Emotional Reaction to Sabaton's 'En Livstid i Krig' - A Power Metal Journey 

Oh man i can just say as a swede seeing atleast 10 Sabatons shows live for a period of 10 years, Your world gave me as much tears along with the song. It makes me proud that we can connect on this level. Across nations and sometimes beliefs ans still reach each other. Im a history buff and wont even go down on this song but your reaction gave me just as much shills as listening the song first time. Cheers my friend you got a sub :)

Before they started the singer (Joakim) said: no one carries around lighters anymore but you all have your phones. That's the lights in the crowd and it adds so much.

"Hey Sabaton, do you have a tank for real?" Jocke: "No, we have two."

There is no shame on crying on this song many manly tears were shed all over the world

As a Norwegian, I'm singing along to this song in swedish every time I hear it. It's really strong... I don't know Swedish, but the swedes are our closest allies, and we understand each other no matter what

Being a musician myself, something like that part at the beginning where the crowd starts singing the song back at them would be the fulfillment of all my dreams.

I always forget that people who aren't familiar with Sabaton don't expect the tank. They have two, actually. One is named Audie, and the other is named Walther, who are both subjects of Sabaton songs.

Never apologise for your tears… there’s a lot of BS out there about what makes a “man” but real human beings have emotions and letting them out is normal and natural and healthy. This song hits me right in the feels every time

i was standing in the crowd right on the centre line, it was really hard to clap and to fistpumps in this one song since we all had our phones up haha and yes we sang every word of the song in the crowd last concert as well, late february 2020 before corona hit europe

a Viking.. and he hasn't done Sabaton - Swedish Pagans yet? just putting it out there :P

There may actually have been more crowd singing in this than at the Blind Guardians Bards song live.

If manly tears aren't she'd during this one or chills aren't felt, you aren't human. Just shows how good Sabaton is. They can convey that kind of emotion even without being able to understand them

En make, en vän = a husband, a friend. Fader och son = father and son. So you were close. Great reaction to a great song by a great band! Also, you should react to Purple Heart.

only with the intro I cryed when my class mates ask me to show a metal song i decided braking the law. But someona said" metal is all aggressivity and screams". Then a live time in war started. the K-pop girl cryed too

Im from Sweden and my favourite songs sabaton has made is definetly: Carolus Rex, Great war, the final solution and Attack of the dead men. Keep in mind alot of savarins songs exist in both english and swedish but you can really tell they where made to be sung in swedish. Be sure to check them out, Love from Sweden.

I cry pretty much every time I hear this song. So powerful.

I highly recommend for your Sabaton viewing pleasure: No Bullets Fly - Animated Story [which is an official sabaton video], Screaming Eagles, Ghost Division Live at Woodstock, Great War, Hearts of Iron [sadly no official video on this but it is a great song] and Rorke's Drift

I'm English, lived in Sweden over a decade. Was at this show. This was a beautiful reaction video I got goosebumps from it haha. Love Sabaton. I hope they do another album in Swedish in the future. Even if you don't understand you feel the power of it the way it's sung.

This is by far one of the most powerful songs ever written, no matter how Im feeling at the moment this song always makes me cry. I just LOVE Sabaton!

Swedish pagans is definitely a must.

Seeing them live is INTENSE.. being in that crowd is amazing

The drummer is Floor’s husband. He has a t-shirt that says...I have my own tank.

Make = husband, vän = friend (considering your guessing of which word meant what).

Awesome reaction brother! I see you're all about Viking pride, so you most definitely need to react to Sabaton "Swedish Pagans" it'll take you for a valkyrie ride to Valhalla and back! And if you want more crowds that are absolutely CRAZY, check out Sabaton live at Woodstock Poland 2012. Any song will do, but the most crowd-crazy ones from that specific show are: "Ghost Division," "Uprising," and "40 to 1"

Hello viking. From a person who has been to sabaton open air in falun for 3 years in a row. Your reaction was awsome. The tears of a viking are the truest tears. And the language doesen't matter, its the feeling in the song/music that really matters.

