Sabaton: "We need a very good soprano singer for the end credits of our new song." Hannes: "I have one at home."
@DemolitiondudeАй бұрын
Hey honey. Can you do a vocal cameo?
@erikpalmer1201Ай бұрын
I think it took them 2 or 3 years for them to write this song just to make it perfect. Best Christmas song ever, true masterpiece.
@craigbolton5093Ай бұрын
Sabaton's outros can be amazing- Floor on this and Tina Guo's work on 1916 are, for me, the high points of already great works
@Torbjorn.LindgrenАй бұрын
Yeah, Floor is married to Hannes van Dahl, Sabaton's drummer. Floor's outro isn't on the "normal" version of the song nor on the Orchestral version of Christmas Truce - they made a separate orchestral version of the entire album (all 11 tracks) named The Symphony to End All Wars. All vocals on that is by Floor including on Christmas Truce but it's a different take on it from either (so at least three distinct versions).
@dkmcbigsley9 күн бұрын
This song skyrocketed up my Christmas Top 20 this year
@Heisenberg-BlueАй бұрын
The best thing about the video is that this situation really happened in a similar way during the first Christmas of the First World War.
@JariJuslinАй бұрын
I like it when you geek out! Enough people in KZbin who can tell it's nice, but not that many who can tell *why* it's nice!
@ShawkaReactsАй бұрын
Thank you!
@chriso6719Ай бұрын
The video was made by people that usually make movies. When the world shut down, movies also stopped, so they had time to do this. Joakim has said that the song is actually a waltz. When you come back to Sabaton, suggest an animated story video, try "Night Witches" or "No Bullets Fly".
@carinarodebak9419Ай бұрын
Sabaton is truly great and Christmas Truce is one of their greatest. So much good music to enjoy. The fraze' We were soldiers and carried the war on our shoulders.' never fails to give me shivers. So please, more Sabaton. Another rabbithole to explore is the guy you saw as the french sodier/guitarist here, Tommy Johansson. He has recently left his position - very amicably- as lead guitarist in Sabaton, to pursue his own musical career, both as solo artist and as leader of his own power rock band Majestica. Tommy is a great vocalist, guitarist or rather multi-instrumentalist. Guitar, bass, keys, drums, accordion, banjo, harmonica, recorder and mouth harp I've seen him play and he is also a phenomenal musical arranger. He usually does the arrangments when Sabaton covers another artist, as in their rendition of Motörhead 1916, another epic video for you to check out from Sabaton. Tommy has also arranged some solo music for Floor. Tommy is very inspired by Gary Moore and have done several covers of GM on his solo channel. Other good Toomy videos are: The Winner Takes It All by ABBA The Price from Twisted Sisters She's Gone Steelheart Bohemian Rhapsody Queen And many, many others.. PS Sabaton and marching bands. Sabaton did a song about Smoking Snakes, a Brazilian unit that fought together with the allied side in the invasion of Italy during WWII. Various Brazilian forces has adapted that song for their army bands. There exists several videos on YT with Brazilian forces playing it, which you might find of interest.
@JariJuslinАй бұрын
They really took their time with this one, tuning it for several years because they wanted to get it Just Right, because of how important and beautiful the story is.
@ShawkaReactsАй бұрын
It shows!
@fnglert27 күн бұрын
When a metalband from Sweden just comes out and drops the best and hardest hitting christmas song of the last decade.
@Nem01Ай бұрын
Damn right, you start again with Sabaton. So happy about it. Tommy departed on good terms to do his own thing for the moment. Highly recommend checking him out if you didn't already did.😅
@Sanne1109M27 күн бұрын
Thanks for the great reaction. It's great that you've found your way back to Sabaton. It's such a beautiful emotional song. I would be happy if you also check out Tommy Johansson. He has his own band Majestica or his Youtoube channel where he does amazing covers. You won't be disappointed. Tommy J. is a great musician and singer.
@crazytrain63925 күн бұрын
Piano intro and backing is an inverted Carol of the bells to give a sense of dread. It later flips back to the original to give hope(right at the end as the music slows for the cross and ending).
@elvwoodАй бұрын
Great reaction, thanks! This was the video that turned me into a Sabaton fan. You'd be surprised how many reactors stop listening 30 seconds into the credits - I always think, "Are you even awake? Use your ears!"
@David_randomnumberАй бұрын
It's a great filter to see who really enjoys the music and who's only doing it for the clicks
@mudshark5393Ай бұрын
Fyi, the choir in the main track, the call and response soaring voices... It was not their usual (fantastic) bunch of people, they used an Italian gospel choir for this one.
