From an artist point of view, i like to think the reason its slow at the beginning and gradually gets faster in the middle and end slamming the hardest is because they are capturing the sense of climbing a mountain getting faster as we reach the top OR could be like an avalanche, first the slow cracks of the ice as it tumbles down then as it comes down it SPEEDS UP AS IT FALLS 🤯
This song is about White Friday 1916 when two armies( Austro-Hungarian and Italian) allegedly used artillery in Alphs to cause avalanche over the enemy position, burring many soldiers from both sides...
@@ryannelson3220 The song talks about the soldier forever at his post on Blood Mountain. His soul standing guard may have witnessed dogfights during the Second World War.
yeah, love this song. The enemy was bombing the mountain to cause the snow to break away onto them. They are now there forever because the snow never melts, They're still there.
I knew about the story before, but I really didnt consider that all those soldiers that got buried are probably still all there. No way that they were dug up just to get reburied, and in that cold they will probably stay frozen for thousands of years to come. That's crazy. In the video as well, the first plane were WW1 era, but the second ones were WW2 era, I'm guessing the point they wanna make is that if these soldiers could still see what was going on after death, 25 years after they die they would see another world war come to the same area, just with new technology. Really hope those soldiers wont see a WW3 up there, rest in peace
@@v3tReacts The glacier has been melting and revealing more and more of these soldiers since the 90s or so i think i read, the way the soldier in the video is lying is taken from one of the soldiers they found. There's also a video on youtube where the ice has melted enough for scientists to enter their old baracks to find a ton of artifacts and even ammunition still in the boxes they were delivered in, brass still shining like it'd fire if you tried using it.
Dedicated to all those unknown solders who never made it home. It was marked that way as around 2,000-10,000 soldiers were killed in the avalanches and the vast majority were never recovered and still remain preserved on the mountain
Soldier! Your story will never be forgotten! I have some tears on my eyes. Thanks to Sabaton for this powerful song. Stay there, struggler, we didn't know your name, but we will remember your story!
On December 13th, 1916 at 5 AM, known as White Friday, a series of avalanches hit both Austro Hungarian and Italian barracks and basically buried them with everyone inside. People reported afterwards that both Austro Hungarian and Italian troops fired artillery at the loose snow on the mountains to cause avalanches on each other's side. The total death toll is unknown, but approximately 2000 soldiers died and a dozen civilians. Many of the bodies were never found. Some are being found nowadays with the ice on the mountains melting more and more due to climate change.
What were civilians doing up there? Or was it once the avalance hit the ground? It would be so cool to go skiing there sometime and find an old body (or skeleton) from WW1.
@@robertbalazslorincz8218 It was the 13th, I apparently wrote 16th for some reason. Probably because I was thinking about 1916. I edited it now, thanks for pointing it out though
@@tvaettis0653 I'm guessing there were a couple civilian houses in the area. If you look up Mount Marmolada today, there are quite a few hotels in the area. So people having their little house next or near the mountain isn't that far fetched.
This is why I honestly view WWI to be deadlier than WWII. It was an evolution in warfare that was evolving and changing faster than we knew how to fight and adapt. The use of machine guns did away with the centuries old tactic of both armies marching out onto the battlefield, and the desperation to gain ground led to the creation of deadlier instruments of modern warfare; long range artillery, tanks, flamethrowers, poison gas, even planes were used to strafe the trenches. And all this did was add to the desperation to achieve victory by any means necessary, even if it meant starting avalanches.
I think they use WWII fighters to show he’s still on his post after 25-30 years, and still to this day. They wouldn’t make such a simple mistake. Or because it looked badass pulling up behind the drummer. Either way, it’s so goddam awesome.
I think that was referencing Plato’s “only the dead have seen the end of war “ as a way of saying he’s dead but he’s still spiritually and physically tied to the mountain as there are still a lot of the bodies up there
The part where you thought the planes were coming in to bomb them, they were actually trying to bomb the side of the mountain to purposefully create avalanches.
White Friday - It was a mix of natural avalanches - and both sides shelling the mountain side to cause avalanches and bury each other. Somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000 are buried on the mountain side never making it home.
I think and I might be wrong, that the two sides were shelling the mountain to cause the avalanches instead of shelling the troop positions. One avalanche equalled more death and destruction than a single shell. What an epic song and an epic performance.
The song gave me goosebumps all there music does for me I love Sabaton for that reason and thank you soldiers past present and future gone but never ever forgotten
if youre interested, the Song is based on this event From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia White Friday occurred during the Italian Front of World War I, when an avalanche struck Austro-Hungarian barracks on Mount Marmolada, killing 270 soldiers. Other avalanches the same day struck Italian and other Austro-Hungarian positions, killing hundreds. According to some reports both sides deliberately fired shells into the weakened snowpacks in an attempt to bury the other side. An accurate estimation of the number of casualties from the White Friday avalanches is not available. Historical documents suggest at least 2,000 victims among the soldiers and a few dozens among civilians.[1] The date 13 December, marked Saint Lucia, a commemorative religious holiday practiced by the majority of Italian Catholics. Though the occurrence of avalanches in the Dolomites Mountains took place on a Wednesday in 1916, the term "White Friday" was used to coin the disastrous day.[2]
Vet: White Friday happened to the mountaintop Austro-Hungarian troops fighting Italian intruders. The Italians had undermined the peak, and planted enough Pyro to blow the top down on the Austro. The rocks and snow avalanches buried them.
Iirc, White Friday itself is a natural avalanche. The reason why u see bombers bombing the mountains is because during the course of the war, both sides often bomb the mountains to create manmade avalanches or to simple drop portions of a mountain on top of enemy formations Anyone with better info on this can correct me if I'm mistaken somewhere
the sad fact is that even now many of those bodies have never been found. still on that mountain when all other soldiers have been returned to love ones they still remain lost. No one is sure but they think that cannons aimed at the mountains started the avalanche that buried them. but this song is a reference to not only white friday but all who lost their lives on the mountains hence the different planes, from the biplanes of ww1 to the messersmitchs of ww2
There Is soo much to the White War... Truly a sad story of not just war but the Rath of nature Itself... I can't Imagine the feeling of having to run from falling rocks with almost no where to go...
they think death count was from 2,000 to 10,000 men from both sides even some civilians were killed that day .Also memorial day for them in italy on that day called Saint Lucia. That was not worst avalanche, the worse was in 1970 in Yungay, Yungay Province, Áncash Region, Peru a under water earthquake cause debris avalanche and mudflow down 100 miles destroying several towns or villages the DEATH TOTAL WAS 30,000. But could been HIGH as 66,794 to 70,000 casualties.
Kickass song 🤘 One common feature of their latest singles (this, Christmas truce, steel commanders, livgardet and kinda defence of moscow) is that they put a lot of effort into the choruses. They have all been great but I feel like the verses get a bit overlooked and they mostly rely on an epic chorus to carry the song, which (sometimes) creates an awkward paus in between instead of having the verses a bit more upbeat and energetic, leading into the choruses more naturally. Anyway, might just be me, but I still love their music 🔥💯
There is no proof that parts in the war delibraty triggered avalaunches bybombs. But all points to that. Sorry for jag spelling. About 2000 died in that day
I was hesitant to click on this because the thumbnail made me think you'd take a certain political stance on this song. Goes to show we can all agree those men and women were heroes for standing their post no matter what.