If you are feeling the song with the English lyrics.. then it's even more powerful for us Swedes, because the language is specially patriotic and feels. They have choosen more emotional words like "motherland" instead of "homeland" etc. It's really powerful and emotional... even more in Swedish.

I can only imagine how Joakim and the guys felt when the crowd started singing for them, and the respect Joakim shows the crowd as he conducts, he bows to them a couple of times. Amazing band.

Man, your reactions are fire. 🔥 Both my grandpas were WW2 veterans here in Finland. The other one never spoke about war and the other one just said: it's not heroism, it's chaos and craziness. 😢 I love this song! 🤘🏻

The crowd sing as one voice is just epic.

That was one of the coolest concerts i've ever been too, and in the start when everybody started to sing! That feeling was unexplainable. :D

The whole album is fantastic. A classic rock opera where the whole album is about different parts of the same war. I listen to it in both Swedish and English at least once a month still. A true masterpiece.

I dont even speak swedish and I'm pretty sure I have a good chunk of this song memorized.

This song always leaves me speechless or crying. So does Long Live the King in both English and Swedish. The power of Sabaton isn't the power of the instruments, but the fact that it goes straight through your heart.

Love your reaction to the video. I liked how u didn't interrupt all the time, some youtubers talk too much. U're right ppl don't need to understand the words

Saw Sabaton for the first time at a small venue in Norway. I was right up at the front, three of us saw the setlist and knew this song was coming up. We started singing before they introduced it. The whole crowd chanted in and we sang the first verste and chorus before the band started playing 😂 The guys just stood there chilling shaking their heads 😅 Last year was my 10th time seeing them Live, and I will be at every single show nearby for the rest of my lifetime The tears you have, we’ve all shared, peace be with you brother!

i was there live, when they started playing this song you got goosebumps

even the strongest metal head can cry. i cried with you

If you like how the crowd sang the song, you HAVE to check out Blind Guardians "Bard Song live at Wacken". I was there, sang with them and it was one of the most glorious moments of my life.

