3:13 ”is his knee reinforced steel?” Fun fact: Joakim is actually a cyborg sent from the future to save the Swedish metal scene and teach us about history
Fun fact: Rommel was low on supplies with the 7th panzer division so he took his command car and raced back through the French lines. On the way back he got a complete French battalion or company (I don't know exactly) to surrender just with the strength of his voice
Yes, there was a bit of mic feedback in this video. Ghost Division was the first song of this concert, and I have have heard from people who was there that it was sorted in the next song. I wouldn't be surprised if all was good and well during the soundcheck earlier, when everyone was standing still on the "X"-es on the stage, but then you get to the concert and Joakim starts running around everywhere on the stage, front-back, left-right... Cheers / B.
Jocke and Pär (singer and bass player) are so down to earth. I have seen Sabaton (old lineup) live three times. One was on a rock boat cruise and I bought a Sabaton "Army-tag-necklace" for my ex and I had problems open it, then Joakim showed up and said "Let me help you". Me and my ex was photographed together with Per on another concert for a newspaper. They´re like any ordinary guys. The "new guys" in the band are awesome singing and playing as well. In Swedish: Tack för superbra konserter med massor av energi!
I love reading the caption you have at 7:25 "if this doesn't fire up a crowd...nothing will!" is super accurate because ever since they came out with this song I believe every single concert starts with this song because of its fast paced out of no where energy and it doesn't really have a dip other then a solo
This drummer is Robert Bäck who played with the band for about a year after the split in 2012, and then left to become a father. He now plays with Mustache from Gothenburg. The blond guitarist is Thobbe Englund who left the band just before Tommy joined Sabaton. Thobbe prioritized his young son, but have recently joined Civil War, a band started by the four members who left Sabaton in 2012.
I have a ticket for Sabaton for their sweden tour and i can't wait too see them again! 😁😁 They also have Hulkoff as their guest band and they rock as well!
Joakim had that steampunk vest only during this Swedish Empire Tour. Otherwise he uses the diamond plated one. I can tell that like in this opening song Joakim also runs like a duracell bunny even in the last song of the concert :D I have also that kind of steampunk style vest btw :P
It was 2012 I was there among 850 000 people, amazing crowd (= 8 largest stadiums in the world) It was a special time and now I have special memories ;)
I love your reactions! I litterally went "Yay!" when I saw a new Sabaton upload. :D Your reaction to this live performance is pretty spot on to my own when I first watched this one. Joakim's smile is just so damn contagious, I've watched this performance so many times and I still can't stop smiling along with him when I do. They all look completely overjoyed and who can blaim them? I watched a documentary that showed them going to Poland and arriving at the festival site. It was the largest show they had ever done and they looked kinda overwhelmed at it all but super excited. I can really recommend the song "Uprising" from the same concert, Woodstock 2012. It's a song about the polish resistance movement against the Nazis in Warsaw. Performed in front of a huge polish crowd. Also, the song is fantastic. Side note. The written comments on the screen during the video were great. I like how I get to know more about what you're thinking and feeling about the song and the video that way. Keep up the great work! :)
Sabaton is COOOOOL......seen them several times live....and what I absolutely like about them: They are always delivering the same energy.....if it is before 1000 People or a huge crowd like this.....oh....and as being a german I have to say : NOCH EIN BIER.....Sabaton Fans know what I mean....:-)) Think about the lyrics what you will ...when they start this you yell "Ghost Division" from the top of your lungs when it is time....Awesome Live Band ! Try 40:1 from the same concert.....awesome !
Nightwish and Sabaton are 2 of my favourite bands! Have a ticket to their concert in my hometown in 2022 ( The Swedish tour, postponed twice). Looking forward to it. Nightwish was one of the bands for Sweden Rock Festival last year, but that festival was also postponed twice, to next year. Well this pandemic sh#@t will hopefully end one day... 🙄 Great reaction, btw!
I'd love to see you to react to their song "Lion From the North" or "Lejonet Från Norden" from The Great Tour next (they have the song both in English and in Swedish)
According to festival organizers the attendance that year was on the order of 750,000 people, of which about 550-600k attended Sabaton's headlining set. And this is not the original lineup; all those guys except bassist Pär Sundström joined in 2012. Guitarist Chris Rörland is still with the band. The guy with the Stratocaster is Thobbe Englund, who was replaced by Tommy Johansson in 2017, and the drummer is indeed Robban Bäck, who stayed for less than a year before leaving because he had a kid and being replaced by then-Evergrey drummer Hannes.
Found your channel randomly (thx RU-vid algorithm!) and I stayed for the Sabaton Wednesday reactions ;) I really like what you're doing here so I'll check out the rest of the videos too. Now a small request from your friendly Belgian neighbour for one of the next Sabaton Wednesday: please check out "resist and bite" (great tour live video). It's about the Belgian Chasseurs Ardennais and their battle in the Ardennes in 1940. It's also the slogan for the Belgian fanclub Boar Battalion (the chasseurs Ardennais had a boar as their emblem) 🤘
Still remember the first time I saw them. Friend dragged me along to concert. This was before they hit it big. We were around 50 people in a small cramped bar. Rocked just as hard then as they do nowadays. Just an amazing band through and through
The Final Solution is probably one of the most important Sabaton songs to know about and to have heard. it isn't the best, but probably the most important.
that vest with the gear patterns on the plates is the one he bought at a steampunk event he happened to be at one point early on in sabatons history, i believe he has newer ones with the diamond pattern plates instead of the gears
Regarding the feedback from the mic you heard, apparently it was fixed right after this song. Some technical issue, but it didn't affect anything besides Ghost Division since it was their opener. Also I'd say react to 40:1 live at Woodstock Poland, or the Last Stand official music video.
another great reaction m8. As they say in comments i have heard nummers from 500 000- 750 000 ppl in that consert. just give me an shout and i have a ticket for you in a Sabaton consert in Helsingborg Sweden 31/1 2022. Btw you should react to The Final Solution..very dark and good song from them and it should never been forgotten about. keep up the great reactions.
