UNITY | Worship Drummer Reacts to "Christmas Truce" by Sabaton 

Don't worry about the names. I can't read 95% of them either despite trying a couple dozen times! They're largely Czech names that I can't pronounce even though my "Tomashofski" heritage is a name that came from Czechoslovakia through Austria/Hungary during the late 1800's. And I still can't read 'em! 🤣 But it's impressive to notice all the many job descriptions (which are in English) and go holy wow, this was a big-ass production! Must have cost a million bucks to make and produce.

I was trained by my parents when we went to the theatre or the cinema to get up quickly to avoid the rush for the exit. However when we went to Amadeus which we saw in the second IMAX cinema in Bradford in the UK The entire audience stayed to listen to the piano concerto that played over the title sequence no-one moved until the lights went up.

Jackass

Important part of the song. It isn't just the credits.

@@johncrwarner Yes, there is no "universal solution for everything", even if you ALLMOST every time miss nothing important, sometimes you do (miss)...

Thanks

Well i dont think the hairstyles are quite period correct😆

@@johanidh6553 😁

THAT surely was a pity!

Oh well

@@teckreactions never stop before the credits finish!!!

@@jdkoftinoff ok

​@@teckreactions"Where every beat counts" except the outro, it seems.

Absolutely! The credits is a part of this whole song. But it's not just that, but considering the enormous amount of work and effort, they put in their music videos (and as well in the composing of the end credit sound), I think it is more than fair, to appreciate all those people in the background and their work to this masterpiece (an there where a lot of them for this video).

He's also back with his other band Majestica and they just released a new video this week. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aqW7wHNCc9M.htmlsi=RvD5__WFuDKDBq9f

In your reaction to Bismark you called this huge guy young chubby. He is a very tall gentle giant and a musical genius with his own band, RU-vid channel and more. Take a dive into Tommy Johansson's world 😉

That’s unfortunately true.

When I first saw this video, I had only recently learned that my country has sent soldiers to fight in foreign fields _every_ _single_ _year_ since 1914. So he's really not wrong, sadly.

Awesome

i saw them in Frankfurt, april 2023 and I couldnt agree more. Pure magic with all the flashlights of the phones lighting up in the crowd

Will do.

It has to be the animated story version

1916 hits me even harder, especially when you see the stats at the end with the cello playing. 😢

That’s an interesting bit of history. Thank you 🧡💙

Will do!

yeah many men refused to fight even at risk of discipline they moved them around to other areas and later years they even made them bombard more in the days leading up to Christmas >.>

I looked forward to make sure there was nothing else. There wasn’t.

@@teckreactions There wasn't? Sure there was. Most of these videos have little gems that you can't perceive by screaming the cursor through the remaining timeline at Warp Factor 7 and seeing only tiny little thumbnails. Also, you can't hear Floor's beautiful, tear-jerking operatic vocal. A real shame to miss such beauty in exchange for a few minutes of haste. Her husband Hannes, btw, was the German soldier who got stunned by the hand grenade and was the first to climb out of the trenches.

@@christomashofski9160 It looked like typical credits, so I moved on. Now I know for next time.

@@teckreactions I shouldn't have said "most of these videos" because that's not really correct. I should have said "some of these videos," as that is more accurate. Particularly with Nightwish and Epica, they most often contain little things that add something fun to the experience, even if it is just something as simple as a cute or funny comment made by one of the musicians at the very end, like Floor's little "Woo-hoo!" as she walks off stage after her duet with Simone, or Marco's "It's a tango country" at the end of a Celtic-like dance song in Buenos Aries. Other bands maybe not so much... nothing to miss. But in this case, the hidden gems were 1) Floor's beautiful vocal outro to give a "cooldown" period to let the emotions of the whole Christmas Truce story sink in and settle instead of cutting them off before a full appreciation of the melancholy theme of war and the humanity buried beneath it. 2) After curiously thinking all through the outro that, gee that voice sounds familiar, seeing the surprise notation inserted near the very end of the credits "Outro Vocals: Floor Jansen" when one knows that she is Hannes' wife and imagining a little comedic sketch in one's head: Video production manager says, "You know what? I'd really love to have an operatic soprano do an outro for this vid." Hannes says, "OK, I got one of them at home. I'll bring her to work tomorrow." 3) Just glancing at all the credits to get a gobsmacked appreciation for how much work actually went in to this production--- Way above and beyond what most any other band would do for a singles video.

Just to make sure it's easier for him to find these, let me just add that many of the videos from these events have the Finnish name "Raskasta Joulua" rather than "Heavy Christmas".

I love that!

@@EchoesOfTheSacred Yes, thanks for that addition!

"The Symphony To End All Wars", available on Spotify.

It looked like 2 minutes of text. Which I was not going to read. Now I know.

Oooooook.

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They looked like typical credits. I wasn’t going to sit there utilizing screen time to read through 2 minutes of credits. I know for next time. Let’s move on.

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Will do!

i agree...

Right?! There are about 50 comments about the credits. Let’s move on.

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@@teckreactions ♥️

Thank you 😁

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I'll check it out!

Ok. I know for next time.

@@teckreactions Doesn;t mean you have to do what the cult says.....it's the same notes sung over and over.....not missing anything.....trust me.

That’s basically what I said. I said an “idea.” In that specific war, the dictator dictated the idea.

Let’s move on.

Six presidents out of 46. It's not who we are. It's who a couple bad apples in our country decided to be, but it is not an identifier of our republic.

@@teckreactions I get what you're trying to say, but do you find six out of 46 low? Nearly no other western democracy has ever had even one. Off the top of my head I can name only Sweden. And there are probably a few more with one. I'm not calling it "an identifier" of your republic but it is certainly at a much higher rate than most other western democracies.

@@Ryszze I did not say it was low. I was disagreeing with your comment that "this is who you are." That's not correct. We've had 46 Presidents in our 248 year history. Just because it's happened a few times does not make "who we are." Comparisons to other countries is unhelpful.

@@teckreactions Okay that's fair. Comparisons aside. But who are you then, if not what is actually happening in your country? I'm not accusing yourself of anything at all. (I will still hold that six out of 46 is not "Just a few times", but let's not get the numbers get in the way 🙂)

@@Ryszze That's a great question. I would venture to say that who we are -- are the ideals that make America great. Unfortunately, much of those ideals have been co-opted by people who want to control them and yield power. And we have politicians willing to trample on the Constitution to have whatever power they can get. But I'm also overly optimistic because our system exists in a way where it balances itself out, even if we're in a wild season.

Ooooooook. I know for next time. I’m not reading every single name in the comments.

The USA fought in WW I, also.

You’re right. I don’t.

Not true.....most all Americans have roots elsewhere.....that was an ignorant thing to say.....