VETERAN REACTS to SABATON Fields of Verdun

[@loganviking3923]

To Hell and Back (official video) is a must for Veteran Reacts. It's about Audie Murphey.

[@Blandwhistle8]

That's my all time favorite song by sabaton

[@selonianth]

Cannot be seconded hard enough.

[@billgappmayer7911]

It's an amazing song.

[@99Knytes]

I would add in 82nd All the Way (Alvin York and the taking of Hill 223), and Devil Dogs (US Marines during the Battle of Bellou(sp?) Wood).

[@leechowning2712]

Understand, I agree totally... But for my friends out there with PTSD... It is not easy.

[@ShadowhispersBand]

Verdun was a massacre. Both on the french and the german side. There were 300 days and 300 nights of combat without a break, 300,000 dead and missing, 400,000 French and German wounded. The pastoral landscape surrounding the city had been permanently transformed, and nine villages-Beaumont, Bezonvaux, Cumières, Douaumont, Fleury, Haumont, Louvemont, Ornes, and Vaux-were entirely destroyed. Douaumont Ossuary, a monument completed in 1932 that contains the remains of 150,000 unidentified French and German soldiers. n the 21st century the French Interior Ministry estimated that over 10 million shells remained in the soil around Verdun, and bomb-clearing units continued to remove some 40 tons of unexploded munitions from the area annually.

[@eruantien9932]

It was a year of massacres, the Somme (310,000 dead and missing, 800,000 wounded and captured) and the Brusilov Offensive (800,000 dead, wounded and missing, 500,000 captured) also happened in 1916. (Random aside, one of my great-grandmothers had the maiden name Beaumont, probably a different Beaumont to that village though).

[@ShadowhispersBand]

@@eruantien9932 Yes, indeed. And basicly all lead up to World War II... Glad I live some 100 years later hoping history won't repeat itself. Beaumont is in fact a pretty common name. Means beautiful hill. And there are a lot of beautiful hills in France and french speaking countries ;)

[@TheHeadhunter85]

My great grandfather fought on that fight (Verdun), and my grandfather in the advande to Rome with the Allies on WW2. My grandfather, a grumpy hot headed but a really humble man, always told me that war changes your life in ways that many few can comprehend... I miss him so much :/

[@ShadowhispersBand]

@@TheHeadhunter85 THX for sharing. My grandmother got deported during WW2 as their family hid joung man would have to join the German army while our country was occupied. I see what you mean, even if it is not the same being in a camp then fighting the war.

[@TheHeadhunter85]

@@ShadowhispersBand It's a terrible history!! well... my g grandfather and grandfather, were forced to fight. They had no choice, it was a matter of life or death. After WW2 my grandfather leaves Italy and start a new life here in Argentina. Hell!! now that I remember, my dad always tell the history of one of his aunt-grandfathers. He fought on the Libia-Tripoli war, he amputated himself two fingers of his hand, and even though was forced to fight. So yes, in a such large scale war ,no matter on which side you are in, it sucks....

[@greaper1976]

If you want to do something about veterans, look no further than Sabaton - To Hell and Back. It deals with PTSD and how soldiers were treated in the past (amongst other things) You ,ight also be interested in watching the videos on the Sabaton History Channel, where the band tells us a bit about the recording or effects of the songs, and Indy Nidell explains the history behind the stories in their songs in detail

[@kyriss12]

Actually it's about Audie Murphy, "to hell and back" being the name of his autobiography as well as a movie about his war experience starring Audie Murphy as himself. Audie did in fact end up with PTSD as well as a severe morphine addiction which he kicked cold turkey by locking himself in hotel room. The final verse, and part of the chorus are taken from a poem he wrote called "crosses on Anzio."

[@ginnydileo5168]

One thing Nightwish and Sabaton have in common is they are both deep rabbit holes you can find yourself going down as far as checking our their music. I'm not sure where you guys live, but they're touring the US soon and if you're able to go, I guarantee you, it will be the most fun concert you've ever been to.

