Joakim (the singer) initially asks the crowd to turn on their mobile phone lights, since no one is using lighters anymore. When the video starts he says: "Absolutely wonderful! My friends, let's sing together: A lifetime of war!", before he leaves the stage for the intro.
Yes, the audience were singing the harmonies. The feeling on stage when your own song gets sung back to you by the fans must be indescribable. Almost the best I have heard, but one that is slightly different is when Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played over the PA while Green Day were about to come on stage at Hyde Park, London. The whole crowd joined in, and to their credit, the band recorded the whole thing from an onstage camera and released it.
When the soldiers left for war there was no one who could care for their wives, so they joined too and worked behind the lines as cooks, nurses, doing laundry etc. They got pregnant and had children in a foreign land. The children where baptized by the field chaplain. The same chaplain who might bury them 15-16 years later. A life time of war. This song is about the 30 year war in Europe in the 1600's. There's two versions of this song. This one in Swedish, telling the tale of a Swedish soldier. The English version is more from a neutral observers point of view, someone with an overview of the whole war.
In general the Swedish army had very little of that. (during the 30 year war that is) For several reasons, the main one being the Swedish/Finnish part of the army was rather small. So most of the women were either wives of German mercenary's or prostitutes/traders Swedish women were needed at home especially as the war dragged on. Sweden+Finland had at most 1.2 million people and women would not survive for long in the field. Protestant German women probably had very little choice :/
@@darkiee69 I think i've seen it. Maybe. But I know i'm right for the simple reason Swedes and Fins only had a few regiments and Sweden proper needed women to work the fields with those who had not been called up yet. You did see officers do it sometimes. The army could only swell because they plundered the land and that is what forced women at those places to hang after the army. Also there was a shortage of men in Sweden, even among the nobility after the war.
When we sang livstid I krig (yes I was there in front row) at the beginning the faces of Joakim,Pär, Chris, Tommy and Hannes was just pure Joy and amazement when we sang with ll our heart and souls. It is always just so incredible to stand in the crowd and sing in unison with everyone. Music brings people together and its like Joakim says alot of times "We all speak the same language. We speak heavy metal" 🤘🤘
Here's my translation that also goes well with the melody. Let me know what you think. I turn around to see my homestead fade away I wish I could have stayed there, just another day Not yet a man, though called to arms to do my part Will I see my home again, I wish with all my heart With kinsmen from my village I went out to war In a world of flames ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me? Went out to war for Sweden, baptized in blood No gallantry awaits us, dying in the mud In fields where friends has fallen, there’ll be no songs Our fate once more we challenge, and marching on Far away from home (To be baptized and die in war) In a world of flames ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me? And when my time is finally here Who’ll sing my song? They’re fighting on I hope to die without much fear I fall asleep, and fade away And never wake up ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me?
I am swedish and this song is deeply emotional. I never felt same feeling for any music. They sing like they are the voices of our a ancestors. It it make me cry and sing same time.
Joakim conducting a choir of thousands... The song may be about the 30 Years War but, it fits all wars. Also, it is not just the Tank, barbed wire and bunkers - the mic stands are soldier memorials [helmet on butt of an assault Rifle].
Also, remember that Sweden does have military conscriptions, so many of the audience members have probably served, making the song even more personal. Such a powerful song.
I was at this show (Sitting in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage) Needles to say this was a magical show. Sadly this way just before covid started canceling shows (had for once planed around 4 shows and one festival for that year) Just before this clip started Joakim asked everyone to hold up their phone since no one carries around a lighter anymore.
Good thing you had subtitles on, they are not perfect, a few odd choices in the phrasing, but you get what the song is about. This was the last concert for me before shutdown, valentines day if i remember correctly. This song almoat always end up with the crowd singing when Sabaton play it in sweden, but this was probably one of the best so far. Think it was 12 or so thousand in the arena.
I was a proofreader for ten years. My brain is wired to react to little mistakes and think of alternatives to less then perfect phrasing. I can not concentrate on the music when I watch this vid from Sabaton. My brain just goes "Bzzzzzt bzzzzt bzzt bzzt bzzzzzzt" all the time.
The stadium takes about 12-15000 depending on the size of the stage and since Sabaton is a Swedish band this was home arena. They are amazing live and they give it all every show.
Yea no kidding. My 15yo was never a big metal fan, but he's a history buff and now he can't get enough of Sabaton. He even agreed to go with me to a show in 2022.
