out the musical themes Sabaton puts in
The one thing I like about this song is that you can hear callbacks to the riffs and bridges from Bismarck, seeing as how both songs are about very large warships.
The ship shown is the USS Texas, BB35. Still exists as a museum. 10 guns, of 14 inch diameter for the main guns, plus lots of secondaries of 6 or 4 inch. The main shells weigh about 1 ton each. Range about 15 miles. The Iowa class had 9 guns of 16 inch diameter with range of 24 miles, plus many 5 inch secondaries. Mains weigh 1.5 tons. Bismarck had 8 guns, 15 inch, 21 miles, 1.2 tons per. Yamato had 9 guns of 18.1 inch, 27 miles, 2 tons per.
The literal translation/meaning of Dreadnaught (dread naught) is literally fear not, I believe the intention behind the name was for the crews moral, it just so happens that they became their enemies dread.
#1 HellFighters #2 DreadNought #3 Race to the Sea #4/5 unlikeable soldier & soldier of heaven My pics they are all brilliant but that's my top favourite.
If you still want to see a real life Dreadnought, USS Texas is so far the only surviving Dreadnought in the world. She's currently in dry dock, but one She's out, you'll be able to visit her!
USS Texas, the last living Dreadnought is worth a visit. She’s smaller than the later battleships but goddamn if she’s not the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen…
I love the connection to Jaws you made. Really sets the tone for the dangers the Dreadnoughts posed at sea. Much like how the shark did. Both fear nothing at all.
The thing about dreadnoughts... sure, twenty knots doesn't sound like much, but their steam turbines made them almost twice as fast as any battleships before them. That combined with the improved armor layout and unified main battery made them a literal quantum leap over anything that came before. HMS Dreadnought literally made entire navies obsolete just by existing. Including the very British Royal Navy she was built for.
A Dreadnought class ship was embracing the old concept from age of sail while merging it with a concept that makes an Iron Clad. A more practical weapon of war that took brave crews and steel hardened resolve to commit. You are the Battle Wagon, something that's heavily armored, heavily armed, and was designed to have firepower to out-range and hammer targets in its wake (as far as before the end of WW1). The firepower displayed as these ships let loose were hard to explain, a deafening concussion that will launch loose shit overboard from its sheer pressure of the guns loosing its terrific barrage. Some ships have loosed a broadside that has 14+ guns ranging from 3 inch to 12 inch battery There was whole warships that were designated for "Screening" which was the destroyer, it was to launch a attack that could cripple but could also make the enemy in a purely simple path. Cruisers were warships with moderate firepower and often were the in between and were the majority of the fleet and were the jack of all trades, master of none kinda thing. This was the normal as each ship can have a lineage of concept in Naval warfare to date in some way (skip the later Aircraft Carrier concepts, that didn't start till WW1, specifically used as spotter aircraft to help ships adjust fire when there radios worked). In the specific case for Dreadnoughts, they were the Artillery on the sea, they lumbered into view, didn't move fast, didn't care for your effort if you were in its way. The ship was just a monster in its time, the only thing that could directly muck up the Dreadnoughts in a 1v1 was another Dreadnought. It was the start to the legend of firepower, the legend of the sea, games and memorials forever were made for it "Battleship" which had the memorialized comment "You sunk my Battleship" and even games like World of Warships where the captain makes a exasperated remark about "We have Destroyed an Enemy Battleship!". A Battleship was a icon of movies, references, and reverence and fear for generations. The Battleship was out-shined by the Aircraft carrier, as they were perfect targets of fast and nimble aircraft. Aircraft Carriers, faster and more reliable ships became a thing, and the Battleship is still considered "The Fleet's strongest ship". The best point in this is flagships are now aircraft carriers, while frigates are your middle man, and then you have destroyer class ships with so much ability that it can multi roll and terrorize the sea as much as any other. Naval personnel understand it the most, a relic of history that made the world shake in fear for 70 years. Nobody has seen the Barrage of a Battleship in a long time, and its worth noting that guns are dangerous. A Key point to suitability and Steel resolve was HMS Warrior crew, specifically a turret crew after the first impact that messed up the ship's rudder. Just a small scale battle on board, the turret received 3 direct input hits, they damaged the gun and a loose active powder charge bag fell and set off almost igniting the magazine, after several quick choices and hard made calls, crew were in agony from shrapnel they fought out the fire, a second hit and the powder caught ablaze again, this time there was no escape, a quick call from a severely wounded man managed to get the magazine closed off and shielded as the turret crew resigned there fate and were killed instantly with either concussive force or deadly flame of the black powder burning up threw forcing the metal to buckle and slam people around. In all this ship survived due to the steel resolve of the fighting men in a single turret, as well as all her Damage control crew and there ability to face the pain with determination to keep there fellow cremates and ship afloat to the valiant end. This damage was sustained at the Battle of Jutland, with an exchange of fire from 3 Dreadnoughts hammering her in her battered state she still re-engaged and kept in the fight with further ferocity. Several times these ships also sailed in close and provided Naval gunfire support with main battery which pounded key positions along the coast and softened the positions up in hopes they could make the battles better for there side.
The absurd thing about dreadnoughts is that they could only be destroyed in two ways: either by a one in a billion shot managing to find the perfect path to their ammunition stores, or by an overwhelming assault that would flatten whole countries slowly overwhelming their defences. Every time a dreadnought battleship was sunk it took an absurdly vast amount of effort. Whether it was a clash of navies, submarines, or entire airforces, they never went down in to death easily. This is perfectly shown by HMS Warspite who was at Jutland (she's a favourite of boat needs everywhere) who was hit 150 times as she stared down the whole German battlefleet, and survived. Who was bombed, shelled, rammed, who dodged submarines and danced with Japanese navies when she was already out of date, and who was even atta ked by guided missiles. She survived it all. Dread nought indeed.
Oh they were anything but slow. Thats what made them so terrifying. The had the speed and firepower to run down and blow any capital ship out of the water. Even if you were in another dreadnought you broke a sweat at the thought seeing one not on your side.
What's funny is that despite the lyrics were "dread nothing at all", you can hear "Dreadnoughts did nothing at all" instead. And it's hilariously accurate, because everything the dreadnoughts did during ww1 was just sweet FA. Even with the battle of Jutland being their only naval fight, they didn't do anything.
One of the cool things about this song is if you close your eyes during the chorus, and focus on the tempo and rhythm...you can actually get a sense of a ship riding the waves as it charges forward, with the line "And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all" as the moment when the ship clears that last wave by plowing through it like a football team through a paper banner. (Hopefully you don't get seasick)
Also, damn dude, I did not even pick up on the rhythm difference. 'because the dreadnought was DIFFERENT from everything else on the seas', holy crap my man, you are amazing!!
In WW 1, the average dreadnought of the Royal Navy, the main force of which was known as the Grand Fleet, was in the tens of thousands of yards. They would be a speck in the distance, you would see a distant flash and nothing for seconds. Then a geyser of water or flame would erupt nearby as the booming echo of cannons just after. Coincidentally, at Jutland it was particularly hazardous to be on a RN battlecruiser as they a rather unfortunate habit of exploding at Jutland due to poor ammo handling practices.
