@@rr_gaming4954 That is only what the super religious would say because they believe in an utter narcissist. I don't believe in an utter narcissist. I believe if there is a supreme creator deity they wouldn't be a narcissist.
My great-grandfather died at Isonzo, or at the river Po. His body was never retrieved. Only his dog tag by an Italian soldier was brought to Budapest. As my grandfather told me, the italian men were asking the citizens if they knew his family. It took him to find them for more than a week. That dog tag was lsot during ww2, as my grandfathers family had to flee the city to the countryside. His memory will never be forgotten.
"I died in hell - They called it Passchendaele" WW1 is probably the best example on how fucked up humanity can be in it´s treatment of life. The sheer lack of reason in sending all these men to their death is just insane. That´s what always gets me with WW1. Ww2 and the holocaust were pure malice and a brilliant example of how ugly humanity can get when there´s enough hatred. But WW1 , WW1 was pure and utter nihilism with no point whatsoever. Just imagine it, bloody 100 meters littered in corpses because both sides just wanted to get another meter of ground for their own.
The quote at the beginning ''You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees'' combined with the image of destroyed, burnt trees and intense music is so eerie, always gives me the chills.
I hate it when people take part of a quote & try to pass it off as the real thing. The full quote is : You do you're part, you fight for our fatherland, and you will be home before the leaves fall from the trees. Source : A photographed copy of a dairy of a captured German officer kept in my hometown.
@@6th_Army Lol I would understand you if leaving out a part of a quote changes the message/what was stated, but in this case it didnt^^ Even the "real" media, news papers, magazines etc. out there often just quoting parts, if its not altering the sense.
a quote I heard from a friend, "the worst thing about the first world war was not the death toll, or the destruction, or the toppeling of empires, but the fact that it was the first"
kristian nieminen no, was only the first modern world war. Humans have been warring ever since we could. I think it is nature running its course. We have no natural predators so we kill each other as population control. Obviously we don’t do it for “those reasons” but why else would we have evolved to be that way
@@burtplaysgames9527 Forgive me if I misunderstood your comment, but I think that's what OP meant. The worst part of the first world war was that it was the FIRST world war. As in followed by the second world war. And very potentially a third.
"Dream of heaven, angels are calling your name" in any other context it sounds peaceful and joyful. But when you put it in this setting it translates to a dark "Seeking death, each bullet has your name"
Has anyone else noticed that pretty much every song about World War One is also about the horror of war, as opposed to World War Two songs being about soldiers' glory and events?
Jarrett Wattenburger World War One had to be one of the most destructive and pointless wars ever fought in Europe. It's right up in there with Sabaton's OTHER favorite conflict outside the World Wars -- the Thirty Years War.
I know that and I'm not denying it. It's just an observation I've made. But yes, the World Wars were definitely better off not being fought. But the modern world would be a lot different without them.
Jarrett Wattenburger World war one was fought with a diffrent mindset than ww2 in ww1 you could be enemies and not have to hate each other, this is the last war that ever was true.
about 95% of the world believes in a god right ?and yet noone treully follows his rule, he said we are free and have our own free wil, do not go against anothers free will, cuz i will punish you, you shall not kill you shall not steal, you shall not blalablablablabla these are all indept rulings about NOT TO GO AGAINST ANOTHER PERSONS FREE WILL, and yet here we are making own choises to go to war, and then still say god blablablablabalbalb as if god is still there listing to people that enslave themselfs so easy by man, when the book clearly tells them NOT TO GO AGAINST ANOTHER PERSONS FREE WILL, so lets do the smartest thing ever, lets listen to another human to tell us what to do, even tough we know he lies about his whole live, lets be mad if he does something bad (even tough it was our own move to become a soldier or a cop or what ever noobtoob job that should not even have to exsist,) i mean we are clearly capable outselfs to carrie outall,i mean if someone murders and a town knows, and would have been able to do it themselfs instead of listen to rules that only make the world a more worse place to be at, since evil is now all around us, mostly called presidents kings generals and the likescuz they send the rest of the world there orders as if they are absolut.95% put faith in god wich name is beeing abused by all,nooone treully believes in god, if your a soldier and say i believe in god, stop lieing, you willingly hold a gun in order to kill someone, even tough you might believe god doesnt beleive in you, i guess you know why,.if your a president, god doesnt believe in you AT ALL, you put yourself on a higher note then the rest of the people while god made us OUT OF HIS likeness, not out of the devils likeness.he told us to NOT kill, yet you will kill in the name of what ever false notion.he told us to be free people with own free minds, an exsample of this is, if i want something and you want the same we can do it, if i want something but u dont, then its bad luck for me, god told a few extra rules as in do not kill and steal, and he said so, in order for people to make no mistakes about free will, if you murder me, even tough i have asked for it, it might not be the thing i treully have wanted for myself, and thus it is a not allowed rule, and yet here we are all trieing to give another twitst to the books in order to believe some of the lies we are fed about it.95% of the world believes in god yet i can savely say maybe 15% of that treully believes as it should!!!!.
the quote of Kaiser Willem 'you will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees' touches me the most, it simplifies a ruler, sending off young men to their deaths, by false hope of surviving.
Lena X you do know that the German empire was a constitutional monarchy with the kaiser as a figure head The blessed Kaiser sent no one to their deaths the german Parliament did
He actually believed he could run through belgium to get around the french defences. If the belgians didnt resist that plan would have worked out and the soldiers would have returned home before the leaves fall from the trees.
Myself, my dad, uncle and cousin travelled to Belgium in 2014 for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. You hear the stories, you learn about it on television and in school, but nothing prepares you for the cemeteries. How big they are, and how MANY there are. My great great uncle Fred Kirk was killed at Ploegsteert Wood, age 17. We found the memorial that held his name, as his body was. Never found. If you ever find time in your life, travel to Ypres, stand at the Menin Gate and listen to the Last Post. A moment for millions.
