VIKING REACTS | SABATON - "The Price of a Mile"

What is the Price of a Mile. Sabaton will tell us all in yet another story that should never be forgotten!
This is my first time reaction to "The price of a Mile" by Sabaton!
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Sabaton - The Price of a Mile (Subtitles)
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SABATON - The Price Of A Mile (Live at the Woodstock festival in Poland, 2012)
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[@Flametrooper118]

everytime someone tells me Sabaton are Pro War and are gloryfing what happend in War, i tell them to listen to the Lyrics of "Price of a Mile", "the great war" and "to hell and back" in my understanding of those Lyrics these songs are clearly painting a picture of "War is bad and it does nothing good, but it happend, here are stories of it"

[@birgersandman2662]

don't forget "Ballad of Bull" tho, that song just moves me everytime I hear it

[@lenajakob8742]

Also "a lifetime of war"..makes me cry everytime

[@ddlee84]

You are spot on! All the songs you listed as well as the ones others have listed show the horror of war....This song always gets me because of the chorus doubly so when they had the great war chior singing it in period uniforms.

[@codex4046]

I tell them to listen to any of their songs. I've yet to hear a song which vaguely reminds me of glorifying war. If I had to pick one that comes closest to glorifying it, it would be Primo Victoria. Because that song is just facts and less emotions.

[@fusssel7178]

@@ddlee84 cliffs of galippoli would be one as well which paints war in a bad light.

[@thxmo1750]

"It's feels guilty to enjoy this." I felt that. Song goes through the fucking bone.

[@oriongabriel6966]

Yea, the "Six miles of ground has been won, half a million men are gone" sends shivers down my spine every time...

[@veasnatdm4861]

I enjoy it, because it show, It tell us that when general order, soldier will have to obey command, even if it is to fight till death, because that what they did.

[@condedooku9750]

@@oriongabriel6966 That moment always saddens me along with the part in the song that says: "And as the men crawled the general called And the killing carried on ".

[@oriongabriel6966]

@@condedooku9750 Agreed, Sabaton really knows how to convey emotion through their music, with the instruments, lyrics and the way Joakim sings...

[@condedooku9750]

@@oriongabriel6966 Totally truth.

[@PInnHeAd]

Sabataon has never glorified war, they glorifies heroes and the typical soldier of the war, what a SINGLE MAN in the war would feel and see during these awfull events and how people connected to them would feel, both for those that got to see them come back broken or not coming back at all... This is why sabaton can be incorporated in history lessons in schools to portray how horrifying war actually is, i never got that feeling when i was in school, even in university because you do not get the FEEL behind it, sabaton portrays it perfectly!

[@VikingReacts]

Amen!

[@cytorakdemon]

Sabaton, getting into a cab: "What's the price of a mile?" Now that I got that super original Sabaton joke out of the way. You should check out Fields of Verdun. Imagine Passchendaele but lasting almost a year.

[@supersasukemaniac]

I just noticed. Sabaton's story telling also translates in how they sing. This song is sad and somber. Where song's like for example Fields of Verdun, about the Battle of Verdun, are loud and chaotic.

[@cosmicsloth5002]

I’m not someone who cries easily, but this is one of those songs that gets me almost every single time.

[@michaelmiller1103]

When it comes to this song, no words need to be said, it is the most obvious songs they have about the outright pointlessness of war and and the cost of the sacrifices, especially when you see how many men were lost to claim a position that was taken right back a week later Another brilliant reaction brother, hope you are keeping well Skål

[@VikingReacts]

That is history for ya. Shit happens :P And yes, I am doing just fine my friend!

[@brigidtheirish]

Not all war is pointless, there are just causes, but many are petty squabbles that get settled by throwing uninvolved people into the meat grinder. There are *certainly* a lot of pointless battles.

[@DawidC.909]

There is a great sentence in "Aces in exile" which shows what is Sabaton really doing: "Let their story be heard". I hope you will react this some day...

[@The_GuyWhoNeverUploadsAnything]

Tell of 303rd!!

[@Azraeltheangelofdeath]

Honestly I always loved seigfried Sassoon's qoute about the battle "I died in hell, they called it passchendale" Which given the context of what the battle was like makes it even more disturbing, I mean pits of mud that would swallow men whole never to be seen again

[@Fabi72g]

This battle, as the whole WWI, is the hymn of the human stupidity. Years of war, millions of deaths for what? Few miles of land gained one day and lost the next? And yes it's vital to talk about that and never forget.