[@striderbob10]

Bismark, Ghost Division (live), Carolus Rex, A Lifetime of War, 40-1 are a couple great Sabaton songs

[@Sweetzluf]

Just wanted to point out the swedish version of A lifetime of war (en livstid i krig) is better in my opinion as it is a more personal journey. While the english version is more about a big war.

[@QuackTheNinja]

As well as Panzerkampf, Uprising, Primo Victoria, and a few others.

[@cl0cktow3r80]

To Hell and Back. Night Witches. Both are great Sabaton songs

[@ZeppelinAdventures25]

White Death and The Red Baron are my current favorites.

[@bojanpolojac7439]

I'd have to add Resist and bite to the list.

[@Sam-xc2rx]

Yes the drummer is Floor's husband and yes the band is Swedish🤘👍

[@justicar5]

Sabaton 40-1 (Woodstock Poland) a song of the battle of Wizna, in front of over half a million people in Poland. (Battle of Wizna was a battle lasting 3 days, when 700 Poles fought off 42,000 Nazis, including over 350 tanks in WW2.) The crowd is huge, and goes nuts, the song is epic, and Wizna should be marked and remembered.

[@skydragon6952]

Malcur 720 poles to be exact

[@rog2224]

Verdun was one of the places my grandfather took the heavy guns. Being RA, he, and his team of horses, served pretty much every hell hole on the western front. Among my motley collection of family things, I have his spurs.

[@thekriegsmarine5621]

3:51 Maybe it's about Verdun....but who knows.

[@trololopez2437]

Nah it’s about the Ardennes

[@kingwolf9447]

Birds of War is an old one by them about the flyboys of WW1, it includes an Organ that makes it sounds like boss music.

[@maxmattt]

Floor is 6.1, he’s even taller. I can only imagine how tall their little girl will be when she’s grown up.

[@anhalter1572]

@NorthernLights ofDemons lol

[@MrOiram46]

Swords Chant RNGenetics

[@11DNA11]

@Swords Chant Daddy hasn't had questions for mommy?

[@Darth_Urruz]

Song named "Fields of Verdun" and after 2 minutes "the veteran" "assumes" it's about WW1 :D :D

[@thetrain47539]

lmao

[@SylviusTheMad]

In my experience, if Americans know of big WW1 battles they know of the Somme, rather than Verdun or Ypres or any of the others.

[@noozy2111]

@@SylviusTheMad only reason I know about this stuff if because of my love for history and knowing what happened otherwise when I was in school they barely taught us about it. I think the most I learned without doing it on my own time was the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and a few other things like the treaty but not a single battle

[@aenorist2431]

Yea that has nothing to do with him being a veteran (no quotes needed) and all with bad US education. I mean it helps that we could make a bus trip and walk the fields of verdun, still marked to this day. Pretty harrowing, people still die every few years ... just farmers tilling up live shells, and endless bones still emerging from the soil.

[@packr72]

@@SylviusTheMad If more Americans knew about Verdun then their would be fewer French surrender jokes.

[@trivialslope]

Sabaton are modern day bards telling the stories of the brave men and women of the battlefield

[@MetallicaROX38]

Bismark, Great War, The Last Battle, The Final Solution, Sparta, Camouflage. So many good songs from this band

[@thanorodd5663]

From Sabaton, HIGHLY recommend 82nd All The Way - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zn22YY1um8ycf6s As well as Bismarck! 82nd has more to react to from a war perspective, Bismarck more from a music perspective.

[@acerimmerz]

Sabaton are an excellent band and they have their own history channel starring the band members and Indy neidell - american historian who's done his own series' in the past. Iron Maiden (named after a british regiment) also in their songs bring history to life, 5FDP also pay respects to the american military (wrong side of heaven is an amazing song).

[@Alithia451]

Bismarck has a better video and Carolus Rex is their best sing. Great live performances from Woodstock are 40:1, Ghost division.