Get the wounded after dark, left alone in no mans land. That line sent shivers down my spine. The thought, the insanity, the way they could just get stuck behind.
I actually got choked up then again everytime I learn something new about WW1 I either want to curl up in a ball and sob my eyes out or punch a whole in something out of anger
I want to thank PiscatorLager for uploading these great songs and also for giving us the historical events that influenced Sabaton on writing those songs
If you want an in depth analysis of the History behind many of their songs, check out the channel "Sabaton History" with Indy Neidell. (Probably butchered his name there)
One of the crazy things about WWI is that it is not one of the top 5 most destructive conflict, being topped by WWII (obviously), but also the Mongol conquest of China, the Taiping Rebellion in China, the Manchu conquest of China, the conquests by Tamerlane in the Middle east, and only then do we get to WWI. But what set WWI apart and made it so bad was not the casualties but the lack of things to take your mind off said casualties. War used to be seen as a fun and manly event where you go out to see new places, get cool loot, and test your abilities against other men. But with WWI, you sat in the same desolate place for months on end, nothing is won, and you are killed by people you never see. That is why everyone took it so bad, everything war, with the exception of defending your homeland, was gone. It is why war today is seen as a duty instead of a adventure like it was in ages past. And without the mentality of those ages, I feel that the mental defenses against the horrors of war were removed, and thus we were effected more deeply in WWII.
There's a play set in the trenches (both sides) called "Angels Calling", very much influenced and inspired by this song, as well as Sabaton's others Great War and Price of a Mile. If anyone's in the area, it's being performed in Glastonbury, UK, on November 11th this year, at a venue called the Assembly Rooms. I'll be playing a senior British soldier.
This comment has been posted on the 11 of November, 2018, at 8:42 GMT, in honour of the ones who fell during The Great War. Let their souls rest in peace, no matter their nationality. They were all soldiers who fought for their country. It does not matter now from which side were they, for they lie in the ground side by side. Death claims all, no matter where you are coming from. May their souls forever be remembered, for they had shaped the world we live in today.
The first war hit my family hard. I lost a great uncle at Frommel, another in the Somme a mere 5 days later and another at the third battle of Ypres. And my great grandad (who previously fought in the Zulu war) died of effects caused by gas a few years after the wars end.
My family has fought in every war America has been in. Revolutionary to the recent wars in the middle east. Ive lost more family then I will ever know to war. War makes us cry, but we still fight on, cause the only thing that makes us stop crying is when war takes the last of my family, some distant day. War is worse then anyone here can imagine. Its truly a tragedy what happened to some of the men of my family. Unimaginable at times, but real.
+Worldadventure Lehderp He might of had something wrong with him. I never got to meet him. My dad is the one who told me about him and his time in WW1.
+Worldadventure Lehderp I've seen pictures of him though and he was a good looking man and I believe he lived to a pretty good age. I think he was like 93 or something when he died.
My great grandfather wasn't so fortunate though, he died at the Serbian front I think, not sure, but I know he died in 1915 my grandfather told me about him, and I have pictures too
How do you mean? I was thinking that I would like the option to change the relative volume of the lyrics relative to the music msyelf. I don't dislike the music, but when I set the lyrics at a volume I like the music is too loud. It almost drowns it out.
My great grandfather lost his leg near the Somme offensive. Spent the rest of the war recovering; one of the lucky ones to escape with his life. Godspeed to those who weren't so fortunate.
I one time asked a friend of mine who is a military veteran, "Would you rather spend 4 years in the trenches or 4 years in Auchwitz?" he answered with, "The trenches because you can get yourself out of it by shooting yourself in the foot." I told him that wasn't allowed so he said, "Auchwitz". I think the trenches are more evil because they give you a false sense of hope. Like, "Maybe I'll make it out of this shithole, maybe. Just one more day." And then you get shot in the leg and get trapped in barbed wire hedges larger than you are; sitting there for days in agony until you either bleed out, dehydrate, or get hit with an artillery shell, or even gas and are unable to reach your mask if you were even issued one (depending on the year). Along with you are hundreds of other men, most dead and rotting, smelling so bad you can't stop vomiting, but others who are in the same boat as you, screaming in pain for help, for their comrades to rescue them, for their mothers, fathers, girlfriends, wives, and children. And all the men in the trenches can do is sit and listen because any rescue attempt is gunned down by the other side. At least in the concentration camps they mostly burned the bodies, keeping some standard of hygiene (though little it may be). There are accounts of "corpse rats" that are the size of small cats that would climb up onto sleeping men and bite them. Fuck that, just, fuck that noise.
My great-great uncle was a machine gun officer in the Ottoman Army during WW1 and later during the Turkish Nationalist Army in the Turkish-Greek War. really touching song
My great-grandfather was in the Canadian army in ww1 he was hit with shrapnel that ripped up the left side of his body he survived and near the ending of the war he was shot in the face and his squad was caught in mustard gas. When ww2 came around he signed up again when he was shot in the arm the officers in his battlion sent his home because they thought that he had enough
Frank Sturgeon Why did he sign up again? And I thought only young boys could be sent in modern wars not a great war veteran that has been badly injured and has already suffered more than a man ever should. I respect him, but I can understand why he would sign up for second war. Maybe so some younger kids would not have to. May he Rest in Peace.