@rnowak85Ай бұрын
Great reaction to one of my favorite Sabaton songs! Great job recognizing Floor's voice. The orchestral music playing during the credits that Floor is singing over was composed by Antti Martikainen. He is a Finnish composer who has written , recorded, and released his own epic symphonic music as well as composed music for a number of video games. When I saw them live in 2022 the acapella section was a huge crowd participation moment. Everyone was singing at the top of their lungs.
@CthugniАй бұрын
Your face as you really noticed the outro vocals. Love it!
@JeanneDawleyАй бұрын
love Sabaton. they are so great.
@CalumettoАй бұрын
That was super enjoyable. Thank you! ••• PEACES!!!
@SylviaCovington-g1iАй бұрын
Incredible! Thank You!
@Thorgrim247Ай бұрын
Hannes Van Dahl the drummer of Sabaton! Floor's husband. Yup, you recognized her beautiful vocalization during the credits. Great ear my friend.
@Mars-is4un27 күн бұрын
🤗🍒🤘🏻 well done and The drummer of the band Hannes is Floor's husband
@mcloew25827 күн бұрын
With all the intros and cinematics as well, imagine what Oscar like movies they are able to do
@StefanRixöАй бұрын
Nice reaction dude, still epic track🇸🇪
@Nem01Ай бұрын
The credit vocals was indeed floor ja son, Hannes' (sabatons drummer) wife.😅
@Flokarl121 күн бұрын
The budget for this musicvideo alone!
@dutchman7623Ай бұрын
Mrs. F. van Dahl-Jansen is a good singer. She does some solo, but sings in a Finnish band too.
@alleninfinity6730Ай бұрын
That she does, and doesn't even need words to sound amazing.
@Nem01Ай бұрын
Hannes hugging Chris always breaks my heart.
@ullis5125Ай бұрын
Symphonic version of this song is awesome too
@finnmccool285117 күн бұрын
I add my recommendation for you to check out Tommy Johansson (the guitarist in this video), he has more musical talent than almost anyone today. I suggest, for this time of year, either "O Helga Natt" ("O Holy Night" in Swedish) or Ave Maria (epic version)! For any other time of year, any will do, they're all amazing! ❤
@stevechiappetta896728 күн бұрын
True story
@Megan-c7b4 күн бұрын
🤘🖤🔥🤘 for Sabaton, and💖👍🤘 for You😊
@ShawkaReacts4 күн бұрын
🤘
@matthiasnolte381729 күн бұрын
The amazing thing is, that this actually happend in the war 1914! The officialls on both sides forbid it for the next years to happen.
@rolandpersson266925 күн бұрын
Think about the time signatures a bit 😂 it’s a waltz
@ShawkaReacts25 күн бұрын
Makes sense 😂
@Nem01Ай бұрын
Nice reaction.
@ShawkaReactsАй бұрын
Thank you 😁
@ingerkristine359729 күн бұрын
This is one of my favourites! Did you know that Sabaton has their own history channel, where they talk about the stuff from their songs? kzbin.info As some have mentioned, Tommy is no longer with Sabaton. They parted at good terms, and Tobbe, who Tommy took over for, is comming back. I have seen them live once, and have tickets to their concert in Oslo in December 2025! Back to Tommy - he is an awsome guitarist, but has quite om other things up his sleeve as well. Hope you will check out his version of Phantom of the Opera kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5jcg2Cdn8iBmM0 or his band Majestica with the song Above the Sky kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6WcfpRnjMRjras . He also has his own youtubechannel where he drops covers every Friday - just for fun :-)
@2AhtoАй бұрын
I waited this suspicious look :) do you recognize this voice or not......
@AaaaAaaa-zp6ki22 күн бұрын
You should listen to Wintersun. I think you’d love them.
@Nem01Ай бұрын
After this happened the Russians tried to start a truce on the eastern front on Easter. The issue is Easter isn't at the same time in the Russian and the German calendars so it never happened because people thought it was a trick.😢
@attilademe6615Ай бұрын
Floor Jansen sabaton drumms married
@youaremysecretstreamАй бұрын
🫶🥁🥁🥁❤
@Nem01Ай бұрын
This happens when higher ups throw people in war that never asked for it. Put the high ranking bastards in one room and leave the rest alone.
@Nem01Ай бұрын
I hate Christmas, not only because my ancestors were in these horrible battles, but everything about it. The only accepted Christmas themed song allowed in my house is this song.
@roihesse9174Ай бұрын
Based on a true story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce