Thank you for the correction in translation! A Lifetime in War. I misspoke with the song title! Thanks to MinimalTrace for the correction! Cheers! Eric

@vhaarr

2 жыл бұрын

No, the correct translation is "A Lifetime of War". You missed a lot of the context of the song, though. They're singing about the Swedish (and they are Swedish, not German) "Great War" and the specific horrors of generational conscription that occurred during it. But it's no wonder, because the translated subtitles in the video are also quite atrocious. "A Lifetime in War" is not a sentence that makes sense in English, even though it might appear to.

@n0namesowhatblerp362

2 жыл бұрын

@@vhaarr Wouldnt it be ...*at war, though. A lifetime at war. Someone doing war for a lifetime. If it had been of* it would have been av* in swedish. Eller hur?

@DanielKling

2 жыл бұрын

@@n0namesowhatblerp362 Yeah, I agree. "A Lifetime at War" is the correct translation.

The Swedish version of this song is sadness, the English version is anger. The 30 years war that they speak about is something that took Europe almost 200 years to recover from. It was probably about 2-4 times worse than WW2 in terms of percentage of the total population killed. The songs really bring just how bad that war was to the front.

The most emotional part about this song is the fact the soldier is "young, barely a man" because it takes place during the 1600s that meant the soldier could've been anywhere from 15 to 20, a teenager not knowing wether or not he'll be able to see his family again, wondering if he will be mourned, if his death will be dignified.

This album has two versions: in english and in swedish. This song in english is about the 30 years war, but in swedish is about those who participated in the war. A totaly different mood, sadder. Looking forward for new reactions for sabaton songs 🤟

@corneliusantonius3108

2 жыл бұрын

We had an 80 years war in the mean time with Spain here in The Netherlands.

(Second comment) - Yes it was the crowds mobile phones, before the song Joakim said something about people not having Cigarette lighters any more, "...but almost all of you have a mobile phone, so if you pick that up, and turn on the torch..." The Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg - The primary use is for Ice Hockey but it is also used for Handball and other things, the capacity in this Concert configuration is about 11.000. A Lifetime At War - The song is about the 30 Year War in Europe. You were born and drafted in to the Infantry at an early age, around 15 or so (Drummer Boys was even younger than that, only 8 - 9 - 10 years old). The normal Life Expectancy during that time was only about 45, and soldiers was usually dying at a much younger age so during your Lifetime you didn't know anything else than the war in the World, you never got to see the World at a state of Peace. So - "A Lifetime At War". Glad you liked this video. I suggested a video in a comment on your previous Sabaton video that you didn't like, with Sabaton in front of a much bigger crowd (at The Polish Woodstock Festival, it's called "Pol-N-Rock" nowadays - The organisers gave up the fight with the American man who own the Rights to the word Woodstock) "Ghost Division", about 650.000+ moshing around. kzread.info/dash/bejne/a3qfu9qnnZqWpso.html Cheers / B.

Sabaton is growing on me. Being former military I really like the historical nature of their music. Great reaction. I may have to think about visiting Tennessee in October... Cheers

@gryphonosiris2577

2 жыл бұрын

Some of their songs taught me about some very amazing moments in history, such as the Night Witches, The Last Battle, The Smoking Snakes, Inmate 4859, and Hearts of Iron. Others, like this, No Bullets Fly, and Soldier of Heaven stir some very deep emotions.

Joakim conducting a choir of thousands... Gets me every time.

Not sure if it's been mentioned on other Sabaton reactions you've done (apologies if this is the case) but as well as their band/music channel, they have a history channel where a historian explains the context of the songs and gives a potted history of the settings. It's well worth a look. Anyway, Sabaton always have great audience participation, their songs are very 'singable' - and especially when performing in the country the song is set in, of course. Also it's slightly surreal how all over the world you can get people singing about Charles Xii of Sweden (Carolus Rex)!