You (and the other commentators) are absolutely right. This does have one of the most powerful, ominous choruses of the album. This song also really lets Joakim flex the grit in his voice. He just PUSHES into that lower register like a ship slowly sinking. As for the music itself they really captured that rolling sound of the waves with the drums and guitars, steady and sure. And then the waves are sliced through with the steel of the vocals. It is SO GOOD. My only nitpick detail on this is that Joakim holds the note on "all" from the chorus for like two beats longer so it sounds really tough and glorious on the first round, but he cuts it shorter in the other two rounds of the chorus and I REALLY would have preferred him to have that last round be the same note length as the first one. Just to really capture that glorious essence and feeling of a sinking ship at the hands of these ships. (Also, don't worry, Dave, I too try not to think what would life be if I hadn't stumbled upon these guys years ago.)
When the mighty HMS dreadnought was commissioned, she struck fear in all naval major powers, she made all ships made before her obsolete, she represented the mighty power of the British empire Makes me wish as Dutchman our navy managed to have build atleast 1 capital ship. Two times we tried, and both were cancelled due to both world wars. So hereby warned, if my country tries to build a capital ship, a world war is coming xD
This song now makes me want a song about the Santisima Trinidad wich was a spanish 1rst Rate wich also was the largest Man-o'war of its time. The defeat of the Santisima Trinidad in 1805 in the Battle of Trafalgar, and her following surrender to the 2nd Rate "Neptun", resultet in an overthinking of shipdesign in favor of speed and maneuverability instead of size and might wich resultet in the scrapping of many projects such as the legendary Duke of Kent wich was a Man-o'war of such size that calling it a 1rst Rate would be an underestimation. Explanation: a Man-o'war (or often just Man of War) is the british term for a variety of ships wich are in the classification "Warship" and its most commonly used for the 1rst Rate (a ship with 4 decks wich is armed with up to 120+ cannons) and the 2nd Rate (a ship with 3 decks wich is armed with up to 90+ cannons) but it also refers to the 3rd Rate (a ship with 2 decks wich is armed with up to 60+ cannons) and the Duke of Kent (a ship with 5 decks wich would have been possibly armed with up to 190+ cannons if it would have been build). Im also sorry for any factual errors since im reciting this from memory.
6:56 if you want to explore songs with odd time signatures I’d heavily recommend Vildhjarta they’re an awesome band and one of favourite bands if not my absolute favourite and they mess around with a lot of time signatures. They released a music video for their song ”När de du älskar kommer tillbaka från det döda” (Long name I know) and they do have another music video for one of their other songs “Dagger” however that one doesn’t have that weird of time signatures (still a good song tho). Great reaction as always!
(it's Juh-tland, as in 'uhhhh idk' or 'supper' or ' ummm'). Also, I gotta say I became a fan of yours when you did Snotty Nose Rez Kids... gotta appreciate that you go in on a variety of media here. Love you man.
Fun fact about the dreadnought battleships: the first battle between them was at the battle of Jutland in WW1, the only time in WW1 where dreadnoughts would fight other dreadnoughts. The victor of the battle is still undecided. The British had lost more ships and tonnage, but the Germans had retreated from the battle to avoid a larger battle with more British ships.
I would love a video featuring this song covering the Battle of Jutland, similar to how Sabaton made a video covering the battle with the Bismarck. How epic would that be? Picture this; right after "Align the guns, unleash their wrath," we see the ships just unleash hell; continuous bombardments while taking hits of their own. One shell destroys a cannon completely blowing it off its stand, and another hit knocks at least eight men onto their backs. The steel faced admiral barks orders (inaudible) at the crew closest to him to maneuver the ship into a better firing position where they'd take less hits. As the ship turns, a shell comes streaking toward the bow in a downward arc; the ship having moved just in time, the shell scraps the side of the ship, leaving a scar of metal as it plows into the sea. *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!*
this cd is there best yet like all of them but the 5 i like the most are 1 soldier of heaven 2 unkillable soldier 3 race to the sea 4 death valley 5 lady of the dark
We Brits pronounce it as Jutland the second way you pronounced it but I believe its proper pronunciation is Yutland = Jutland The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the British Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. Her design had two revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme, with an unprecedented number of heavy-calibre guns, and steam turbine propulsion. As dreadnoughts became a crucial symbol of national power, the arrival of these new warships renewed the naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany. Dreadnought races sprang up around the world, including in South America, lasting up to the beginning of World War I. Successive designs increased rapidly in size and made use of improvements in armament, armour, and propulsion throughout the dreadnought era. Within five years, new battleships outclassed Dreadnought herself. These more powerful vessels were known as "super-dreadnoughts". Most of the original dreadnoughts were scrapped after the end of World War I under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, but many of the newer super-dreadnoughts continued serving throughout World War II. Dreadnought-building consumed vast resources in the early 20th century, but there was only one battle between large dreadnought fleets. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the British and German navies clashed with no decisive result. The term "dreadnought" gradually dropped from use after World War I, especially after the Washington Naval Treaty, as virtually all remaining battleships shared dreadnought characteristics; it can also be used to describe battlecruisers, the other type of ship resulting from the dreadnought revolution. In 1906, the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought into the United Kingdom's Royal Navy heralded a revolution in the field of battleship design. Subsequent battleship designs, influenced by HMS Dreadnought, were referred to as "dreadnoughts", though the term eventually became obsolete as dreadnoughts became the only type of battleship in common use. Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of Dreadnought.
"Their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size, as they fall. And the dreadnoughts dread nothing at all!" is just ridiculously badass.
Only Ataturk never feared it mine went brrrr
For the Emperor!
@@jimmyjohansson5672 honestly bro
@@ashtonsmith1390 What did I do?
It's weird how literally all of Sabaton's songs about navies are bangers. Dreadnought, Bismarck, Wolfpack...
Midway too
@@VergilTheMenace tbh i hope they go back to midway, the song is very general about pacific naval warfare, while the battle of midway had so much crazy shit that isn't really talked about in the song.
@@punkfuk My main gripe with Midway is that it isn't twice as long.
@@CIoudStriker just like how fast the Battle of Midway was decided
Exactly
Fun fact, the motto of the HMS Dreadnought and the new Dreadnought class SSBNs of the Royal Navy is "Fear God and Dread Nought" pretty bad ass motto if I do say so myself.
iirc, someone also mentioned that HMS Dreadnought's motto was her name itself, her name is their motto.
@@erichvondonitz5325 late reply but "fear god and dread nought" was only ever the motto of admiral jackie fisher, the guy who concieved hms dreadnought (he named dreadnought after his motto)
For those curious, the name Dreadnought is derived from the HMS Dreadnought, the first of what would become its class. It is literally 'Dread Nought', basically a fancy way of saying 'Fear Nothing'. The HMS Dreadnought itself never fired her guns in anger,never partook in any major battle, including Jutland, however to my knowledge it was and still is the only battleship to ever sink a submarine by way of ramming.
