Such a great song and I prefer the english version as well, since the references to Highlander and Queen hit their mark even better! But no matter if they sing in german or english, Feuerschwanz KICKS ASS! My favourite german musical act (even before Rammstein, Electric Callboy and the Scorpions)! So much fun with every album they do! - Shoutout to Hauptmann, Hodi, Johanna, Hans, Rollo, Jarne and the two amazing stunt-Miezes Myu and Musch-Musch! 🥰

This is the first verse in comparison: German original: Geboren 1518 Am Ufer des Loch Sheal In Glennfinnan war das Leben noch ein Spiel Verwundet, doch genesen In der Schlacht mit Frasers Clan Verraten, verstoßen und verbannt Literal translation: Born in 1518 On the banks of Loch sheal At Glenfinnan life was still a game Wounded, but recovered In the battle with Fraser's clan Betrayed, rejected and banished English version: He was born in 1518 on the shores of Loch sheal in Glennfinnan his destiny was sealed Became the sole survivor was banished and exiled cause they couldn‘t kill what doesn‘t die

The german original is from the "Fegefeuer" Album

lovely that you react to Feuerschwanz 😊

I bet ya Queen is scratching their heads going "Why didn't we think of this back when we did the soundtrack for Highlander?!"

I didn't imagine somebody would remember this movie. Funnily enough in Poland we got this translated to "Immortal" ( but nothing beats the most creative "translation" of Rowan Atkinson '97 "Bean" movie, that we happen to know as "John Bean: total cataclysm approaches" for years already) . Anyway i can't get enough of the folk metal bands.

Highlanfer Remake coming up with Henry Cavill, Michael Fassbender as the villain, directed by the John Wick guy. And this Song drops...God I am so pumped! A remake I actually look forward to!

Yep, they usually rewrite the lyrics completely, but not change the subject of the song. (Ben Metzner/Hodi did so for D'artagnan before). Edit: you just cannot go word by word. That works only in very few cases. (One example would be: "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" - "Sie liebt dich, yeah, yeah, yeah" by the Beatles, but even there, the stanzas were somewhat different.) As a translator and copy-editor for translated texts (English to German, and sometimes vice versa) , I can assure you that it's way easier to go from German to English than the other way round. For, as Antonio put it already: 3 words in English might take one sentence in German. If you have given stanzas, or a limited room for text, like in a prefabricated song, it is easier to go from long to short. If you have an English song - especially a more expressive one - and have to create German lyrics, you often either need to make the song longer or leave out some aspects. This is the reason why back in the day, when ppl in Germany knew hardly any other language and preferred German songs, there were German versions of international hits (not only English, but Italian, French and Spanish, too), sometimes sung by hapless original artists ony learning the words by sound - which told a completely different story than did the original. But fit perfectly with the melody. 🤣

The fight of the Miezen is amazing. Thanks Myu and Mush Mush

foy-er-shvunts, thank you

There can be only one

Nice Reaction 🙂. Maybe you can check out "Kanonenfieber - Die Havarie" thx.

As far as i know they just re-recorded the voices for this english release. The Music is exactly like the german versions. And as a german myself, i can say that they didn't tranlsate the lyrics like 1 to 1. The meaning is mostly thge same though.

What do you think "Du hast" sounds like in English?

@galadballcrusher8182

4 ай бұрын

"You have/hate"?

@pietg.6249

4 ай бұрын

Terrible, of course..! 😫

@galadballcrusher8182

4 ай бұрын

@@pietg.6249 for the record, don't just presume that i used internet translation or something, i speak the language actually

hey say again: "FEUERSCHWANZ"..😅😂🎉😅 ...and the fact that German doesn't work internationally as a language in music, is due to the arrogance of the countries in question..

Hey do you know that 90% of metalheads listen to bands that play in their native language but not in english.

@APREACTS

4 ай бұрын

Do you know that 95% of statistics like these are made up?