Me as a non Swedisch speacker (comming from Germany) I love that Swedish version of the song especially as this was filmed in Gothenburg which is basicaly theire hometown and this is what they normally do. They have basicly songs for events from every county so when they play in Gemany they play the German related songs, if they are in Poland they plaey the Polend related songs. That's makes theire sets always diffrent! Drummer btw is married to a quite famous other femal Metal musitian, just saying ;-)

@Tim_Nilsson

2 жыл бұрын

Gothenburg basically their home town? The band is originally from the city of Falun which is almost 500 km away from Gothenburg. It's like saying that Hamburg would "basically" be the home town for a person from Dresden. =P

@agnieszkazuk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tim_Nilsson Hannes says about Gothenburg as his hometown.

@Tim_Nilsson

2 жыл бұрын

@@agnieszkazuk He is the only one that grew up some what close since he's from Skövde which is about 160 km away by road. I assume it's also quite possible he lived in Gothenburg for a couple of years. His old band Evergrey is for an example Gothenburg based. Joakim and Pär are however both from Falun. Chris is from Umeå and Tommy is from Boden which are both way up in the north. The distance (road) between Gothenburg and Umeå is almost 1000 km and Boden is closer to 1300 km. Driving from Gothenburg to Dresden Germany would actually be closer than driving to Umeå. =P

@agnieszkazuk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tim_Nilsson Thank you for the facts, now it's clear 🙂 I wish I had more time and opportunity than a day visit in a beautiful town Karlskrona in Sweden last Saturday to explore the places you've mentioned...

@Tim_Nilsson

2 жыл бұрын

@@agnieszkazuk Hehe you're welcome. :) I don't believe I've been to Karlskrona. Did you take the ferry from Gdynia?

Yeah it's phones. Joakim said that since people dont have lighters anymore but everyone has phones you can get the same effect if people light up the screen and wanted us to sing the song with him. He then went on and said they where going to perform in Stockholm the day after and where going to do the same thing there, and pretty much challanged us to prove that Gotheburg is the metal capital of Sweden. Was there, turned out to be the last concert for years, was less than a week after this things started to shut down in Europe. Amazing show. Sweden hasn't been in war for like 200 years, but this song hits very hard anyway.

This is what you can experience at some concerts especially in Scandinavian - the audience almost taking over. And whenever it happens, it's a mind blowing experience to both the audience and the band. We all gets humble! And Sabaton are one of best bands to achieve this.

Just wanted to point out the song title is in Swedish, not German. Also Gothenburg is the German and English name used of the Swedish city of Göteborg so it's ok for you to pronounce it "the English way" :D

Thanks for a good reaction Eric, I could sit listening to your voice all day. It's for me, the epitome of a good radio voice.😄 I was there in the crowd on the left, as you said, I will never forget the epicness of the moment. People singing, crying and hugging complete strangers. Truly epic!

@thomaskaldstrom5194

2 жыл бұрын

Yes truly amazing song/performance 🤘🎉

It may seem trivial but it is not so much " a lifetime OF war " as " a lifetime IN war " , meaning you were actually there, in the midst of battle and mayhem.

Tony Kakko, when Sonata Arctica do Fullmoon live, he gets the audience to sing the beginning of the song and the chorus. He sits down and the audience sing the opening of the song. I love when bands get the audience to participate.

If you liked the crowd participation you should check out Blind Guardian at Wacken " The Bard's Song" & "Valhalla".

@TheWyldesidewithEricClark

2 жыл бұрын

I did a reaction to The Bard's Song but got pegged with a strike. I'll re-edit that video and see if I can get it past checks. Cheers! Eric

Carolus Rex live from The Great Tour. Very emotional. I don't know Swedish but Joakim's passion hits you in the feels.