The Dreadnoughts truly showed their raw power in the battle of Jutland, 1916. The "Clash of Titans" was inevitable as the German High Seas Fleet needed to break the British Grand Fleet blockade, and when the battle begun, saw the mighty Dreadnoughts open fire with their massive cannons. The largest sea battle in history saw the rise of true legends like HMS Warspite, one of 5 brand new Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships at the time, which 4 of the 5 "Super Dreadnoughts" took part, as HMS Queen Elizabeth missed the battle. HMS Warspite along with Valiant and Malaya (I think those 2 were with Warspite at the time) as well 2 other Battleships for a short period of time, faced the whole of the German High Seas Fleet alone while being caught before they could regroup with the Grand Fleet. Among the 5 battleships, 2 were completely destroyed by detonating propellant charges, since they ships were overloaded in preparation of bombardments that could last a really long time. Warspite and her sister ships took heavy damage, and dished out major blows of their own before regrouping with the Grand Fleet.
Warspite would continue to be targeted by many ships of the High Seas Fleet, but would shrug off the damage and keep fighting, even when she took major damage to the rear of the ship, jamming the rudder, and causing her to do a "Circle Of Death", turning into the High Seas Fleet, making her an irresistible target. This however, had 2 positive effects, it drew fire away from some of the most heavily damaged Grand Fleet ships, and in doing circles, inadvertently saved HMS Warrior, by not only drawing fire away, but shielding the smaller ship from incoming fire, allowing her to withdraw to a safe distance before the crew were forced to abandon ship as Warrior was not able to stay afloat. Warspite was stuck in the "Circle Of Death" for nearly 10 minutes before the rudder was freed, and the now severely damaged Warspite could make her own getaway, and return to port for emergency repairs
Warspite, a Royal Navy Super Dreadnought, had sustained damage unlike anyone had ever seen of a ship still floating, and under her own power... but was a survivor. Warspite, even though she never made it through the whole battle, was given honors much higher then most that did make it through the whole battle, and even though her repairs would cost the Navy more then it was really worth to save the ship, they saved her anyways. Warspite played many major roles in WW2, serving as Sea Lord Andrew Cunningham's flag ship, fighting battles in the Pacific against the Japanese, Fighting the Italians in the Mediterranean, and the Germans in the Atlantic and North Atlantic. She would be nearly destroyed 3 more times, with many more attempts made, setting records that still stand today, like scoring a hit on a moving target at 26km, or being the only battleship who sunk a U-Boat using the onboard float plane with a jerry rigged torpedo strapped to the bottom. She was even given the honor of being the first ship to open fire on the beaches or Normandy, D-Day. She brought glory to the name "Warspite", and became the Royal Navy's most decorated warship.
The "Grand Old Lady" as she was called, wouldn't be lucky enough to survive after WW2, as the state of the British economy was basically in ruins, and scrapping ships was the best choice for them. Warspite in 1947, was decommissioned, stripped of her armaments, and sent off to be broken up, despite a huge outcry to save Warspite, even by Winston Churchill himself, who took a liking to Warspite, even before Jutland. The Grand Old Lady however, wasn't going out like that, and what seemed like ship itself defying those who were taking her to be scrapped, broke free of the towing ships, and sailed for 22km on her own, before ramming the rocks and mud of the shallow waters of Prussia Cove, where she took on enough water to link deep into the mud, unable to be moved by any ship. She defied all who tried to suppress her, which was true to vary end. Warspite was broken up on the spot in Prussia Cove, taking 3 years to do so. The point of land closest to where Warspite rested, was named "Warspite Point", and has part of her mast stuck in the ground to honor her, and a small museum called "Warspite museum" sits not far from there, with a bunch of artifacts from the warship inside for everyone to see, and there is a memorial carved into a large rock that is dedicated to the ship and her crew. Possibly the greatest battleship, or Super Dreadnought to have ever sailed the seas, will forever be remembered, a real legend.
"Belli Dura Despicio"
Bruh, you just made me want to look up a whole video about that one battle.
Honor to Grand Old Lady and Warspite. o7
@@granoonis2080 that is the same ship
To answer your question about the gun's range, most Dreadnought-class ships during WW1 had effective ranges of anywhere from 8-10 miles, which is the preferred range, and a maximum of about 15 miles, which was really risky, with an average accuracy of hitting once per 50 shots fired. This is why these ships also had many double-barreled cannons, to increase the likelihood of actually landing a hit.
Every time I hear that it amazes me. The other day I was looking at a world map for some reason, don’t remember what for.
Distance from Calais, France to Dover, England is around 20 miles.
The range of WW2 battleships is around 20-25 miles at a max.
20 miles looks surprisingly large at a world-scale, let alone a 20 mile RADIUS.
@@rhysgoodman7628 Yup, these ships would be shooting at each other, calculating the distance, the projectile's arc, and even the waves themselves, from a distance greater than the areas of entire cities!
A fun thing you can also look up is the V3 rocket artillery gun. It was an artillery cannon that was never completed, but if it ever was, could theoretically hit Britain from Germany.
@@dylanmorris5352 it’s truly amazing!
A ship rocking in rough seas, calculating and pulling off shots on moving ships, traveling a different direction, a different speed, rocking in different-intensity waves, etc.
Especially impressive considering those old computers they used that were based on optical range-finding. Really cool stuff.
Well there's differences. Great Britain and Germany, who had the 2 largest navys that time had differences between their dreadnoughts. British dreadnoughts usually had the higher range while german ones had a faster rate of fire
Fun fact: the last military Dreadnought ship to ever existed is USS Texas 110 years strong i believe.
Also there is also a effect called the Dreadnought effect.
By definition:
through the introduction of a new and radically better weapon to one's own force. The effect can well be to make obsolescent all the existing critical military force.
Even more fun fact, the ship in the video of this song IS the USS Texas.
If you have ever seen a battleship, you'll understand that sense of wonder. They are massive!
massive? enormous!)
@@pirlogartiom4403 H U M O N G O U S !
@@Based_Lord_Humongous what she said ?
Jk
@@Based_Lord_Humongous Humongous what
I think the biggest warship I have seen in person was a frigate or something (it was French in an Irish port) and it blew my mind. I can't imagine how much bigger ships like this would be.
Dreadnaught was anything but slow. With a max speed of 21 knots she could easily run down any other battleship of her day, and keep pace with most cruisers. She out gunned practically everything. Her new all or nothing armor scheme made her incredibly durable as well. The name "dreadnaught" literally means "fear nothing" and it certainly fits.
The cover image is the USS Texas, the last surviving dreadnought in the world and a museum you can still visit (though she is scheduled to go into a drydock for a while for some much needed repairs). Fun fact about the battle of Jutland close to 64 battleships of the dreadnaught, pre-dreadnaught, and battlecruiser classes fought against each other that day.