Its still amazing to think that even in so bad situation where German Empire was at the end of war they still wanted to send division of German troops to help Finnish Whites beat the Communists in our civil war... even though they only captured one major city and Finnish Whites would have won in the end due to superior leadership/tactics and equipment but they shortened our civil war a lot which means less deaths. Treaty of Versailles was truly just kicking Germans in the face while they were lying down... such a shame that would have been interesting to see how things would have turned out if Finland would have become Kingdom.
"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees!" Christ, that made me sad. If only he knew the hell that would unfold over the next four years.
you left our romania, they agreed to enter the war on the side of the Entente if they get transylvania (hope i spelled it right) anyways, great song and i love your videos, thanks for uploading them!!!
May God bless the men who fought on both sides, in every nation, and of every race. They were sent to die for the pride of old men, and forced into a torturous hell that would last for four years. May the ones who came home have lived as well as possible. And may the ones who fell, both known and unknown, rest in peace. And above all, may they never be forgotten. God bless them.
Sabaton manage to capture the gloomy aspect of War and looming dread and that opening part is absolutely astonishing does not glorify War tells a story is absolutely a band for an intelligent person such as myself enjoying the aspect of History and how this war still shakes the foundation of the world we live today
1904 schlossen das Vereinigte Königreich (das zuvor für Jahrzehnte die Politik der "splendid isolation" geplegt hatte) und Frankreich das Abkommen "Entente cordiale" (französisch für "herzliches Einverständnis"), das nach dem Beitritt Russlands 1907 zur "Triple Entente" wurde. Die zu der Zeit geschlossenen Allianzen gelten als ein bedeutender Faktor für den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges.
Nice to see the respect for Portugal in the description. We have a name for those who got hit by gas attacks but did not die and had some level of brain damage - Gaseados (in English, the Gassed). On the other hand, we had Aníbal Milhais, the real life chuck norris, facing an entire german force on his own and surviving XD
phil bettinger we have a pun about him, when he got the medal. His last name sounds like Milhões, our word for Million. So we were like "you are one man, but worth a million men"
respeitos e saudações aos Heróis Portugueses da primeira guerra de um Patriota Brasileiro, triste ver que lusitanos morreram na grande guerra e brasileiros morreram ma segunda guerra, respeito muito vocês
The beginning is so sobering you could almost feel as if you are in France or Belgium Sitting upon mountain or Hill With the sacrifice and the horrors of these men their contributions and how to never disrespect their memory As you walk through history
I'd say the beat and tempo of this song capture the atmosphere of the battles in WW1 quite well. The constant of your mind racing around asking so many questions why they were there sent to be cannon fodder. Charging out of the trench line into the line of machine gun fire. Cut down and torn asunder at an age so young.
I always saw this song as the story of a soldier in the beginning of the song and his experience and view of the war, being told by his superior officer what to do, 4 years later the war still rages and in the second half of the song after the instrumental section he passes on his knowledge to a wide eyed recruit in hopes he may live to fight another unlike the friends he lost who, like him, hadn't known better at the time
The intro truly captures the essence of the 1st World War something about it inexplicables but it's simply captures to sacrifice and terror of the 1st World War
Listen to this masterpiece with headphones - I got goosebumpes listening to the intro while reading the description. Like, this music should be used in a war movie music video
I don't have much info about my family's involvement in WWI but I do have two interesting things that we'd found out by tracing our ancestry. First of all, we're distant relatives of the Von Richthoffens, meaning I'm related to the Red Baron (but not by direct descent), I am however a direct descendant of one of Kaiser Wilhelm II's personal bodyguards which I found so awesome.
Hear them whisper, Voices from the other side Hear them calling Former foes now friends are resting side by side They will never leave our hearts or fade away Live forever They were far to you to die in such a way how many wasted lives How many dreams did fade away Broken promises They won't be coming home Oh mothers wipe your tears Your sons will rest a million years Found their peace at last As foe turned to friend And forgive And they knew they'd die Gallipoli Left their letters in the sand Such waste of life Gallipoli Dreams of freedom turned to dust Hell is waiting where the ocean meets the sand Cliffs of burden Where the soldiers rushed into a certain death At the shoreline Blood of heroes stains the land Light a candle One for each of them who fought and died in vain There is no enemy There is no victory Only boys who lost their lives in the sand Young men were sacrificed Their names are carved in stone and kept alive And forever we will honour the memory of them And they knew they would die Gallipoli Left their letters in the sand Such waste of life Gallipoli Dreams of freedom turned to dust how many wasted lives How many dreams did fade away Broken promises They won't be coming home Oh mothers wipe your tears Your sons will rest a million years Found their peace at last As foe turned to friend And forgive And they knew they would die Gallipoli Left their letters in the sand Such waste of life Gallipoli Dreams of freedom turned to dust
So i am probably going to be the first one that's going to write this but its now exactly 100 years since the end of ww1 May all the poor souls that lost thier lives from both sides rest in peace and may they be remembererd for eternally. I wrote this at 2 am in the morning, 11 of November 2018 Happy armistice day!
@@paladinboyd1228 it's still far from reality , you can't simulate deathand the stress it can cause , there are plenty of things needed for a close to reality simulation , good thing you can't tbh
You can almost feel the helplessness dread and anger of the soldiers that went through hell some came back never had the same as they went in sometimes mental injuries mainly physical war is a beautiful thing and its own Twisted right I'm sure many other people will understand what I'm saying it shapes the wall around us and shapes economies Nations and borders cultures it truly is a beautiful thing thus never forget
"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees"- Kaiser Wilhelm ||, August 1914. "We will be in Kiev in 3 days celebrating our victory"- Vladimir Putin, February 2022. Doesn't the statement look the same & probably the consequences too!!!