Another outstanding reaction and discussion about music, life, and reality. "Tragically Motivating"... damn what a line. Well done sir, glad you checked this out, and glad to see that you are expanding your knowledge of these guys. Enjoy the upcoming show.... keep the good work coming. Id recommend DMB's tribute to Hendrix with All Along the Watchtower.... not something thats going to get alot of "concurs" but I'd love to get your take on it

Great analysis of this band and concert. The vibes Sabaton creates is so unique. Speaking of vibes, have you noticed the Nightwish concert video from Hellfest 2022 in France last Saturday? Absolutely amazing! It’s a professional TV production by a french station (arte) and the picture and sound quality is mind blowing. The video is separated into chapters with the song titles. So maybe you could pick separate songs and use them for reaction videos. I recommend „I want my tears back“ around halfway of the concert. Floor unleashing the valkyrie and giving a lesson in crowd control. Plus Troy singing parts of the song, which is interesting too. Highly recommended.

Excellent reaction. Deep. When you said in your reaction to Bismarck (the life version) that you did not want this angle of the camera, I was going to tell you to try to react to this video ;-) . Luckily , you did it. This time, the crowd is part of the show.

My first live show experience was at their performance on the north american section of The Great Tour. They were playing in Toronto at Danforth Hall and they did a similar no-instrument section during the chorus of "Price of a Mile". Briefly it sounded like that entire auditorium sang with a single voice, I tear up almost every time I remember. I never miss a show with them if I can help it.

You should do a double reaction of Sabaton - Uprising the official music video and then the official live video which has an audience of 500,000 to 700,000 people. They will blow your mind.

Just a side note now that you are officially finding your way very positively through the European metal scene I just want to add that a lot of these bands that I've come across don't just have one really really good singer they have at least 2 and we have seen that with Nightwish and definitely some other bands and I'm saying that because Tommy Johansson has an amazing voice also........ He has been I believe a lead singer or at least a backup vocalist who did a lot of singing in some of his former bands I'm sure someone on here will know more about it than I do and by the way he is just a great guy who has incredible talents.

@hawaii2k

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy is the lead singer in Majestica, band or actually just started as a single project for Tommy known as Reinxeed. He also has done a lot of covers like "Swedish hits goes metal".

@carinarodebak9419

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy Johansson, as you mention here,can now celebrate 20 years as an artist. He started his first band at 14. As well as being lead guitarist and back-up vocalist for Sabaton he has his own band Majestica (former ReinXeed). He also arranges some of the music Floor Jansen does on her own. On top of all that he has his own channel where he weekly releases solowork, guitar, bass, keyboard and vocals. He covers several artist as well as for fun taking Sabaton lyrics into Disney music. Well worth checking out.

@ValtteL

2 жыл бұрын

Nightwish-Sabaton-Epica is like european holy metal trinity.

Hi Eric, You don´t look fat man. You´re awesome!!! Excited for this one :)

I have started seeing I concur on other channels, you are making an impact 😊

Thank's for insights! Much Love to you and Ukraine 🌻🌻🌻💙💛💙

Awsome reactions! And so nice voice to listen to!! I guess you already know that the drummer in Sabaton Hannes van Dahl is married to our Queen Floor Jansen and living in Sweden?!

"To Hell and back" would be a suggestion of mine... ever since I've seen your emotional reaction to the Christmas Truce, I just want to see how far I can push you.

@Murvelhund

2 жыл бұрын

I concur

Sabaton may be one of the most popular bands writing songs about historical events, but the genre has more bands than you'd think. For instance the band Civil War, which some call Sabaton part 2, cause most of their members are former members of Sabaton. If you prefer a bit heavier music you have Ex Deo who writes about roman history, Spartan writing about Ancient Greece, 1914 who deals with WW1, Metal de Facto with roman history.