Oh, my goodness! I've heard some of their songs, but never this one. WOW!!! No wonder Dan Vasc has chosen to do some of their music. He's all about these same sorts of things. I think it's very interesting that you did this reaction two years back, and now there' he is, knocking at your doorstep, so to speak. My father was a product of two Polish parents, who gathered up their children and left Europe to move to the United States. Daddy was born here in the U.S., as were all but the oldest child, who traveled here with Grandma and Grandpa. Dad was the youngest of the Minish group of children. After his father passed away, Grandma remarried--to another Pole--and became Mrs. Shisnia. They added seven more children to the troops during their years together, before he, too, passed away. Altogether, she had 13 living children. Two others died shortly after birth, and then the oldest son of the Minish clan died as a soldier during World War 2. My dad went to war then, also--at barely 18 (though I think he was not QUITE 18, from what he told me in later years). He was in the mechanized & medical infantry that followed General Patton's troops everywhere they went. After the war ended, Dad was still alive, but he fought (what we would now described as) PTSD all the rest of his life. He was a gentle, loving man, and everyone who knew him where we lived in Old Valdez, Alaska after we moved there when I was only two years old, respected him and loved him back. Unfortunately, he would often get into arguments with (let's say) non-conservative people, while he was (sigh) drinking and playing pool in the local bars. Poor Mom had to deal with him being brought home dripping blood, with more than once a smashed in nose and battered cheekbones. He survived all of that, and when she finally "left him" for several months, bringing us kids down to South Dakota to her parents' home, when I was 12 and in the 5th grade, he finally got himself sober and swore to her that he would never drink again or come home being carried in half dead. We went back up to Valdez with him, and he kept his promise, but he still smoked, and all the years of both smoking and drinking took over his heart and lungs, and he passed at age 54--looking more like he was somewhere around 80. I'll never forget all of the people in our beautiful little town (brand new after the 1964 earthquake) who came to the funeral, and how many bags and bags and bags of heartfelt cards my mom received. They all said, over and over and over again, how much my dad meant to them, and how he would go out in the middle of the night--no matter what--when someone (before we got phones there, even) would come to the house, bang on our door, and ask for Daddy's help to thaw frozen pipes, unplug fireplace chimneys, run sick people to the doctor's office, and when we HAD no doctor (which was quite often while I was growing up) he would administer what medical aid he could, because of what he had learned while at war, and he would even deliver babies when necessary, because he had learned to be able to do THAT, also, while in service under Patton. He also was ALWAYS, until his death, the leader of our Valdez branch of the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars). It was through THEM, that we eventually were able to get all of his Army medals and commendation papers (a LOT of both), that my sister now has stored away in her home. My mom had actually thought he was just "telling stories" when he told of the battles he had been in, etc. Once Cindi and I got hold of the actual information from the Army, Mom cried for days. She kept saying, "I always thought he was just making it all up!" It broke her heart that she had accused him of lying--simply because she didn't understand anything ABOUT war, except that she and her sisters helped with what they could, at home in the U.S., while their husbands (Mom's and her older sister's) were away at war. The youngest sister didn't marry until many years later, and her first husband never had to go to war, but he died early, also. Plus, my own ex-husband is a Viet Nam veteran, who has suffered all of the junk thrown at him and his fellow veterans from THAT time of service. He also came home with many medals, and almost died rescuing his men from the ATV that was in his charge. He ended up with a heavy load of shrapnel at the top of his spinal column, that almost killed him years later. PLUS he had been exposed to Agent Orange, and THAT later affected my two youngest of my first four children. Like my dad, Jim also started drinking heavily, and though I don't believe he does any longer, he has suffered many consequences from that. Plus he just up and left me and his four children (all under the age of 12 at the time), and quickly married the other woman he had found. The kids have all made their peace with him, but it's still been hard on them all to have had to fight all the problems that came from him being at war during their early lives. So when I look at this video and see all of the people being of one accord with these men singing about other men (possibly even themselves, or at least their own fathers and uncles, etc.), I feel very proud of them all, and wish I could have been there to lend my own support! Obviously, as you can probably tell, this has made quite an impression on me. I totally love your reaction. I wish I'd seen it two years ago, and I am quite thankful that Dan Vasc (who spent time in the Brazilian army, and who tells the story of the Brazilian "Smoking Snakes" (have you seen/heard that one?) himself continues to fight and sing for FREEDOM. I also great appreciate people like you who RECOGNIZE that spirit in people. Don't ever let go of your responses to these types of things. It's very powerful. Thank you.

Dude. I have seen this so many times Your reaction make me cry my friend. Thank you

This popped up in my recommendations. It's 5 am and I am supposed to sleep but here I am... and I cried both during the "manly tears" and while you were talking about your father. Damn it.

Hey absolutely loved your reaction. This song always makes me cry even though I don't speak Swedish but just like you I can also understand the same phrases as you. Awesome awesome reaction. Please react to Swedish Pagans and The Future of Warfare - soundtrack version. 💜🤘😋🤘

I love seeing reactions to this live version. They always start out rocking and then you can SEE when the lyrics start to get to them. Thats when you know that the reactor actually gets the meaning of the song and it's a magical moment somehow :) Ohh and real men are not affraid to let other paople see them cry when it's meaningful :) Good reaction, Sir. :)

Great reaction whether you are a Viking or not, you are still a human being and that is what Sabaton is all about, the human experience of great event by those long forgotten to time and history. This is one of their best songs and is gut wrenching. As a vet who fought this song taps the absolute emotion of war for those that fight it and those left home to maybe never know what happened to their loved ones. It maybe about the 30 year war in Europe (1618-1648) but it is about each and every conflict that came before it and sadly after it and those who were caught up in it. Well done sir, a true honest reaction to a truly brutal and honest lesson in war and it's impact on those that are part of it. " Only the dead have seen the end of WAR " (Plato)

Finally, someone who fucking gets it! And yes, English, Dutch and English are all germanic, but Dutch and Swedish are especially connected to the trading Hansa. As a swede, I could probably understand more Dutch than say, Icelandic or danish. Or norwegian, half my family is norwegian and I'm the only family member still needing my uncle to translate for me.

To Hell And Back and No Bullets Fly are also some really emotional songs. Former about a WW2 soldier's battle with PTSD and the latter about a German fighter pilot sparing a heavily damaged American bomber.

I've never cried while listening to this until now. The lyrics opened my eyes... and my tear ducts

The guitarist on the far right (seen from where they are filming) seen at 7:45 looking into the camera, Tommy, helped me and my band record our first demos many years ago. He's such a talented musician and multi-instrumentalist and a very good friend so it's awesome to see him finally get to live the musician dream.

I really love that you show your emotions. I reacted exactly THE same way when I saw this live video the first time. I am a huge Sabaton fan. I have yet to hear one bad song from them. EVERYTHING they so is AWESOME!! And I Will totaly subscribe to your chanel man ❤️

Cool reaction from a fellow dutchman dude! I really appreciate how you had CC on, the ones that don’t on this song I skip immediately. You earned yourself a sub man

This video came up as an suggestion and I'm glad I clicked on it. I was there live and it was magical. I get goosebumps everytime I see it. It is so amazing that a song, even in a language that some don't understand, can be so powerful. You got a new subscriber. Take care!

as a swede this have me in tears, god i love my SWEDEN

I had an idea for a TV series about the Thirty Years War with three seasons, each focusing on a different person in society at the time (a soldier, a peasant, and a priest). This was supposed to be the opening theme.

Here's my translation that also goes well with the melody. Let me know what you think. I turn around to see my homestead fade away I wish I could have stayed there, just another day Not yet a man, though called to arms to do my part Will I see my home again, I wish with all my heart With kinsmen from my village I went out to war In a world of flames ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me? Went out to war for Sweden, baptized in blood No gallantry awaits us, dying in the mud In fields where friends has fallen, there’ll be no songs Our fate once more we challenge, and marching on Far away from home (To be baptized and die in war) In a world of flames ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me? And when my time is finally here Who’ll sing my song? They’re fighting on I hope to die without much fear I fall asleep, and fade away And never wake up ‘Cause war surely can, devastate a man I give my life, for my motherland But who’s missing me? So see me as them the husband and friend the father and son, who’s never seen again But who mourns over me?

First time I'm hearing this song omg made me tear up and sent chills up my spine Amazing love from the crowd , OMG Amaaaaazing 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

I was on that concert and it was about 14000 people, it was a great concert!!

also that reason when men come back from war they are never the same person

I have done a DNA test 😊 90 % scandinavien 😊 and yes, Swedish and German have words that are the same, like, Fader o Son, just the same 😊 Greetings from Gothenborg 👋

Fantastic reaction, thank you. Always get tears in my eyes hearing this song as well. So powerful.

I was at Hovet and they mentioned this play at Gothenburg, and they said "Is gothenburg going to beat you, Stockholm?" then they played Carolus Rex and everybody started singing max volume, it was so powerfull.

Time after time after time this song gets under my skin. As a Finn this song makes me think about our veterans in winter war and continuation war who fought for Finnish independence.

I don’t understand most of the lyrics but it hits me emotionally. Most north European languages have a common ancestor so words are understood emotionally.

i was there at that consert and it was AWESOME!!

I found Sabaton just from a weekly random playlist on spotify, I now own 3 CDs and I'm just waiting for them to tour the US again. This is one of my favorites, if not my favorite song. Don't worry about crying, listen to The Ballad of the Bull.

