Thobbe ( Thorbjörn Englund) is Sabaton`s former lead guitarist. Currently in the band "Civil War" with Daniel Mullback(Sabaton`s former drummer) and Daniel Myhr(Sabaton`s former keyboard player). PS. I was one of Sabaton`s bus drivers in 2019 on the european tour 🙂
Oh yes! 😊 I can tell you this. I've worked as a tourbus driver for 12 years,. Numerous clients through the years, but Sabaton and crew are by far the best I've worked with. Other bands should take a course with Sabaton, and learn how to treat people.
They have a pretty awesome music video for this song (as you saw a clip of in the history video), check it out when you get a second. This song is fantastic, but the topic is heavy - you can kind of get an idea of it from the lyrics alone. The massive casualties, the battlefield conditions, and the cultural significance of the battle. "They shall not pass" By the way, since you did a reaction to Soldier of Heaven not long ago, Sabaton History just dropped an episode about it, if you wanted to do a react to that.
"They turned the ground flat with all that artillery." They did not. I think Indy and co mention with footage in another video on Sabaton History where they describe modern day fields in Verdun look like the surface of the moon if the moon had grass.
A couple of cents about "They shall not pass" and LoTR movie. In the book Gandalf says "You cannot pass", but when they were filming, Sir Ian McKellen persuaded Jackson to change the line into "You shall not pass" as homage to Tolkien's participation in WW I (Somme)
Tolkien started writing The Lord of The Rings in 1937, though I saw nothing saying if he was inspired by the French idiom, I think that'd be a cool origin as any.
The book says "You cannot pass!" whereas the movie is "You shall not pass!". I am going to take a guess here and say that it was plucked from his mind when writing LOTR because he was in France in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, while the Battle of Verdun was raging still. There was plenty of French propaganda posters he must have seen with "On ne passe pas!" on them. Maybe it came to him subconsciously in his writing because of a poster he seen so long ago during an extremely traumatic war, one he (like many of us who are traumatized) repressed. I guess we will never know since he has long since passed.
Also possibly from the Spanish Civil War, which was going in in 1937 and where the phrase No Pasaran was used by the defenders of Madrid, which would have been fresh at the time.
Tolkien served in the trenches of ww1, and lord of the rings was heavily inspired by his life. The land of Mordor was inspired by his time on the western front.
Tolkien had fought in WW1 with the BEF as a 2nd LT in the Lancashire Fusiliers and in 1916 fought in the Battle of the Somme as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, Tolkien contracted trench fever and was taken out of the line just before his unit was wiped out. So he would have heard about the phrase "they shall not pass" which he used in the book, he used much of his war time experiences for LOR and from other battles in history like the "Winged Hussars" for the battle of Helms Deep in the book
I’ve been to a few of the places spoken about on the Great War album and that includes Verdun. The hills surrounding the town are several feet shorter than if they had been naturally eroded just due to the sheer amount of artillery shells that had hit the town.
I cant be 100% sure but I dont think any country other than the US takes its flag as seriously. So I'd say he's probably fine to sit on it 😁. I will admit I am no expert though. Great reaction as always.
This is one of my favourite songs! Thanks for your reaction :-) They made the official music video in Fort Gerhard in Świnoujście, Poland. One of the reporters of the local paper Kurier took part in it. Sabaton is so cool!
Indy did work previously on The Great War channel (youtube) where they covered the Great War week by week. He is also currently working on the World War Two channel, he didn't want to wait for the 100 year anniversary this time.
"You shall not pass, wasn't that from Gandalf in lord of the rings". Genius connection, Tolkien fought in world war 1. They shall not pass became a french idiom after the battle of verdun. Tolkien might have snatched that when he wrote lord of the rings in the 40s.
Through a French ‘war bride’ brought to Florida by a great uncle after WW II, I have a connection to WW I. My great aunt’s father was a French soldier in WW I and probably was at Verdun at some point. I had the opportunity to talk to my great aunt about living in German occupied France during WW II.
Tolkien served in WWI and was inspired by his memory of the battlefield and his interest for military history for some of his battle scene. "They shall not pass" is one. Another is the defence of Vienna by the Winged Hussars which is reflected in the Battle of Helms Deep. So there IS a Sabaton/Tolkien connection. 😁
This song has a special place in my heart as it was one of the first songs I heard from them and what got me interested in history and hooked on the band. The official video is great and I think there are several episodes of the history video, watched it so many times. Btw, my dad visited fort douamont last week and sent me some pics, looks really cool. Great vid
If you are eventually going to react to the carolus rex album I recommend checking them out in the order of the album, since they are in order of the events that happened in the great northern war, that way the history is more consistent and makes sense
Great reaction and amazing song for one of the most famous battles in history. Cant wait for more and if i can suggest one sabaton song, i suggest Coat of Arms
Having seen Sabaton when they opened for Judas Priest before the tour was cancelled, I can tell you that the crowd was great even though it wasn't as big of a crowd as this. They had to stop several times due to the crowd chanting Sabaton. I drove 5 hours to see them, and would drive even farther if I had to to see them again, no matter the size of the venue.
You shall not pass is also what the Black Knight says to King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail before he survives having all his limbs hacked off.
Ever heard of the “Paris Gun?” The Germans created a gun in WW1 that was so massive that it could shell Paris from 75 miles away. The gunners had to account for the curvature and rotation of the planet to use it effectively! WW1 had some crazy and bizarre weaponry. Some recommendations: Unleash the Archers - Awakening Epic Rap Battles of History - J.R.R. Tolkien vs. George R.R. Martin
Some of the pictures taken soon after the war are just tragic on their own, nothing in comparison to the loss of human life of course but the land itself was torn apart. It must have been pretty close to hell.
Verdun - it's a scary place, trust me. I was there and it's... weird... you really feel that it is an old battlefield, but of a sort you almost find nowhere - there are towns that are just some roads and a sign that there WAS a town before the battle, there are overgrown trenches *everywhere* and you can not freely wander the area because there are *insane* amounts of unexploded shells still there, you can eat *nothing* that grows there because the ground is so substantially poisoned from the exploded ammunition and gas that it still lasts. Then there the Douaumont Ossuary, not only a huge cemetery but also the "Bonehouse" - a crazy long art deco-esque "temple" that contains the unidentified bones, visibly so, of who knows how many dead and there are more bones added every ear... When I was there it felt very.... very strange, like there a residual feeling of great suffering because the whole area has a ghostly feel to it, nothing is "right", everything feels "wrong", everywhere are overgrown but clearly visible signs of war, really all that's missing are "dead faces in the water"... Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
@@ebenezer576 That's exactly what I was trying to express, just more concise ;)... and maybe the fact alone that is *clearly* and *only* man-made, this bygone hellscape, lends credence to it's horror - it's not supernatural, no cosmic impact, it's no natural disaster, it's *just* humanity doing it's best at being worst. And that's what makes it so scary... the reality of it, the visible, undeniable proof of what man can do to man... essentially *homus homini lupus* in full force. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
i DID request this song back in the day as a more awesome version of Price of a Mile! On the same subject I can recommend Great War, and if you feel strong enough to go for a sad song again then Cliffs of Gallipolli is a must. This song really is great though, even though it shares the same themes as Price of a Mile it just has this energetic and adrenaline pumping feel to it. Oh and fun thing, Lord of the Rings actually may have been inspired by "They shall not pass" as well as the Winged Hussars! Tolkien was very much into military history and had a lot of friends that he communicated with from mainland europe.
Yeah, I love Price of a Mile, and it is indeed similar to Cliffs of Gallipoli, but Gallipoli gives you some closure. While the story is still sad, there's some sense of togetherness in the knowledge that we're all one and the same in the end; that there is some peace to be had in knowing that. Also, Cliffs of Gallipoli has this ABBA sound, which I can't help but adore. Such an unlikely influence in terms of metal. Put the track next to the song Eagle on the record "ABBA - The Album" and it'll fit in quite nicely.
@@vakistania Oh, 100%! That's why we keep Tommy around. Well, one of the reasons. I guess he's occupied making his DISNEYton mash-ups right know, but you could always ask. I suppose you already knew about his "Swedish Hitz Goes Metal" but let's go; ABBA's Dancing Queen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WY0drnSPThU.html
"They shall not pass" was from 'The Lord of the Rings' book and a few other related stories, and other gaming genres ( which some of them may or may not know). From the Christian author J.J. R. Tolkien, who some say based some of his books on his WW1 experiences in the Royal British Army, on the trenches. Not that he admitted it exactly, because he would not say do directly when asked. Interesting that phase or quote I often here me gaming friends say when I'm around on some of these events. :-p His books are an interesting read and how they came to be. ^_^
"Is he sitting on the flag of England"??? my first thought was from the movie of Gettysburg where General Longstreet said " we whooped you twice"...... so perhaps Indy being a natural born American was tossing that out there????? who knows, but i do hope it was in all fun and games..... i personally would never do it, even in a friendly poke
yeah they shall not pass is in lord of the rings,.. and tolkien fought in ww1 i believe he fought in the Somme... and so knew about the idiom first hand.
Should react to in the name of god ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DRVo4OIj0JI.html older song and show from when they just started to become more known 🙂