First Time Reaction | Sabaton - "Father" 

This song is about Fritz Haber, a Prussian (German) scientist who's legacy is very controversial. Haber (along with another scientist named Carl Bosch) found a way to solve one of the major issues plaguing humanity and science up until that point in time, that is how to sustain the worlds ever expanding human populations (as the Earth does not have enough nutrients present naturally in the soil for us to produce that much food). His work into this topic led him to create the process by which ammonia is synthesized, a key ingredient in fertilizers, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 (it is estimated in some studies that our current global population levels could potentially be between 4-5 billion people lower if not for this discovery). He was however a very patriotic German, and when the first world war broke out, he actively used his skill set to research and create chemical weapons for the war effort (France used tear gas before this, but it was the German army that first employed such deadly compounds, namely chlorine gas). He personally directed these efforts during the war and showed no remorse for creating such terrible weapons after its end. Furthermore, the pesticide Zyklon-A (which he created) was co-opted and slightly modified after his death in 1934 by the Nazi's (whom had come to power in Germany at that point in time) and turned into Zyklon-B (the agent used to kill millions of Jews in the gas chambers during the Holocaust, hence the part of the song about where his inventions would lead). One could thus argue that this makes Fritz partially responsible in a way for these deaths as well (even if he was not living in Germany at the time and many of his own relatives, who where Jewish like himself where also killed using this compound). He therefore saved billions and also led to the deaths and injury of thousands, if not millions of others. His story truly exemplifies the truly duel nature of most people in history, being both a sinner and a saint. As Albert Einstein (a contemporary and good friend of Fritz and his family) put it "Haber's life was the tragedy of the German Jew - the tragedy of unrequited love".

I love how they tell of the duality of humanity how the lines are often blurred between good and evil that everything come in shades of gray, not the two polar opposites of pure good and pure evil. *edit* After watching this, I watched their song "Attack of the Dead Men".

Sabaton's choruses are always so majestic and powerful, they never fail to give me chills!

Speaking as someone who has a history degree (and might as well actually use it) Sabaton are geniuses at pointing out the inspirations and horrors of history. Sometimes at exactly the same time. Great reaction!

Lets see what she thinks of the 'father' that is the reason half of humanity is alive today, vs the people who has died because of the same person.

Aileen: "I'm not a big fan of history." Sabaton: "Hold our beer."

Dude the face she made when the chorus hits the first time- I felt that! It hits so hard. Freakin love that deep voice

This man both saved and killed millions of people

Sabaton never disapoint very good reaction. Aileen

Perfect pronunciation of Joakims name. Best I heard from a non-swede :) and a great reaction.. as always :)

Such a great athmosphere in the video. My "Father" T-Shirt ☠️💚 is on the way to me. Chris did an awesome guitar solo again. And we, the germans, got a new song 🇩🇪😜🤘🏻

This song live was just pure emotion and the guitar solo🥺

When I first heard this song I was surprised at how different this song was from their other songs. It took a couple of times listening to it before it became one of my favorite songs from them. I have been listening to this song a lot since it came out last week. This song called Father will be part of thier upcoming EP by the end of this year or early next year. I saw Sabaton and Epica in Seattle on September 15th in concert and it was so cool. I would highly recommend seeing Sabaton live. Every time they come to Seattle or are nearby to where Iive I will be going to see them in concert.

I love how Sabaton plays doom metal when they are talking about atrocities.

His invention of mustard gas killed millions, but his other inventions and innovations have saved billions and gave us the ability to have a population like we have today

Finally SABATON! Haven't seen them here for a while!

What a great release, wow. His voice fits perfectly with this kind of storytelling. Great track, great pacing. Great arrengement. And great reaction on your part. Thank you.

You reacting to Sabaton is an experience every time. Love it! Keep up the good work! 👍😄

You're pronouncing his name pretty much exactly as I would as a native Swede GJ Aileen. This is one of the later songs of Sabaton's that I did not immediately like very much but it grows on you with every listen. Or at least it did for me :) Very interesting story that beautifully highlights the double edged sword that modern Science and it's discoveries and inventions mean for us all. In war- as well as in peace-time. Great reaction as usual! Love the outfit and hair-color by the way. Greetings from the Baltic coast!

i saw this song live once and they had green smoke come out from everywhere and everyone in the crowd was feeling like they were just hit by the gas. it was an incredible atmosphere.

I'm seeing them October 21st and I really hope they play this song!

So many people are reacting to Sabaton and Sabatons videos..... I always waiting for yours! PS: Did you know that Sabaton are in the US right now for a 2 months US/Canadian tour.!!! ...Check out if they are near to you Aileen:-) Oh!h! Your pronounciation of "Joakim" is absolutely flawless and 100% Swedish!!! Amazing really !!! Probably one of the best pronounciation from someone from an English speaking country up til today ;-) Believe me coming from the same country and hometown as Joakim ..I would know :-) You are just great overall!

Always love your video Aileen!

There is another band that dives into history with their songs and albums called Serenity. They are an Austrian power metal band. Their songs are more diverse and focus on world history as a whole and not just military history like Sabaton does. If you want to check out Serenity, I'd recommend the song "Wings of Madness", which is about Countess Elizabeth Bathory.

Quite honestly this has to be one of, if not my favorite chorus from Sabaton. So bloody powerful \m/

YESS!!! Finally another sabaton reaction! Do more!

For the other side of the gas attacks, Attack of the Dead Men. It’s about a ‘suicide’ charge of men dying of mustard gas on the eastern front. Basically, they were all dying, said ‘might as well make one last push’ got back up, and attacked. And to the germans…dead men stood up and attacked again.

This is a great song. Glad to have listened for the first time with you! :3

Love the solo and the interlude part.

“During times when there’s peace he belonged to the world During times when there’s war he belonged to his place of birth” This line really gets me. Shows how divided and hypocritical we really are.

I shall be seeing sabaton next April in London I'm highly excited

I love how all of us make the same face when we hear this chorus, we all look so disgusted while simultaneously getting goosebumps

Sabaton are one of my favorite history teachers. I've learned so much about history outside of the United States because of them. I never heard of the name Fritz Haber before this song.

Sabaton equals a history lesson in the form of song. Some of my favourites are the recent Christmas Truce, Nightwitches. Bismarck..

Check out the Sabaton History channel. They already uploaded a video where they explain the facts behind this song.

History is only ever as dry as its' teacher. Sabaton proves this incredibly well

I’d love for you to listen to their “lady of the dark” “race to the sea” or “price of a mile” all of which are absolutely amazing songs, and very bombastic if you like that kind of songs.

Yes, you pronounced Joakim perfectly 🤘

Chorus gives goosebumps

Monuments- Opiate, song not only slaps and the meaning but Andy has been huge since he joined them

Dam this song adrenaline pumping

I love how the art is like the re-animator

You should really check out the animated story videos for Red Baron and No Bullets Fly. Those are some of the best besides The Unkillable Soldier.

Haber helped also in developping a cyanide-based insect and rodent killer, used in the industry for sanitizing the cargo holds of merchant vessels and the crop storages: Ziklon (cyclone in english). The product was further developped as cristal form in 1922 and renamed Ziklon B. The same chemical has been used in the death camps for the Final Solution. It is still used nowadays in the agriculture industry, under the name Uragan (Hurricane). Makes you think!

nice song to react

Thanks!

Saying that "we have Fritz Haber to THANK for this" (emphasis added) seems to miss a significant point. Chemical warfare was so terrible that it is now banned, and was rarely used even as soon after WWI as WWII. The only thing that people ought to "thank" Haber for is a process that is used to produce fertilizers today, which cause an estimated 4 billion people to owe their lives to him. Otherwise, I liked your review.

The "thing" is that mr haber invented both gas for war, but also ways to feed the world. You should invest a few minutes and watch sabaton history channel. Where their songs are explained. (if you want to know even more history ;-)

Fritz Haber was a Prussian Jew (from the area that would later be Poland) and his invention would mean the creation of mustard gas, chlorine gas and ... Zyklon B ... the gas that was used in the gas chambers during WW2. How ironic is that? Like the Eagle and the Arrow: “The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.” - Aesop

Fiver finger death punch - Rememer everything is a very good and powerfull song!

Haber also created the Haber process that is single handedly responsible for the food on your plate and probably your very existence. He was a scientist, he invented tools, as scientists always do, but how those tools are used are up to the rest of us. The universe is only ever an increasing variety of grey shades

Would love to hear your thoughts on Sabaton's Winged Hussars.

That was a great pronunciation of Joakims namn, you did good😁

This new song kicks ass- And, got a song recommendation: Blood For Blood(Faoladh) by Powerwolf. I know ones that don’t have live performances or music videos to them aren’t near as popular, but my favorite song by Powerwolf that I think deserves a lot more Love. It’s got a rather unique sound to it, semi-unique scheme to the music, and utilizes even bagpipes in parts of the music. It’s one of their most energetic songs, and that’s without even bringing up the final chorus. That’s in a league of its own as unconditionally my favorite piece of music.

You're the only none-scandinavian I've heard that does pronounce Joakim right.

I recommend see the Sabaton's History channel in RU-vid, it's very educational and they explained already how was this Father, Oh man I never thought too many people own their live to his work, he won a Nobel Peace Prize.

Sabaton is on your in the US like right now.

sabatons greatist song yet

This song is nothing else than AMAZING! Could you react to “No Bullets fly” from Sabaton?

your pigtails are to cute for such a serious song

I think they are touring in the Us now.

I recommend Halloween (full 13 minute version) from Helloween.

Three songs i'd love see you react to is Lady of the dark and No bullets fly (the animated history video) aswell the animated history video of Night Witches.

If I may, I recommend watching the Sabaton History episode of this song.

The last verse "Where will this lead? Where will this end?" is a reference to WWII. See, Haber, the man responsible for chemical warfare in WWI, was a Jew, and uh... well he created the poisons that were used in the gas chambers. In the concentration camps. Granted he didn't know it would come to that when he made the stuff, but still... "where will this lead" indeed.

Me and the boys after making a deadly concoction in the perfume aisle of the local Walmart

Btw your pronunciation of Joakim is virtually perfect 👍

Hey girl I absolutely love watching your reactions and was hoping you could do a Deftones reaction maybe?! "you've seen the butcher or Digital Bath or My own summer, I know you'll really jam to these guys, they truly are an amazing band 🤘

Poison gas this would actually lead up to a battle in what’s today known as Poland and is know as the attack of the dead men which is also a song sabaton has done

Those Castlevania vibes, the morale of the story does one man's good outweigh his bad. Fritz Haber is also known for revolutionizing Agriculture by producing synthetic ammonia that allowed producing high yield crops and winning the Nobel prize for his creation unfortunately his discovery was then bastardized by his government and used as a weapon to cancel many people in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable hence the moniker Father of Chemical Warfare.

I remember when we had to sit in a room filled with teargas then say our name before we could put our gasmask on.

They seriously remind me of Rammstein. I'm actually enjoying this! Nice upload today.👍👌

Definitely should give thier Stormtroopers animated video a watch, makes me wanna go for a run, and I'm not a runner lol.

You should react to Tommy Johansson The leadguitarist in Sabaton He have his own youtubechannel with a lot of amacing cowers His singingvoice is amacing He is an multiinstrumentalist and play all the instrument himself The show must go on Queen cower, maybe 😏

You should listen to no bullets fly the animated music video or 82nd all the way and shiroyama.

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

the song is about a man named Fritz Haber who was the creator of Chlorine Gas and Mustard Gas

I would recommend Swedish Pagans from Sabaton, one of my favorites

They have another extreemely chilling song regarding chemical warfare called attack of the dead men which literally brings tears to my eyes, about a russian army that was hit with gas and they as their enemy approached their side of the battlefield, the remaining russian soldiers launched a counterattack coughing up their own insides looking like zombies scaring the enemy away and successfully defending their fortress

you should react to the final solution by them its a very sad song but its very good. you should also watch sabaton history that tells you a lot about the songs that you are listening to.

You should watch the Sabaton History ep on this song.. 😎🤘

another good song about a women soldier is the song is called lady of the dark its reaaly a good song.

Oh yes, hit me

I had read that the creator of the gas never intended for them to be used the way they were by the German army and upon learning of the results he took his own life out guilt and shame!

You should react to their performance at waken with Tina guo it's epic

i LOVE this band. when could i ever debate about the good and bad about toxic gas? Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch invented some mechanism, to artificially create Ammonia. the Haber-Boschä-verfahren created the mechanism to create artificial ammonia. THAT sparked the agricultural revolution. in the end, it DOUBLED the overall production. but the same procedure made mustard gas and killed MANY! SAINT - OR A SINNER?

faber bosch allowed it till today- great guys

You should definitely listen to price of a mile by Sabayon it is quite good

Hope the music encourages you to check out the extraordinary story's behind the songs But ya the haber bosch process an important step to help farming but also lead to modern chemical warfare

We have very different interpretations. I think "what's coming next" is in reference to the use of gas in the Holocaust...

Sei sempre più Bella 😍

This song is connected to Attack of the Dead Men in the way that chemical warfare was used to try to take a fortress by the Germans.

Check out Night Witches or Lady of the Dark Next

He also invented the fertilizer, therefore saint or sinner ;-)

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Humanity can be very creative when it is about killing each other…

Great reaction React to The final solution, truely a sad song of theirs

Have you heard HUNTRESS. JILL JANUS. The song height of swords

Brand of sacrifice- demon king please!!

The crazy thing about Haber and Bosch is that the very thing they created to quite literally help humanity, also resulted in one of the most devastating weapons ever conceived killing millions. It is the great irony of science that with every great discovery that benefits all or is just generally good and harmless there is another that always comes with it, that which is too great but is horrible as well, big or small. The creation of fireworks lead to the creation of missiles. The creation of the first flying machine eventually lead to the creation of the bombers of the blitzkrieg The creation of the first printing press created the first printed propaganda followed by an immediate war brought about by that propaganda. The discovery of atomic energy led to the creation of the atom bomb. It goes on, not all scientific discoveries lead to such ends, it is a choice of the scientist themselves just as Haber chose. Yet still, it occurs nonetheless. Eventually we will create something so incredible, that its shadow will be so awful that we'd dare not consider it at all.