Woman after watching Titanic: Oh my god how can you not be crying? Men have no emotions Sabaton: Observe

As a swede, this translation is so bad lol.

All of America need to watch this!!!!

I think i just became Sabaton fan. This was powerful Viking, i agree with you, powerful and beautiful. I think I'll be going to Sweden at some point for one of their concerts.

thats a real reaction video..i love them all dude!good job!

Those DAMN onion-cutting ninjas! Always popping up when Sabaton is playing this song! ^^

After one year still a great reaction! So glad you are back!

Real men cry! Greetings from Stockholm 💙💛 🇸🇪

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

First time watching your stuff through my love for Sabaton, thats me subscribed now🍺 😀

Absolutely amazing reaction and thanks for sharing the story of your father.

I saw them live in Stockholm and this song was epic, everybody was singing along 👍🏻

"Make" (maakeh) means husband. "Vän" (vaenn) means friend. I to cry sometimes when I listen to this song.

What makes it even more powerful has to be that crowd singing it right back and getting into in is a somber way. It's almost like a battle chant that everyone felt all together

this is the one song that manages to make me to cry

Thanks for sharing your story about your dad in the gulf. Be happy to have him around, I miss mine so much. All the love from Sweden!

Beautiful - greetings from PL

Honestly priceless reaction man absolutely loved it

As a huge Sabaton fan seeing this its safe to say that you just earned yourself a new sub :)

I love your reactions, they are si heartfelt and real, your expressions mirror precisely what I'm feeling.Your tears are real and so human. It takes a very powerful performance if an evenly powerful song, to reduce the listener to tears. My tears are the golden standard of who is worthy of my time to listen to. Your tears spoke to my heart andvsaid much more tha the yranslation. Thank you for that experience. You've got me hooked my friend. And Sabaton are amazing. I hooe they do a concert in Athens, I would brave. all the hurdles of going with my wheelchair to see them,vandcwould even vilunteer to seeve as their interpreter while here, I imagine that they do speak English. I an only willing to do this for Dan Vasc and Sabaton. As for you, stay real and alliw your inner emotions to flow freely Thank you for this experience.

When I first heard this song ( without the words) I cried but hearing and seeing the words makes it so much more powerful. To all the soldiers that didn't come home RIP. We love you

the lyric is so perfect. you begin with "husband and friend" close relation that have no genes or whatevery you call it. Then you level up to Father and Son. And then "who never returns home" hits so bloody hard. Just thinking about how they are singing about sons, sons not returning from war gives me chills.

Man, this son gets me right down to the soul. very touching song, for those out there that served, I give you my thanks, and that is said to all nations, anyone who has served for their homeland, you have my thanks, and for those who died in combat, they died doing what they thought was right, and may they rest in peace. I give them my salutes.

I saw them live on that tour last january and cried the whole song🤣 just rewatching makes me cry everytime😄

I remember hearing this song for the first time- brought me to tears as well

Great reaction! Definitely subscribing

Great genuine reaction - very enjoyable - keep up the good work!

I was just at their festival 2 weeks ago and teared upp as this song was on.

I saw them in Stockholm the following night and it was just as awesome that night. It is a very lovely feeling to be in the audience and sing along.

Got me to tear up too brother. What a powerful song!

Always gives me chills...

i was seeing your tears in yours eays the whole video man, let them out! this is a amazing swedish song. proud of being swedish sometimes!!

Greetings from sweden.... :) im new to your channel man. And i just want to say also, there is no shame in crying. I do it also. Many many times...Keep up the good work dude and Happy new years eve!

Wow, the crowd, singing back the text of the song, damn. Hits like a truck, sheesh.

lovely video man, I love you

Awesome video man, this is probably my favorite show they have have ever done. Its so amazing and the onion knights are hard at work everytime I listen to it. The song itself is about the 30 year war.