Man, I freaking love Sabaton! I'm ashamed to say I only became interested in them because of Floor and Hannes being married. But I'm trying to learn more about them. I would love to see a Sabaton/Nightwish show, but I would want Nightwish to headline. Joachim is such a charismatic front man, and I just love him! I can't figure out how to pronounce his name, either. Hannes is a bit of a showman too, and I love his drumming. There's a lot of gorgeous hair flipping around on that stage, and I'm envious. Sabaton is a band whose sound I love and I want to hear a lot more. Thank you for featuring them. Great insight, as always. Looking forward to your next video. Oh, by the way, I wish I could come to the show in Nashville. I live in Utah and have never been there. I do have the time but don't have the money. But if you do want to meet your fans, my partner and I will try to make a Nashville show with another band we like. We would love to meet you.

Sabaton are touring Australia in early December with 3 shows. They do a homage to the ANZAC soldiers with the song - “cliffs of Galipoli” the failed capture of Turkey by the British forces and their allies which included Australia and New Zealand.

What a great reaction! I'm so happy you've came back to Sabaton! Amazing song, emocional show and thoughtful comments about it, thanks a lot! Please, more Sabaton reactions 🙂

If you want to see more Sabaton you should definitely watch the song Uprising from the live show in Woodstock, Poland 🙌👍🙂

holy fk, in the first second i was SO secure in my mind that you are the singer from In Extremo, Michael Rhein =D Great reaction, keep going

Hi there! EC. Awesome reaction as always🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 Memorial weekend is coming soon here in the US. Sabaton has a Song call purple heart! I'm only been living in this country for 30 year's, I've 2 kids and a beautiful wife, all of US. I've been in all Sabaton US. Tours in NYC. Memorial weekend always broke me down, and I get respect for all the ones who sacrifice for the freedom of my country, the US. I'm so proud to be here! PLESASE REACT TO SABATON PURPLE HEART. 🇺🇸

"Because war can destroy a man." There are some mistranslations, but over all the it captures the meaning of the song.

Been into Sabaron for years . Bucket list concert for me ...

I am glad you mention Joakim Noah haha. Joakim Noah have a Swedish Mother and Joakim and Sabaton are from Sweden as well

Will we get to see there backs again I like sabaton this looks like someone used there phone they have some great musicians in this band tommy Johansson is a great guitarist God bless

@marinamucic908

2 жыл бұрын

Tommy is also an amazing singer, his cover of Show Must Go On is amazing! He also has another band, Majestica, where he is the singer. Their song Above The Sky is a really great song

Thanks from sweden your reaction of sabaton 😍

Man you said everything I agree with everything you said allot of power you have a good radio voice this band kicks ass live

dude you reacting to sabaton and nightwish are becoming one of my favorite reactors.You should check out the defense of moscow and no bullets fly animated video. incredible songs

They sing about the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) .. Where Sweden became a great power 💙💛

It's all phones Joakim (Lead Singer) said before they started that since no one caries lighters around anymore that they should take out their phones and turn on the flashlights instead

As they like to say on The Internet, "There's a lot to unpack here." One thing I don't hear commented on a lot is the two bits between Joakim (YO-uh-keem) and Par (I don't have an umlaut on my keyboard but it's pronounced more like "pair" or "pear"). First they're absolutely flabbergasted by the audience singing all the lyrics. Notice their body language, like they're saying "What is going on?" They clearly weren't expecting an audience response of this magnitude. Later there's a bit where Par takes a bow during the bridge or chorus or whatever, basically upstages Joakim and Joakim, being the frontman/lead singer, doesn't seem to take this too well. I'm sure it was in good fun but you do see that occasional back-and-forth. Also pay special attention to Tommy Johanssen addressing the camera during that break in the lyrics. It's brief but it's pretty cool. Another note as an Air Force veteran. It was strange listening to this and being unsure if this song applied to me or not. I was in Grand Forks when I discovered this specific video/recording. I thought about a few different things. I thought about war, which seemed odd since I've never been shot at. Then I thought about home, and that was a lot more relevant since I spent years away from home. Not only that, but home isn't really home for me anymore. I lived in a certain place for most of my life but my brother moved, then my parents moved, and I was at least in a foreign country, at worst some random hole in the desert. Then finally you come back and your friends have changed, your brother's married, parents moved, your dad can't hold a conversation anymore, and the house you lived in for 26 years is empty. So it's a weird little observation but "home" doesn't have the same meaning anymore. So I agree with you, "home" is profound. Anyway, I thought the song was good when I heard it on Carolus Rex, but once I saw it in this video I decided it was probably the best live performance I've ever seen.