[@Boman-Boys]

Alithia451 hell yeah!!!👍

[@AngelesBustamanteM]

Bismark Bismark Bismark You won't regret it :P

[@NinjaofNi9ht]

Bismarck*

[@TheStefan6969]

🤘🤘 Love Sabaton!! History metal!!! 🤘🤘

[@matthewrobinett1012]

Verdun was the longest battle in history with 303 days of war

[@11DNA11]

Lol no. There were sieges that lasted for years... That's one battle.

[@mizcaesar1804]

@@11DNA11 well yeah they were sieges this was a battle

[@MikeDPlxztc]

Sabaton is coming to Fort Lauderdale's Revolution live on October 4th that should be awesome very small venue tickets are only twenty-five bucks

[@Wanys123]

Sabaton are from Sweden, city of Falun....they started doing annual festival now called Sabaton Open Air there...

[@jimforehand7571]

You pronounced it correctly the 1st time and if you're curious what it means a sabaton is the bit of articulated armor that would go over the shoes of someone in a full set of plate armor. "To hell and back", "Cliffs of Gallipoli" and "The price of a mile" would be some other good ones for a veteran to react to

[@lanereynolds4567]

I'd love to see you guys react to more sabaton. To hell and back, ghost division, night witches, and so much more... and after that, maybe try some disturbed, especially their godly cover of sound of silence.

[@TheBandSShow]

It's definitely on the list, my friend!

[@AsavarKul]

IF you wanna know all about the history behind their songs they have a channel here on youtube called Sabaton History where they talk about the events that inspired them.

[@johncheek2415]

Yes the drummer, Hannes is married to Floor. All their songs are military history related, and their live shows are awesome, check out "Wing Hussars", and "Roakes Drift"

[@jamarswope2341]

Like the reaction! I like the whole dynamic duo energy, and you really payed attention. Bismarck, 40:1, Carolus Rex, and Ghost Division are requests you'll hear a lot, and they're all good. My suggestions for some great ones for a Veteran to hear are these: To Hell and Back: a song about WW2 hero Audie Murphy and his struggles with PTSD Screaming Eagles: the 101st airborne at the Battle of Bastogne, WW2 Attack of the Dead Men: WW1, Russians vs Germans

[@TheBandSShow]

Thanks bud and thanks for the suggestions!

[@jpkalishek4586]

Floor, after recovering from burnout over trying to do everything dealing with Revamp, met her hubby because of the call from Nightwish to come to the U.S. and sing. Sabaton was opening for them or playing the same shows at the time. So, Floor got both a great gig and met her to-be hubby all in one fell swoop (not to mention Nightwish getting Floor to bring them to new highs as well). Also check out the Sabaton History channel on KZbin. They go into the background of the songs with Indy Neidell, formerly of The Great War channel and now doing WW2, and other stuff for Time Ghost TV . Sabaton History is in partnership with Time Ghost. One doesn't need to even like the music to get a lot out of the stories behind the songs.

[@TheGreatNateT]

sabaton.. the final solution is a must react for veteran's

[@richardgoddard37]

Check out the history videos they do for the songs. They are in depth and fascinating.

[@peo4989]

Big love and respect from Sweden :). Good reaction.

[@johnmclellan2257]

The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle in human history, at 302 days. The death toll is estimated anywhere from 700,000 to 1,000,000. A deployment to Verdun was less than two weeks for some countries (France I believe had this policy)

[@markwilson3697]

The song "Fields of Verdun" is about the Battle of Verdun of WWI aka the The Great War, the war to end all wars. The Battle lasted nearly a year at 310 or so days, The song is taken from Sabaton's latest album, The Great War.

[@bananas1318]

war is always terrible, just leaviung that out there cause im not excluding any wars.. but world war 1.. holy crap, what a terrifying war. Trench warfare was pretty much, will you run out of bullets before we run out of people to throw at you? war now isn't these crazy 200,000+ soilders fighting in a battlefield anymore, its smaller squads on patrols or air strikes.. everytime i think about ww1 i try putting myself in one of those soilders positions.. and i cant even begin to imagine how scared those people were.. once they heard the whistle they knew it was their time to die.