"They are the Panzer elite, born to compete, never retreat ". Sabaton Wednesday 🤘🤘🤘. Damn it was a long week... Nice as always 👍🤘 Abraço (yes I'm a hugger 😏)
YES! My favourite Sabaton song, well third, you already did Great War and Swedish Pagans! This is such a brilliant song, the energy is insane, especially live! If I had to pick a song next, 40:1 at Woodstock, brilliant performance to see the crowd go nuts for it Skål
Since their video in tri-corner hats, I've thought they should do videos depicting themselves as time travelers -- appearing in ancient battle scenes dressed in period garb to bear witness and then disappearing, sort of like the old ZZ Top videos.. ••• Thanks for the video. I always enjoy yours a lot! (-:
That show is why Poland Rock (formerly Polish Woodstock, because apparently the guy that started Woodstock threatened to sue for using the name) has politely asked that Sabaton not perform there again, because it's free attendance and their security is not prepared for 550k-750k people showing up. Less fun fact, when you listen to the song Fields of Verdun, and they mention three quarter million people died in that battle over the course of 303 days. Yeah, that's that crowd. More fun fact. Yeah, Rommel was a pretty okay dude. He didn't agree with Nazi ideology, but his country goes to war and he's gonna do his duty as a soldier. He still treated prisoners with respect, he refused to kill captured Jews, and he led from the front with his men. He was also crafty as hell, once he realized Leeroy Jenkins'd his way into France and accidently cut himself off, he turned back and happened upon a convoy of French trucks loaded with men heading to the front lines. He pulled his tank around the convoy and parked it in front. With only himself and the men in the tank, he ordered the convoy of dozens of French troops to surrender because they had crossed into German controlled territory. As Sabaton's historian tells it "and Rommel did this with his general's uniform and commanding tone, alone", and the French complied because clearly they must've crossed German lines if the Germans approached from the rear. Sadly, Rommel was forced to commit suicide in order to spare his family after Operation Valkyrie failed (the plot to assassinate Hitler), and while Rommel had no part in it, the SS thought him guilty enough for simply knowing of the plot (which he did, but chose to neither help for hinder). After his death, Allied command did remark he was the last gentlemanly opponent.
In the battle of Verdun not three million people died, but 1.2 million if we take the highest estimate made recently, but you see that the Sabatons sing of battles with more deaths, such as the Battle of Stalingrad, with about 2 million deaths.
List of Sabaton songs: 40:1 (Live at Woodstock) The Lion from the North: (Live at Woodstock) Swedish Pagans (Live at Wacken 2019) Primo Victoria (Live at Woodstock, DO NOT do the official music video, the scenes are not related to the song at all)
650 000 people to answer your question. this show was in 2012 before Tommy & Hannes Joined. You need to check out 40:1 and Uprising from the same show as well.
A Swedish band opening their show by singing about a German WWII soldier in Poland. The power of music. Being a German myself, I prefer from the historical background 40:1 more, although Rommel wasn’t a Nazi himself. But, as you said, he was fighting on the wrong side. 40:1 has an insane performance and crowd reaction.
I note that the largest German military base is named in honor of Erwin Rommel, the leader of the 7 panzer division, precisely the Ghost Division, at the inauguration of the base there were also the general's wife and son. On the fact that someone asks why he was given the name of a general of the third reich, the answer is quite simple, during the war period, Rommel was respected not only by the allies of Germany, and internally in Germany, but also by the enemies of the Germany, had clashes first with the SA and then with the SS, for their brutal methods and for the persecution of the Jews. And then there is the fact that he is thought to have collaborated in the failed assassination attempt of Hitler, and for this he was forced to commit suicide, then it was the allies who fueled what is called "the myth of Rommel", for to use a "good German" during the war, to prepare the rearmament of West Germany in an anti-communist function.
Erwin Rommel was one of the very few generals of WWII, after whom military bases and ships of the Bundeswehr were named after, after the war. He was forced to suicide by the regime, because he possible knew about the plan for the assassination of Hitler in july 20th 1944.
Hello, we must also say that in addition to him there was also General Hasso von Manteuffel, who after the war became a politician, it was he who decided that the German armed forces of West Germany should be called Bundeswehr.
Well Sabaton is touring at least here in the States with Judas Priest later this year!!!! 500,000+ at Woodstock, imagine getting that many Poles to sing about a Nazi general and his tanks in WW2!!!
40:1 live at woodstock 2012 next for sure, you want a song to get the crowd fired up? how about a song about a polish last stand performed IN warsaw to 750 thousand people?
Please react to GrailKnights Pumping Iron Power to understand Joakim's knee durability According to Par one time after a show Joakim looked at his knee it was black and blue