Super Dreadnought technically but still correct either way
I knew she looked familiar
I can't imagine the chaos of the battle of Jutland with all these ships.
there is also Ijn Mikasa in pre-dreadnought as museum
@@arkdeso2864 Didn't it get turn into a Dinner or restaurant at some point?
This song is oddly different, sounds like Sabaton from over 10 years ago tbh. And I like it, it's so nostalgic!
Here's littlebit about the Battle of Jutland:
Just before four o’clock on the afternoon of May 31, 1916, a British naval force commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty confronts a squadron of German ships, led by Admiral Franz von Hipper, some 75 miles off the Danish coast. The two squadrons opened fire on each other simultaneously, beginning the opening phase of the greatest naval battle of World War I, the Battle of Jutland.
The Battle of Jutland-or the Battle of the Skagerrak, as it was known to the Germans-engaged a total of 100,000 men aboard 250 ships over the course of 72 hours. The Germans, giddy from the glory of Scheer’s brilliant escape, claimed it as a victory for their High Seas Fleet. At first the British press agreed, but the truth was not so clear-cut. 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. Ten more German ships had suffered heavy damage, however, and by June 2, 1916, only 10 ships that had been involved in the battle were ready to leave port again (Jellicoe, on the other hand, could have put 23 to sea). On July 4, 1916, Scheer reported to the German high command that further fleet action was not an option, and that submarine warfare was Germany’s best hope for victory at sea. Despite the missed opportunities and heavy losses, the Battle of Jutland had left British naval superiority on the North Sea intact. The German High Seas Fleet would make no further attempts to break the Allied blockade or to engage the Grand Fleet for the remainder of World War I.
Fun fact: USS Texas, the only dreadnought still in existence, was launched in 1912 and is now a museum ship at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. Texas saw action in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I. Texas was decommissioned in 1948, having earned a total of five battle stars for service in World War II.
Today i watched interview with Joakim done by the Charismatic voice and the man himself said exactly the same, form your first sentence man. That this song kinda represent the album even though its tricky cause this album is very different. But also that this song is like Saboton from 10-15 years ago. Amazing..
@@marcusson1983 Yup, I watched it aswell after listening this album and was surprised that it was most likely one of their goals to make it more oldschool!
Another fun fact: the USS Texas was the only american ship to hit its targets on d-day due to the captain ordering the starboard torpedo bay to be flooded
@@cjthenarhwalking1378 Yup! That one I knew pretty well! Been studying the Battle of Normandy for few years and Texas is often talked about.
about the german losses:
if you count also pre-dreadnoughts as battleships, yes, they lost one (Pommern)
if you don't count them as battleships (which many people do), they didn't
@5:00 You mentioned the damage the dreadnoughts could output, although they were slow. The thing about the original _HMS Dreadnought_ was that it also had the new steam turbine engines, so it was tougher, meaner and _faster_ than any battleship afloat. There are multiple reasons that battleships are classified as pre- and post-dreadnought, it was revolutionary.
…holy sh*t
It was the nuclear deterrent of its age
Indeed the refrain sounds like an unbelievable tale full of wonders.
Fun fact two years later. During WW2 I believe the Navy wanted to put a metric on how much their ships could take. This is when the term HP, hit points, first came up. To the Navy a HP is how many 16in shells it can take.
Fun fact: the dreadnought used on the lyric video is the U.S.S. Texas. It's still around as a museum ship though it is planned to be in dry dock to be repaired.
Also the Texas has ten 14" main guns. This means that the shells it fired out of those big guns are 14" wide. It's an incredible amount of firepower.
'The last dreadnought' she's called
HMS Dreadnought herself carried 12" guns. These could fire a shell weighing 850 lbs, and could fire out to a maximum range of 25,000 yards (14.2 miles). Effective range (when you actually start hitting reliably) was about 2/3 that.
The most famous of the Dreadnoughts is HMS Warspite, which served in both World War 1 and World War 2. Warspite carried a total of 8 15" guns, with shells weighing 1,938 lbs, and firing out to a maximum range of 33,500 yards (19 miles). Again, effective range was roughly 2/3 of that number
Another thing about all of Sabaton's naval-subject songs is that they always seem to capture the roiling, rampant and wrathful nature of the ocean in song form; that the seas are, to a fault, a fickle yet majestic mistress to be sure, where the men who sail them are nothing less than the steel that shields them from a cold and watery grave, yet even man's greatest creations are barely motes of dust in the vast and cold expanse of the world's oceans.
"Immortalized over time", when you hear the term battleship, 9 times out of ten the image that pops into your head is of the dreadnought battleships. These things were so big, so heavily armed, and so heavily armored that, even to this day after the battleship era had ended, that many still think of battleships as the symbol of a Navy's might and power. And it's funny because a lot of people who don't know better will look at something like a destroyer and call it a battleship. Yeah, I'd say dreadnoughts have most certainly become naval legend and immortalized.
I must have had the 1 time where that image didnt pop up because i had an image of the Santisima Trinidad in mind.
Awe inspiring. Paved the way for the bigger and more powerful battleships. Iowa. Bismarck. Yamato. Dreadnought and the follow ons, which includes HMS Warspite, who was at the Battle of Jutland, with their armor and the caliber of main guns, were truly terrifying.
warspite, during the battle of jutland, got her rudder jammed for a long time, bringing german attention to her, causing her to be focused by several german ships damaging warspite heavily but it did save other british ships as those werent shot upon as they focused on warspite instead.
warspites rudder was never fully fixed even after her major refits before ww2, she still had problems with it through all of ww2, despite that issue, she did a lot of great things during ww2, like at the third battle of narvik (northern norway), warspites scouting floatplane dropped a bomb on a german submarine in narvik harbour sinking it, then proceeds to sail into the narrow norwegian fjord towards narvik despite there being a torpedo threat from german submarines and destroyers in narvik.
warspite is also credited with the longest hit alongside the german battlecruiser scharnhorst, both managed to hit an enemy ship at about 24km range, in warspites case it was against the italian battleship giulio cesare with a hit to giulio cesares smoke stack, in scharnhorsts case it was against the british aircraft carrier hms glorious.
warspite is considered a "super dreadnought" btw, one of the last dreadnought battleships before the washington and london naval treaties were in effect limiting the displacement and amount of new ships, after that you get "treaty battleships" such as uss new york, uss south dakota, uss north carolina, hms king george v, hms nelson, ijn nagato (japan didnt use a prefix on their ships but many uses ijn where needed) and such.
I think one thing that makes songs feel powerful as well is the words they choose. Like, immortalize, legend, rise, even the title itself - dreadnought. Those are powerful sounding words. It wouldn't have the same oomph if it was like...idk...puppies, flowers, butterflies. The words you choose can convey power themselves and make it sound even heavier.
