Sabaton - Carolus Rex - English Video vs. Swedish Live DOUBLE REACTION
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- Continuing the Sabaton journey with a double reaction to Carolus Rex! Thank you to the Sabaton Family for the excellent support and great recommendations!
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"Most of you watching are swedish"
eh, close enough. I might be watching from syria, but when listening to sabaton I'm sometimes swedish, sometimes polish, greek, german, or british. I think I found myself proud to be from tennessee once. what a strange world we live in!
Lol, nice! All I know is my viewer stats are mostly from Sweden since I started doing Sabaton videos
Tenessee 😂 82nd all the way? Thats a great song btw historian
@@tvaettis0653 exactly, was trying to subtly recommend the song. it's the first result if you google "sabaton tennessee"
sineupp oh sry
Wherever you go, there you are!!
I'm swedish and I remember when the Carolus Rex album came out and I had to actually debate people to get it into their heads that no, Sabaton isn't a extreme right wing band. Before that when the Art of War album came out it was the "no, Sabaton aren't gloryfying war" debate. Some people are just very quick to jump to conclusions, especially after being politically correct became a thing. People here have really taken that to another level unfortunately.
I think that one additional fact about Carl XII (Carolus Rex) is that many people who are on the extreme right have sort of chosen him as their patron saint as it were. Hence why he is such a controversial figure today. Sort of: If the racist/nazi crowd likes him I can't like him because then I'll be one too. Or other people will think that I am. Which is a pretty effed up way of thinking but it's sadly the state of things.
Wow, thats terrible. Again, almost the same concept with trump. Out of the 2 parties, of course American white supremists are going to gravitate to Trump. That doesn't automatically make him or his level-headed supporters one. If Hitler liked jelly donuts, does that make us Nazis if we also enjoyed them? Ok, probably a bad comparison. Maybe a closer one is Americans completely throwing out everything our founding fathers stood for because slavery existed. Yes, slavery was horrible, but don't throw away everything else amazing that came out of it!
@@HistoryBuff I completely get what you mean. I think many people have a very black and white way of looking at things and completely missing the gray areas in between. It's either this or that and forgetting the neuances. Same with history, we want to bury and forget the stuff we find uncomfortable or that we simply don't like. And like you said, if something has one bad side to it, then the whole thing is bad. Instead of admitting that, yea, this part here was effed up but this other part was pretty amazing. The fact that Washington was willing to give up his power in favour of a democratic society, which was pretty much unthinkable in Europe at the time is one pretty amazing bit of history and one to be proud of.
A good example of accepting the good with the bad is the Vikings, I think. :) I think most people would say that the Vikings were badass. Well, us nordic countries had slaves (trälar as it was called in Swedish) during the Viking age. And capturing people to sell into slavery was a very lucrative trade. This fact is something I most people want to forget. Is that particular part of our history something I'm proud of as a Swede? No. Absolutely not. It's pretty horrible. Do I think that the whole culture was horrible because of that? Eff no! :P I'm proud of that heritage while at the same time being able to admit that there were really bad things going on.
Hell yea! Don't ever give up the pride!
@@LianteakaLia You got to take it all if you are into history :) The bad stuff have formed us just as much as the good, looking away from certain parts of our history is to deny one a true understanding of ones culture and history.
I have always been curious why the neo-nazis and extreme right-wingers are so in love with Carl XII ? Others did better than him, but ofc he was always the underdog.
@@secularnevrosis I completely agree with you there. There's no picking favourites in history and ignoring everything else. That's a very dangerous and slippery slope to head down.
And you and me both. Why they chose him have been something I've been wondering about since I was a teen. He made some very questionable desicions (invading russia) and the swedish empire wasn't exactly in a good place by the time of his death. And while there are some information that paint him as a really intruiging character and a harsh but fair military commander I just can't see what makes him -the- icon for their supposed swedish supremacy. It just doesn't make any sense.
