First Time Reaction to the songs "A Lifetime of war" and "En Livstid I Krig" by Sabaton - Deep Dive

[@MalachioftheForest]

The live version of this song in Sweden always gets me misty.

[@PastelFurry]

En livstid i krig is probably one of my favorite sabaton songs and the live performance just breaks me now adays, I honestly cant watch it without almost bursting into tears. Also about the sabaton history video as a native swedish speaker I always find it a bit funny to hear Indy talk swedish because I feel like his voice changes quite a bit

[@Naxela135]

wasnt this show right before the shutdown of covid too? like one of the biggest shows i heard that hit alot of people different too

[@christophschmedes5975]

EN livstid i Krig is my Favorit Sabaton Song

[@Bubbelgirl1]

Hi Touchy A really good and intresting reaction , i enjoyed the whole thing so and its so fantastic that so many people outside Sweden want to listen and Learn about this - it makes me really proud of my homecountry and of sabaton ofcourse så black light 😃. Hope you and your kind wife are healthy and happy !

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks Bubble girl. We are doing great. Thanks for asking.

[@melkor3496]

I love that Indy has lived in Stockholm (still does) long enough that he can speak Swedish nearly fluently (he just sounds a bit funny) and has a few years ago gotten a Swedish citizenship. He can now represent Sweden on YT. 😆 Great fact as a Swede knowing he is one too. His Swedish was pretty funny too but also extremely good like a 9/10 for being a foreigner.

[@miafranlund6982]

Very much appreciated, thanks Touchy for giving us the blacklight

[@TouchyReactions]

Mia, thanks for watching till the end

[@miafranlund6982]

@@TouchyReactions You know I dig the deepdives, so it was my pleasure!

[@birgittalagerstrom6264]

Thank you for this reaction. Power! Regards from Sweden🙋‍♀️ Blacklight

[@TouchyReactions]

Birgitta, thanks for watching till the end of the video.

[@mort58]

So great to see your deep dives in to songs. Gives the song so much more meaning. All the best from Sweden and let´s see that black light many more times,

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you Niklas

[@danielberger1378]

Black Light 🤘 Great video again, man!

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you Daniel

[@Flokarl1]

I love to hear both Joakim and Indy Nidell speaking swedish to each other....Indy with his obviously new swedish skills (funny tone:-) and Joakim with his clear Dalarna dialect (Dalarna = province in Sweden) ....the same province where it spoken about in Sabatons song "Livgardet" /The Royal Guards" BLACK LIGHT!

[@AlmightyNorppa]

My tears after watching the live video are only visible via blacklight

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you for taking the time to watch till the end

[@Doggyfication]

This is the best reaction video iv seen. Kind of a react, history, teach and band comment sort of video. Groundbreakin when it comes to so called.. reactionvideos if I may say so. Subbed and belled. Great work, want more. Great input and thoughts.

[@TouchyReactions]

Wow. Thank you. I have over 70 Sabaton videos on my channel. Many use this format. I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Doggyfication]

@@TouchyReactions i did, i do

[@melkor3496]

Great seeing you react to the history videos of old sabaton song reactions I hope it continues very much. Would love a history reaction to Uprising and The last battle as well as the other songs you reacted to without seeing the history. Especially the songs about the Swedish empire. Keep up the good work and great content. 🙏 👍

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks Melkor

[@melkor3496]

@@TouchyReactions NP as long as you are passionate in sabaton’s history and songs I will stay around this great channel. Much regards from Sweden.

[@Razzlion]

@@melkor3496 Melkor, what are you doing over here you sceaming little git! :P

[@melkor3496]

@@Razzlion ;)

[@petritormanen9593]

Thx great react🤙😀

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks Petri

[@pontiacfan76]

I really believe why a lot of the fans have a connection to their songs. Is the band interacts with the fans and actually does listen to the fans suggestions for a song.

[@fenrisulfur842]

So much fun! my swedish is bad, but a history episode in swedish is great! If i rememeber right, Indy was born in Sweden and being Texan is his 2nd citizenship xD

[@norkannen]

Havent seen your reactions for awhile. Congratz on your weight loss. Hope it was intentional😋❤️🇧🇻

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for noticing. You just reach a time in your life when it's time to get healthy. My time was Feb 2022. Lost 40lbs so far and feeling great.

[@earendilthemariner5546]

The whole song is sad (both eng and swe) but the breakdown at 7:31 hits different

[@TouchyReactions]

It's is a beautiful song 🎵

[@Normadus]

When You reacted to En Livstid I Krig 8 months ago I suggested that you should check older version ( A Lifetime of war) because I was sure that You are going to like it. Glad to know that I wasnt wrong A Lifetime of war was one of my favourite songs when I started to listen to sabaton 8-10y ago and chorus from that song is still in my top 3

[@TouchyReactions]

You were right

[@davidmair7497]

Will come Black and Light more Sabaton Vids. See ya soon. More off the new album needed. Looks like it's going to take Indy a while for history's especially with guys on tour. Oh Blood of Bannockburn a cool song. Helps being Scottish though. All the best keep up the good work.😁👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks David

[@leilanz8325]

Blacklight would look awesome on some of the more off-schedule videos, to be fair. Also, I thought Sabaton's channel didn't copyright strike reactors, though given the watermark on the Göteborg live, I guess it happened.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end of the video.

