SABATON: Christmas Truce (Reaction)
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2023
- @Sabaton blows my mind with their song "Christmas Truce". Yes, it sounds like I say "TRUTH" lol but I swear I say "Truce" lol. I thoroughly enjoyed this video and appreciate the requests!
It was the first song written for The War to End All Wars.
The band didn't intend it to be a Christmas song, but it happens to talk about military history that takes time in Christmas, just like D-Day happened on 6th of June.
The video for the song was released on 29th October 2021.
The song was released as the first single single from the album.
The keyboard melody of the song is taken from "Carol of the Bells", a popular Christmas carol.
Additional music composed by Antti Martikainen.
Ending credit vocals (music video) by Floor Jansen
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FYI…the lead singer of Nightwish sang those end credits. She is married to the Sabaton drummer.
Floorgasm :)
The next "moment of peace" song should be No Bullets Fly animated story video.
I concur and watch in HIGH volume to the very end!
Agree 💯 % No Bullets Fly is so fantastic ❤
I saw a story where two people were standing in a line at a coffee shop and one had a Sabaton shirt. They got to talking re this song and it turns out their grandparents exchanged photos, which had been passed down, and the kids in the coffee shop had each others grandfathers photo
Is it for real?!
In fact, many of the soldiers who participated in Christmas truce had to be repositioned because they didn't want to kill their new friends. That is why the generals made sure the truce doesn't happen again. Beautiful song, next I recommend No Bullets Fly (animated story video) and En Livstid I Krig (live in Gothenburg). Oh, as others already said, turning down the volume on our Goddess Floor is a big no-no 😁Other than that great reaction, hope for more 😀
hey Marina
I was there in Gothenburg and I can only agree.
You mentioned how Sabaton's concept for songs were military history. One time during an interview they were asked why they choose this. They said "why make up our own songs when there's already badass stories throughout history?"
By the way, thiese guys do a great show live, as well. Saw them in October 2022 at the Ryman in Nashville, and in St. Louis the year before. They parked a tank onstage at the Ryman...
What a band!!!!!
As you stopped 5:40 the one crawling out of the German Trench is Hannes, the Drummer, and also the Husband of Floor, the Frontwoman of Nightwish. You see, you didnt strawl Far from your Start in Euro Metal;) Like @Jennifer Miller commented, she sang the end Credits Song. They really did enhance their Productions and Web Appearance in the Last Decade, along with really not over the Top but professional produced Songs, and for me they truely Shine at the Concerts, giving it all for the Audience.
Very happy This one also did get you!
Stay healthy
NWA Bavaria North, Germany.
They didn t go back killing their new friends , they shoot high ,,, and were shifted out to other places later on
There's also an "Animated Story Video" version of this with narration about the event bracketing the song and animated scenes playing throughout.
You screwed up! The end credits music was sung by Floor Jansen of nightwish! The song is great but her vocals make it impactful!
I didn’t know at the time! That’s my bad!
They indeed have their own History Channel where they get deep into the history about each song they release. www.youtube.com/@SabatonHistory
I just saw live like 3 weeks ago and Christmas Truce was on the setlist, it was like one of two or 3 songs where the audience became pretty quiet /for a metal audience, and you see a lot of emotions in everyone's eyes. With a mainly German audience, it definitely hit the feels. We also got Christmas-colored confetti which was a lot of fun tho :)
I saw Sabaton live with my brother last month and they played this as their closing song... There was not a dry eye in the building. Every time I listen to this track, it never fails to get a tear. As with a lot of Sabatons music, it just hits different!
Great reaction, to bad you turned down the volume on our Queen Floor who sang the outro
That’s my bad lol I didn’t know
they are more historically accurate in their videos than most movies.
Also, the words carved into the cross, "Lest we forget," was a plea by many veterans to never repeat this series of tragedies by remembering what happened. Modern events show what we learned...
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand by and watch on as others repeat it.
What an AMAZING
🌟CHRISTMAS🌟 song by SABATON.
The lyrics and the MUSIC
the Video.. unbelievable!
All Band Members play a Role.
Also the HUSBAND from
FLOOR JANSEN,
The DRUMMER van SABATON,
HANNES VAN DAHL
he was the wounded soldier.