@PiscatorLager Geil! :D Vllt ist das Internet ja schon die mächtigste Sache der Welt o.O Ach ja und echt gutes Video mit einen der wohl besten Songs von Sabaton. Daumen hoch von mir!
this year, on november 11th, will be 100 years after ww1 ended. hopefully, 1000 years, maybe even 5000 years, ww1 will still be remembered and those who died as well
If you hear out the lyrics, I hear it as a soldier going through the horrors of war and when "hell on earth, the tranches mean death" repeats it is a new soldier being brought into the war under the command of this now seasoned veteran
Talia Immelman Fun Fact WW1 happened after 99 years of peace after Napoleon's defeat. They were some minor wars but not even half a million men died in total in any of them.
"War is worse than hell as in hell there are no innocent people."
A quote i saw that would fit here.
Hawkeye Pierce, Mash 4077th
@@culterwaleddy exactly
Oh wow. That was a good one!
Well, hell is for everyone who dosent suck gods dick daily. So yes I would say there's alot of innocent people there
@@rr_gaming4954 That is only what the super religious would say because they believe in an utter narcissist. I don't believe in an utter narcissist. I believe if there is a supreme creator deity they wouldn't be a narcissist.
My great-grandfather died at Isonzo, or at the river Po. His body was never retrieved. Only his dog tag by an Italian soldier was brought to Budapest. As my grandfather told me, the italian men were asking the citizens if they knew his family. It took him to find them for more than a week. That dog tag was lsot during ww2, as my grandfathers family had to flee the city to the countryside.
His memory will never be forgotten.
He's a hero. And shall never be forgotten!❤
lonely depressed shit I’m sorry for your losd
May he rest in peace.
I understand why your name is the way it is now
was he fighting for the Austrio Hungary? maybe he knew my grandgrandpa
"I died in hell - They called it Passchendaele"
WW1 is probably the best example on how fucked up humanity can be in it´s treatment of life.
The sheer lack of reason in sending all these men to their death is just insane.
That´s what always gets me with WW1. Ww2 and the holocaust were pure malice and a brilliant example of how ugly humanity can get when there´s enough hatred.
But WW1 , WW1 was pure and utter nihilism with no point whatsoever. Just imagine it, bloody 100 meters littered in corpses because both sides just wanted to get another meter of ground for their own.
The quote at the beginning ''You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees'' combined with the image of destroyed, burnt trees and intense music is so eerie, always gives me the chills.
Andro A Welp I guess the Kaiser was right, those trees probably wouldn’t make trees let alone have them fall off for a few decades at least
Andro A They Won’t come home: There They died
I hate it when people take part of a quote & try to pass it off as the real thing.
The full quote is : You do you're part, you fight for our fatherland, and you will be home before the leaves fall from the trees.
Source : A photographed copy of a dairy of a captured German officer kept in my hometown.
@@6th_Army Lol I would understand you if leaving out a part of a quote changes the message/what was stated, but in this case it didnt^^ Even the "real" media, news papers, magazines etc. out there often just quoting parts, if its not altering the sense.
@@coby9282 In this specific example. You are correct. But this is only the 0.01%.
a quote I heard from a friend, "the worst thing about the first world war was not the death toll, or the destruction, or the toppeling of empires, but the fact that it was the first"
kristian nieminen no, was only the first modern world war. Humans have been warring ever since we could. I think it is nature running its course. We have no natural predators so we kill each other as population control. Obviously we don’t do it for “those reasons” but why else would we have evolved to be that way
@@burtplaysgames9527 we humans still fight and kill each other since it's a part of our base programming and so is every other creature on the planet
@@burtplaysgames9527 Forgive me if I misunderstood your comment, but I think that's what OP meant. The worst part of the first world war was that it was the FIRST world war. As in followed by the second world war.
And very potentially a third.
@MinutemanSam Yeah, we have natural predators, but most of them are in Africa. (We don't talk about Australia, nobody talks about Australia)
@@andresolmos8639 we were never there to begin with. It was a bunch of prisoners sent there.
The worst part about WWI is that chances are most Veterans probably lived to see WWII
BN Boss21 yep
Only the dead know peace.
BN Boss21 fun fact: Hitler was a soldier in WW1.
American Patriot in Colorado And his life was spared by a British soldier
American Patriot in Colorado and he got gassed at one point
"Losing friends"
"To artillery shells"
"At the break of dawn"
Gave me chills
"Dream of heaven, angels are calling your name" in any other context it sounds peaceful and joyful. But when you put it in this setting it translates to a dark "Seeking death, each bullet has your name"
"Calling you home" getting send home to be buried as a soldier
Has anyone else noticed that pretty much every song about World War One is also about the horror of war, as opposed to World War Two songs being about soldiers' glory and events?
Jarrett Wattenburger
World War One had to be one of the most destructive and pointless wars ever fought in Europe. It's right up in there with Sabaton's OTHER favorite conflict outside the World Wars -- the Thirty Years War.
I know that and I'm not denying it. It's just an observation I've made. But yes, the World Wars were definitely better off not being fought. But the modern world would be a lot different without them.
Jarrett Wattenburger World war one was fought with a diffrent mindset than ww2 in ww1 you could be enemies and not have to hate each other, this is the last war that ever was true.