It wasnt translated, but the thing Joakim says before the song beginns was "My friends, now lets sing together" So they at least expeced some particiipation from the audience.

I WAS THERE LIVE

drummer is floor Jenson husband...i know but had to say it🤘

The crowd interaction was expected, and it was expected to blow everybodys mind. Why I say it? On their tour 2012 when they were at this very same venue the crowd did this same thing. That time we were not that many as inthis show but a lot still. And it felt like Joakim was moved by it then. So it was no lucky shot that this song was filmed in this place on this occation. Stockholm (the capital of Sweden, Gothenburg is the 2nd city) did a great work too but that was a smaller venue with half the audience compared to this one so.....

Joakims intro to the song is "My friends, lets sing together", and yes that is phones. As far as i know, these videos from stage was made for Sabatons Social media during the Great War tour, but during Corona, they were reedited to actual music videos so they would have content for their youtube channel. I would like to recomend "Devil Dogs" and i would like to recomend doing the official video, it's made as a montage from their last US tour before Corona, and it shows a lot about how varied their audience is, and it is a fucking great song.

This is world's better than the live "Bismarck" video, though they dropped the ball with the guitar solo.

The first time I saw this video I immediately thought, with the opening guitar riff and crowd reaction, this should be the Bill and Ted song that saves the world lol.

Oh, another Sabaton video, with the reverse angle footage from The Great Tour that you didn't like in the other video. That came as a bit of a surprise, must have a look at this. (Wrote this even before watching the video, I'll get back in another comment if something needs to be filled in.) Cheers / B.

@TheWyldesidewithEricClark

2 жыл бұрын

This one is a better for the reason the audience is a good part of the video. And they did a better job of moving around more. Would have liked a camera on that guitar solo, but it's still a good representation of the crowd/band interaction. Cheers! Eric

@1982jeepcj8

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWyldesidewithEricClark all Sabaton's music deserves to be listened too, the band has a Sabaton history channel that tells the back ground of each song. Some suggestions, To Hell and Back, About Audie Murphy, Primo Victoria, about D day, or No bullets Fly, specifically the Yarn Hub video, a true story that you need to discover for yourself. AS for this song it is about the 30 years war, this song has two sets of lyrics, the English lyrics are very broad in the historic contexts, the Swedish lyrics are very intimate to a swedish soldier, often a child borne in the armies trains, would be baptized, trained and died without seeing Sweden, his whole of his life was the 30 years war,

@mbo191

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheWyldesidewithEricClark - Agree on that. I wrote a second comment with a few more details about the song and the Venue, see the main comments. The Ryman Auditorium on Oct 3 - You will probably meet Tank The Tech there, why not hook up with him? Tank did a podcast with Joakim Broden a while back and he gave Joakim the basics of what Sabaton can expect at The Ryman. Joakim was duly impressed by what he was told, I think he said something about "Holy cow, hollowed ground, the original Grand Ol' Opry..." and things like that. Cheers / B.

I really feel the need to suggest this again 😉, No bullets fly from Sabaton but with the video they did with Yarnhub (it just adds so much more to the story). Also several other bands have incorporated history of warfare into some of their songs but not as specific as Sabaton does (Passchendaele, The Trooper, Aces High, Tailgunner and The Longest Day from Iron Maiden come to mind)

This together with the now officiall.live version of Uprising are among the best live audience performances of any band .

Swedish sounds amazing 😻

If you want another great life Sabaton video, take "Swedish Pagans" in Wacken

Came from EU4! (I was already here :P)

I was there at this specific gig, there’s where no handouts. So that is pretty much everyone’s cellphones.