Fun fact: HMS Dreadnought while helping revolutionize ship design for capital ships, wasn't in much combat. They did however kill a submarine that surfaced in front of them after attacking another vessel by ramming into it. I believe they're the only battleship to have intentionally done so (Though I have heard rumors that a New York clsas did kill a sub as well)
The dreadnoughts were basically the British Empire telling every other navy “Sit down. The King is still here.”
Final boss music.
Also this songs reminds me of the Black Sabbath song Into the Void where it has that slow tempo which symbolizes impeding doom.
You act like you know what you're talking about lmao, cadence has nothing to do with tempo
the beat for this one was slow, heavy and relentless just like it's namesake. Kinda reminded me of Queensryche Operation Mindcrime.
The Dreadnought song Is for me like when is autumn and it's depressing weather and everyone having a depressing days and meanwhile me in nowhere I'm just vibes to that song
Light up the night when cannons roar that lyric sends a shiver down my spine because the way he reverberates when he says roar honestly feels like a cannon firing and bellowing, and the part where he sings a contest of titans commence really gets my blood flowing
Slow, heavy and hard hitting just like the dreadnoughts themselves. This music fits the theme of this song perfectly.
Also, neat little fun fact. The ship depicted in the video is the USS Texas, the LAST remaining dreadnought class still afloat today. Furthermore, on D-Day, she was (as far as I know) the ONLY ship that landed her artillery onto targets, furthermore, she couldn't hit the targets, so the captain ordered a controlled partial flooding to roll the ship to get her guns aligned at the angle needed to hit said targets.
Yes us Texans we love our ship fun fact she has five battle stars and also the first ship to fight the enemy head on and only suffered one casualty her helmsman at Okinawa and she proudly become the first US museum
"The unholy offspring of lightning and death itself, your only hope, hide and pray it does not find you...."
Imagine being on something about 18,600 tons and through the mist something looking about double that comes charging out- that was the power of Dreadnought
1:03 The entire song feels more like a darker, dirge-style twist on a common sea shanty. Especially with the opening lyrics: "It splits the waves, commands the seas and defies the wind..."
This bands vocals could shake the very *SOUL* of the dark lord Melkor; thou haste not forsaken the path set for you by Manwe.
haha, It is hard to pick a favorite song with they keep releasing badass stuff!
Crimson Skies could refer to an old sailor's adage. "Red Sky at night, Sailor's delight. Red Sky in the morning, Sailor's warning." Of course, the battle of Jutland didn't happen in the morning, but it could've been red skies to warn of the carnage to come.
Also, the warship depicted in the lyric video is none other than USS Texas BB-34, which served in both World Wars, and is the last remaining dreadnought-type battleship remaining in the entire world. She's an absolute treasure.
The eras of battleship development and construction plus some historical tidbits:
-Ships of the Line, Age of Sail
Large wooden hull ships carrying much thicker hulls, more internal space, and many more black powder cannons.
-Ironclads, Early Industrial Age
Smaller iron hulled ships carrying much fewer guns but largely immune to all guns of their time. Very limited effective range.
-Pre-Dreadnoughts, Later Industrial Age
Intermediate sized steel hulled ships with total armor coverage and as many guns of as many different calibers and diameters as possible. Advancement from standard cannonballs to more modern artillery cannons firing shells more visually similar to a bullet meant to penetrate armor. Gun diameters ranges from 3in for secondary batteries carried in mass to 8-10in main batteries carried in small numbers 2-6.
-Dreadnoughts, Very Early 1900s
Intermediate-Large steel hulled ships with total (or "Balanced") armor coverage, standardized uniform caliber main and secondary battery guns while drastically increasing the amount of guns carried both secondary and main. Main guns increased in size to 11-13.5in while most secondaries increased to a minimum of 4in.
-Super Dreadnoughts, 1910-1920s
Several revolutionary breakthroughs in armor quality and design as well as artillery development led to much bigger, better armored, and much more heavily armed ships which carried even more and even bigger guns than ever before of both secondary and primary types. Main guns increased in size to 14-16in and secondaries ranged from 4-6in. Saw the US develope the "All-Or-Nothing" armor protection scheme giving it's ships unparalleled protection of their vitals at the cost of non-vital parts of the ship being essentially unarmored. In conjunction they developed the "Internal Raft/Reserve Buoyancy" construction scheme. Meaning that they retained a lot of buoyancy in the center of the hull in a space so we'll compartmentalized and we'll armored that the bow and aft of the ship could be severed and the ship would still not sink if the bulkheads were intact and the watertight doors sealed. This made US designed Super Dreadnoughts incredibly hard to sink in battle ready condition. (They also subscribed to the Firepower and Armor over all else ideal of battleship construction so these ships would become some of the best armored and armed battleships of all time, some rivalling the legendary Yamato in effective armor thickness).
-Fast Battleships, Late 1920-1946
Vast advancements in technology and naval architecture enabled ship builders to build ever bigger and better armed ships by increasing their size, hull shapes, and installing much more powerful engines in their ships. The only cost being that generally Fast Battleships tended to have less armor than the more heavily armored ships of the last generation. As opposed to common misconception though for most of them they were not under-armored rather the previous generation was over-armored in a lot of cases. Tge only examples of a fast battleship being under armored for it's time would be the North Carolina Class and Richelieu class. North Carolina was rated against American 14"/50 MKB guns with about comparable penetration to Bismarck's SKC/34 15"/51 guns when it's most likely opponents were the Japanese fielding up to 16" guns (just like the NC class carried) with slightly better penetration. This was offset a bit by The US having much better penetrating guns, better shell quality, generally carrying more main guns per battleship, having much greater range, incomparable quality of radar systems, greater armor quality per thickness, and some of the best fire control practices in the world but the slightly armor still wasn't an exactly appreciated aspect of the ships. The second example the Richelieu class simply didn't have any of those factors going for it. It carried fairly standard 15" guns and only 8 of them, it's armor was shown to be completely inadequate against US made 16" guns even when firing out dated WW1 era shells due to poor early war supply (look at USS Massachusetts' utter dismantling of incomplete, but fully armored, Battleship Jean Bart at port). Richelieu only had the advantage of being fast for it's time and at least average in all other categories.
You need the Standards(Standard Battleships) as the in-between the Super Dreads and Fast Battleships..
@@tyvernoverlord5363 The Standards were Super Dreadnoughts, my guy. They're the Standard Type Super Dreadnoughts.
@@ThatGuyOrby Actually there is a distinction. The standards were mostly American exclusive with a few being built per the WNT post war. But the Super Dreads and Standards are differing beasts from each other.
The standards set and where the standard for a battleship, according to treaty and international naval doctrine at least. Fast Battleships were the illegitimate children that really only America and the nascent Nazi Germany wanted or had doctrinal need/desire for in the fleet.
*Nevada* _and_ *Oklahoma* _were the USN's last Supers and the progenitors for the Standards of the USN._ *Arizona* _and_ *Pennsylvania* _were also considered Supers._ *New Mexico* _and onwards were standards and fast battleships._ *Tennessee* _is were the standards became popularized in the fleet._ All U.S. Battleships laid down from 1935 onwards were Fast types. Of course the details are a bit hazy and people & source wildly differ.