I've never thought of it that way. Thank you for that insight.
about 95% of the world believes in a god right ?and yet noone treully follows his rule, he said we are free and have our own free wil, do not go against anothers free will, cuz i will punish you, you shall not kill you shall not steal, you shall not blalablablablabla these are all indept rulings about NOT TO GO AGAINST ANOTHER PERSONS FREE WILL, and yet here we are making own choises to go to war, and then still say god blablablablabalbalb as if god is still there listing to people that enslave themselfs so easy by man, when the book clearly tells them NOT TO GO AGAINST ANOTHER PERSONS FREE WILL,
so lets do the smartest thing ever, lets listen to another human to tell us what to do, even tough we know he lies about his whole live, lets be mad if he does something bad (even tough it was our own move to become a soldier or a cop or what ever noobtoob job that should not even have to exsist,) i mean we are clearly capable outselfs to carrie outall,i mean if someone murders and a town knows, and would have been able to do it themselfs instead of listen to rules that only make the world a more worse place to be at, since evil is now all around us, mostly called presidents kings generals and the likescuz they send the rest of the world there orders as if they are absolut.95% put faith in god wich name is beeing abused by all,nooone treully believes in god, if your a soldier and say i believe in god, stop lieing, you willingly hold a gun in order to kill someone, even tough you might believe god doesnt beleive in you, i guess you know why,.if your a president, god doesnt believe in you AT ALL, you put yourself on a higher note then the rest of the people while god made us OUT OF HIS likeness, not out of the devils likeness.he told us to NOT kill, yet you will kill in the name of what ever false notion.he told us to be free people with own free minds, an exsample of this is, if i want something and you want the same we can do it, if i want something but u dont, then its bad luck for me, god told a few extra rules as in do not kill and steal, and he said so, in order for people to make no mistakes about free will, if you murder me, even tough i have asked for it, it might not be the thing i treully have wanted for myself, and thus it is a not allowed rule, and yet here we are all trieing to give another twitst to the books in order to believe some of the lies we are fed about it.95% of the world believes in god yet i can savely say maybe 15% of that treully believes as it should!!!!.
the quote of Kaiser Willem 'you will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees' touches me the most, it simplifies a ruler, sending off young men to their deaths, by false hope of surviving.
if someone said that in 1916 they'd probably get punched in the face.
Lena X you do know that the German empire was a constitutional monarchy with the kaiser as a figure head The blessed Kaiser sent no one to their deaths the german Parliament did
+Monarchy or Death! Germany was kind of an Authoritarian Monarchy (Not absolutist though)
Yeah with Bismarck ruling as a dictator
He actually believed he could run through belgium to get around the french defences. If the belgians didnt resist that plan would have worked out and the soldiers would have returned home before the leaves fall from the trees.
Myself, my dad, uncle and cousin travelled to Belgium in 2014 for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. You hear the stories, you learn about it on television and in school, but nothing prepares you for the cemeteries. How big they are, and how MANY there are. My great great uncle Fred Kirk was killed at Ploegsteert Wood, age 17. We found the memorial that held his name, as his body was. Never found.
If you ever find time in your life, travel to Ypres, stand at the Menin Gate and listen to the Last Post. A moment for millions.
Get the wounded after dark, left alone in no mans land. That line sent shivers down my spine. The thought, the insanity, the way they could just get stuck behind.
The epic game bros Some were probably never found and died in a cruel, sad way, what a shitty way to go.
Amadeus von Beethoven Yeah.
Amadeus von Beethoven that cruel way to go was often rats and other small animals
Amadeus von Beethoven, Those left behind would have drowned in the mud come the rain.
I can’t think of a worse way to go.
I actually got choked up then again everytime I learn something new about WW1 I either want to curl up in a ball and sob my eyes out or punch a whole in something out of anger
I want to thank PiscatorLager for uploading these great songs and also for giving us the historical events that influenced Sabaton on writing those songs
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
Keep it up, Piscator!
If you want an in depth analysis of the History behind many of their songs, check out the channel "Sabaton History" with Indy Neidell. (Probably butchered his name there)
One of the crazy things about WWI is that it is not one of the top 5 most destructive conflict, being topped by WWII (obviously), but also the Mongol conquest of China, the Taiping Rebellion in China, the Manchu conquest of China, the conquests by Tamerlane in the Middle east, and only then do we get to WWI. But what set WWI apart and made it so bad was not the casualties but the lack of things to take your mind off said casualties. War used to be seen as a fun and manly event where you go out to see new places, get cool loot, and test your abilities against other men. But with WWI, you sat in the same desolate place for months on end, nothing is won, and you are killed by people you never see. That is why everyone took it so bad, everything war, with the exception of defending your homeland, was gone. It is why war today is seen as a duty instead of a adventure like it was in ages past. And without the mentality of those ages, I feel that the mental defenses against the horrors of war were removed, and thus we were effected more deeply in WWII.
The violin part in the beginning is awesome!
It's not.
william perry I don’t see an opportunity to wooosh
The next so better lol :/
@@gabrielperron7403 r/woooosh
My boyfriend thought it's a Lindsey Stirling song .. :D
There's a play set in the trenches (both sides) called "Angels Calling", very much influenced and inspired by this song, as well as Sabaton's others Great War and Price of a Mile.
If anyone's in the area, it's being performed in Glastonbury, UK, on November 11th this year, at a venue called the Assembly Rooms.
I'll be playing a senior British soldier.
Who else is hyped for the new sabaton album the Great War?! #July19
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Yesterday, July 28 was the anniversary 102 of the beginning of the WW1. RIP for all those mens of two sides who died and were wounded in that conflict
Long live real hero army,Serbian army ‹3
for what starting the war and getting ass kicked ? :D
serbian army didn't start the war :) ask somebody to teach you about history !
serbian assinated austrian prince and didnt want to give the assians to the austran goverment ... so the serbians started the war
Austria is ocupated Serbian bosnian before young bosnian(organization) killed the usurper successor.....
This comment has been posted on the 11 of November, 2018, at 8:42 GMT, in honour of the ones who fell during The Great War. Let their souls rest in peace, no matter their nationality. They were all soldiers who fought for their country. It does not matter now from which side were they, for they lie in the ground side by side. Death claims all, no matter where you are coming from. May their souls forever be remembered, for they had shaped the world we live in today.