[@adeptinept3659]

Kek I just noticed in the lyric video for En Livstid I Krig, they accidentally put "sörjer" where "saknar" should have been and vice versa. "Sörjer" of course meaning "mourns" and "saknar" meaning "missing".

[@jancmyon4240]

I just came home from Sabaton Open Air - festival and got to witness once again this song with everybody singing along. As someone said the short snippets of the swedish version on that history episode was from Gothenburg 2012. The same venue as the 2020 version was and I was there on both times and I can only say "magic can be created". Yesterday at SOA same kind of magic was created with their song Christmas Truce. I wish they'll release a video of that.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank You Jan

[@Northman-from-the-North]

We can actually say the 30 years war was the first world war.

[@FloSchmdt14]

And the 7 years war was the second

[@СтаниславАлексеенко-ч4ъ]

What a blacklight reaction, lol XD

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you for taking the time to watch till the end

[@fenrisfafnesbane7988]

Thx for reacting to the history of En Livstid I Krig. Still too this day my favorite song. I watch them during The Swedish Empire Tour in Gothenburg (2012) which was a short clip at the end. Would love to see a reaction to Karolinens bön (The Carolean's Prayer). Please listen to both versions 😊 Blacklight.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end of the video

[@melkor3496]

Oh yes a reaction to both Caroleans prayer/ Karolinens bön would be amazing. I also would love a reaction to the other songs in the Swedish empire album from sabaton alongside their respective history videos.

[@marinamucic908]

Amazing song in both versions

[@FamousGirlfriend]

@@melkor3496 Me, whispering: "Patreon... Patreon..."

[@TouchyReactions]

😃

[@FamousGirlfriend]

Imagine someone checking the comment sections before watching Touchy's reaction videos going "Blacklight? Pirate ship? Mixed nuts? Batman? - WTF ARE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?!"

[@TouchyReactions]

I'm slowly activating Winter soldiers

[@Calumetto]

It amazes me. One side always thinks that they'll just roll in and the war will be over in a few days -- a week tops. How can a general stand up and say that in a war room anywhere without being "defenestrated" on the spot? ••• Thanks! PEACE!!!

[@martine3293]

Hey, how are you? I hope all is well. I love this song, especially the live version you watched. How about a little more Nightwish? They did a couple of summer festival shows and some were live streamed. One of the best was their Hellfest show, which has over 1.7 million views already. It's the most watched show from this Hellfest festival, even though it had an impressive lineup with bands like Metallica, Sabaton, Guns N' Roses, Deep Purple, Jinjer, Scorpions, Alice Cooper and many more. Here's the link to their show kzbin.info/www/bejne/poqsiWSArsdpaqc

[@TouchyReactions]

I actually watched it on my own time (Sorry). Floor killed as usual.

[@martine3293]

@@TouchyReactions True!

[@reecedignan8365]

Good to see your reacting to all this and it’s a joy to see your love for history expanding with each video. As to answer your some of question in the video too; 1. Tactics and weapons did advance and change during the 30 years was quite a bit. One major change came with Gustavus in that he pretty much helped write the book for modern black powder warfare in Europe. Instead of deploying large blocks of primarily pikemen to advance forward covered by small units of handgunners (who would use arquebuses and early flintlock muskets) he instead flipped the script with instead deploying large groups of hand gunners to batter the enemy with a devastating fire (tho being quite inaccurate more a morale destroyer vs a mass death machine) into the advancing enemy pike blocks before letting his own smaller ones now take the demoralised enemy and then crushing them down with cavalry from the flanks and the retreat. - smaller implementation he also experimented with were firing his men by ranks instead of all at once, and also having multiple ranks but only one shooting with another reloading and handing fresh guns to the front ranks. Another interesting invention that came during the pike and shot era of this time was the increased length of pistol barrels. Today when you see people extended the barrels on there weapons it’s usually to help increase their accuracy. However, during the P&S era it was done for a different reason. Said pistols of the era were pretty decent at punching through armour, as such blacksmiths produced the plate armour of men thicker and in better quality that at range they’d actually take many of these flintlock shots - they’d heavily dent the armour and hurt you but not punch through and kill you. As such it was found the only way to punch through for cavalry men and their pistols was to essentially press the barrel of the weapon to the plate and pull the trigger. And you don’t want to be doing that when someone trying to cut your head off with a sabre, so they began to increase the length of the pistol barrels so you could press it against the other persons armour without having to fully expose yourself to there wrath. 2. Camp followers are a very normal thing for warfare all the way up to around the late 19th century. You are correct in that for many it was better to have your wife and child near you to support vs at home where trying to send them back your spoils and wages… well would they ever get them or would some corrupt individual withhold or steal them? or would the ship ever make it home? Or what is to be there fate if you die? Atleast here they are around friends and family of your own brother who will protect them, at home they’d be forced to fend for themselves. Also take into consideration the creature comfort’s for men to. Having a wife and child to return to after a long battle to revive hope and spend time with. Morale wins wars not just battles. - this type of thing, brining wife’s and children to battle would continue on for centuries to come. In the British army during the Napoleonic era it was allowed for 6 officers per regiment to be allowed to being there wives along with them - the common trooper not to much unless they married in country (same applies to officer who marry in country). I think this was also the standard arrangement of things too during even the American War of Independence. As for the camp followers itself, these things used to be more of a semi-atomonus moving city in itself. War didn’t just attract soldiers and there wives and children, but blacksmiths who could sharpen swords, fix armaments and horse shoes; engineers/contractors who would help build bridges and equipment for the army alongside their own troops (tho for a price) plus maybe help fix up cannons; you had traders, cause everyone needs something don’t they?; horse breeders, cause when some poor cavalryman loses his favourite horse in battle, he’ll need a replacement and maybe a spare to take home - plus who doesn’t want to mix up some horse breeds for better stock later; you had hunters cause everyone got to eat and some people didn’t have time to fend for their own meals - not wanted to; you had carpenters who’d help make you new tents and huts and maybe even some wooden fingers or an arm or leg to replace the old one; you had ladies of the night along with their masters as… well soldiers need entertainment after a battle. Name something and there would likely be a skilled artisan there to profit from it - maybe even a dozen of em. Because where armies marched so did the need for everything. Hell some of these civilian camps used to be bigger than the actual armies they followed. Some even described them as just moving cities following the army.

[@TouchyReactions]

Reece, thanks for taking the time to share all of this with us. I can picture the roaming city's in my mind. What a strange time to live.

[@LothianTam]

Oh nice, this would have been yin I'd suggest to do both of.

[@johnmurphy7250]

Love blacklights

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks John

[@eriknordqvist6205]

Amen, Black Light

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end of the Video.

[@OSSY17]

Im proud to be Swedish and I will fight for my country ,make sweden swedish and stronger again

[@naphackDT]

Makes me wonder how many "top ten Sabaton songs" you have by now.

[@TouchyReactions]

10

[@FamousGirlfriend]

I've got 20. So weird.

[@melkor3496]

Black light.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the very end of this long Video.

[@gamingwithbobbo1618]

could you do a deep dive on back in control, great video

[@TouchyReactions]

It is on my list.

[@1891726]

Very late comment. Had we not had Gustav II Adolf as king, Sweden would have been threatened by the Catholics. This thing about foreign Lego players, there weren't actually that many. Just as they said, Sweden started reintroducing 8 districts and most farm boys would do their conscription (we still have conscription), but it was absolutely necessary. The Catholics slaughtered everything in their path and the Protestants needed a leader and that was King Gustav. Karl XII did not start a war, but something he was forced into. In 1700, Denmark, Poland and Russia declared a joint war against Sweden, it was a war of defense that we were finally forced into. I always honor our two proud kings on the day of their death .

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for sharing

[@KimFareseed]

Black Light. Indi's swedish does feel awkward, though I am more used to the english. Ended up trying to decipher it more then anything.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end of the video

[@lenasoderberg2583]

håller klart med. Indys swedish not bad but its strange

[@edwardvictors4618]

Hey!, guys I'm new to your channel and I like your reactions and I want to introduce to you onother wonderful filipino singer with a wonderful voice her name is MORISSETTE please listen and react to her cover of NEVER ENOUGH from the greatest showman and IWANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS and her original in pilipino AKIN KA NA LANG she sang all these songs live.on a radio bus station WISH 107.5 except the foreigner song bet you'll like it, she's good.....

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks Edward. We just recorded our reaction to that last night. Should be up on Patreon Today or tomorrow. It will release on KZbin on September 7th.

[@dangavelli434]

Blacklight

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you Dan

[@Murvelhund]

Off course, black light.

[@TouchyReactions]

Thank you so much for watching till the end of the video

[@lenasoderberg2583]

its so strange for me that actually knows swedish history that we have ppl set Gustav Adolf and Karl the 12 high when all the did was fight war and left the swedish ppl and soldiers starving. What is that to gloify?

[@fenrisulfur842]

1618, 1871,1914,1939,1965, 1967, 1979,1991,1994, 2001 and so on....mankind never changed, unable or unwilling to learn or envolve (did you get all the conflicts? the list is not complete, and i spared 1775 ;) )

[@TouchyReactions]

Sad history of man

[@fenrisulfur842]

@@TouchyReactions and we wont learn, we only try to make it even worse...

[@fenrisulfur842]

@@TouchyReactions and there are all the "small" things like the Falkland War, Nothern Ireland, US Civil War, all the millions that lost their lives during "unstable" political conditions....

[@TouchyReactions]

Right

[@Robinscaprice]

Black ligth

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end

[@Robinscaprice]

I Hope you do the same on lion of the north.

[@andreivlad3518]

They alreadi have muschets in theat time

[@uffewallin4425]

Blacklight

[@TouchyReactions]

Thanks for watching till the end