Sabaton: The Fellowship of the Swedes

[@KimKhan]

They got an award for education with music. That's metal.

[@decky5195]

and there it is the common mistake of thinking sabaton glorify war its honestly annoying to hear at this point

[@liamgavinwells]

Yeah. Some of their songs could be interpreted that way, but there seems to be at least one sad song about war per album

[@Lazymindflayerwithcofffee]

I,m honestly belive that they aren,t glorifing war, and more honoring deeds like the courage and mercifulness, the fact that some people think that they are (glorifing war) more speaks of their ignorance (unable to find true message) or untolerability ( they so much of coward that any mention of war sends them into panic attack)

[@god-hx7iw]

thats the powermetal i think. im no sabaton fan myself cos losts of song come across as glorifying. especialy if you compair it to 1914 or kanonenfieber

[@overdriveoutershaxson1837]

dude I first listened to Sabaton when I was in 8th grade and oh my did it change my love of music forever.

[@LeroxYT]

Since then im almost only listening to rock, metal and so one. No Pop or any of that bs😂

[@Normal-history-buff-4859]

I first listened in 7th grafe

[@atomizerplayz]

i first listened to tem in 8th grade too and it changed my taste to music too

[@TheTalkingUshanka]

"THE NORDIC JOKES WRITE THEMSELVES" how have I never heard of this guy he earned a sub

[@DurnehviirDromok]

i love the midi renditions in the background Price of a Mile, Christmas Truce, Father, Night Witches, and Dreadnought are juat a few of my favorites

[@J4R0D]

8-bit Gallipoli and Wolfpack are amazing

[@robertharris6092]

"It was fallout 4" banish this man to the shadow realm immedietly.

[@averagefalloutenjoyer12]

dont

[@ItzEeon]

goated video. do not disrespect my boy ever again tho

[@sovietnorway8305]

Defence of Moscow is a cover of Radio Tapok.

[@skdjrhaejdhst-cat]

I thought it was the other way around- ok *adds to the reasons to stan radio tapok list*

[@themightyironoak]

The title alone got my attention. Been listening to Sabaton for over 2 years and they are amazing live. They do not glorify war in the slightest, they literally write entire songs and albums about how horrible and terrible it is.

[@overdriveoutershaxson1837]

4:18 Serenity, Civil war and Desert come to mind

[@then00brathalos]

to be fair civil war mitosised from sabaton

[@MagnusEeroIsdal]

remember there is Radio Tapok.

[@Nothingtoseehere139]

Sabaton is criminally underrated

[@Kiwi-Araga]

Don't know about underrated. Every time I go top one of their concerts the line is at least 1km long more than one hour before they let us in.

[@wercengetoryks4579]

I dont know how it looks in other european countries, but at this moment sabaton is one of the most popular active music bands, not metal, but music bands in general

[@panzerlurch2629]

Sabaton singing about Warhammer would be awesome 😂🤘

[@Zynjar]

While the visual aspects do require a lil bit more work (and are great for a guy who has sub 400 subs) the actual content is really good! You just earnt a sub

[@Localwalltheif]

I love the stormtroopers in the background

[@AlvinLarsson-n1x]

I need to find it, is it on Spotify. Someone please tell me I need to know

[@atomizerplayz]

@@AlvinLarsson-n1x all of the sabaton songs are or atleast should be on spotify

[@FelipeRodrigues-nm4gp]

Today my youtube music recap released. I have 56 HOURS OF SABATON, even I AM IMPRESSED

[@atomizerplayz]

im waiting for my spotify recap to release so i that i could see how much ive listened to them. i think its a lot cus i just have a playlist of them on the random song thing that i listen to for atleast and hour 5 days of the week.

[@Vestyyy887]

we need to make this video go viral so sabaton can see it!

[@dinkeycat]

1:00 legendary taste

[@atomizerplayz]

me just vibing to the backround music because i like sabaton

[@BattleshipOrion]

Let's be honest: the United States needs more Sabaton We got the Indian Wars, Revolutionary War, War of 1812(if England remembers which is unlikely), Indian Death March, Civil War, Spanish American War, Mexican American War, other battles with native tribes.

[@Cody-5501]

French Indian wars too though that might count under “the Indian wars” but I would count it separate

[@felixbeth6340]

Try the band civil war a collection of old sabaton members more focusing on american history

[@gamingsu-sauer3530]

Im so happy to get to see them again in 2025. Looking at the teaser for the new album cover it seems that they’re actually doing ancient history next.