It's also a piece of history.
It's very...... Emotional 😢
And at the end the Voice of
FLOOR JANSEN 💕
makes it extra Beautiful...💫
This was a Gift ❤️
We are all....
We are all....
We are all....
We are all....
FRIENDS 🤝🤝
For Me The CHRISTMAS SONG
of the Year 2021...💫
A little PEACE 🕊 and
LOVE ❤️ for Everyone 🌹
WARS are TERRIBLE...
Thank you 🤘✌️
Love from the Netherlands
️ 🇳🇱 🙋🏼♀️
3:52 Yep it would have a Christmas feel, it's the "Carol of the Bells"; uses the original melody from "Shchedryk," written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914.
Thanks for this additional info! This is why I love to read the comments on the Sabaton videos and the reactors' videos.
This video IMHO is one of the most important music videos ever made. It should be compulsory viewing for everyone. It would make it much harder for the warmongering *ssholes on all sides to play their bloody games.
Piano melody at the beginning is Carol Of The Bells, played backwards. Overall song nelody...is a waltz!
It was the slow burning success of this song that garnered the band millions of new fans around the world, sending them into headlining, arena sell out tours!
Sabaton writes anthemic sing-alongs, and you really do learn stuff! Lets face it...not many ppl have time to learn some history...but time for a great song? Yes!
Sabaton has a hidden secret weapon...lead guitarist, Tommy Johansson! He heads his own band, Majestica and has a YT channel where he uploads a new and insanely epic power metal cover of already great songs, every Fri! Often referred to as "the male Floor"... you've GOT to hear Tommy sing! Please reactbto his cover of Steelheart's She's Gone....you will ve blown away!!
I definitely agree
I Agrér!
@Marina Mucić Wanted to ty for the fanvault info...couldn't reply to your actual msg bc it was gone from that channel!
@@amygoodson-catlady I know, CZcams doesn't like anything remotely resembeling a link to another page 😂
@@amygoodson-catlady was it useful?
Love the reaction. And of course love Sabaton. Saw them live in 2006 when they were touring as the openign act with Lordi, Finnish metal/heavy hard rock I guess, won the Eurovision song contest. And ever since, I've been a fan.
They made a whole album of a specific time when Sweden was a Great Power in Europe. But what makes this more epic than just being songs about my country's history is that they don't glorify it. They don't make the Swedes out to be great heroes or always right. In fact, they are brutally honest in their songs, about war crimes commited even by the Caroleans, the swedish elite soldiers, that was at that time during the 1700 one of if not the greatest soldiers. Of course, Sweden never had many people to begin with, but I'd say if you can have 20.000 men and still win against an army of 90.000, you've gotta be both smart and really good.
So how about checking out one of their Carolus Rex songs.
One of my favorites is "Gott Mit Uns", where you get the (at that time of Sabaton) the guitarrists sing live, but in the studio I think at least the first verse is sang by the music producer. Awesome song, and portrays the badass Caroleans mindset.
P.S. There is a swedish and english version. Both are awesome. Some swedish songs are different than english versions lyric wise, so both songs are good to listen to.
we like Sabaton AND Floor in this case....sorry for tearing down. Floor fans awating this credits...
I didn’t know that’s my bad
Floor's husband Hannes is the guy who gets injured by the grenade at the beginning. Floor closes out the credits with some beautiful vocalization.
They had no choice. The officers were committed to prosecute the offensive per their orders. If you refused to fight you would face court martial and possible execution.
"2021" and "Lest we forget" always chokes me up a bit. It is clear we never learn.
Great reaction!!! Sabaton has alot of songs about important historical events. The most reacted to are probably the ones you did and all the animated videos (No bullets fly, Night witches and Red baron. You should really do all of them because they are amazing)
They also have alot of songs without the video. But the are equally important. They have 2* albums about the Swedish great power. They are from Sweden and what i mean with 2* is that they did the songs both in Swedish and English.
The Swedish versions have lyric videos (Unofficial) on youtube. Easy to find. They are the best version of the album.
Such as Lejonet från Norden and Carolus Rex. You should def look them up.