He starts the preformance with saying "Vi sjunger den tillsammans" or We'll sing it together. I wasnt there but I would guess that was all the prep they got. //Cheers
He actually did a little speech that people used to have lighters on concerts but asked people to instead rise their phones. And then said they where going to have a competition between Gothenburg and Stockholm (the next tour stop). I guess we won since they posted this version :)
From my hometown of Gothenburg! Could not get tickets but i saw them in Prag during a training in Januari. Think the arean takes 15.000 sitting plus the people on the floor.
this was one of their last shows during latest album great war, it was performed at a hockey arena scandinavium in gothenburg on valentines day last year just before shutting down due too stupid covid 19 and according swedish newspaper it was 10k ppl over there and i was one of them
The Thirty Years' War - Sweden becomes a great power 💙💛 It was during the Thirty Years' War that Sweden became a great power in Europe. The war consisted of a series of interrelated conflicts with varying backgrounds. Religion is often mentioned as a contributing ideological cause to the war because the combatants consisted primarily of Catholics on the one hand and Protestants on the other. On the Catholic side stood mainly the powerful German-Roman Empire, while the Protestant side was dominated by Sweden which in the end became the big winner of the conflict. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Sweden's newfound position as a great power in northern Europe was confirmed...💙💛
This was made in Gothenburg live and their are singing about the swedish war in 1700 ,how much Sweden stand for their country and was also the most powerful country in Europe that time
I would like to add a little fact, when Carl the 12 died the new king said no more wars we had enough and this is one of the main reasons Sweden became a neutral state not participating in any war Mind the war they sang about lasted 30 years and it almost killed Sweden most became poor and later started to immigrant to America as early as the 16 century where New Sweden was created sadly the Dutch came and killed most and claimed that land
This song just got real in our time when the Ukrainians face this monumental task of driving out the monster called Russia. People die anonymously all over because of terror bombing of civilian population and pointless killing. Just left behind because no one can reach them. And people from the same village fight side by side.
On the right, I can somwhat sense the emotion. ON the left its litterallythe fucking banana guy emoji. I will rate this react negatively to this reaction because of howgo lucky happy johnny bravy onthe left is sadly.
Joakim (the singer) initially asks the crowd to turn on their mobile phone lights, since no one is using lighters anymore. When the video starts he says: "Absolutely wonderful! My friends, let's sing together: A lifetime of war!", before he leaves the stage for the intro.
Thanks for the info!
What a great guy!
Did the same at the show in Stockholm, a proud moment!
Yes, the audience were singing the harmonies.
The feeling on stage when your own song gets sung back to you by the fans must be indescribable.
Almost the best I have heard, but one that is slightly different is when Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played over the PA while Green Day were about to come on stage at Hyde Park, London.
The whole crowd joined in, and to their credit, the band recorded the whole thing from an onstage camera and released it.
Yes so true! I hope I can hear something even close to this someday!
When the soldiers left for war there was no one who could care for their wives, so they joined too and worked behind the lines as cooks, nurses, doing laundry etc. They got pregnant and had children in a foreign land. The children where baptized by the field chaplain. The same chaplain who might bury them 15-16 years later. A life time of war. This song is about the 30 year war in Europe in the 1600's. There's two versions of this song. This one in Swedish, telling the tale of a Swedish soldier. The English version is more from a neutral observers point of view, someone with an overview of the whole war.
In general the Swedish army had very little of that. (during the 30 year war that is) For several reasons, the main one being the Swedish/Finnish part of the army was rather small. So most of the women were either wives of German mercenary's or prostitutes/traders Swedish women were needed at home especially as the war dragged on. Sweden+Finland had at most 1.2 million people and women would not survive for long in the field. Protestant German women probably had very little choice :/
@@lightdampsweetenough2065 Yeah... Maybe you should visit Sabaton History "En livstid i krig" episode
@@darkiee69 I think i've seen it. Maybe. But I know i'm right for the simple reason Swedes and Fins only had a few regiments and Sweden proper needed women to work the fields with those who had not been called up yet. You did see officers do it sometimes. The army could only swell because they plundered the land and that is what forced women at those places to hang after the army. Also there was a shortage of men in Sweden, even among the nobility after the war.
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When we sang livstid I krig (yes I was there in front row) at the beginning the faces of Joakim,Pär, Chris, Tommy and Hannes was just pure Joy and amazement when we sang with ll our heart and souls. It is always just so incredible to stand in the crowd and sing in unison with everyone. Music brings people together and its like Joakim says alot of times "We all speak the same language. We speak heavy metal" 🤘🤘
One of their best songs! All the songs they do in Swedish are special.
Here's my translation that also goes well with the melody. Let me know what you think.
I turn around to see my homestead fade away
I wish I could have stayed there, just another day
Not yet a man, though called to arms to do my part
Will I see my home again, I wish with all my heart
With kinsmen from my village I went out to war
In a world of flames
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who’s never seen again
But who mourns over me?
Went out to war for Sweden, baptized in blood
No gallantry awaits us, dying in the mud
In fields where friends has fallen, there’ll be no songs
Our fate once more we challenge, and marching on
Far away from home
(To be baptized and die in war)
In a world of flames
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who’s never seen again
But who mourns over me?
And when my time is finally here
Who’ll sing my song?
They’re fighting on
I hope to die without much fear
I fall asleep, and fade away
And never wake up
‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man
I give my life, for my motherland
But who’s missing me?
So see me as them
the husband and friend
the father and son, who’s never seen again
But who mourns over me?
Nice attempt. The hardest thing though is to make as accurate translation of the Swedish version as possible and at the same time rhyme the same way.
@@Hilariumosis Agree. But I'm rather pleased with my attempt
I am swedish and this song is deeply emotional. I never felt same feeling for any music. They sing like they are the voices of our a ancestors. It it make me cry and sing same time.
Joakim conducting a choir of thousands...
The song may be about the 30 Years War but, it fits all wars.
Also, it is not just the Tank, barbed wire and bunkers - the mic stands are soldier memorials [helmet on butt of an assault Rifle].
And riding on the tank with his drums none other than Hannes van Dahl, husband of our beloved Queen Goddess Valkyrie of Metal, Floor Jansen. 🤘 🔥 🤘
That's awesome! Metal family!
I'm gonna venture a guess: You watch TankTheTech too? :)
Also, remember that Sweden does have military conscriptions, so many of the audience members have probably served, making the song even more personal. Such a powerful song.
Technically, yes, but probably no. Not doing military service has been real easy to avoid for a long, long time.
almost no one serves man
I was at this show (Sitting in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage) Needles to say this was a magical show. Sadly this way just before covid started canceling shows (had for once planed around 4 shows and one festival for that year) Just before this clip started Joakim asked everyone to hold up their phone since no one carries around a lighter anymore.
I think I was the only one on this show that actually had a lighter. But I burned my thumb after a while so I switched to my phone 😂😂
Good thing you had subtitles on, they are not perfect, a few odd choices in the phrasing, but you get what the song is about. This was the last concert for me before shutdown, valentines day if i remember correctly. This song almoat always end up with the crowd singing when Sabaton play it in sweden, but this was probably one of the best so far. Think it was 12 or so thousand in the arena.
I was a proofreader for ten years. My brain is wired to react to little mistakes and think of alternatives to less then perfect phrasing. I can not concentrate on the music when I watch this vid from Sabaton. My brain just goes "Bzzzzzt bzzzzt bzzt bzzt bzzzzzzt" all the time.
Dolly, you need to sit closer to Jon, you're in the way for the screen. This song made me need tissues, it pulls the patriotic strings
You are not alone...
This is an editing thing.. It's not like the screen is there in real life.
The stadium takes about 12-15000 depending on the size of the stage and since Sabaton is a Swedish band this was home arena. They are amazing live and they give it all every show.
Sabaton are pretty much the very heroes of swedish metal, they are absolutely enormous here
Yea no kidding. My 15yo was never a big metal fan, but he's a history buff and now he can't get enough of Sabaton. He even agreed to go with me to a show in 2022.
@@patrik5123 I hope you guys had fun! haha
Respekt fra Danmark!
And Floors husband drumming on his little Tank 😄
Haha lietunant Gruber 😄
Why are people so obsessed by that?
A song doesn't need to be heavy, to be heavy!
Sabaton makes me damn fuckin proud to be from Sweden!! And all of them are so down to earth and Nice guys 😍😍😍
This is a song that makes a Finn weep.. every time i listen to this song i get emotional.
Things that brings out my inner patriot: Sabaton, ABBA, and Skarsgårds 😍😍😍😍 /a proud Swede
He starts the preformance with saying "Vi sjunger den tillsammans" or We'll sing it together. I wasnt there but I would guess that was all the prep they got. //Cheers
He actually did a little speech that people used to have lighters on concerts but asked people to instead rise their phones. And then said they where going to have a competition between Gothenburg and Stockholm (the next tour stop). I guess we won since they posted this version :)
You're so fortunate you may see them tour in the US this fall
They had half a million people at a concert in poland at one point, would probably be more now if thats possible
The crowd in the end was trying to get Joakim to sing Swedish Pagans and he ended up doing it so y'all should listen to that next Live in Gothenburg
Your pronunciation was as good as it gets. Fantastic song. Greetings from Finland.