[@GasMaskProductions0]

16:32 Sabaton has a song about Lord of the rings actually. It's on their Metallizer album, it's the song called Shadows. They talk about the Nazgul in it. You might know already though, idk.

[@atomizerplayz]

it took me like 14 times hearing it to realise that it was about lord of the rings even thought im a huge fan of the hobit and lord of the rings

[@PingvinAnd1]

around 10:49 war is more or less just waiting, waiting, oh look there's a pidgen, deer, or some other type of looked up to animal, oh nature is so great and beutifull, waiting, waiting, waiting, a little more waiting, dies

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

Bolt thrower are even bigger nerds war hammer, 40k and war hammer fantasy + ww1 ww2 and every godd3a4m war ever

[@simoboi695]

sabaton is like the opposite of mayhem

[@Rabbel5520]

Why?

[@simoboi695]

@ because sabaton is always uplifting and singing about god and shit while mayhem is you know not doing that

[@DragonPlayer00]

Sabaton is a great band and this video really shows that. there are facts i never knew about the songs and their history linked to them and these facts being presented in this humorous video is just making my day better now. great video, keep it up👍

[@Makarovmw371]

Cute pfp

[@RiloTrest1248]

I find it very tragic that the old band members are kinda forgotten and same with the album Metalizer. Before they changed the memebers they actually played heavy metal, I hate how Songs like Metal Medley,Purple Heart or Union just don`t get played anymore. Most of the fans who listen to Sabatan just scrape the tip of the Iceberg and don`t know about the otherside of Sabaton before they changed the members in 2012.

[@Ahalaya]

They had a KZbin short where they asked for some ideas about what to do for their next album. I recommended more ancient history stuff. It looks like we're getting our wish for their next album, based on the posters for their next European tour.

[@BenStoleMyWaffles]

This cideo is almost criminally underrated

[@RottingIntellectYT]

wait no way this video slaps funny enough I also found sabaton being bored in lockdown and have slowly converted my entire family into metal enjoyers 💀

[@VannoArch]

8 bit sabaton in the background is amazimg

[@dragongaming479]

A modern-day warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer Mean, mean pride

[@thebanditman5663]

War media is all “glorified” by nature of spectical. Humans like spectical, and so even “anti” war movies made by anti war people make “pro” war movies for the 90% of people who’ve never been through war, since the spectical, even of a horrible slaughter like D-day, is digested by the masses as thrilling, since we’re invested in finding out if our main characters survive. The final stand in saving private Ryan is made glorious by their actions leading to the halt of German forces taking back Normandy. The ideologues who are so anti-war to the point of national pacifism as policy are the only group who see “anti war” movies as anti war. To that end they then don’t actually watch “war movies” There’s a French movie out there where soldiers intentionally injure themselves to get out of service, and while it doesn’t have any battles or very much spectacle, it’s more of a drama than anything with WWI as the backdrop, as they’re trying to dodge the service leads to an investigation. Most soldiers roll their eyes at most war movies when they try to be super serious about how bad war is because “war is boring.” And love the cheesy spectacle even more because it’s funny. That one scene in Fury where Brad Pitt’s character forces the new guy to execute a man who’s surrendered is so stupidly unrealistically forced to make a point about how “grim” and inhuman war is, and as such I find it dumb. If you want war media that actually doesn’t “glorify” it, Vet TV has a series out, and it’s mostly that 90% of the time spent out of battle where you’re bored, and doing stupid shit that gets you in trouble with friends… It also has the other 10% of the time where they do combat, but it just sort of “is” combat, without a spin to make it look particularly fun or grim dark.

[@MateuszMisztela]

"Jarhead" is kinda popular movie about boredom of war.

[@grahamnlegos]

Finally somebody shares my opinion of Steel Commanders

[@squidcraft3878]

2:05 i love stormtrooper

[@Cody-5501]

The drummer is married to floor jenson who is the female lead for nightwish.

[@bkam9794]

Congrats on a new Subscriber.

[@Scaevola9449]

The Virgin "All Quiet on the Western Front:" War is Hell 😢😢😥 The Chad "Storm of Steel:" WAR IS HELL! 😎😎😎

[@MateuszMisztela]

Do you know that war is...le bad?

[@dragongaming479]

we know but it makes a killer metal song

[@TenkoBerry]

Pretty Interesting

[@ultimategmoneyremaber1821]

Lost battalion one of the goat

[@grahamnlegos]

Sabaton had openly said that they aren’t trying to glorify war, instead they try to tell stories. They even have songs deglorifying war.