100 years ago, rest in peace...
The first war hit my family hard. I lost a great uncle at Frommel, another in the Somme a mere 5 days later and another at the third battle of Ypres. And my great grandad (who previously fought in the Zulu war) died of effects caused by gas a few years after the wars end.
so your family was in Steel commanders AND rorke's drift?
@@KAT-hs3xh in "Price of a mile" too. Third battle of Ypres = Passchendaele
My family has fought in every war America has been in. Revolutionary to the recent wars in the middle east. Ive lost more family then I will ever know to war. War makes us cry, but we still fight on, cause the only thing that makes us stop crying is when war takes the last of my family, some distant day. War is worse then anyone here can imagine. Its truly a tragedy what happened to some of the men of my family. Unimaginable at times, but real.
once the war to end all wars
now only the first chapter of something much more terrible
what a sick joke
That is what humanity is a sick,twisted,and barbarous joke
"once the war to end all wars" not far of from their new song =D
Yet you just made the joke... Yeah... Sick fucmijg prick
@@duckygaming3536 *fucking
I think the best part about your videos is the description. :)
Love your name xD
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I did
Good guy Demew
Demew Thanks :)
-"Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them."
"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees!" -Kaiser Wilhelm
if he kept bismarck around he would've kept that promise
No, he would have never had to make that promise
@@traumerlein3321 schleiffen plan was gay
Edit:Schlieffen
@@unidentifiedleiviathan7250 Schlieffen*
@@babymetalenjoyerthx
Bismarck died before WW1 started
My great grandfather fought in WW1. He actually was exposed to gas but survived.
+Worldadventure Lehderp He might of had something wrong with him. I never got to meet him. My dad is the one who told me about him and his time in WW1.
+Worldadventure Lehderp I've seen pictures of him though and he was a good looking man and I believe he lived to a pretty good age. I think he was like 93 or something when he died.
was he black?
*points to the door* the door is that way, Mr. Racist
My great grandfather wasn't so fortunate though, he died at the Serbian front I think, not sure, but I know he died in 1915 my grandfather told me about him, and I have pictures too
I need a symphonic Sabaton album
How do you mean? I was thinking that I would like the option to change the relative volume of the lyrics relative to the music msyelf. I don't dislike the music, but when I set the lyrics at a volume I like the music is too loud. It almost drowns it out.
mentaya11 As in metal with an orchestra. Listen to S&M by Metallica
Hmm, sounds like a good idea to me.
EU TAMBÉM
that would be fucking amazing
War isn't hell. War is war and hell is hell, and between the two of 'em, war is worse.
+Lone Wanderer There are no innocent bystanders in hell. War is chock full of 'em.
+Paul McDaniel Thanks, Radar. Was it Radar or HawkEye who said that?
Hawkeye
Paul McDaniel Thanks.
+Lone Wanderer war is temporary, hell is permanent , war is not worse.
The violin at the beginning gives a feeling of hopelessness dread and existentialism so beautiful the fog of War
This song made me cry...
Same here. :'(
Listen to "Cliffs of Gallipoli".
Did that Years ago. Still makes me cry to this day.
Sabaton just makes the best Songs.
Graustreif Brombeerkralle I cry because it's just a good song.
Dude, don't listen to this if you have depression
i really hope sabaton will dedicate a album to the great war on november 11 2018.
+Cristian Villanueva NEW ALBUM IS COMING!!! :D "THE LAST STAND"
+Rick K 2018 or is it!?
They announced it for the august of 19th this year.
+Fearless MakTavish what is supposed to happen
Cristian Villanueva what is going to happen
My great grandfather lost his leg near the Somme offensive. Spent the rest of the war recovering; one of the lucky ones to escape with his life. Godspeed to those who weren't so fortunate.
I one time asked a friend of mine who is a military veteran, "Would you rather spend 4 years in the trenches or 4 years in Auchwitz?" he answered with, "The trenches because you can get yourself out of it by shooting yourself in the foot." I told him that wasn't allowed so he said, "Auchwitz". I think the trenches are more evil because they give you a false sense of hope. Like, "Maybe I'll make it out of this shithole, maybe. Just one more day." And then you get shot in the leg and get trapped in barbed wire hedges larger than you are; sitting there for days in agony until you either bleed out, dehydrate, or get hit with an artillery shell, or even gas and are unable to reach your mask if you were even issued one (depending on the year). Along with you are hundreds of other men, most dead and rotting, smelling so bad you can't stop vomiting, but others who are in the same boat as you, screaming in pain for help, for their comrades to rescue them, for their mothers, fathers, girlfriends, wives, and children. And all the men in the trenches can do is sit and listen because any rescue attempt is gunned down by the other side. At least in the concentration camps they mostly burned the bodies, keeping some standard of hygiene (though little it may be). There are accounts of "corpse rats" that are the size of small cats that would climb up onto sleeping men and bite them. Fuck that, just, fuck that noise.
I love piscator because he always puts the background history of the song so i understand of what they are singing about
i came back here after listening to remake of this song.
Same
The remake sounds better though, in my opinion
I listened to both, the new one sounds pretty good, but than again they both sound amazing
Same too both version are awesome!!
Ich liebe Sabaton!!
Omega Marine ja
I love sabaton too
Ich auch
Exactly 100 years from the end of the Great War today... RIP to all those who lost their lives in the war. They won't be forgotten.
In my personal opinion, I always thought it would be cool if Sabaton made a couple of songs about the founding of the German Empire.
Gotta mit uns if I'm not mistaken is about the Battle of Breitenfeld
*Gott
+Chris Kienle Mitts
+Chris Kienle Sabaton - Rise of Evil never heard it?
+Chris Kienle Sabaton - Rise of Evil never heard it?
can't believe this as over 10 years, man time sure flies
One of the best intros of any sabaton song along with light in the black
"When the bullet hits its mark. Know your time in Hell's been served"
Damn
Synchronized Sacrifice always gives me chills
Price of a mile: Alpha version
Rogal Dorn #BlameLorgar
*****
Lorgar should have tried my magic pain glove instead of copulating with his books
*Glass Breaks*
wait then whats beta?
It is you, Rogal Dorn.
Today - 100 years since the beginning of the Great War
Kinda hard to believe it was that long ago if you ask me. People are still learning about it as though it weren't a hundred years past.
I guess you could say, Franz got serbed.
Is it really called "The Great War"...
TheSmeden01 Yep before WWII started it was known as that
Herschel Johnson Disturbing name...
"It's a synchronized sacrifice"
Dies in D Minor
My great-great uncle was a machine gun officer in the Ottoman Army during WW1 and later during the Turkish Nationalist Army in the Turkish-Greek War. really touching song
My great-grandfather was in the Canadian army in ww1 he was hit with shrapnel that ripped up the left side of his body he survived and near the ending of the war he was shot in the face and his squad was caught in mustard gas. When ww2 came around he signed up again when he was shot in the arm the officers in his battlion sent his home because they thought that he had enough
Frank Sturgeon Why did he sign up again? And I thought only young boys could be sent in modern wars not a great war veteran that has been badly injured and has already suffered more than a man ever should. I respect him, but I can understand why he would sign up for second war. Maybe so some younger kids would not have to. May he Rest in Peace.
Asha Sharma
On rare occasion, before militas became wide spread, governmental and non, older men were recruited to fight in combat.
badasses like that are rare, especially nowadays god bless
A man who didn't know how to give up and it a true man and hero to do that.
Your grandfather took quite a beating and was able to fight? I assign him the rank of badass
Its still amazing to think that even in so bad situation where German Empire was at the end of war they still wanted to send division of German troops to help Finnish Whites beat the Communists in our civil war... even though they only captured one major city and Finnish Whites would have won in the end due to superior leadership/tactics and equipment but they shortened our civil war a lot which means less deaths.
Treaty of Versailles was truly just kicking Germans in the face while they were lying down... such a shame that would have been interesting to see how things would have turned out if Finland would have become Kingdom.
I've heard this song a dozens times, the first three lines still give me the chills.
Who's ready for the next album on the Great War?
"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees!" Christ, that made me sad. If only he knew the hell that would unfold over the next four years.
He really thought it's gonna end in a few months. After only one month, he knew it's gonna take a long, bloody time
well, today is the 100th aniversary of ww1. REMEMBER those who have fallen
It's the anniversary of it's end, not of WWI as a whole.
you left our romania, they agreed to enter the war on the side of the Entente if they get transylvania (hope i spelled it right)
anyways, great song and i love your videos, thanks for uploading them!!!
This song makes me want to play Hearts of Iron
Than go and play it
Who said I won't?
It makes me want to play bf1 but I'm not having a good day so I'm not gonna play
Why not listen to hearts of iron while playing hearts of iron?
Liam Stuck That won't suit well with him conquering Soviet Union, while listening to fall of Nazi Germany.
The bit at 4:22 when the riff resumes from the solo fading out always gives me goosebumps...
who's here after the Great surprise !?
Here!!
The song release or that time I was sick with diarrhea?
May God bless the men who fought on both sides, in every nation, and of every race. They were sent to die for the pride of old men, and forced into a torturous hell that would last for four years. May the ones who came home have lived as well as possible. And may the ones who fell, both known and unknown, rest in peace. And above all, may they never be forgotten. God bless them.
Indeed, our Lord and Savior, the Flying Spaghetti Monster will bless them with eternal spaghetti heaven.
Amen. They fought well, with little choice and saw hell on earth. May they rest in peace
Sabaton manage to capture the gloomy aspect of War and looming dread and that opening part is absolutely astonishing does not glorify War tells a story is absolutely a band for an intelligent person such as myself enjoying the aspect of History and how this war still shakes the foundation of the world we live today
1904 schlossen das Vereinigte Königreich (das zuvor für Jahrzehnte die Politik der "splendid isolation" geplegt hatte) und Frankreich das Abkommen "Entente cordiale" (französisch für "herzliches Einverständnis"), das nach dem Beitritt Russlands 1907 zur "Triple Entente" wurde.
Die zu der Zeit geschlossenen Allianzen gelten als ein bedeutender Faktor für den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges.
My great grandfather (my dads side) served in world war 1 his name is engraved on a wall outside Albert park. Albert park is in Middlesbrough btw
I love the original but damn the remaster is 🔥
Nice to see the respect for Portugal in the description. We have a name for those who got hit by gas attacks but did not die and had some level of brain damage - Gaseados (in English, the Gassed). On the other hand, we had Aníbal Milhais, the real life chuck norris, facing an entire german force on his own and surviving XD
that man sounds awesome
phil bettinger we have a pun about him, when he got the medal. His last name sounds like Milhões, our word for Million. So we were like "you are one man, but worth a million men"
respeitos e saudações aos Heróis Portugueses da primeira guerra de um Patriota Brasileiro, triste ver que lusitanos morreram na grande guerra e brasileiros morreram ma segunda guerra, respeito muito vocês
Chuck Norris is real though.
The beginning is so sobering you could almost feel as if you are in France or Belgium Sitting upon mountain or Hill With the sacrifice and the horrors of these men their contributions and how to never disrespect their memory As you walk through history
I'd say the beat and tempo of this song capture the atmosphere of the battles in WW1 quite well. The constant of your mind racing around asking so many questions why they were there sent to be cannon fodder. Charging out of the trench line into the line of machine gun fire. Cut down and torn asunder at an age so young.