You should do reactions to Sabaton's "Ghost Division" and "Primo Victoria" songs, they're the mainstay opener and encore at all of Sabaton's shows.
The soldiers at that war didn’t have much choice then to follow orders, if not they got shot for treason. This event happened on a lot of places along the line but never again. The generals was really worried about the morale so it got stopped.
But yes, this song is truly a masterpiece as the video.
For me personally I get amazed by the effort and time this guys put down on every video they release. If I was a teacher in history I play one Sabaton song every week plus the history from Sabatons History site. The kids would love it an learn and remember.
And a mother thing that hit me as I watch the reactions from all over the world is how different the knowledge is from Europe and the US.
There is a movie from the early 2000s called Joyuex Noel, which is a fictional story but based on this event. It's a great movie in my opinion and really conveys the story this song tells
Sabaton has also a great History channel on YT with lot of info, photo's and real footage of the events they sing about. Very interesting! And if I may give you a tip...always watch video's till the end of the credits (if they run it) because I think that everyone who participated in making a video deserves their credit. And sometimes there a surprises to be found, as you already learned from others in the comments haha. And I concur with "No Bullets Fly", the animated!! video. Very emotional!
One of the moments that give you hope for humanity
Nightwish Army Northern Germany greets the Sabaton family.
bro..nightwish and sabton are a big family
if you study the histoy of the 1914 Christmas truce it'll tell you that the men involved were either moved to a different part of the line (it was an unofficial truce and only a relatively small portion of troops took part), or they were threatened with death (and sometimes actually killed by their co) or imprisonment. they literally did not have a choice but to fight a day later
The Christmas Truce of 1914 is one of those stories that restores faith in Humanity.
Hi Tommy Johansen the guitarist is an amazing singer and musician ❤️. He's the one with the guitar. His own band Majestica he's the lead singer.
‘And I hear they have a podcast where they talk about history…’
Me: THEY FUCKING DO??????
You will like The Hakka. It is a short video based on a true story when New Zealand troops and Germans united to play football. Amazing.
If you ever make it to Flandres, the original cross they portrayed in the Video is still there. Next to a farmers field
sabaton epica nightwish my top 3 bands
"He talked over Floor's ending credits..Blasphemer"..😂😂
sabaton are awesome.you have to see them live as i did in leeds in april and the 'christmas truce' is one helluva track
Got cut off but great video and great song. I’ve heard of these guys for a while and never really followed but yea great stuff
Always blows me away that Americans know nothing about this. As a Canadian 🇨🇦, this is part of our history. We all know “Lest We Forget”.
Sabaton and Ghost are swedish bands, i love both of them.
Tommy Johnsson, so many. She is gone, you raise me up are a good place to start, phantom of the opera (insane range) , circel of life to show more tommy talents,, who wants to live forever for tribute, thunderstuck to honor ac/dc classic, sound of silent, probaly in the too 3 versions, tommy version of abbas winner takes it all. Power of love, for bring one of the biggeste song ever to new top 3 versions (maybe best version )
sabaton history is their history channel
It's important to note this mainly happened between British The ones in the Brown uniforms and German troops some French soldiers guys wearing Blue and Red did take part but for obvious reasons the majority didn't same for the Belgians would you celebrate with your invader and while Indian troops didn't understand what Christmas was it reminded them of their holiday called Diwali sorry if butchered that which was enough for them to mingle with the Germans this happened all the way up an down the British lines though one British regiment did respond to Germany singing with Machine gun fire so not all participated but for the most part the peace held for several day in some cases a week.
But as one CZcamsr said it was the symptoms of a young by the end of 1915 the majority of the troops who took part had either Ben moved to different fronts or killed troops on both sides had experienced poison gas, rolling bombardments etcetera so there was really no connection or willingness to do it again.
Extra history I think hes called has a good video on this very topics.
a moment of humanity
Hannes Van Dahl's wife is Floor Jansen from Nightwish and she's singing during the closing credits. Ya missed it.
You missed the end from Floor Jansen outro. As the most Reactors
Christmas Truce... is most beautiful moment in our history and one of the most terrible one. I break my heart.. there were just yunge people so far away of their loving ones..