[@coninater]

11:26 Joke aside from talking about WW1 while showing two movies/series about WW2, there are official documentaries of that from the French side during WW1 when they started to mutiny against their generals and the needless slaughter. French soldiers refusing to relief the soldiers stuck in the trenches for example, several of them were even executed for it. IIRC, the documentaries "WW1 Apocalypse" and "WW1 in color" talks about it at great length.

[@featheredweasel]

Sweden might have a lot of horribel people, but they do indeed make some good products and music

[@demon290901]

This man's research of sabaton seems to be about as shallow as a puddle of water, otherwise he will find out that they did, even though it's just one song about Japanese history, precisely the battle of shirojama which ended the satsuma rebelion they have also made, song about Sparta that's more than 300 to 400 years from us im pretty sure even the last stand song events are almost 500 years old they also have fantasy song from Tolkien work called shadows about the ringwraiths so if I can pull al this just from my head after years of listening to sabaton and going to concerts etc. you should do far better in your research and next time actually do some.

[@atomizerplayz]

i didnt know that satsuma was also a rebellion and not just the car in msc

[@sunandshadow6593]

I don't know about the world wars being the biggest. I mean, the second is. Clearly. But the Mongol invasions killed probably more than the first world war.

[@kevinfranzen-s1x]

we swedes have to unite

[@Project_Warfare]

Not to be a nerd but it's not Joekeem, it's more like Yokeem cuz Swedish name. He even says his name on Sabaton History channel

[@HelloMan181]

For me, it was Gloryhammer, during covid times!

[@HappyNoob17YT]

Thunder striking, wizard smasher!

[@ErwanMontana]

Find your vid thanks to the algorithm ; great work put into for few views, keep the good work lad ! One detail, if you haven't you should watch "Joyeux Noël ", a 2005 french movie about WWI. Specificaly about the 1914's christmas in trenches were soldiers did a truce for one night, to me this movie do incapsulate some kind of "waiting time". And in its own weird way "See You Up There" do a really good job with the depiction of the treatment of french wwi war veterans, especially the psyche of the Gueules Cassées.

[@Thomassdoor]

@@ErwanMontana I’ll add that to my watchlist! My guilty pleasure is watching foreign tv and movies, so I’ll make sure to find some time for it between all the Spanish soap operas.

[@lucybryant8280]

The song in the background of the video is storm troopers

[@lucybryant8280]

And the Bismark

[@lucybryant8280]

And the unkilladle soldier

[@lucybryant8280]

And field Verdon

[@lucybryant8280]

And shonoyon sorry for English

[@nukerbob4992]

@@lucybryant8280shiroyama

[@Alaska_Protogen]

up next: SABATON: A life time of war (offical lyric video)

[@jacobrullproductions1554]

I loved sabaton but I mean if I just go around saying “I like history and sabaton” yea people would bully me so I go for historical songs like I mean flipping civil war tunes and British marching songs not a guy yelling at me about history (even I love that)

[@darkrad7535]

ppl can talk reflective and seemingly unbiased about their favorite music? And I thought I was on the internet.. no srsly, cool video!

[@ilpazzo1257]

"But besides those, what" likely inspired by Sabaton in part, but look into 1914 and Kanonenfieber. Also I think another band called Bolter.

[@Rabbel5520]

Sabaton does not glorify war, I'm so tired of hearing that. great video otherwise.

[@Verge_Of]

I will have to duly note your points about them glorifying war, and politely disagree with all of them.

[@MooseGaming33]

15:36 even the band tool has something about the roman empire

[@Ahalaya]

I keep getting distracted by having that cover of The War to End All Wars album in the back. XD It's one of my favorite albums of all time, not just by Sabaton.

[@greensoldier2142]

What I love doing every Friday is to come back from school. Boot my strategy, historical ww2 game and blast Soybaton. While also scrolling through r/historymemes on my second monitor. I also prepate myself tea and biscuits so I don't identify with the cultureless plebs who play LoL and drink their mount and due and eat pizza all day. I am not like the others.

[@JustAnotherJoltReskin.]

war war never changes is from all fallout games

[@greatlegacyoftanks5511]

16:26 Sabaton does in fact have a LOTRs song…

[@Ekaidseaky]

I disagree with your take on sabaton making particularly emotional music. But I do like the video

[@youtubecreators384]

Sabaton needs to make a song about Theodore Roosevelt. The manliest US president who ever manned the White House.

