Father: Who is Sasha Grey? Son: I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.

One of the members of Nanowar of Steel, Gattopanceri666 (bassist) is an Astrophysicist and has worked many years as a researcher in Israel, this is why he knows the language very well (together with many other languages, he is a polyglot). So he actually wrote that part in Jewish, it's not an automatic translation, and that's kinda cool and shows the attention to detail they put in every video.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!! Thats pretty cool!

@johncrwarner

11 ай бұрын

It is a reference to the "Shema Yisrael" one of the oldest prayers still used everyday in Jewish prayers. Deuteronomy 6:4 is the most famous version in the Bible.

On the tv they are showing 'Trading Places' with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd because it's a 'traditional' Christmas movie here in Italy. They started to put it on tv every Christmas just as a filler (because during Christmas dinners nobody actually care about what's on) and then it became a meme so now it's here to stay (I'm not kidding, they are still doing it every year). Yeah it's a very specific Italian reference. XD

Nanowar of Steel is a great band - they get you laughing so hard at the lyrics, that their excellent musicianship ends up catching you by surprise. As Astrid mentioned, their newest offering, Der Fluch des Kapt’n Iglo, is quite fun, and then there's Norwegian Reggaeton - why poke fun at one genre, when you can poke fun at two at once? And while it's a bit NSFW, you might check out Uranus - because even an old joke deserves a song!

@marioguidotomasone1265

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Uranus

@StMidium

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely check out Uranus! It's totally about the planet. Yep. Nothing else. *nudge nudge wink wink*

The shema yiggdrasil part is a parody of Shema Israel (Listen Israel) Adonai Elohenu (The Lord is our God) Adonai Echad (The Lord is One) So... Listen Yiggdrasil Odin is Our God Odin is One

Nanowar is a new genre: Comedy Metal ;)

@richardgoddard37

3 жыл бұрын

Steel Panther & The Darkness might argue with that😏

@alanfoster6589

3 жыл бұрын

Alestorm. Gloryhammer.

@kurotsune77

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanfoster6589 Gloryhammer is power metal, why does everyone say it's comedy?

@mariajosealemany2415

3 жыл бұрын

No new. Long time playing for publicity and metal for laughters. Are with gigatron, tragedy, trick or treat, glory hammer, so funny and great musicians

@MotorHeadMusicFan

3 жыл бұрын

Comedy Metal is not a genre name as also Viking Metal is not. You can take these names if you want to describe lyrics, but they cannot describe the music. See, if you put all music that is about vikings into a box, you'll end up having WARDRUNA, MANOWAR, ENSIFERUM, AMON AMARTH - and now also NANOWAR OF STEEL - in one and the same box. That might blow some people's fuses.

Dad: Whos Sasha Grey? Son: Trys to actually ignore the question..... Beddinge, Kivik, Besta TV, Slattum.. are all furniture lines from IKEA. And the text they sang afterwards was the description of those said products.. Sasha Grey is a porn actress turned youtuber/twitchstreamer.... ^^ And Nanowar of Steel are a comedy metal band. There are several bands out there, doin this genre in various ways. ^^

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, at least dad takes time to learn their names!

@KelbenArunsun

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff ;)

Yes, Ikea is Swedish. There were at least one other reference to Sweden in this song: Systembolaget is a government-owned chain of liquor stores, and it's the only company in Sweden that is allowed to sell alcohol stronger than 3.5%. (Might sound strange for some people, but we have same kind of system here in Finland too.) Someone from Sweden might be able to tell if there were other Swedish things mentioned. I am not an expert of Swedish culture, even though they are our neighbors, (and even though all Finns have to study Swedish language at school).

Nice whiskey bottles! Anyway, Nanowar of Steel rules!! Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!! I enjoy them. Both the whiskey and the band!

It blows me away that Nanowar of steel are italian.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Say WHAAATT!?

@simosagi

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff Also, the band founder (and bass player) is not quite your average musician: he holds a PhD in astrophysics and his primary occupation is studying galaxies and working in theoretical cosmology.

@WardDorrity

3 жыл бұрын

@@simosagi When you do Big Science, you've got to have a sense of humor.