[@OakhheartIX]

I'm glad you like this song. I'm just throwing some info about Verdun, as others have done in the comments. Like the message at the end of the song explained, Verdun became the symbol of the war for France during the battle itself and up to today. This battle is really the embodiment of what that war was, for both side. Not unlike what Stalingrad or Peleliu would be in WW2 for Germany/USSR and the US/Japan. Just a few numbers highlight what Verdun was: 700,000 casualties on a 65 km long battle line. 2,3 millions soldiers took part in this battle during the ten months it lasted. 65 million shells and 6 villages that were simply blown off the face of the earth. Verdun was mud, bugs and rats, blood and death. To my great uncle Sgt. Julien Roy, killed during the second battle of Verdun, aged 21.

[@TheBandSShow]

Thanks for the info Alister. Crazy. Hats off to your great uncle. I heard that the deaths in WWI were so extreme that the British didn't even tell the citizens the true numbers for like 20 years?

[@OakhheartIX]

@@TheBandSShow That's actually a good question which historians still work on. I'm no expert so do not quote me but I made a project on the topic of WW1 numbers in my 2nd year at university. Numbers are and were very hard to get. Before considering how governments shared these statistics with their citizens we need to understand how these stats were made. First there is the nuance many militaries have between K.I.A. and casualties. Numbers will never be exact since many historical sources barely made the difference in wartime since all they were interested in was how many bodies they could dress in a uniform and send to fight. Then there is the question of what makes a soldier K.I.A. Prisoners ? Missing soldiers ? Disease ? France and the UK for instance moved aside these stats so as to not increase the numbers of deaths. Example: there is an estimated 100,000 French soldiers who developped what wasn't yet known as PTSD. Half of them died during the following 3 or 4 decades in asylums or for lack of care. They are not official casualties of the war. The US on the other hand included most of their soldiers who died of the Spanish flu in their deaths ratio while other belligerent did not always do so. It's not about who was right or wrong but about how sources can change a lot. As such, real tolls were often estimates even for the governments. An other example: 700,000 casualties are considered a good number for Verdun. But among them, "only" (sad to say) 300,000 or so died. And it is possible for the same soldier, French or German, to be listed twice as a casualty if he was wounded twice seriously enough to be unfit for duty for a period of time. The wiki page "World War One casualties" does a good job at explaining how numbers are evaluated, how they can change due to different sources and also the technical difficulties of counting deaths (e,g. the lack of bodies, the often poorly kept records of colonial units, the changes of borders, especially in central/eastern Europe, ...Etc.). To be closer to your question, I'm not sure there was a real will to hide the truth after the war. We also have to remember that archives were not publicly released for decades after the war, in every country. The estimates would have been known by the general public but not the exact numbers. Because of the avalaibility of the archives the estimates vary. The last big change in these numbers I am aware of was made in 2014 when a Russian historian had access to new Russian sources and was able to offer new insights on the death toll of the war because he used new documents. I hope it's interesting and not too poorly written. My written English isn't always spot on. Check the wiki page, it's quite well done.

[@tntfreddan3138]

The band is from Falun, Sweden, and there, they have their own festival called "Sabaton Open Air" and their annual "Sabaton Cruise". They were supposed to play in Gdansk, Poland, but were in a serious car accident in Tunisia and will be continuing their tour in October.

[@Triskaan]

So many better Sabaton songs to pick from though... Long time fan here, and I'm someone who tends to prefer their earlier work, but I'd say Bismarck which is a very recent one, is in my top 5 Sabaton songs.

[@lolidemon3163]

I personally prefer the newer songs of sabaton, though i do enjoy their older stuff

[@samrobacker346]

@@lolidemon3163 newer fan, I've listened to them on repeat for a month and their older stuff is great, but the newer is way more unique from regular metal for me. That being said I like Night Wtiches, Ghost in the Tranches, and that song about Charles...the fifth of sweden(?) Best.