[@beragis3]

"All through the night?" The battle lasted from 31 July 1917 through 10 November 1917. Casualties were around 500,000 . It wasn't even the worse battle of WW I, the battle of Somme in 1915 had the fourth highest in the war at 1.1 Million casualties. The worse was in Russia over 2.3 million Casualties in the Brusilov Offensive. The closest battle in casualties to that battle was the battle of Stalingrad in WW II, which had around 1.9 to 2 million casualties. Another good song about this battle is Paschendale by Iron Maiden.

[@marikastahl4086]

Yes harts of iron, and screaming Eagles. THE last battle... Soldier of three armies..

[@ZETH_27]

Hearts of Iron really should be next. It has a similar vibe to this except it's more redemption than tragedy.

[@Moja421]

I would recommend the song "Angels calling". It´s kind of a forgotten song from Sabaton, but it has this sad emotional vibe to it and also deals with the meaningless slaughter of WW1

[@cosmicsloth5002]

That’s a good one.

[@celticrebel5229]

My great grandfather was at the battle of the somme he lost his left eye apparently he was a lucky one they sent him back home I mean lucky because it's the bloodiest battle recorded over one million killed the brits just and germans just threw soldiers at each other basically target practice smdh I've only ever seen two pictures of him that my grandmother had one in his uniform and just a regular picture. He was part of the Royal Scots 9th Highland regiment I believe there was nine different regiments at the battle of the somme and like my grandfather who was in the Highlanders 9th Division I would of loved to have joined that regiment but unfortunately I couldn't and I ended up in the RAC( Royal armoured corps) attachment to the royal tank regiment end up being part of a tank crew 6yrs service and two deployments to Afghanistan. Great reaction 🙂🤘subbed gained

[@tzmtzt]

"its much slower than I would anticipate" thats like world war 1 in a nutshell :)

[@matthewgill8332]

Dude. I got chills when I realized the music video is showing footage of Canadian soldiers fighting in the movie "Passchendaele". Not many other nations recognize what our men did over there, and it's incredible that they made a song about this!

[@Flipomat1]

Hearing you talking about the scene with the shovel... In fact, those shovels (in German: Klappspaten) killed more people in the trenches than the actual bayonetts, as they were usualy used as some kind of axes...

[@StormholdIndustries]

I did the maths after first hearing this song, and I figured out that each life lost was worth 0.78” of farmland.

[@connydely1460]

Great reaction, thank you! They performed this song at Graspop 2019, with a male choir, all dressed in different uniforms from the time period. I can assure you, goosebumps all the way through. And they performed it on the Great Tour, not with a choir but with Apocalyptica.

[@Ericshadowblade]

The price of a mile at passendale is roughly 500,000 for 6 miles. 83 thousand per mile.

[@derrickowen8162]

A song doesn't have to be fast and crazy to be intense and powerful.

[@SimonvanTilburg]

I knew you liked the song with the message behind. You should do next The Last Stand or Coat Of Arms. Those are 2 of my favourite songs who hit me the most. You're gonna love them because I see you and I have the same taste for Sabaton songs 😁

[@nunogarces1628]

One of my absolute favourite songs from Sabaton. The message goes deep... Great reaction as always. Keep them coming :)

[@Calumetto]

Sure. We can love the music and hate the war at once. There's an old joke about the definition of mixed emotions... "It's what your feel when you see your mother in law drive off a cliff in your new Cadillac." (No offense to Mothers in law meant.)

[@LianteakaLia]

When The Art of War came out this song was the one song I listened to the most. The message cuts really deep and I love the slow, steady rythm of it. I think it suits the story perfectly. The sense of knowingly marching towards your doom and knowing nothing will stop it from happening. It makes me think of a scene in the Lord of the Rings movies. When Denethil orders Faramir to take a small company of men to retake the fallen city of Osgiliath. They ride through the city in what is more akin to a funeral parade because they know it's a suicide mission. But that was fiction. This is reality. It's chilling to think of. When I heard the song back then, I didn't really know any of the history behind it, I hadn't gone full nerd yet, but the overall message about the horror and waste of life that is war was still very clear.

[@supersasukemaniac]

JRR Tolkien fought in WW1. A lot of Lord of the Rings was based on what he saw in the War and battles from the war.

[@TheGatoGod]

The Price of A Mile was the first Sabaton song I listened to. Songs about events in War history hooked me immediately. To this day one of my favorite songs by Sabaton. The fact that all those men were lost for so little ground is sad really. Just for the ground they fought and died for to be recaptured in less than a week.