Most of these react channels always give shallow comments for the most part , im happy to say that you are much more stimulating to listen to .
You need to check out the history of the USS Texas. A super Drednaught made in 1914. Very, very, colorful service history.
Bro this song was awesome, so powerful! This is right up there next to Bismarck.
Sabaton does some amazing work with the way they make the music fit the story they are telling.
Saw Sabaton in concert last year. This song sounds ABSOLUTELY EPIC live. The chorus is twice as good as it is in the recording. Just bangin'!
Their legend will rise…
Dave just picture a Battleships, congratulations you just pictured a dreadnought. HMS Dreadnought was the sign of a new naval design for the early 20th century, previously guns were aligned along the side of the ship and still maintained wooden structure, even the Ironclad. Armor went through the roof and even larger caliber gun were able to be mounted in turrets providing excellent combat capabilities. After the launch of HMS Dreadnought all over previous battleship designs were obsolete. The longest range of a battleship is 16-18 miles, this is of course the last of the battleships to be build like the Iowa class (USS Iowa is sitting in Long Beach, CA).
Love the melody here
I agree with you about how finding Sabaton is amazing. I found them listening to random on Pandora while working on some graphic design school project with Primo Victoria. Been hooked ever since.
I always thought the lyrics were "And the dreadnoughts did nothing at all" because they only fought once and nobody wanted to send them out because of how expensive they were
There were several engament that involved dreadnaughts, Jutland was the only general engagement.
@@frednone still, nobody wanted to send them out, or to battle against other ships
So before HMS Dreadnought, meaning "fear nothing", was launched, battleships only had 2-4 "big guns" usually 12-13.5" bore size and dozens of smaller guns in secondary, tertiary, some quartinary, and even a few cases of quintinary batteries. Then Dreadnought launched with 10 12" guns, thus the line "all big guns to serve the fleet." And the ships that came after her were dubbed "dreadnoughts."
The beat and rhythm of this song truly feels like these ships were: slow and powerful. And the lyrics are spot on for how the world views these ships.
Also the ship in the video looks to be either a Queen Elizabeth or a Revenge-class but with an American fire control spotting tower.
Close, but no dice my friend. That's USS Texas, the only surviving Dreadnought-type battleship in the world.
the ship used in the video appears to be the USS Texas in its WWII configuration
This was a very good reaction, well done brother, and i can say that coz i have an adopted brother from Zenegal. He likes to sing mostly soul music but sometimes when we have our deep musical discussions and listen to both soul and metal he sounds alot like u do.
On the speed part, the dreadnought was actually faster than any capital ships before them because they were equipped with new engine technology(turbine engines)
The HMS Dreadnought had BL 12-inch MK X naval guns as her main cannons with a maximum firing range of 22,860 m (25,000 yd) and a muzzle velocity of 823 m/s (2,700 ft/s)
I like the similarity you made with the JAWS theme, I didn’t hear it like that at first but I can now. Very perceptive!
One bit that's anachronistic is that the dreadnought used in the video - the USS Texas, which served in both the European (at D-Day no less!) and Pacific theatres and is the sole surviving dreadnought in the world - is in its post-WW1 configuration, which is a little odd considering the album is all about WW1. The USS Texas, like many battleships of its time, had cage masts during WW1 (you can look them up online, and yes, they look very weird) and the superstructure you see in the video was only after the post-WW1 refit, which is how it looked in WW2 and today as a museum ship.
Pretty sure they chose her in her current configuration, since she is the last of her class, after all this time, so showing the ship as she is in my opinion more respectful than showing her as she used to be.
This might be my favorite of your Sabaton reaction vids. Great stuff.
Well, about Dreadnoughts... Ever since HMS Dreadnought and the birth of this ship class it is marked as a new era of Naval battlefield, and now Dreadnought is used all over the media for a big f*cking battleship... Yea, they were a most powerful class of ship at the time, and for good measure, as most of them could fire all 12 heavy guns at the same time in barrage... I ain't an expert, but if ship class is used to mark the end of one era of warfare and the beginning of the other named also after that class, IT MEANS THEY WERE MORE THAN GOOD, THEY WERE NEW LEVEL OF POWER. Also, they were not only heavier armed( Up to 12 main canons usually over 300mm, so Big Bois, but one I believe had 16 of them), But also used better bulkheads, making it harder to sink them after penetrating, more armor, and actually faster than previous ones. Just generally they were better at everything.
Dreadnoughts were, for the longest time, the unquestionable heavy weight fighters of the seas. The king of the waters. Able to take hit after hit that would sink lesser vessels and keep going... they were to be feared. if you were an ally, they would defend you. a superior, they obeyed you. an enemy, god help you.
These sobs got within 30 miles of you and they could lob shells through your hull as fast as they could reload if dialed in. The battle of Jutland is the one and only time dreadnoughts met in mass in a battle. After that the fleets were kept close to their respective harbours in safety before plane technology reached the point of long distance bombers and aircraft carriers as in WWII. It was the battle of Jutland that began, immortalized and ended the era of the dreadnoughts, and the battleship as a successful super weapon in itself
This is definitely my favorite off their new album, and an easy top 3 of theirs full stop. Sabaton is always phenomenal at painting a picture with their music and lyrics, and this song might be the perfect example of this. It's slow, it's imposing, and makes you glad you never had to see one of these titans turn broadside over the waves in your direction. "and their foes can't believe their eyes, believe their size..." It's so good. You wouldn't have the modern battleship without these beasts.
If you want a boner-inducing photograph, there's one out there of the HMS Victory with the HMS Dreadnought in the same frame. You can see a little ol fishing boat or something between them. That boat is dwarfed by the two legendary ships of the Royal Navy.
These things had guns on top, in front, in the back, the sides, EVERYWHERE. Dreadnoughts led to Battleships, and they still have such an incredible legacy.
The Intro reminded me of starting up an engine, takes a second but then it gets fired up.
This song definitely grew on me. I didn’t much like it at first but I distinctly remember it getting stuck on my head and me humming the melody for ages until I listened to it again.
I remember I thought the lyrics were “but the dreadnoughts did Nothing at all!” Almost as if the lyrics are building the battleships up as these mighty beasts and then breaking them down since the dreadnoughts were pretty much only used once at the battle of Jutland.
The sound is akin to the main guns firing. It's lost on newer generations, but there is Gulf War era footage of Iowa class battleships firing salvos. Two barrels per turret in the case of Dreadnought. The battle line closes in and the fire picks up.
The dreadnought had a speed of 21 knots, which is not slow at all. Most merchant vessels today do not reach that speed.
I know the history (and tend to skip you talking about it, sorry), but you're teaching me so much about the music I didn't realise. The songs are so much better after you point out the musical themes Sabaton puts in
The one thing I like about this song is that you can hear callbacks to the riffs and bridges from Bismarck, seeing as how both songs are about very large warships.