@christiansandrini96

3 жыл бұрын

@@simosagi also: Potowotominimak is a storyboard artist and cartoonist Mohammed Abdul is a data scientist and AI researcher

Yggdrasil is indeed a tree in norse mythology, the biggest tree and also referred to as the worldtree. I think the boat your son was thinking of was Skíðblaðnir, or skidblandir (I had to google this) which was a ship that could be assembled from small pieces of wood when needed. Those runelooking letters are from what I can tell is written in the hebrew alphabet, it sure looks similar. Not sure what it means since I only recognize it from the looks of those letters, but I think it is a prayer for or to Yggdrasil and Odin? Not sure about that one. Also, they mention systembolaget, which here in Sweden is the only store that can sell alcoholic beverages that contain more than 3.5% alcohol. I've also noticed that they mention 2 metalbands from Sweden, one is Amon Amarth (the bandname is from Lord of the rings I believe, it is elvish for Mount Doom) and the other is Hammerfall. The horsemeatballs refers to an incident that was in the newspapers a few years ago where they found horsemeat in the ikea meatballs. Swedish meatballs aren't really supposed to contain that, most often you make them from a blend of minced pork and ground beef and it was certainly not stated in the table of contents :D Ikea is indeed swedish :) As a swede I find this song hillarious,especially when they sing names of ikea furniture (Beddinge and Kivik are two series of furniture sold at Ikea) and then they go over to singing from the ikea catalogue, which is sort of their holy book since Odin now is the master of Ikea :D Thanks for this reaction, it was awesome

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks for all that great info and that amazing compliment at the end!

@alanfoster6589

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's Hebrew. "Adonai" is "god" in hebrew.

@dehro

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanfoster6589 Shema Israel, Adonai elohenu Adonai echad, translates to listen oh Israel, the lord is our lord, the lord is one.. it's the most important prayer of the jewish faith.. and they hijacked it to fit with Odin and the Yggdrasil :D. one of the band members is an astrophysicist who does research for a university in Israel.. (all of them actually have really smart day jobs)

@alanfoster6589

3 жыл бұрын

@@dehro ..."baruch shem kivod malhuso"....I know it well ;).

"Systembolaget" is the chain of government run liquor stores they have in Sweden. ••• Thanks! Peace! (-:

@williamlehmus5371

3 жыл бұрын

I started looking at the comments since I felt some things needs some explaining.. like systembolaget.

Lol! The nerd in me thoroughly enjoys this song every time I hear it. That writing is Hebrew and is a play on a Jewish prayer "Shema Israel, HaShem elochenu, HaShem echad" which means "hear Israel, the Lrd is your Gd, the Lrd is one"... The first time I heard their version I literally laughed out loud in the middle of the grocery store! 🤣. Great reaction, as usual. Thanks, Buff (and son)!

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh. So it was Hebrew! And yea, i know that prayer

@TimdeKousemaeker

3 жыл бұрын

cool knew this song for a while but never knew this bit. have my upvote

I love Nanowar of Steel, thank you for your reaction. :D

You crack me up. The most serious reaction on the most hilarious song. You both made it dubble funny. Thanx, and I’m serious 😆

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

I love how captain obvious at the end was like, "I think it's supposed to be a joke"

@Astridsscribbles

3 жыл бұрын

At that point I fell of my chair. 🤣 Love you. Try their song about Captain Iglo next!!

@JaneDoe-ge5di

3 жыл бұрын

@@Astridsscribbles same by me when i ve heard this song the first time! Surprisingly even my boyfriend liked it (more into electronic/techno music)!😀

A beautiful father son moment: did he say "for the plunder and the....". "WOW" Love it. ❤❤❤❤

I'm on a quest to watch all the reactions to this video.

The tv on the background broadcast "trading places" because every christmas an italian commercial tv broadcast this film since....20 years maybe. Every single christmas

Just a fun poin to end this beautiful reaction - at the end of the song where the choir sings about Ikea furniture the band wears Ikea uniforms :-D

I laughed out loud at you both puzzling over this song. It's definitely a fun song at heart I think and not meant to be overly analyzed. However, if there is a deeper message, I think it's that we should stop worshipping consumer culture. Or maybe it's just a great band having a lot of fun. Either way, seeing you both try to figure this one out was great entertainment.

@rynnziolkowski4642

2 жыл бұрын

No deep message on this one the bad literally just saw an Ikea catalogue and decided yeah we could write a song about it

First time hearing them, as Anna A mention lots of Swedish and Viking references and one Trump one. Will recommend to reactor TeeSpicerMusic

Trading places was the film in the background on the tv 📺 lol

This is a joke/parody song of norse mythology and I love it, it kinda combines the history of Scandinavia with current day Sweden with a humors flair. To say that Scandinavia gradually came to Christianity is not quite right though, a fairly big part was turn to Christianity by the sword. And as the comments already pointed out, horse meatballs was a thing, and it wasn't just IKEA meatballs

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

I didnt say it happened willingly or peacefully. Just that it slowly got snuffed out.

@krpandersson

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff I'm sorry for the fact that I put words in your mouth but I felt it was important to point out that Christianity wasn't spread peacefully like a lot of people seems to think

FYI the dish served in the beginning of the clip is a central Italy version of lasagna - which make completely sense since the band's from Rome. Very nordic ;-)

Good reaction :) On the tv in the background at the end, is a scene from Trading places

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Stock market movie right?

@MartiiiiinZ

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff it became a traditional Christmas movie here in Italy because the same channel kept broadcasting it every Christmas eve. They're still doing it every year

"I knew", and son blushes :-D

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO! I wondered who would catch that!

bro the look on his sons face when he asked who Sasha Grey was LMAO

it´s a great reference to the catholic bible. old testament - Bad, Angry god; new testament - friendly god they are literally messing with everything in this song. I think there was also a big scandal here in Europe a few years ago with horse meat in the ikea-meatballs. it´s so great

Great Reaction. Greetz from Germany. God of War rules.

🤘

If no one have mentioned this both Hammerfall (heavy/power metal) and Amon Amarth (melodic death metal with a heavy influence of the viking era) are Swedish bands.As for the one playing Odin here, he is the old singer of the band Gloryhammer.

Were you thinking of "Skíðblaðnir" the ship that could be folded into a pocket? There are a lot of references to modern Swedish culture Systembolaget (The System Company) the modern Swedish alcohol monopoly company for example. It is one of the things that you rapidly learn about when you visit Sweden that and bringing friends a bottle of spirits because alcohol is highly taxed in Sweden. I have been lucky to visit Sweden several times mostly in transit to Finland where I did some work and modern Swedish culture is interesting though not too different to other northern European cultures.

@johncrwarner

11 ай бұрын

BTW the IKEA "book" has the runes for "dreki" which is Norse for either dragon or viking ship (a dragon boat)

This song hides a lot of fun facts: the singer who plays Odin is Angus McFife, from Gloryhammer, a famous power metal band, and he is dressed as Santa Claus because the original image of the saint was actually inspired by Odin. The song was released during the Christmas time and that's why it's all so merry and christmassy. Also, you should know that every year, on Christmas Eve, our TV shows the movie "Trading Places", which is why you see it in the background. Finally, during the release of their latest album, Nanowar organized a treasure hunt for their fans at Ikea stores, hiding CDs, posters and other gadgets inside various furniture. They even tried to do an abusive concert, but got kicked out 😂

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Those guys are genious!!

@EnricoCicilloni

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff They really are! One of them is a polyglot and astrophysicist, one an engineer and data scientist, and another is an artist and comics drawer! And all of them are incredible musicians...And, to quote them, they "take comicity very seriously!"

The strange characters are runes. The boat book is a reference to the fact vikings could dismantle their ships, carry them on land and then redeploy them back in rivers or whatever as they needed. They even had a name for this kind of ship that was easy to dismantle and reasemble i believe.

@madcatusa

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone I've seen so far has completely missed the fact that on the cover of the book where IKEA normally puts the materials required to build the item, there is a depiction of the wood, a hammer, but also... There's a sword, a shield, and a mug of ale!

You should bring your son more with you for reactions. Interesting to see 2 different takes on the same song

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

He only comes over evert few weeks or so. I have some songs lined up for him to do with me

NEXT... you need to do: King Diamond "Sleepless Nights" live at the Fillmore ( OFFICIAL ). If you dare!