[@treemanboy1]

“Gone Away” and “When the Seasons Change” by Five Finger Death Punch are both awesome and hit deep.

[@xenophon343]

Hey guys. For your next Nightwish song, how about something heavy? Try Shudder Before the Beautiful live at Wembley. It's the song they open the show with and wow, what an opener!

[@Wriwnas1]

All their songs pay homage to a historical battle and they also post elaborate videos on their channel with the historical info about that battle. They do their research and have also made some songs because of popular demand from their fans.

[@xThunderGodxx]

Next Do Bismarck or Primo Victoria

[@matthewrobinett1012]

Primo Victoria is bad ass

[@brianfuller7691]

Sabaton is an awesome band. And Verdun was a bloody battle. My grandfather fought here as a 17 year old.

[@madddog6790]

40:1 and Ghost Division...two great songs, from very different perspectives. Sabaton is all about history. Oh, and Hannes the drummer (and Floor's husband) has a friggin' TANK for a drum riser when they play big shows \m/

[@Brennus387]

they also have a history chanel ( sabaton history ) where they explain the lyrics following by a little documentary about the historical events of the songs

[@richardgoddard37]

And they are fascinating

[@balazsadamik3197]

The thing with sabaton is they are doing power metal (what is not the most popular thing right now) on another level. The theme is always a historical event and the music video is accompanied by a history lesson video on their YT channel: Sabaton History. When you want to do justice with Sabaton you have to do the music and the history video. It's a bit longer but hell it worths the time. for this video case the addition is kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIC3mJywephpitE

[@MikeDPlxztc]

You guys totally got it. 👍🤘🇺🇸

[@Kelly.sapphire]

Bismark! Great video and song!

[@makere]

Sabaton - Shiroyama! Tons of great Sabaton songs; White Death, The Final Solution, Carolus Rex, Ghost Division, The Art of War, 40:1, Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus, 7734, Night Witches, To Hell and Back, Winged Hussars

[@thatmidwestguy7538]

Found you guys because of Nightwish, but Sabaton is probably my second favorite band after them. Carolus Rex English version for sure.

[@ireneusz-u9i]

I recommend to veterans gentlemen another Sabaton song. About a Polish officer who volunteered to a German extermination camp. His task was to learn the truth about what is really going on there. His name is Captain Witold Pilecki. And the song title is - Inmate 4859.

[@grantthomas8685]

G'day from Australia 🇦🇺 guys 😁 Just happened upon your channel and lovin it! 👌 Would be amazing if you could react to some Aussie bands such as 'Dead Letter Circus', 'Karnivool' or 'Cog' Cheers guys! 🤘🤘

[@Paul_C]

On dear, American schooling strikes again... the first WW in the Verdun region took the lives of 1.250.000 people between 1914 and 1918.

[@creamC19]

I didn't understand the marriage question (to whom the drumer is married to), because who on earth would name the daughter floor? like ground, does she have siblings named bathtub and table?

[@corporalhollywood5392]

Sabaton the uprising; btw thanks for your personal sacrifices, i came from a huge military and law enforcement family, so I completely understand your sacrifice. Stay Frosty.

[@johngialluca6025]

This would not have been my recommendation knowing Stan is a vet. As a fellow vet, I have seen a lot of our fellow vets with combat related PTSD (one of them was a past employee who eventually committed suicide, Rest In Peace Chris). My father had PTSD from Korea and my Grandfather also had it from WW2 in the Pacific. He also ended up committing suicide. It’s the hidden cost of service that as vets we are well aware of. Many of us have paid a big price for those who didn’t serve can burn a flag under which so many of us served. I find it ironic that people in Hong Kong are flying the Stars and Stripes because to the it represents freedom under a very real threat of that freedom being taken away and over here in the states so many are willing to give it away over the promise of free stuff. Thanks again, Stan for your service to our country.

[@ArathirCz]

BTW if you would like to know more about the Battle of Verdun check out Sabaton History channel where they are explaining the historical background of their songs (kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIC3mJywephpitE )

[@christinaalgate4899]

I also like 82nd All the way. They made a movie about this guy. He was played by Gary Cooper and the movie was called Sargent York.