The ship shown is the USS Texas, BB35. Still exists as a museum. 10 guns, of 14 inch diameter for the main guns, plus lots of secondaries of 6 or 4 inch. The main shells weigh about 1 ton each. Range about 15 miles. The Iowa class had 9 guns of 16 inch diameter with range of 24 miles, plus many 5 inch secondaries. Mains weigh 1.5 tons.
Bismarck had 8 guns, 15 inch, 21 miles, 1.2 tons per.
Yamato had 9 guns of 18.1 inch, 27 miles, 2 tons per.
fun fact: the opening beat is in the rhythm of a battleships/dreadnoughts cannon barrage.
The literal translation/meaning of Dreadnaught (dread naught) is literally fear not, I believe the intention behind the name was for the crews moral, it just so happens that they became their enemies dread.
My favorite song in the album so far.
#1 HellFighters
#2 DreadNought
#3 Race to the Sea
#4/5 unlikeable soldier & soldier of heaven
My pics they are all brilliant but that's my top favourite.
_The ship that change everything!_
This song paints a picture of being attacked by a steel cathedral.
as a big fan of navel warfare this has got to be my favorite song of the album.
If you still want to see a real life Dreadnought, USS Texas is so far the only surviving Dreadnought in the world. She's currently in dry dock, but one She's out, you'll be able to visit her!
USS Texas, the last living Dreadnought is worth a visit. She’s smaller than the later battleships but goddamn if she’s not the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen…
The Dreadnought's 5 twin BL 12 inch Gun Mark X had a maximum range of 22,860 meters.
I love the connection to Jaws you made. Really sets the tone for the dangers the Dreadnoughts posed at sea. Much like how the shark did. Both fear nothing at all.
Great Music
Great band
Great reaction
The thing about dreadnoughts... sure, twenty knots doesn't sound like much, but their steam turbines made them almost twice as fast as any battleships before them. That combined with the improved armor layout and unified main battery made them a literal quantum leap over anything that came before. HMS Dreadnought literally made entire navies obsolete just by existing. Including the very British Royal Navy she was built for.
A Dreadnought class ship was embracing the old concept from age of sail while merging it with a concept that makes an Iron Clad. A more practical weapon of war that took brave crews and steel hardened resolve to commit. You are the Battle Wagon, something that's heavily armored, heavily armed, and was designed to have firepower to out-range and hammer targets in its wake (as far as before the end of WW1). The firepower displayed as these ships let loose were hard to explain, a deafening concussion that will launch loose shit overboard from its sheer pressure of the guns loosing its terrific barrage. Some ships have loosed a broadside that has 14+ guns ranging from 3 inch to 12 inch battery
There was whole warships that were designated for "Screening" which was the destroyer, it was to launch a attack that could cripple but could also make the enemy in a purely simple path. Cruisers were warships with moderate firepower and often were the in between and were the majority of the fleet and were the jack of all trades, master of none kinda thing. This was the normal as each ship can have a lineage of concept in Naval warfare to date in some way (skip the later Aircraft Carrier concepts, that didn't start till WW1, specifically used as spotter aircraft to help ships adjust fire when there radios worked).
In the specific case for Dreadnoughts, they were the Artillery on the sea, they lumbered into view, didn't move fast, didn't care for your effort if you were in its way. The ship was just a monster in its time, the only thing that could directly muck up the Dreadnoughts in a 1v1 was another Dreadnought. It was the start to the legend of firepower, the legend of the sea, games and memorials forever were made for it "Battleship" which had the memorialized comment "You sunk my Battleship" and even games like World of Warships where the captain makes a exasperated remark about "We have Destroyed an Enemy Battleship!". A Battleship was a icon of movies, references, and reverence and fear for generations. The Battleship was out-shined by the Aircraft carrier, as they were perfect targets of fast and nimble aircraft. Aircraft Carriers, faster and more reliable ships became a thing, and the Battleship is still considered "The Fleet's strongest ship". The best point in this is flagships are now aircraft carriers, while frigates are your middle man, and then you have destroyer class ships with so much ability that it can multi roll and terrorize the sea as much as any other. Naval personnel understand it the most, a relic of history that made the world shake in fear for 70 years. Nobody has seen the Barrage of a Battleship in a long time, and its worth noting that guns are dangerous.
A Key point to suitability and Steel resolve was HMS Warrior crew, specifically a turret crew after the first impact that messed up the ship's rudder. Just a small scale battle on board, the turret received 3 direct input hits, they damaged the gun and a loose active powder charge bag fell and set off almost igniting the magazine, after several quick choices and hard made calls, crew were in agony from shrapnel they fought out the fire, a second hit and the powder caught ablaze again, this time there was no escape, a quick call from a severely wounded man managed to get the magazine closed off and shielded as the turret crew resigned there fate and were killed instantly with either concussive force or deadly flame of the black powder burning up threw forcing the metal to buckle and slam people around. In all this ship survived due to the steel resolve of the fighting men in a single turret, as well as all her Damage control crew and there ability to face the pain with determination to keep there fellow cremates and ship afloat to the valiant end. This damage was sustained at the Battle of Jutland, with an exchange of fire from 3 Dreadnoughts hammering her in her battered state she still re-engaged and kept in the fight with further ferocity.
Several times these ships also sailed in close and provided Naval gunfire support with main battery which pounded key positions along the coast and softened the positions up in hopes they could make the battles better for there side.
Such a great song. Sabaton mentioned that the opening riffs reminded them of waves crashing against big ships
The absurd thing about dreadnoughts is that they could only be destroyed in two ways: either by a one in a billion shot managing to find the perfect path to their ammunition stores, or by an overwhelming assault that would flatten whole countries slowly overwhelming their defences.
Every time a dreadnought battleship was sunk it took an absurdly vast amount of effort. Whether it was a clash of navies, submarines, or entire airforces, they never went down in to death easily.
This is perfectly shown by HMS Warspite who was at Jutland (she's a favourite of boat needs everywhere) who was hit 150 times as she stared down the whole German battlefleet, and survived. Who was bombed, shelled, rammed, who dodged submarines and danced with Japanese navies when she was already out of date, and who was even atta ked by guided missiles. She survived it all.
Dread nought indeed.
Oh they were anything but slow. Thats what made them so terrifying. The had the speed and firepower to run down and blow any capital ship out of the water. Even if you were in another dreadnought you broke a sweat at the thought seeing one not on your side.
I love your reactions bro. You have an intelligent and unique thought process when disecting songs. You rarely see it across other channels 🔥
What's funny is that despite the lyrics were "dread nothing at all", you can hear "Dreadnoughts did nothing at all" instead. And it's hilariously accurate, because everything the dreadnoughts did during ww1 was just sweet FA. Even with the battle of Jutland being their only naval fight, they didn't do anything.
that’s what i thought they were saying when I first heard this song lmao
One of the cool things about this song is if you close your eyes during the chorus, and focus on the tempo and rhythm...you can actually get a sense of a ship riding the waves as it charges forward, with the line "And the Dreadnoughts dread nothing at all" as the moment when the ship clears that last wave by plowing through it like a football team through a paper banner. (Hopefully you don't get seasick)
My favorite off the new album. Actually my three favorite Sabaton songs are all about naval warfare: Bismarck, Wolfpack and Dreadnought lol
Fun fact!! The ship depicted in the video is the USS Texas.