It is so fitting for Europe with war in Ukraine at the moment.

We have a Long-standing tradition of "Allsång" meaning 'Everyone song' here in Sweden which is a mass sing-along so we were conditioned for this lol Asking if you're saying Gothenburg right is killing me tho bcs that's its English name, in Swedish its name is Göteborg

Great reaction my recommends from sabaton is Art of war and wehrmacht ^^

See you at Ryman in February? Anti-Flag and Flogging Molly 🥳

The only time I've heard the audience take over the singing when I was in the audience was for Garth Brooks "The Dance".

YETTEH-BOHREE

11:45 Thats the right pronunciation

First time viewer here, just wanted to give you a couple of fun facts about the song. This song was about the 30 years war specifically the perspective of a Swedish conscript. The 30 years war was a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestants, during this war is generally accepted that Sweden became a great power during this time. Sweden at the time was unique due to how it fielded soldiers, Unlike the majority of nations at the time who generally fielded mercenaries who were already trained and familiar with war, Sweden had a system in which land owners conscripted the peasants who lived on their land to fight for the nation. The result of this was that entire peasant families went on the march into this war, a man could have a son with his wife outside of Sweden during the course of this war and lose that son in the exact same war that he himself fought in, Without that child ever actually setting foot in the land that he died for. There is actually an English version of this song, except that version of the song is told from the perspective of an outsider looking into Europe during this time. It is also an incredible song, though it’s meaning is not as deep as this version of the song. If you like Sabaton, and you do enjoy watching live videos, I strongly recommend that you watch Sabaton performing live in front of between 500 and 700,000 people in Poland during Polish Woodstock Inn 2012, uprising and 40 to 1 are incredible songs and very much worth the time.

Yes it is their own phones :)

Nice reaction! could you please react to HammerFall - Brotherhood or Hector's Hymn, they are a Swedish band formed in 1993 in Gothenburg. They are a old school Heavy Metal band, the music is old but new

Design your Universe (live Retrospect) / Unleashed (live Retrospect ), Cry for the Moon(live Retrospect) - Epica ) I remember you - Skid Row (live) Soulbound - Unleash the Archers Burning Time (live) / Dracula - Iced Earth Ategnatos / King - Eluveitie Rebel in the F.G.D. or The great Missconceptions of Me - W.A.S.P

it's also swedish and not german but you tried so bonus points

Thanks, it was good reaction. Have you done any Michael Monroe yet? He is one my alltime favorite. Pick one or both they are good songs. Michael Monroe - Ballad Of The Lower East Side Michael Monroe - Last Train To Tokyo (Official Video)

Have you checked out Sabatons Christmas Truce yet?

Love your stuff! One little thing, the thumbnails and captions are kinda hard to grasp when you are just browsing. want to see a reaction of a certain band and all you see is [REACTION] Old Rock..... People are lazy man :P

Really something else, isn't it?

JoA-kim

The translation isn’t the best but you get the rough meaning.

It's not German. It is Swedish as all the members of the band are, and it is referring to the 30 years' war that Sweden was involved in during the 1600's. Catholics against Protestants.

Well if you struggle with Gothenburg perhaps you should try the Swedish name Göteborg instead? ;) It's pronounced goth as in gothic. Göteborg would pretty much translate to "the castle/keep of the goths". Göte = Goth/Geat.

it would be sad if sweden actually went to a war in the last century.

Joakim is roughly pronounced Jo-a-kim.

@jonasthemovie

Жыл бұрын

Yo-ah-kim

You were probably corrected. Swedish, not German.

Its the Joakim Noah one...

@TheWyldesidewithEricClark

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers, Eric

German! Are you drunk?

@TheWyldesidewithEricClark

2 жыл бұрын

God no! I'm alcohol free...probably super baked though, if I know me. Cheers! Eric