From my hometown of Gothenburg! Could not get tickets but i saw them in Prag during a training in Januari.
Think the arean takes 15.000 sitting plus the people on the floor.
One word! EPIC!
Great song and great band! i love that they sat the drummer on a tank
this was one of their last shows during latest album great war, it was performed at a hockey arena scandinavium in gothenburg on valentines day last year just before shutting down due too stupid covid 19 and according swedish newspaper it was 10k ppl over there and i was one of them
Sabaton 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Jessica F you here also?😂
@@jimmyforsell6721 Japp 😃 have been here for a long time
SABATON IS ALWAYS AMAZING
POWERRRRR 🔥 💥 SO GOOD 🤘🤘
The Thirty Years' War - Sweden becomes a great power 💙💛
It was during the Thirty Years' War that Sweden became a great power in Europe. The war consisted of a series of interrelated conflicts with varying backgrounds. Religion is often mentioned as a contributing ideological cause to the war because the combatants consisted primarily of Catholics on the one hand and Protestants on the other. On the Catholic side stood mainly the powerful German-Roman Empire, while the Protestant side was dominated by Sweden which in the end became the big winner of the conflict. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Sweden's newfound position as a great power in northern Europe was confirmed...💙💛
that was hell of a war for sure
Great reaction 🤟 If you wanna be crowd amazed, look up Sabaton Woodstock 2012. It is a 500k+ crowd 🇸🇪❤️🇵🇱
Try 700000 🤘🤘
This was made in Gothenburg live and their are singing about the swedish war in 1700 ,how much Sweden stand for their country and was also the most powerful country in Europe that time
My fathers frend is in the swrdish hemvärnet as a fot soliger i get his Old gear now i got a Vest and uniform
I would like to add a little fact, when Carl the 12 died the new king said no more wars we had enough and this is one of the main reasons Sweden became a neutral state not participating in any war
Mind the war they sang about lasted 30 years and it almost killed Sweden most became poor and later started to immigrant to America as early as the 16 century where New Sweden was created sadly the Dutch came and killed most and claimed that land
Who knowZ how to pronounce this title song , and he is not in his language , is a magician . Compliments for the pronounciation Sir
aye, that was very good.
Sounds like a drunk Swede, but a Swede nonetheless.
@@MSundqvist79 thank you eventually ! Cheers
its not sold out arena.....its AI video
if you think that is much people look when they have 600000 people in the ordiece at wacken festival that is huge.
Not the first time the swedish audience 'sing along
hold up? what, whait... Is Ther new members reacting or what?
I served J ftrom Sweden
By sugar, of course, he means speed or cocaine
React to Uprising from woodstock Poland 2012🤘🤘🤘
Sabaton smoking Snakes
1618-1648
Judas Priest - Breaking the law from Etipath. Rob dosent need to sing anything 😁
try swedish pagans next :D
You guys look too British to be American. 😊
This is no joke. The 30 years war lasted from 1618 to1648. If you joined the swedish army in 1618 you certainly didntķurvive to
1648
an awful war but still not quite as awful as the 100 year war with England and France (116 yrs overall)
New Lorna Shore - To the Hellfire.... the song will destroy you. 100% the new vocalist is a perfect for them.
This song just got real in our time when the Ukrainians face this monumental task of driving out the monster called Russia.
People die anonymously all over because of terror bombing of civilian population and pointless killing. Just left behind because no one can reach them.
And people from the same village fight side by side.
Feel sorry for Dolly.
On the right, I can somwhat sense the emotion. ON the left its litterallythe fucking banana guy emoji. I will rate this react negatively to this reaction because of howgo lucky happy johnny bravy onthe left is sadly.
In my opinion english version is better for me
Reacction a Morgenstern de rammstein plis
Time to was those undies.
i can't help but cringe really hard everytime i see the subtitles for this song, it´s so horrible translated, google translate
This is all the worst things of TH-cam combined into one video
Terrible Music
Ok, whatever
huh?
Nah, you just got terrible taste.
Why bother comment? Go to a channel where you like the music
I assume you are joking
Did you the guy understand the lyrics??? Do you have any empathy at all??