[@brianthelion]

Highly suggest the song Soldier of Three Armies. It’s about the Finnish soldier Lauri Allan Torni, who fought for both the Finnish & the Germans in WW2, and was a green beret in Vietnam

[@sinvaer8880]

React to bismarck by sabaton too. Very good song and absolutely on point about the history.

[@Trygvar13]

The symphonic part of the solo was Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

[@danielthibodeau1386]

The Douaumont Ossuary contains the skeletal remains of the dead from both sides of the battle. After every rainfall they sweep the entire length and breadth of the battlefield and still, more than a hundred years later, they find more bones with every storm. Independently of each other the soldiers on both sides gave it the same nickname, “The Hell of Verdun.”

[@Thorgrim247]

Married and just had their first child. A daughter named Freyja. By the way, what have you 2 been smokin? You r voices on the last couple of reactions seem a bit high pitched. How they hangin?

[@perrypumpkin]

I was watching a scariest things to be caught on gopro. And a soldier had walked out of cover to give his team the ability to move up who were trapped by enemy gunfire. He got hit a total of 4 times. It didn't go through his armour but I have a new respect for people in the military

[@IgnoredGnome]

The battle of Verdun was one of the Most terrible events of ww1, something like 700 Thousand dead in 303 Days and many more wounded. The first battle in the war to surpass the 1 million artillery shells fired in one barrage

[@abyssus9304]

They are Swedish and the video was filmed on the actual battle site. (They also do have authentic ww1 uniforms on.....)

[@bobjohnson3794]

Was this filmed at 4am?

[@onibformi3590]

Verdun in France was one of the most embattled fortress in WW1. There died over 300.000 Soldiers from both sides on a frontline only few Kilometers long in only 10 months. Germany today has so much soldiers at all which it loose in that only fight. (ca.150.000)

[@christinarodriguez7508]

A little background to verdun , also known as the meat grinder. The single purpose was to draw in so many french troops at verdun and kill as many soldiers as posible and to weaken the front and redeploy the british troops in belgium to verdun and weaken the nortern front for massive german asault and break through to lines. As the french generals saw an opertunity to drain german forces from the main force in the north and weaken the german offensive in the north both plans back fired and hundreds of thousends of soldiers got killed and wounded with out any gains . and was one of the reasons of the french soldiers going on strike and mutiny against their commanding officers. hundreds where executed and in the end better rotations and food was suplied to these frontline soldiers. Battles like these almost broke alied morale and with the russians out of the war france and britain where ready to give up as money ran out debt increased to record hights . Imagine beeing a soldier between 1914and 1918 fighting in horrific conditions where 10.000 soldiers a day and sometimes 100.000 to 250.000 soldiers on both sides got blown up , gassed machine gunned every day. the ones that died where the luck ones as most wounded had their faces shaterd limbs amputated blinded by gass and not to mention the once shell shocked after weeks and months of beeing bombed by artilery . The veterans of this war where also the officers soldiers politicians in the 2nd world war . they all went through the meatgrinder called ww1 and life ment verry little to them. Every one blamed the lusitania and german proposol to mexico to invade the USA to trigger the american involvement in to the war , truth was if germany would win the united states would never see a dollar repaid for its loans .

[@brandonspeers5342]

You’re saying it correct. Primo Victoria (Operation Overlord/D-Day) and Screaming Eagles (101st Airborne Div in the Battle of the Bulge) next!

[@jacobski5726]

Yes they're are all from Sweden, and they have an album dedicated to Sweden's Great Power time back in time, which is very cool as well.

[@ATrainHC]

Price of a Mile from Woodstock is EPIC!

[@TYinNH]

My favorite is The Last Stand

[@vblomb]

ty for reaction: look also to there history clips.battle of verdun 700k lost there life in this battle for noting becouse no movement on the battlefield

[@BerraLJ]

And in the end no side gained much ground, the horror of being in those trenches for 300+ days, can't even begin to imagine it.