[@cosmicsloth5002]

I think that’s one of the worst parts. Is that in the end all those lives were pretty much just thrown away.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

Passchendaele was such a horror show. The fields had just been plowed for planting so the constant rain just turned the ground into a quagmire that made it extremely dangerous to walk on any unmarked or plank laden paths. Many wounded men in no man's land simply sank and disappeared into the muck.

[@nobodysman143]

Actually, it was a lot worse than that. It was a total swamp at the start of the battle, everything had been blasted way by shelling, so there was nothing but mud, rain and shell craters. The New Zealanders lost 23,520 men to in one hour to try and take a single bunker. To take the same position, the Canadians lost 13,000 men a few days later. This position is now the site of the largest Commonwealth cemetery for the dead of WWI at Tyne Cot Hill. To paraphrase, one English post-war poet made Passchendaele synonymous with Hell.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

@@nobodysman143 I'm trying to remember the name of a General who defied Haig and refused to advance his troops unless the Field Marshall had all available artillery concentrate their fire to support his men.

[@nobodysman143]

@@ForgottenHonor0 I know it was one of Canadian commanders, that much I know for a fact

[@ForgottenHonor0]

@@nobodysman143 That helps, I wasn't sure if he was New Zealander or Canadian.

[@stevenrider9632]

with this song you either have to smile or cry your eyes out.

[@TheNitroFX1]

i recommend all sabaton songs :P

[@ukaszjanowski2183]

How primitively brutal World War I could be is amazing: hand-to-hand fight with shovels, knives, stones, brass knuckles, soldiers returning to even medieval weapons, such as clubs, maces, morgensterns. It's hard to believe

[@patrioticjustice9040]

I saw the movie Passchendaele. Not the best war movie, not the worst war movie,but it definitely got the battle right. It showed how battle worn and desperate each side was, all while dying over a small stretch of mud. The most shocking part was the crucifixion scene. Though we can't confirm, there were reports of crucifixion happening in WWI, which is mentioned in the movie. What you saw at 11:51 happened by accident; a Canadian soldier had made it alone to the German trench, but an artillery blast hit the trench, knocking him into one of the trench ladders and barbed wire. It was so shocking to see that the battle actually stopped for a few minutes; long enough for the guy's friend and a couple Germans to help get him down.

[@nicklaslindstrom3331]

Some outtakes from diaries from ww1 painted a picture of what it was like trying to push. It was a sea of mud, so planks were placed to run on a single line. If someone misstep/fall/shelled off balance, ending up in the mud, you leave them to die, well you can stop and help but then you would halt the entire company. Imagine passing your friend, leave him/her to die because the alternative would cause substantial more deaths...

[@louisekarlsson7910]

This was my favorite song until " En livstid i krig" because of the emotion, it feels like you cant almost hear the sadness and the restspectfullness to the victims and the anti glorification if you really listen to the lyrics but many people forget that or in Sweden they don't listen sadly enough

[@alexberthgen1962]

Angels calling is a very underated song with the same vibe + Apocalyptica is in it! 😉

[@matthewmac5787]

Is it bad every time i hear this song all i can think of is the book "all's quiet on the western front"

[@asvagar8163]

reminds me of my days back in school, when my history class went to Verdun. despite me being pretty well knowledgable about military history, from books, movies, documentaries and such, it scared the crap outta me to see that place for real. 90 years after that, it was still a wasteland... while WWII was prolly the most horrible war in history, WWI was the most brutal one, in that scale. and yes. some thing should never had happened. also... reaction to Bismarck? pwease?

[@paratrooper321fa]

The price of a mile depending on source. I took the median average of a couple sources as they varied substantially. But roughly 89,000 per square mile of the battle field.

[@philipsmylie2544]

this a fan made video with clips taken from the canadian movie PASSENDALE...

[@DawidC.909]

Thank you so much for this reaction. Joakim voice souns like crying...

[@Max_Griswald]

I did a college paper on this song! Hurray! Thanks for reacting to it!

[@pepedeltoro6647]

That's cool

[@Revament]

This made me appreciate the song even more. Great reaction as always and keep going 💪🤘

[@kovadlinka8118]

The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Yper, was one of the worst battles of the Great War. During the entire fighting, the Allies managed to capture 8 miles of land at the cost of more than 240,000 casualties, similar losses suffered by the German army. The territory that the Allies conquered in more than three months of fighting and cruel losses was occupied back by the German army during a one-week onslaught. The battlefields at Passchendaele were one large swamp after several weeks of rain, the soldiers usually drowning when they fell off the marked or planked path into the mud. More than 43,000 bodies have not been found to this day, and the Passchendaele area still bears signs of fighting, craters can still be seen in places for over than a century, and there are thousands of unexploded artillery shells and mortar mines underground.

[@MisterLajk]

Very nice reaction!! :) There is one specific version of this song with Czech army choir. You can hear it in the video from Wacken 2019! Heard it live at Pilsen where they started their The Great Tour and it was much better than original with female choir. Definetely look it for yourself, cause it felt almost like a new song.

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@deadaid528]

Love you! Also, your setup is amazing. I subbed

[@rachellepickles3567]

You should check out the battle of Bomont Hamel... 800 went in to battle 68 came out. And that was only one day. All Newfoundlanders .... Alot of Canadian Blood on those fields... it was also a birth of a nation

[@Emilberntler]

they are still finding bodies from WW1 and 2. That should give some insight to how many died it those wars and how chaotic it was.

[@lolaren55]

"its much slower than i would anticipate" so kinda like the war then*

[@pencilpen8838]

"Wise men wonder while strong men die"

[@oliversherman2414]

My great great uncle faught in the British army during the battle of Paschendaele. He didn't survive

[@buxhax1354]

Great vid as always!👍

[@bubba9r]

So great they used scenes from the Canadian movie Passchendaele ..

[@Karthara]

I know a few other people have mentioned it, but Sabaton - To Hell and Back.

[@Happymali10]

You need to watch a recent Wacken-Performance of that song, they got a massive choir.

[@kingseb2252]

Ww1 was just a savage bloody war with horrible conditions i admire the men that fought in these battles

[@jancmyon4240]

Totally unrelated but I saved the drummers (Robban Bäck) neck once. In his last show november 2012 in Gothenburg the band crowd surfed at the end of the show and he was near me and I saw this gap between the people and he started to fall down head before and grabbed him by his shoulder and shouted to the guy next to me to help and we lifted him up again. I don't know if Robban noticed it himself because it all happened so fast.

[@paranoia3608]

I'm writing a book where it's a story of an oc during ww1, and it takes place in paceandale (sp?) and although I have just started, I will try to show just how bad this battle was, but its truly difficult to describe it in speach, nevermind in writing, so I can just hope I can give some idea to the people who read it, just how bad this battle was, may all of them rest in whatever peace they can get with these memories

[@majorplothole2620]

The world will only continue to remain 'good' or 'great' after WWI and WWII if we remember, and teach those that come after, about the stories, soldiers, and the losses of not just those wars but the wars, fights, and bitter politics that came before them. Songs like these, help. I LOVE Sabaton, not just from the musical standpoint but as a student of history. Too many people polarize both wars as 'good vs bad' when in all reality, it was just human vs human. there were both good and bad on both sides, and that goes for literally every war or conflict ever fought. Sabaton and bands like them do the world a favor by keeping these stories going.

[@JamesDeanShadow_Blitz]

82nd All The Way next!

[@Imperialofficer07]

The clips are from a movie called Passchendaele, I watched it and have to say it was a great movie based on the actual battle.

[@JanOlofSvensson]

Great reactiom!

[@stuartpentney2776]

Someone has actually calculated the full price of a mile during the battle, it is somewhere around 83,000 lives for just 1 mile of mud and death

[@kurotsune77]

gotta love all the quotes from Sun Tzu's Art of War they use in the album

[@danielsiegle3848]

Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus Sparta or To Hell and Back next

[@christopherhanton6611]

you were right ( there is no glory )

[@cheflaboogie7449]

Uff u not ready for Final Solution by sabaton 😢

[@SivaStealth]

Have you ever thought of reacting to more Brothers of Metal? If so i sincerely suggest the Hel lyric/art video by them, its amazing and i love the way they portray Hel/Helheim in it.

[@1320crusier]

Over 70,000 men per mile. Thats a hell of a lot of blood spilled. WW1 was an almost unfathomable bloodletting. I do not have the same faith you do. Once those who experienced the horrors of WW2 and Korea (military and civilian alike) pass on we as a world will fall right back into it.

[@paratrooper321fa]

That is the low end estimate at that

[@treintje1001]

The best bespraion of this song is the performance of Wacken Open Air 2019, with the all male Great War Choir. Awesome!

[@VignarKarpodakai]

Motorhead - 1916. No brainer, to be honest. Such a moving piece. Not sure how you take recommendations :P But here's a good link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6vcdYJ9paeWapI Peace!

[@_boney]

you should do the waken wersion of it too as a extra the cohir in the background there is crasy

[@marcelisujecki2362]

The battles of the First World War were very bloody. Several hundred thousand people could have died during one battle. Battle of Aisne (1917) - France over 180,000, Germany over 160,000 Battle of Arras (1917) - British Empire 158,000 and Germany 120,000 - 125,000. Battle of Cambrai (1917) - British Empire 44207 and Germany 36 839. These are just examples of battles and losses suffered by both sides.

[@TheBlackob]

Just noticed, that your Sabaton React Playlist might has a video, that is not quite on topic :D

[@cattiz82]

I recommend one of my favorites, Panzer battalion. Love your reactions🤘🇸🇪

[@mushinbujin]

Well, since we're on the subject of a senseless waste of life, how about Cliffs of Gallipoli?

[@jaqueslagerweij6882]

ik zie nu pas dat je een dutchie bent !! Sabaton is geweldig!

[@SimonvanTilburg]

Nog een 🇳🇱Nederlandse 🇳🇱 Sabaton fan. Cool🤟🏻

[@VikingReacts]

Een echte hollander ;). Sabaton is inderdaad helemaal geweldig!

[@shaggy7981]

you know Sabaton will come to Amsterdam on de 25th of march 2022

[@ravensoulmetal8466]

In a slightly different take try Warbringer - glorious end. Another WW1 song from a different perspective. Great reaction again.

[@Archangel1862]

Incase you didn't know here is a slightly gruesome fact: The British entire divisions (if I remember correctly) from one town at a time so most towns lost their young male population over night sometimes.

[@godfatherofbloedniss]

Der song ist halt älter und in der Zwischenzeit hat sich joakims gesangsstil verändert. Außerdem ist das Thema halt so tief und depressiv das man dazu nicht abrocken kann und sollte. Ich finde das einen der besten Songs von Sabaton. Union und angels calling rangieren auf einem ähnlichen level

[@Brian-qx3ld]

the sad thing is if he wasn't in a different uniform, he could have been your best friend.

[@TheCow2face]

If you have not done it, you should have a look at "Back in Control" also Sabaton xD

[@steveclarke4542]

Most likely to fight wars are least to want them.

[@miafranlund6982]

Hope is good... I wish

[@Butka18]

So maybe now something very depressing from sabaton? I mean "the final solution" and I guess that you will know what kind of story is hiding behind that title. I really enjoy all of your reactions so far. You're doing great job

[@Flipomat1]

I mean, "The Final Solution" is literaly the translation of the German meaning of that... "command" back then...

[@markhubbard5176]

passchendale took more british soldiers lives than the somme...i am british and we will never forget our fallen soldiers

[@94djanek]

You should Listen to☺ Saltatio mortis feat Subway to saly-ix live german medieval hard rock

[@bismarckandthekriegsmarine9711]

It was sed the mud was so thick that dead bodys would be sucked down never to be seen again

[@TheFishbone93]

I recommend Devil dogs as your next vid Amazing song 🤘🤘

[@steveclarke4542]

We infantry slag through. Get the job done

[@jimmyjohansson5672]

Passchendale is a suuuper good movie

[@NeeceLoneWolf]

Their History Channel would be better. Indie tells the story then Par or Joakim talk about the song.

[@jacoblauer171]

Twilight of the thunder God would be right up your alley

[@lossow1]

So now are you goint to react to Iron Maiden's song about the battle simply called "Paschendale"?

[@Sdroiden]

It's too bad no one is reacting too Metal Crue (live version Swedish empire dvd) with them, awesome song

[@VikingReacts]

Oh, just suggest it and we might ;)

[@Sdroiden]

@@VikingReacts i think i just did😁 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXK5YZ2jYtBjobs

[@VikingReacts]

@@Sdroiden success!!

[@user-kt8rn8ub2x]

Please next reaction Sabaton - Wehrmacht 🙏

[@bonez9160]

Your second comment in the video. I agree dude'!

[@rogerhack3750]

Any other war: we were the worst and savage war ever. Ww1 trench war: hold my beer, i'll let soldiers turn to total animals and savages.

[@fenrisfafnesbane7988]

From North - From North

[@kenichiotaku3693]

It almost feels guilty to enjoy the song Final Solution too but oh well...