Yggdrasil is not properly the tree of life, is more like the cosmic tree, also called the world tree. It's an ash tree (wich in old norse is spelled Askr, this also being the name of the first man created by Odin and his siblings Vìli and Vé) It is said that his branches hold up the nine worlds

Late answer: Yes people in Scandinavia still practice Norse Paganism and belief. The Norse gods wasn't really people, they symbolized different energies/powers in nature. The people in Scandinavia did however draw/carve the gods on stones and wood in human shapes, so the gods became like the forces of nature in human form and from there it developed/expanded even more

We are taking over the world with Ikea instead of the old viking way :-D

Without asking Ikea the band did a little bit of a tour where they went to an Ikea store and started playing, they are now banned from Ikea as they didn't ask permission

@HistoryBuff

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, seriously!?

@rynnziolkowski4642

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff yup

This is a comedy ban, they are literally singing parts of the ikea catalog

If he like that kind of music... Bathory, Amon Amarth, Brothers of metal, Ereb altor

Definitely check out their other songs - both originals (Norwegian Reggaeton, Uranus, Ironmonger, Barbie MILF princess of the Twilight etc) and parody covers of famous metal songs (The number of the Bitch). Also - they often mix several languages in the lyrics, but their hardcoded subtitles show the lyrics "as is", as a sort of Karaoke aid. So if you hear a part of a Nanowar song in a language you do not understand - turn KZread subtitles on. Those are always translated to English.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

I'll have to figure out a song for the battle. Any requests?

@PavelBarbanegra

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff If you happen to know and like Norwegian Black Metal - Norwegian Reggaeton is a good place to start. The refrain always cracks me up (half of the song is in Spanish, so YT subs should be on, if you do not speak the language). Most recent Nanowar viking parody, by the way, would be La Polenta Taragnarock. Also hilarious. If you are into Power Metal (especially Rhapsody) then do check out Barbie MILF princess of the Twilight. If you're a fan of Blind Guardian - start with Ironmonger (Copier of the seven Keys). If you love Iron Maiden - then The number of the Bitch is a must. If you are an astronomy geek - there's Uranus. Aside from Nanowar, as you seem to dig comedy and novel takes on Norse/Scandinavian mythology - you might want to check out Gloryhammer (but read up first on the band's lore as they are engaged in telling an original, consistent Space Scott/Viking Marvel-esque fantasy saga spanning across all their albums). The guy who played Odin the Gentlegod is Angus McFife from Gloryhammer.

"Make forniture great again"

All Gods in the ancient Nordic religion is my Gods. Tor with his hammer Mjölner is what I carry with me every day.

@themplar

3 жыл бұрын

as long as you know its all make believe like all other god concepts.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Must be pretty comforting to "know" beyond the shadow of any doubt

@themplar

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoryBuff For many god concepts yes, with reason. But generally within all reason. Only theists and sith deal in absolutes, so i'm not going there.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Nice!!

You liked this song, you like Sabaton, you MUST look into GLORYHAMMER.

Lovely. They're singing in English and you have English subtitles up. Fits the song perfectly.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, im not sure if thats sarcasm or not. I honestly have no clue how to set up subtitles. When it gets to that point of publishing, it looks like you actually have to create them so I don't mess with it.

@PeTTs0n88

3 жыл бұрын

The subtitles are embedded in the actual video and can't be turned off without manually cropping them out. Don't be a troll, Alan. And seeing how there's numerous Swedish words in it, along with a line in Hebrew... it's an understandable choice too.

@HistoryBuff

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy!

@alanfoster6589

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeTTs0n88 My bad :(. I apologize.

@giannicottogni1722

3 жыл бұрын

Well, they are an Italian band, and English subtitles could be useful for their Italian fans (I must confess I need subtitles: I’m quite good in reading English, not so good in listening comprehension).

It's Hebrew.

Please understand that this is comedy metal with tons of stupid references very exclusive to Sweden, and especially IKEA product brand names. Cheers!

Permafrost has nothinf to do with norse mythology, is just a type of ecosystem characterized by frozen soil

@HistoryBuff

2 жыл бұрын

Did I say permafrost? There's Bifrost talked about a lot in mythology. At least in the stories surrounding it