[@BigBl0ck-r9y]

The swedish virson of karl den 12,

[@Cody-5501]

To be fair if your making a song about Adrian catan dwiart (I 100% spelled that so wrong) without it sounding awesome. They have many good anti war songs and include anti war sentiments in other songs like Great War, fields of verdun, and angels calling.

[@TankFan-yn6kg]

When the 1916 rising album Sabaton when?!?

[@Vektordeformacio]

This dude sounds like an European Goniloc

[@panzer4801]

If you like sabaton try HULKOFF/RAUBTIER and civil war.

[@robbercopgamer]

Check their recent post on their next tour. Look at the picture. Thank me later.

[@funnyjupiter4499]

i will say some of the Sabaton songs have pretty weak written lyrics, but that depends more on the sabaton album you listen to, the last Stand and Metalizer come to mind, but i do not agree that most Sabaton songs have weak lyrics, Carolus rex, coat of arms and both of there ww1 albums i would argue have for the most part very strong lyrics, it a bit difficult to define a strong lyrics since some peapol feel like death metal goes to fare and just sounds fake and just loud in order to sound good while other claims that it the hardest and most brutally and meaningful music form ever i would argue Sabaton does not have the most complex lyrics ever with some examples here and there like Stalingrad is of the most complex songs Sabaton has ever done but Stalingrad is not a universally loved tracks despite it being on of the most complex ones, the most loved and memorable sabaton tracks you often see peapol talk about is Carolus Rex, Primo Victoria, The Last Standd and even swedish pagans etc etc, i want to make it clear that lyrics that is more complex do not make it better all the time sometimes simple is more than making it deeply complex and more difficult to write and understand, sometimes a complex lyrics is better but not all the time personly one thing Sabaton has done very well is that they have stuck to their guns and what they are good at despite what others think about them and sabaton is a high-quality band that works hard on their albums and does maybe change some small things here and there but never compromise the core of the music, you always know what you're going to get with sabaton and that is what has allowed them to become on of the most popular metal bands and for my money i argue that most sabaton songs have good lyrics just not the most complex, i disagree that about the claim that Sabaton glorifies war, not every war song has to be depressing or sad all the time in order for it to not glorify war, Do Sabaton have some very heroic uplifting songs that put the situation in a much more positive light yes they do, but listen to a lifetime at war or great war or even Christmas truce there you got so much more sad and brutal songs with much more somber message that is not glorifying war at all, to me it sounds like you have not really listened to most sabaton songs and have only just started listing to them and that is fine but it saying that they glorify war when the have songs that literally do the opposite is not really giving an accurate representation of sabaton at least in my view, i would say sabaton do sometimes maby go over the top in some songs but i would not go as fare as to say glorifying sabaton has its flaws of course but glorifying war is not one of them as much as i would love an album about Rome i think you have to keep in mind that history is a massive and i mean massive subject and as interesting as Rome and ancient Asia is there is a lot more of interesting history than just those two, ancient Egypt, the Napoleonic wars, south american revolution, alexander the great, the 100 years war, naval warfare and that is not even scratching the surface, sabaton has not even covered 1% of all of history yet, sabaton is not going to be able to cover everting it simply to large of a subject but i do agree that sabaton should take something else for there next album, they have made two ww1 albums now, time to go further back

[@outcast4087]

I disagree that Sabaton glorify the war. Songs like "The price of a Mile", "Cliffs of Gallipoli", "Fields of Verdun", "The end of the War to end all Wars", those that you've already mentioned yourself, and many others that I can't recall right now - those songs can easily prove it.

[@bagrbagrovsky]

Or christmas truce

[@lukasz88888888]

I love this band, but their song Uprising is terrible.

[@jacobrullproductions1554]

Like I like forlorn hope, blazon stone, civil war and desert are people I listen to (a bit) but sabaton now just makes me annoyed because I see why my parents and siblings and friends bullied me for it like sabaton seriously glorifies such common history like dude just ww2 and Ww1 like dude it makes me annoyed sing something else (but haters gonna hate)

[@MateuszMisztela]

"bullied me" What the...? Why?

[@jacobrullproductions1554]

But I actually hate sabaton because they suck so damn much especially because they make people think all these soldiers are glorious strong soldiers instead of teenage boys who don’t even know what they are getting into they are thrown (with some training) into a slaughter I mean there would be no way of knowing what could happen