The clothes shown in the video are what he was wearing when he died and they are now preserved in the old royal armory in Stockholm which is now a museum. And a few hundred meters away is the Riddarholm Church where he is buried.
Awesome!! Thanks!
@@HistoryBuff Livrustkammaren, the place/museum there royal clothes and arms are displayed.
livrustkammaren.se/en/home/royal-history/500-years-of-royal-history/the-era-of-the-great-wars/
Carolus Rex was the last European King to die on the battlefield leading from the front. Despite his shortcomings his conviction and stoicism were absolutely legendary.
no gustav adolf II died 100 years before and that is sweden im shure some other nation had their king die in battle
People tend to be amazed by high notes, but the barytone for me is just as amazing. I just love Joakims gritty voice.
I'd say it's because of how much POWER you can place into barytone, gives me the shivers, I love it
Sabaton does not want anything to do with politics. They just tell the stories of the times. It's sad that that is seen as nationalist. Thanks for picking up on that!
Amen brother!
The media was really just digging for something they could claim. The real issue is that Sabaton is really popular, more so abroad, but also quite popular in Sweden.. and they explain history in a way that don´t fit the naritive. Basicly wrongthinkers.
The same with Polish people celebrating regaining the independence on the 11th Nov marching in Warsaw with national flags are called by many as nazists/fassists :-( Whole families - patriots who love own country...
@@agnieszkazuk Yeah its a shame that you cannot be proud of your country without being labeled as a nazi in todays society
@@alexberthgen1962 kan ju bero på att många nazister o nationalister älskar lyssna på sabaton, dom o ser dom som sina musikanter
So just thought I'd recommend that you, as a historian, read up on the Caroleans. They did that. That's why the enemy feared them. They did not fear death. They stood tall and kept moving forward. Stepping over their dead comrades.
The movie that you asked is titled "The Soveriegn's Servant" a Russian movie, about Peter the Great, the scene in the vid is about Battle of Poltava.
Fun fact, The lyrics are compleatly different in Swedish.
Ok not compleatly, but like 30% is different. Probabely since the languages arent compatible, english is way more specific.
And other parts like "I was choosen by heaven"... "över norden jag härskar" actually means "I rule the north" (norden is a specific geographical area, easiest called the north)
"I was chosen by heaven" refers to the fact that he was a protestant king meaning he was the head of the church and had absolute power over both church and state.
The movie shown in the video is called ”the sovereign servant” from 2007 and is a russian movie about the battle of Poltava, the first battle Charles XII truly lost and is said to be the begining of the end for the Swedish empire.
Which just makes it even more impressive how long they actually held out. Since if the Swedish army was defeated like Poltava anywhere, it would be impossible for them to win the war. Just one real defeat could bring down an Empire. Ofcourse it was like that for most countries, but the smaller ones in the war, like Denmark and the smaller German states. If they were defeated it would be nigh impossible to raise another army, unlike Russia.
This was in 2020, and if I'm not mistaken, this was their last show before covid hit Sweden.
All (I think) official live videos from The Great Tour was recorded from the stage.
yeah,im kind of sure that it's from 2020, I was the the show when they played in Gotheburg before (if i remember correctly) this show.
The songs on the album are actually in chronological order, so reacting to them in the order they're on the disc is the right thing to do. It starts with the rise of Gustavus Adolphus and the 30-years0-war, and it ends with the death of Charles XII and the ruin of his empire, a hundred years later.
Awesome seeing you take this journey into the world of Sabaton.
Great reaction and welcome to the family 😉
Hug from Portugal
Sharing the stage with Apocalyptica!
Apocalyptica is Finnish metal band playing Cello's. This Live version was part of 'The Great Tour' which name comes from The Great War - album. Sadly it was cut short by covid. They where Touring with Amaranthe and Apocalyptica and promised some collaboration between them in the shows. This all stuck to my mind, because I love all of them and had ticket to my hometown rock festival in which they would ALL have performed.
