American's First Time Reaction to "Livgardet" a.k.a. "The Royal Guard" by Sabaton. 

As someone that joined the livgardet (sadly hurt my knee during basic training so had to quit.) I love this song so much, but ever since this song came out. All my friends in the royal guard havent shut up about it :D About Sabaton being uninvited, while I do find it sad that politics got invovled, I can also understand why. The swedish military is part of our political government, and Sabaton got uninvited after they had a show in Crimea after Russia took it over. While that might not sound bad, as we all know in todays modern world, one bad PR move and suddenly everything goes to hell :P Ofcourse, among the military of Sweden, Sabaton is probably one of the most popular bands :D

the first music video is showing the Skirmish at Bender, when King charles the 12th and his royal guards was in Turkey after the defeat of Poltava. The king had outstayed his welcome there and the turkish people stormed the place he lived at. The royal guard fought and killed or wounded between 200-400 while only losing around 30. They did end up losing that skirmish and was captured and then thrown out of Turkey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmish_at_Bender

I served in Livgardet in 1991 and had my position just outside the Swedish Royal Castle on the Lion Hill. I remember it was freezing cold during nights and hot as hell daytime.

För Sverige i tiden = Our Kings motto, can be translated into "For Sweden in time". Gör vad som synes omöjligt = Livgardets motto and translates into "Do what seems impossible". I am so lucky to have tickets to see them 2 weeks from now.😍🤩 Have you really been roasted by Sabaton fans? Seems almost impossible...no true fans of Sabaton does that! Honest opinions is what we want, fake reactions will be skipped...at least by me. Keep being true my friend!

I think its pretty awesome that a little country like Sweden has one of the if not the oldest military in the world.

There is one more sabaton history of the Life guard. Thank you for a good reaction.

I'm disappointed they were uninvited to the celebrations. Not that I would have necessarily been able to see it, but the idea they would have been presented alongside other celebratory acts as a cultural treasure is awesome. And this song is fantastic. I love the vocals. And the style is reminiscent of an older classical sound. I would love it if they did some more stuff like this.

"De göra vad som synes omöjligt" = livgardets motto and translates to "They do what seems impossible" The legend says that it comes from the French military attache that said it in Latin for the Livgardets efforts in the battle of Narva in the year 1700. The battle of Narva is viewed as one of Sweden's greatest victories.

28:21 The lyrics mention Dala blood, that means those 16 men who was the first Livgarde to the King Gustaf Wasa in 1521 came from the same county as Sabaton comes from: Dalarna

The swedish version video is actually recorded about 5 minutes from my house. I even passed with my car as they recorded. They did put up signs asking all by passers not to disturb by making to much noise. Its a great band!

YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW LONG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, MAN! p.s. publish that video of you singing 82nd all the way plz 😂😂😂

The reason it got cancelled was because Sabaton had a concert in Crimea 2015 (the Ukranian territory invaded and annexed by russia some years earlier). Sad that it got cancelled, but maybe it was for the best considering current events.

This reaction is the most thorough I have seen ! Good reaction, From Sweden !!!

The instruments with the lion and the 3 crowns have been used on the Caroulus rex and Gustavus Adolphus songs for a while. For example the Swedish hockey team have 3 crowns on the chest wich is a symbol of Sweden after it got founded from 3 small kingdoms into 1. The lion is the symbol for Adolphus who put Sweden on the map and also introduced the modern warfare to europe. Both Napoleon and Adolph Hitler used Adolphus military doctrines as a blueprint for how to make war.

Congratulations! A gig in TN, so 82nd all the way is 101% sure part of the set 👍

History be crazy. Swedish king has to be exiles into turkey, and he came back alive after attempt on his life on foreign soil.

I'm 6'5, 270 lbs, good looking, i like cigars, whiskey and Pantera... but... i'm no rockstar. Damn you Hannes, luckiest sob in the world.

As a side note here, för Sverige i tiden is the royal motto (valspråk) of our current king of Sweden.

I would love to see your take on Bloodywood. Endurant is a beautiful song with a powerful message, and an emotional video. Fair warning, you may need tissues, but it's well worth it!

The reason the army stoped the cooperation with Sabaton is because: In 2015 they played a concert in Sevastopol in Ukraine (Sevastopol is in the occupied Crimea). And to add another layer of shit on this cake, this concert was organized by the biker gang called Night Wolves (But are often referred to as Putins Hells Angels for very good reasons…..) And before somebody says anything stupid, I’m a HUGE Sabaton Fan, I’ve seen them live many times. First time was in their own hometown of Falun in 2011. You have to realize how it would’ve looked if the Swedish army would’ve gone forward with Sabaton..

I don't know if I'll be able to see them during their next tour since I'll be in college in a place that's far away from the nearest place they'll be so I have to see them on a weekend and the closest they'll be on a weekend is Cincinnati which is 9 hours away.