And you have not discover tommy johansson yet. Tommy are "only the drummer and instrument player in sabaton, his voice are up there with the best in the worid, Queen, Elton John, is among the best in the worid, his range and talent are out of this world.
I’d recommend the songs inmate 4859, night witches and fields of verdun
You should react to the sabaton history about this. It would make it clear about some of your comments.
Appreciate it
I like to pair Christmas Truce with Majestica's A Christmas Carol, with a little Thomas Paine mixed in. Christmas Truce tells the story of people who were smarter than the generals and kings, who told them that the August 1914 war would be over by Christmas 1914. That's what SHOULD have happened. The Christmas Truce was the sanest reaction to the insanity of war. Tommy Johansson, playing the French soldier, also made A Christmas Carol with his other band, Majestica. The Charles Dickens classic ends with Scrooge living Christmas in his heart everyday: Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All. That's what Christmas really means. As for Thomas Paine, he wrote the January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, which helped convince the colonists that they needed to break away from the monarchy system. "In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion." I'm reading The Guns of August, about the beginning of WWI, and that's a great example of the pride of kings causing millions of people to be maimed, terrorized, killed. Queen Victoria married off her children to "royalty" in Europe to secure peace. But, as the way to Hell is paved with good intentions, her grandchildren squabbled, and started the slaughter of WW1. Really, war doesn't have to be inevitable. And anyone who is starting one should be locked in the Douaumont Ossuary with their opponent(s), each given a flintlock pistol with one shot, and left there. Nice reaction, and yes, many thanks to Sabaton for keeping this story alive.
If you really want to go down the Sabaton rabbit-hole, I would recommend these:
(These are all from the Sabaton Channel, and they never block videos so it's safe to use)
[live at Woodstock 2012]: Ghost Division, 40:1 and Uprising
[Great Tour Live Videos]: En Livstied I Krig (make sure to turn subtitles on), Red Baron, Swedish Pagans, Primo Victoria, Fields of Verdun, Devil Dogs & Angels Calling
[Lyric videos]: Attack of the dead men, The Final Solution, In Flanders Fields, 82nd All the way, Sparta, Shiroyama, Cliffs Of Gallipolli and The lost betallion
[Music Video's]: Steel Commanders, Defence of Moscow, Livgardet (make sure to turn subtitles on), Fields of Verdun, Rourke's Drift, Screaming Eagles, Uprising, The Future Of Warfare (Building Blocks Video) & Seven Pillars of wisdom
[Animated History Video's]: Night Witches and No Bullets Fly (not animated music video's, the animated history/story video's)
[Covers]: Kingdom Come [Offical video]
and I'm sure people told you but in case, Sabaton have another channel (Sabaton History Channel) where they do a deep dive into the history behind the songs with Indy Nidell.
I like to refer to Sabaton as 'Valor Metal'
The start of the music reminded me so much of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Nice reaction , but could you make the video larger , it's no bigger then a phone screen , hope you saw it on a bigger screen .
15:27
Sabaton is a really good band. Not sure WHY you haven't done Jinjer yet?
I love jinjer! Probably just cause I know most their stuff but idk if Chris does! So maybe soon!
end vocal > Floor
Can't believe you turned down Floor 😡
Absolutely some Trans Siberian Orchestra Carol of the Bells vibes in there. Interestingly, Carol of the Bells is based on a Ukrainian folk song, Shchedryk. Hopefully, this year, 110 years after the Christmas Truce, we can be done with our current Ukraine adventure and not need another holiday truce.
devil dogs is a good song ita the story of how the us marines got the name devil dogs not the snack cake check itout
Thank you for turning down the volume for the ending credits so you can start your blabbing, nobody wants to hear "Floor" sing the altro....UGH
I didn’t know at the time, my bad
I live At +- 100 km of the battlefield where this event was made.
You can also see there the Chrismas truc cross. It is replace time by time and the last is there +-1990.
There always a lot of gift, especialy soccer ball.
www.ww1cemeteries.com/uploads/7/4/4/5/74452945/christmas-truce2_orig.jpg
Thanks for the link to the Christmas Truce cross.
@@merryrose6788 you're welcome 😊