@@TheNiittylahti Yea i am pretty happy i got to see them just 1 month befor all got shut down
Caroleans prayer next. I can’t listen to this song without listening to that one.
I just listened to the whole album. Masterpiece!!
@@HistoryBuff Karolinens bön actually contains parts of the Our Father prayer in Swedish.
That was a lot of fun! "Carolus Rex" is both, my favourite album and my favourite song from Sabaton! And it was relly nice you included both the swedish and english versions of the song because both absolutly deserve attention! Looking foward to seeing more Sabaton, love from Poland!
Apocalyptica (Finnish band) that was with them on Stage, they were one of the warm up bands, and their Cello player was dressed up as Joakim. If I remember correct they are purely instrumental but often with Guest singers, and have among other things done a cover of Metallica.
They are instumental with guest singers. Check out Live or die with Joakim as guest singer, it is amazing
the swedish version feels more "oomphy" but english lyrics always give me goosebumps. especially the last "my time is NOW!".
Joakim's voicework is so satisfying.
Yea, this definitely translated better than En Livsted I Krig
@@HistoryBuff En Livsted I Krig and A lifetime of war are two entirly different songs lyricwise.
@@connydely1460 yea, swedish is from soldiers perspective, while english is from observers perspective
@@oriongabriel6966 yes indeed, my point was that one is not the translation of the other.
@@connydely1460 yup, and i agreed
One thing you got to know about Carolus is that he never ever started a war. He defended our beloved Sweden but "we" did get more and more ground because everyone keept attacking us
Really enjoying your reactions. This song is the one that got me into Sabaton so I became a fan pretty late and it is one of my top favourite songs by Sabaton. I love Joakims voice, and this song is just so powerful, it feels like Joakim really goes into character as Carolus rex.
I was at the concert, just before the pandemic hit. It is a very treasured memory, hands down best concert I've ever been to. The band is amazing live, this is at the end of the concert and they were still going strong after an hour and a half. I was also amazed at Joakim for his ability to run around and still being able to sing for 2 hours straight, he is a badass. Also loved that they did this song with Apocalyptica.
Take care, and stay safe
He is a TOTAL badass!
The great tour video's are all taken from the on-stage view and were filmed end of 2019 to early 2020 just before the pandemic hit. Each video is also in a different city, mostly in the country the song is about. They have a few DVD's out with the "normal view" - Swedish empire live (Live from Woodstock 2012), Heroes on tour (3 shows I think) and the The last stand CD also have a version with a dvd (Woodstock and I think another show as well) .. been a while since I actually watched the disks, I just watch my rips on my pc. If you want to see Joakim vocal range on full display, check out Apocalyptica feat. Joakim Brodén - Live Or Die th-cam.com/video/lqGTCR0a3Hw/w-d-xo.html
And they live streamed first 1 hour of the shows during 2019/2020 tour live here on TH-cam
I've noticed that many Swedes and Swedish descendants slide unconsciously and effortlessly into very formal stances when onstage, or having a photo taken, etc. You could see it when Joachim pulled his heels together and extended his arms to rally the crowd. Tobias Forge of "Ghost BC" is another good example -- very staunch gestures and body language. I don't know why that is, or what that says about us, if anything. It's not universal, but something I see repeated time and again. ••• Thanks! Peace! (-:
I was there during the consert in Stockholm. Sooooo cool. We all stood during this and a life time of war. Singing the songs like it was our national anthem❤️❤️
I love how well you've read the swedish history for this! // Greeting and skål from Sweden!
Glad you enjoyed it!
check out Swedish pagans live in Wacken open Air 2019 it is Wacken 30 and sabaton 20 years anniversary fantastic concert wishes that this pandemic will soon end so you can go to concerts! have seen Sabaton live 22 times already and want to see them again soon!!!!
22 times?! Wow
This was on February 15, 2020, right before the pandemic hit Sweden. The second last show off the tour, they ended it with Gothenburg, Stockholm then Oslo.