Also, damn dude, I did not even pick up on the rhythm difference. 'because the dreadnought was DIFFERENT from everything else on the seas', holy crap my man, you are amazing!!
In WW 1, the average dreadnought of the Royal Navy, the main force of which was known as the Grand Fleet, was in the tens of thousands of yards. They would be a speck in the distance, you would see a distant flash and nothing for seconds. Then a geyser of water or flame would erupt nearby as the booming echo of cannons just after. Coincidentally, at Jutland it was particularly hazardous to be on a RN battlecruiser as they a rather unfortunate habit of exploding at Jutland due to poor ammo handling practices.
You (and the other commentators) are absolutely right. This does have one of the most powerful, ominous choruses of the album. This song also really lets Joakim flex the grit in his voice. He just PUSHES into that lower register like a ship slowly sinking.
As for the music itself they really captured that rolling sound of the waves with the drums and guitars, steady and sure. And then the waves are sliced through with the steel of the vocals. It is SO GOOD.
My only nitpick detail on this is that Joakim holds the note on "all" from the chorus for like two beats longer so it sounds really tough and glorious on the first round, but he cuts it shorter in the other two rounds of the chorus and I REALLY would have preferred him to have that last round be the same note length as the first one. Just to really capture that glorious essence and feeling of a sinking ship at the hands of these ships.
(Also, don't worry, Dave, I too try not to think what would life be if I hadn't stumbled upon these guys years ago.)
When the mighty HMS dreadnought was commissioned, she struck fear in all naval major powers, she made all ships made before her obsolete, she represented the mighty power of the British empire
Makes me wish as Dutchman our navy managed to have build atleast 1 capital ship. Two times we tried, and both were cancelled due to both world wars.
So hereby warned, if my country tries to build a capital ship, a world war is coming xD
This song now makes me want a song about the Santisima Trinidad wich was a spanish 1rst Rate wich also was the largest Man-o'war of its time.
The defeat of the Santisima Trinidad in 1805 in the Battle of Trafalgar, and her following surrender to the 2nd Rate "Neptun", resultet in an overthinking of shipdesign in favor of speed and maneuverability instead of size and might wich resultet in the scrapping of many projects such as the legendary Duke of Kent wich was a Man-o'war of such size that calling it a 1rst Rate would be an underestimation.
Explanation: a Man-o'war (or often just Man of War) is the british term for a variety of ships wich are in the classification "Warship" and its most commonly used for the 1rst Rate (a ship with 4 decks wich is armed with up to 120+ cannons) and the 2nd Rate (a ship with 3 decks wich is armed with up to 90+ cannons) but it also refers to the 3rd Rate (a ship with 2 decks wich is armed with up to 60+ cannons) and the Duke of Kent (a ship with 5 decks wich would have been possibly armed with up to 190+ cannons if it would have been build).
Im also sorry for any factual errors since im reciting this from memory.
When I hear the music I just imagine a sea beast rising out of the water, and feeling dread 😉😄
6:56 if you want to explore songs with odd time signatures I’d heavily recommend Vildhjarta they’re an awesome band and one of favourite bands if not my absolute favourite and they mess around with a lot of time signatures. They released a music video for their song ”När de du älskar kommer tillbaka från det döda” (Long name I know) and they do have another music video for one of their other songs “Dagger” however that one doesn’t have that weird of time signatures (still a good song tho). Great reaction as always!
You need to check out the “fat electricians” review of the last dreadnought. Informative and funny.
"As the dreadnoughts clash at last." always gives me chills
Yeah there are only 2 dreadnoughts left in the world. USS TEXAS and the IJN MIKASA
And that ship is the USS Texas.
And if you want to know more you should go check out
Naval legend's.
(it's Juh-tland, as in 'uhhhh idk' or 'supper' or ' ummm'). Also, I gotta say I became a fan of yours when you did Snotty Nose Rez Kids... gotta appreciate that you go in on a variety of media here. Love you man.
Fun fact about the dreadnought battleships: the first battle between them was at the battle of Jutland in WW1, the only time in WW1 where dreadnoughts would fight other dreadnoughts. The victor of the battle is still undecided. The British had lost more ships and tonnage, but the Germans had retreated from the battle to avoid a larger battle with more British ships.
I would love a video featuring this song covering the Battle of Jutland, similar to how Sabaton made a video covering the battle with the Bismarck. How epic would that be? Picture this; right after "Align the guns, unleash their wrath," we see the ships just unleash hell; continuous bombardments while taking hits of their own. One shell destroys a cannon completely blowing it off its stand, and another hit knocks at least eight men onto their backs. The steel faced admiral barks orders (inaudible) at the crew closest to him to maneuver the ship into a better firing position where they'd take less hits. As the ship turns, a shell comes streaking toward the bow in a downward arc; the ship having moved just in time, the shell scraps the side of the ship, leaving a scar of metal as it plows into the sea.
*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!*
this cd is there best yet like all of them but the 5 i like the most are 1 soldier of heaven 2 unkillable soldier 3 race to the sea 4 death valley 5 lady of the dark
We Brits pronounce it as Jutland the second way you pronounced it but I believe its proper pronunciation is Yutland = Jutland
The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the British Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts. Her design had two revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme, with an unprecedented number of heavy-calibre guns, and steam turbine propulsion. As dreadnoughts became a crucial symbol of national power, the arrival of these new warships renewed the naval arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany. Dreadnought races sprang up around the world, including in South America, lasting up to the beginning of World War I. Successive designs increased rapidly in size and made use of improvements in armament, armour, and propulsion throughout the dreadnought era. Within five years, new battleships outclassed Dreadnought herself. These more powerful vessels were known as "super-dreadnoughts". Most of the original dreadnoughts were scrapped after the end of World War I under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, but many of the newer super-dreadnoughts continued serving throughout World War II. Dreadnought-building consumed vast resources in the early 20th century, but there was only one battle between large dreadnought fleets. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the British and German navies clashed with no decisive result. The term "dreadnought" gradually dropped from use after World War I, especially after the Washington Naval Treaty, as virtually all remaining battleships shared dreadnought characteristics; it can also be used to describe battlecruisers, the other type of ship resulting from the dreadnought revolution.
In 1906, the commissioning of HMS Dreadnought into the United Kingdom's Royal Navy heralded a revolution in the field of battleship design. Subsequent battleship designs, influenced by HMS Dreadnought, were referred to as "dreadnoughts", though the term eventually became obsolete as dreadnoughts became the only type of battleship in common use.
Admiral Sir John "Jacky" Fisher, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, is credited as the father of Dreadnought.