[@Roller4x4]

Sabaton - to hell and back...... Veteran point of view and opinion Floor is married to the drummer of Sabaton (Hannes) Best of friends with Simone Simons of Epica, check out Epica-sancta terra ft floor (retrospect)

[@Vvoornth]

Try The Price Of A Mile (Same band) for a case of the feels. It's about the Battle of Passchendaele and is my all-time fave

[@huntermoser4010]

The album heroes is a erlyer album but it is more based on the soldiers and there actions

[@nancyjanzen5676]

The band is Swedish. They do all their videos on historic subjects. You should check out To Hell and Back. Audie Murphy's battle with PTSD.

[@pavolridrich3434]

Manowar - Achilles Agony And Exctasy In Eight Parts Iced Earth - Dantes Inferno (live with Matt Barlow) you wont be dissapointed I think :D

[@invadergirness7817]

A good song for Veteran reacts could also be Purple Heart a song about fallen soldiers in Vietnam I believe. Its one of their older songs but I really enjoy it

[@kustomsnake]

Night witches, coat of arms, The last stand

[@nancyjanzen5676]

Should check out Uprising the resistance leader in the video taking the oath of the fighters is a retired colonel in the Polish Army and the deputy defense minister.

[@warforge_jp]

MORE SABATON!!!

[@niklasholmlundful]

Check out The caroleans prayer aswell!:D

[@billcurtis1157]

Sabaton (great war) ( Bismarck) ( price of a mile) ( 82nd and all the way)

[@AndreasKanon]

Nuno Bettencourt's solo in Get The Funk Out is a classic and there is definitely similarities

[@TheBandSShow]

That dude is phenomenal live

[@harryphantom908]

Check out Devil dogs - Sabaton. It's about U.S. Marines

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

That fact that France as a country or country didn’t collapse form this war is a miracle.

[@reverendrico5631]

Sad part, as amazing as this song is, is’r probably one of the weaker entries for the album (and catalogue in general). 82 all the way and Attack of the Dead Men are just the killers off The Great War. But as far as amazing entries into Sabaton in general, Bismarck, The Last Stand, 40:1, Smoking Snakes, Heart of Iron, Union (Slopes of St Benedict), Screaming Eagles...Gods o could probably list a good third of their tracks. For anyone that want a mini-documentary about any of their tracks, Sabaton History on KZbin.

[@MikeDPlxztc]

Please react to Baby Metals tales of the destinies at Tokyo Dome I think it's their most technical piece Shear genius I don't know if they've ever played it live other than the Tokyo Dome show

[@goosesayshonk9781]

i like howit took em half the song to realize its a WW1 Story :P

[@TheBandSShow]

We ain’t the sharpest bayonets in the shed

[@RandomManIncorperated]

This is Verdun here THEY SHALL NOT PASS

[@perrypumpkin]

Sabaton last stand is a good one. Its a more religious song but it paying respect to some veterans.

[@Belnick6666]

they shall not pass...I wonder where the world war 1 vet JRR Tolkien got that from

[@dannixon2188]

Sabaton Bizmark and attack of the dead man are also great.

[@peterflyingdutchman]

For your homage to veterans, you may want to include the Sabaton song To Hell and Back about Audie Murphy, the most decorated US soldier in WW2. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJnQeYZ3eNF6Z8U

[@billmelater6470]

Bismarck by Sabaton. You won't be disappointed.

[@donovanwaters9403]

To understand the song listen to Sabaton history. It makes the songs all the more epic

[@diosyntaxa]

Bloodiest and longest battle of WWI, and all for a few kilometers of land which was taken back in the end... Imagine 700000 casualties, 300000 of which died... And for what? The Germans took 3 or so of the French forts but lost all of that when they (French) finally counterattacked... Check out the history video they (Sabaton) did about this song, very interesting!

[@vladimirt.3627]

I would recommend Primo Victoria, or Night Witches by Sabaton