I was there, it was epic!
Supporting acts were Apocalyptica (metal with cellos, also on stage here) and Amaranthe!
I'm a bit late to the party, but really cool to see that you did a comparison for this song and overall great video!
Thank you, so very much, for distancing yourself from the unknowing haters ranting on a video they do not understand or in most cases even have not heard even once.
Being Swedish and understanding that Sabaton is in fact portraying the horrors of war and the like is so much more closer to the truth than the haters would ever understand.
Thank you for your review, really cool to pass the Sweedish version. I follow the band and they are the coolest guys in the world. And one fact that I love from them and make me follow them more is that they write about real heroic historic facts. I think our world today need more people doing things like this , review remember and teach about history remember our and everybody else heroes. Because no matter where they come from they were heroes doing things for their countries. Germans Italians Japaneses Russians Polish Sweedish Americans and all the other nations have their own heroes. Sabaton write and sing about all those heroes that everybody prefer to forget. They are incredible alive . I hope for many years they do this great job, teach the new generations through good music.Thank you Sabaton and this channel. Great reviews.
Fun fact! Carolus was the last king in history to stay on the frontlines with his men.
forming lines doesn't have too much with being "gentlemanly" but more with the technology and how they're more effective. as the technology advanced warfare changed. being in tight formation was effective till to a point but then it evolved due to technology evolving
Just awesome. Thank you
The song is great in English. But it is even better in Swedish. The lyrics is better and the words sound more "powerful" in Swedish. Still a great song in both languages.
Finaly someone else is reacting to this music video. only seen Mr.RockNRoll to do it. Thank you! + new sub
Awesome! Thanks for the sub! Being a history guy, sabaton has kind of become my signature band!
You just earned my subscription for standing up for what’s right while in the face ludicrous accusations and physical attacks
We're seeing it here a lot in America too! Really sad
Great reaction!🤘 I really recommend "Lion from the North" from the same album. Official music video, of course. The footage is from the whole European Great tour. Fun stuff after the credits, so don't stop it right after the song 😉. You might want to check out "Long live the King", "Carolean's prayer" and "Poltava". There are only lyric videos for those songs, I think.
Unfortunately, from a reaction standpoint at least, I've been binging the album after posting this video. LOVE IT!
@@HistoryBuff I don't blame you!😄🤘 Rock on!
In my family we often said “ Orsa kompani lovar inget bestämt men vi ska göra så gott vi kan” The expression tells
us a lot how ordinary swedes suffered, during our long time off non stop war campaigns, all started by our kings and queen Kristina.
Translation “ The company from Orsa can’t promise anything but we try as hard as we can”
The only living people left in this small village was old men, women and children, everyone else was gone to war and
not to been seen again. But the king still asked for more soldiers to send.
I’m very proud we have been war free for almost 200 years now, a very short time in our long
history of wars.
I’m a big patriot and I love my country and I really hate when right wings extreme nazi people steal
my ancestors history and turn it to a nazi thing.
This movie was a joint operation between russian and swedish film makers, obv the russians wanted in coz theyd win in the end. Also the thing that made the swedish Carouleans so victorious against sometimes 1vs5 oppocition was their tactics. usually battalians walked up to 80 meters and started firing. The Swedish just went forward to 50? meters and shot forst wolley and then kneeled and shot second and after that they continued forward to 25 meters and shot the last wolley. After that they just rushed forward into melee and this was not normal in these days. After many Russian losses they learned and adapted witch u can see in this video they have these small "forts" breaking up the swedish attack making it useless, if they were same numbers it wouldnt matter but the russians have always had more men than the swedes.
Good reaction and interesting! Great Sabaton song! From what I've read the movie clips come from two movies: The sovereign's servant and Snapphanar.
Ahh great to know! Thanks
Thank u for the reaction. So the lines when he talks about i answer directly to god and so on is a refference for a reformation where sweden turned from catholism to protestants and so grabing the power from the chruch. And therefor answer directly to god not the church. Unfortunately the english verison isnt to clear about that but in the swedish verison its clearer. Greeting from sweden :)
The Caroleans were insane good fighters. The reason they won so many battles while outnumbered in ways that all odds were aginst them was because of their tactics.
During that time it was normal to fire at 100 yards. The Caroleans on the other hand took that first bullet and kept marching to 50 yards. Then the front half fired, they kept marching to 25 yards, the second half fired and then they charged with spears. And all of that with stoicism and no fear of death. That‘s how they won battles were they were outnumbered 4:1 and stuff
The Swedish video is from their last tour, before lockdown was in full effect.
They played together with Apocalyptica on stage.
My grandpas brother in his 80´s did family research back to the 1400 I had a few family members who fought with Karl XII, sadly most of them never came home (most died at battle of poltava which karl xii wasnt in charge of). But I dont blame him, he went on the offensive when they threaten our borders and he did very well for himself and his nation!
Back commenting again..
According to me... This is one of the best albums. The whole Carolus Rex is about the rise and fall of the Swedish empire between the years of 1611 to 1719. The facts in the lyrics even got factchecked by an historian before recorded.
A humble request is that you listen to the album(and react to it?) from start to finish.
Listening to the album from start to finish is the way to do it, its the only way I do it!
Amazing band...powerfull drummer, powerfull voice of Joakim..is amazing
The first song I ever heard by Sabaton and after all these years its still my favourite (in close competition with Fields of Verdun). As a swede I prefer the Swedish version for many reasons, and many of my english speaking friends also seem to prefer that one, especially if they have listened to it in English first so they kinda know they meaning.. And in this song, unlike a lifetime of war (en livstid i krig) its basically the same in both languages.
Loved your comments and insight and looking forward to your next Sabaton reaction.
I'll have to check out Verdun next. Thanks for the view!
@@HistoryBuff the band with the cellos are my boys Apocalyptica from Finland. Seriously check them out . They do Classical Metal.
@@NeeceLoneWolf The Apocalyptica version of Fields of Verdun is on pair (if not better) than the original imo. Love the collab they do :)
McCullogh the start is great but the transition is very awkward
Fields of verdun is great, with an awesome story and video
Yep, the cellists and the drummer with the mohawk are Apocalyptica, the fathers of cello metal. They are amazing. ❤
Your intro reminds me of Heroes of might and magic 3... LOVE IT!
My pleasure!
I was THERE!!! Amazing
The comments you made about Joakims voice make me chuckle. Not bad for the guy who joined the band as a keyboard player who they asked to voice the demo, and who's been singing for them ever since.
Wow! I had no idea!
@@HistoryBuff he explains it in one of the history channel episodes.... I can't for the life of me which one. I wanna say Red Baron. Which if you haven't listened to that song it's one of the better ones from the great war album.
You dont know the words to the Swedish version. All the swedish versions are far better written than the English versions on the album. It is panfully clear when tou find "En Livstid i Krig" The english version is like a compleetly different song, and it barly scratch the surface while the swedish version cuts veterans deep.
I don't think it's a matter of being worse or better but rather providing a different meaning on the songs which is one of the more unique and interesting features of this band. Instead of a song which is directly translated and finished you have a song with two different perspectives to paint a more detailed and humanizing picture of people and events which makes some of them harder to compare. En Livstid I Krig is very much a different song between both versions because of this.
That being said, I too prefer the Swedish versions.
A lifetime of war is much better than the swedish version. The story from a greater stand point just makes more sense, since the 30 years war was not just about sweden
@@marxistvalorie No, the Swedish version cuts deeper, it is written in the perspective of a swedish soldier in the 30 years war, but it could represent any soldier in any war. It is the song about the Father and Son, or the Husband and Friend who never returned home, whether it is they are killed in battle or return home as an empty shell destroyed with PTSD.
The Swedish version is more truly about the human sacrifice of sending people to wars that often has little to no meaning for them.
@@MaskinJunior yes, that is right. the text does have more meaning, the fact that i cant understand the text kind of has an impact on me liking the english one more. and another thing, how far would humankind be, if these men wouldn't have given their lives. It really did impact us in a positive way too, of course the price was high and i wouldnt say that it was worth it, but researchwise we wouldnt have gotten as far as we have without war.
@@marxistvalorie that we still send young men to their death in pointless wars clearly show we as a society has learned nothing and has not improved since the dark ages.
A little note on the Carolean (The Swedish troops were called Caroleans, or Karoliner in Swedish) tactics at the time.
Where you mentioned how everyone were patiently standing and exchanging volleys of bullets. The Swedish army was usually at a numerical disadvantage, so they couldn't afford to try to maintain that kind of battle.
They would instead only shoot a couple of volleys once they had gotten into a very close distance and then charged forward to engage in melee before the opponent had time to finish reloading and shoot again.
Awesome!
The were also ordered to hold their fire, until they could see the white in the enemys eyes. (That was an actual order from the king)
We're not all from Sweden... I'm from Kentucky in the US lol.. But I love Sabaton. They're fucking perfect man... The History, the Music, The Vocals... They're just SUCH a powerful band. Metal with a history lesson... Can't beat that shit lol.
Fun fact explaining some of the lyrics: All other kings of Sweden had their coronations preformed by a bishop, but Carl XII took the crown himself and placed it on his head, making a statement that the church wouldn't be able to control his rule. That action made him controversial at the time with the church and nobles.
Nice reaction! Wanna do another song from this album? The lion from the north double reaction? Lyric+live, great performance!
If u notice that Sabaton sings "Knee by knee"... This is a cavalry formation used by the Swedes... The soldiers where literaly rubbing there knees to the next soldier in a cavalry charge... knee by knee.. ei thight fromation.
that is the power of art it makes you feel
it makes you want to respond especialy with emotion
how many times have you looked at something and not reacted
The cellos and the drummer is the Finnish band Apocalyptica who was a supporting act.
Hey, you asked brother. Karl XII's armor and regalia is in Kalmar Slott in Sweden. So is his horse Eldfaxe. Stuffed of course. FYI. Been there several times. 😁
The European part of the Great Tour was during 2019, so that's when the Stockholm show would've been. That was the release tour for their WW1 concept album "The Great War" (A fantastic album btw, but that's the norm for this band)
Oh ya, I don't know if you noticed but the two versions are totally different; as in what they actually are saying, like the meaning not just the words; I find that very interesting.
fun fact: during the 30 year war witch is what this song depicts, it used to get so cold during winter that the sea between denmark and sweden froze over to the point where even a full scale battle didnt crack it. and yes, i mean canons didnt even leave that much of a dent. they literally just walked out on the ice and fought
The song "Carolus Rex" is not about the 30 year war. Some of the other songs on the album are.
@@billyk4711 you right. i was wrong. so ill correct myself and just say that its about king karl XII coronation. and a little tidbit for those who dont know latin, rex means king and carolus is karl's latin name
lovley!
yea it snows up here but in the south it never comes snow and if it does it just melts away
you should check out the Ruina Imperii song, maybe to late now but it's the end of the story for Carolus Rex
You should react to when Sabaton played En livstid i krig in Gothenburg 2020.
I believe I did. It's one of my live streams
totally recommend winged hussars, 40-1 and red baron:) I especially recommend 40-1 about barely known battle of Wizna where 700 polish soldiers armed with 2 (two) anti-tank rifles held for 3 days Heinz Guderian panzer corp consisting of 42200 men, 350 tanks 768 mortars&howitzers and Luftwaffe aerial support
Big hug from Sweden great reaction. Ive seen Sabaton live 10 times across about 10 years. The thing about people especially in Sweden calling Sabaton neonazi music etc because they make historic music....Sabaton aint the first guys making historic metal/rock about Swedish history or history in general. Ultima Thule went Through it all too. Nowadays they finally gets recognition for not being neonazi. Im saying this because Media in sweden and from what i can see also in USA follow an agenda to willify national proudness and history. When i was in school in the 90's we had 7 out of 10 teachers being either communists or left leaning. Which meant the history lessons got skewered left. Thats when i started to ask serious questions and read up on history OUTSIDe of school time....both religios histoy about alot of religions and lots of the worlds history....Then i put the squeeze on the teachers and it was ugly to see how propaganda machines work.
Yea, super sad.
Seriously you compare Sabaton to Ultima Thule? I guess that Sabaton wouldn´t like to compare to them since Ultima Thule was an political band to this day and with that an awful bad band. I don´t think Sabaton would play music with the partyleader of Sverigedemokraterna.
@@HistoryBuff People like Peo Fr want´s to make Sabaton political. You cant compare Sabaton to Ultima Thule. Every swedish political nationalist thinks that Sabaton are nationalist with an political agenda and hope they are. Sabaton refuse that political side.
@@zilfversurfer2157 No i dont compare Sabaton to Ultima Thule. Only the fact that they made the same historic music albeit in different styles. You call Ultima Thule awful band i however have heard when i worked on live stages building their scenes on concerts as a stagehand that some Sabaton people liked some of Thule songs. Ultima Thule never was and isnt a political band so i dont see where you come from. Ive heard alot of singers and actors has made music with swedish political parties this is called promoting music and cheerful gatherings. Me myself played with 2 politicians from socialdemokraterna back in the 90's on stage. You should not talk with overreaching hate against bands playing with national pride just as you shouldnt hate on anything people create in the name of art and history. History teaches us how to build things and how to do better for the future. If you hate on that you are doomed to fail in everything you make for yourself and others.
Zilversurfer is in fact what you might call a leftist troll i recognize his name from a twitter account and he was loud a few years back on facebook :(. Sadly he attacks even those that are from the left like me. Im not commie though but socialconservative and i dont like to mix politics with music if i can avoid it. I was just stating the facts and likeness about Sabaton singing national historic events and another band called Ultima Thule no more no less. I worked alot with concerts and building stages over 20 years of doing that and i know for a fact most musicians are very openminded about different genres. Lets leav it at that. Cheers and hugs
You really need to check out the rest of the album, lots of kickass songs on it. Highly recommend Lion from the North and Ruina imperi
I highly recommend those two as well, they are very powerful and emotional. Here are links to lyrics videos (Swedish with translation to English) th-cam.com/video/I4gzIgyLCNI/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/vDKB4kT3o1w/w-d-xo.html These are the best versions I know of.
Ruina imperii so good.
14:12 They literally march over the frozen sea, the danes didn't know what hit them. "March across the belts"
The movie this video uses is from the movie "Sluga Gosudarev" wich is a russian movie about the battle of Poltava who had many historical inaccuracies that made me as a swede pull my hair.
The uniform shown at 12:20 is the one Charles was wearing when he got shot and killed, in Norway. Its at the "Livrustkammaren" (the Royal Armory) in Stockholm. Well worth a visit, they even have Gustavus Adolphus 400 year old horse there. livrustkammaren.se/en
His tomb is in Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholmen Church) in Stockholm. Also one of Stockholms oldest buildings, dating to the late 1300's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddarholmen_Church
The movie is from a Russian movie. Can't remember the name, but this part is from the Battle of Poltava.
The first kings of Sweden was elected at Mora Stenar outside present day Uppsala.
The scenes in the clip, you questioned if it was from a movie? You're right! The movie is about two duelist's whom got exiled from France by the french king. One to Sweden, and the other to Russia. It's around the big northern war, specially around the battle of Poltava. It's an Russian made film, named "The Sovereign's Servant".