It's 2 different episodes on Sabaton history for Livgardet and Royal guard

Once again, thank you for another awesome deep dive into a great and imo underrated Sabaton song. Greetings from Germany, keep up the good work, and I can' wait to see the "Hearts of Iron" reaction uploaded here on RU-vid. I always enjoy your open minded way to get into new stuff.

Sweet you'll love seeing them live I've been a fan since 2008 and seen them live twice amazing both times also a great way to start my Saturday with the reaction upload great song choice

There’s a sabayon history for “the royal guard” telling the of the music video it’s completely worth the watch the story is crazy

I actually did my military service as a soldier in the Livgardet. Really cool they made a song about it.

I served in Livgardet in 2001 as a Livdragon, or Life Guards Dragoon. We performed many changing of the guard ceremonies, both mounted and on foot. Also many many hours on post at the Royal Castle. Good times. It's an honor to have served in a regiment with such pedigree.

Livgardet was actually the first song Sabaton released after I first got into them. Definitely one of my favorites. Also, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly suggest their song Blood of Bannockburn

Hey candy as we think today was really uncommon and super expensive at the time, there's a reason it's served in a silver thingy(?). Lovely reaction as usual!

Those were definitely people not mannequins, saw them move throughout the video, which props to them for standing there mostly still while holding something out, let alone while a song's being played live next to them.

Congrats on the tickets man! 🥳

I did Livgardet in late 1970s. Best time of my life before I met my wife. / Micke P

Sorry, this may appear almost completely off topic, but something you said hit home. Covid did cause some real problems, which came up with some interesting solutions. Completely different music style, but an example of a way to promote himself and help out a struggling business: Canadian Singer/songwriter Lawrence Gowan (who is performs solo, but is also current lead singer for Styx) in an attempt to help a struggling theatre did live stream performances from the theatre with just him playing and his son on Drums.... He did a big bit promoting the history of the theatre and also making it almost a "live in your living room" type thing by doing a Q&A session at the end with people on the stream. The Barenaked Ladies (I swear it is only coincidence that they are Canadian as well) did a series of videos of their favourite songs done from their individual homes via video conference. While I am not recommending that peoples should have a rough life, it is true that hardship of one form or another forces us to inovate.

Can we apreciate that in 3:36 of original Royal Guard video Joakim parried a bullet?

Fun fact, the swedish video is recorded less then 2 minute away from my house. Sabaton is great!

Background wasn*t manequins you can see one move right around the time you paused for the crest on the guitar.

Ottoman: shoots Chris Chris: "So you have chosen death!" It was at that moment, Carl knew he f*cked up.

The first video, the english version, it depicts "Kalabaliken i Bender", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skirmish_at_Bender

I don't recall if you did burn your crosses but I recommend it

They actually have another Sabaton history video for Royal Guard which covers different things.

The song has the same melody (or incredibly similar to) a Christian Hymn In English Fairest Lord Jesus/Beautiful Saviour In Swedish Psalm 297 (Lovely is the Earth)

You missed one history video, the one about the battle depicted in the English music video

You’re seeing them live in Nashville? Then you’ll probably encounter Tank the Tech who’ll also be there.

When I first heard this one, I kept thinking, "Isn't this a church song? Why did they set it to a hymn?" Apparently, it's a popular hymn in Sweden.

I would not say they are like the American secret service. The Royal Guard stand out in their uniforms. The Swedish equivalent to the American secret service I would say is Säpo Swedish Security Service. The Swedish Security Service is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Justice. It operates as a security agency responsible for counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, as well as the protection of dignitaries and the constitution. They dress more like secret service and is armed in a similar fashion.

The Swedish version, Livgardet, came out first, followed by the English, Royal Guard. One could think of it as the Swedish version was a strategy meeting/last supper before the battle of the English version.

Hmmm, jag firade som Uppsalabo 700 år 1986. Med resten av Uppsala såklart.

For me is NB 1 !!!

that cool helmet is a pickelhaube

You reacted to the English music video and the history video for the Swedish version of the song and they are completely different so I’m extremely confused why you reacted to a song and a history video about a completely different thing? Please react to Livgardet song as well since you reacted to the history video for it. And please react to Royal guard history video since you reacted to the song Royal guard. It’s not too late anyway it’s not like you can’t fix this right?

hmmmm, pity you missed the history video for The Royal Guard

Did you read the credits? Because there a small joke in there.

Naffurie is stating incorrect information, when the Swedish sodiers cane out after the building was set on fire, the leader of the Turks, called for a cease fire coz obv Turky didnt want a war against Sweden. They cam out and the scirmish was ended, the Swedes went back home. Typical Turks to change the history to make it look like they won anything. Tbh there shouldnt have been a skirmish to beginn with, we were allies, but for some reason the Turks decided to invade the buildings the Swedes was living in, possible being pressured by the Russians?

Each song has a sabaton history episode so i guess you forgot one

I love the song and Sabaton, but they fucked up when they went to play for putlers boys.

"im Shure you have your hown top notch security Gard that take care of your leader" **look back at our History of executing our leader coup d'état civilan and Amy massacre** huuuuuu i don't think one would have lovied long enougth for that exept maybe one