Sabaton dose have a large audience around the world not just Sweden I am amarican and Sabaton is my favorite band
And he was shot in 1718 trying to sige the City of Fredrikshald (today Halden), in Norway. He was killed in the trenches of Fredriksten Fortress.
The cellos and drummer is Apocalyptica performing as a guest act on stage together with Sabaton. Google them ;-)
Also… the lyrics on the different language versions of the Album differ quite a lot… so try to find English captions to the songs in Swedish.
Another example for the vision of god for the first king of dynasty is constantine, well he was off course not the first roman emperor, but he was the first christian one, and a comet/meteor fell while he was marching, that someone told him (I am digging this up from my memory so don't know that mans name right know but he was a christian as far as I remember) that this was a vision from god, and so the story says Constantine became christian.
That's exactly what I thought of, as well. I believe the man you were thinking of would be Eusebius, a bishop in the church during that time. During Constantine's life, he served as his friend and spiritual advisor, and wrote a biography of Constantine after his death.
Yep, Sweden here.... ✅
Did you know you can choose between different languages for closed captions on TH-cam with the ⚙ icon
You should listen to Sabaton - Long Live The King the song is based on the death of Carolus Rex and how it greatly affected the Swedish Empire. If you don't know Carolus Rex was shot in the head but no one knows who killed him some say it was the enemy and some say it was friendly fire its been over 300 years and people still don't know
I heard someone even say it was a button!?
sweden loves you
1:48....not even close mate, I am from Panamá... Just love sabaton
No need to apologize😁 I like WW1 and WW2 history. But great reaction1👍🏽👏🏽
I believe the cello players are the band apocalyptica.
Haha Well now you just have to do Caroleans prayer (The army at the time) Swedish and English version!
Some ones whant to know where the clips is from. And thats is from the movies the sovereign's servant and snapphanar 👍
One thing is kinda fun many swedes dos not know that Carolus Rex is one of the biggest king sweden ever had (Karl XII). If i dont remember it it wrong when he became king he never came home under his 21 years as king until he died
Cant wait until you get to The Last Stand album :)
Please, check in there liveconcert att woodstock Poland, worth dying for. With Love from Sweden/ Mikey
watch the Wacken version of "swedish pagans" with tina goa ;-) there is a lot Sabaton to see, also from the outside. or the whole resurrection festival in oslo, I think
Yeah. Swede here. But I mean, I watch all Sabaton reactions cause I Love the band😂
I just wanna cheer the people on who like Sabaton. :]
Me too!!
You don't have to explain yourself so much.
It is history mate
Well unfortunately, many don't feel that way
Swede here, go Cubs!! :)
If u wanna hear another sabaton song about a more badass Guy you should listen to Lion from the North! Its a song about the swedish King Gustav II Adolf or Gustavus adolphus and was a Hugh part of the 30 year War and father of modern warfare
On the "Kalabalik of Bender" Carolus rushed out alone against 10 000 turks and tatars!
True story, he was of course captured though😆
total badass
MAKE them bow to my will
🇸🇪👌🏻Perfection
I suppose a lot of us watching reactions to Sabaton are from Sweden... we love to see 'you foreign guys' react to one of our best exports since Absolut vodka - But I don't think You should go down that "Well, you are all swedish so I'm not gonna tell You about Your history." -trail. I think you should see past the 'statistics'. I'm almost 100% sure that at least SOMEONE went "Aw man.. I gotta google it now?" (Also, we swedes don't mind being retold our history. And Yes, I'm allowed to speak for us all. ;) )
Ok, full disclosure. I took the easy way out. I'm not the slightest bit familiar with Swedish history (beyond what I saw on the SHC) and I feel any attempt to expound (and any resulting inaccuracies) would have been met with some agitation. I did not feel that it was not my place. I was just woefully unprepared.
I can respect that. But it's a really interesting bit of history. He really turned Sweden into a mega-super-power-nation. Great reaction, tho.. Thank You. :)