I always saw this song as the story of a soldier in the beginning of the song and his experience and view of the war, being told by his superior officer what to do, 4 years later the war still rages and in the second half of the song after the instrumental section he passes on his knowledge to a wide eyed recruit in hopes he may live to fight another unlike the friends he lost who, like him, hadn't known better at the time
Sabaton and Manowar have such powerful, intense songs. I wish I had known of them years ago.
No matter which version, the part where it comes back from the desert-themed instrumentals with the return of the strumming is amazing.
Who came here after the remastered version?
Hell yes
Hell yeah brother
The intro truly captures the essence of the 1st World War something about it inexplicables but it's simply captures to sacrifice and terror of the 1st World War
This gives me chills. Or maybe I'm just cold
Listen to this masterpiece with headphones - I got goosebumpes listening to the intro while reading the description. Like, this music should be used in a war movie music video
Hmm, the Great War will get new wings on #July19!
YES !!! #GREAT-WAR
Before the leaves have fallen, millions of men will fall on the battlefield!
I don't have much info about my family's involvement in WWI but I do have two interesting things that we'd found out by tracing our ancestry. First of all, we're distant relatives of the Von Richthoffens, meaning I'm related to the Red Baron (but not by direct descent), I am however a direct descendant of one of Kaiser Wilhelm II's personal bodyguards which I found so awesome.
du bist einfach nur der beste
ist mal wider nur episch
mach weiter so
"There is no Heaven, only a hell men make for themselves."
WW1 Vets: Holy shit, that was the worst thing I could've ever imagined, thank God there won't be another one!
WW2: ...
I hope they were rock n' roll angels bringing thyne hard rock hallelujah...
Hear them whisper,
Voices from the other side
Hear them calling
Former foes now friends are resting side by side
They will never leave our hearts or fade away
Live forever
They were far to you to die in such a way
how many wasted lives
How many dreams did fade away
Broken promises
They won't be coming home
Oh mothers wipe your tears
Your sons will rest a million years
Found their peace at last
As foe turned to friend
And forgive
And they knew they'd die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turned to dust
Hell is waiting where the ocean meets the sand
Cliffs of burden
Where the soldiers rushed into a certain death
At the shoreline
Blood of heroes stains the land
Light a candle
One for each of them who fought and died in vain
There is no enemy
There is no victory
Only boys who lost their lives in the sand
Young men were sacrificed
Their names are carved in stone and kept alive
And forever we will honour the memory of them
And they knew they would die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turned to dust
how many wasted lives
How many dreams did fade away
Broken promises
They won't be coming home
Oh mothers wipe your tears
Your sons will rest a million years
Found their peace at last
As foe turned to friend
And forgive
And they knew they would die
Gallipoli
Left their letters in the sand
Such waste of life
Gallipoli
Dreams of freedom turned to dust
wrong song sorry, but hey galipoli is a good song
So i am probably going to be the first one that's going to write this but its now exactly 100 years since the end of ww1
May all the poor souls that lost thier lives from both sides rest in peace and may they be remembererd for eternally.
I wrote this at 2 am in the morning, 11 of November 2018
Happy armistice day!
du weißt es und ich habs dir schon so oft gesagt aber: ich liebe deine lyric videos :D
I see everyone talking about BF1 but if you really wanna play a ww1 FPS and experience real battles you must have Verdun.
Adina Ghita you just can't experience real battles in a game
AsBadAsBot, You can get close to it.
@@paladinboyd1228 it's still far from reality , you can't simulate deathand the stress it can cause , there are plenty of things needed for a close to reality simulation , good thing you can't tbh
clank285, True, but a war game that doesn’t sugarcoat history would be nice.
A great clip again! :)
We remember them
You can almost feel the helplessness dread and anger of the soldiers that went through hell some came back never had the same as they went in sometimes mental injuries mainly physical war is a beautiful thing and its own Twisted right I'm sure many other people will understand what I'm saying it shapes the wall around us and shapes economies Nations and borders cultures it truly is a beautiful thing thus never forget
Am I the only fucking Atheist who just listen to this Band because they are awsome ,and dont care about religion ?
It's not christian metal or sth,feel free to listen to them
Hype for The War to End all Wars new Sabaton album returns me here in 2006
Thanks for creating Sabaton Sweden
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"You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees"- Kaiser Wilhelm ||, August 1914.
"We will be in Kiev in 3 days celebrating our victory"- Vladimir Putin, February 2022.
Doesn't the statement look the same & probably the consequences too!!!
"We will in Donetsk in few hours" - Turchinov, 2014
This Sergay dude is everywhere lmao
I get the chills with the quote angels are calling your name
Calling you home
I can picture it its damn scary
this lyrics.... god...
@PiscatorLager Geil! :D
Vllt ist das Internet ja schon die mächtigste Sache der Welt o.O
Ach ja und echt gutes Video mit einen der wohl besten Songs von Sabaton.
Daumen hoch von mir!
this year, on november 11th, will be 100 years after ww1 ended. hopefully, 1000 years, maybe even 5000 years, ww1 will still be remembered and those who died as well
If you hear out the lyrics, I hear it as a soldier going through the horrors of war and when "hell on earth, the tranches mean death" repeats it is a new soldier being brought into the war under the command of this now seasoned veteran
Aged like wine
Today is the mark of the end of the war, may those who have fallen in the war rest in piece and honoured forever for both sides
This november is 99 years since the end of the Great War
Talia Immelman Fun Fact WW1 happened after 99 years of peace after Napoleon's defeat. They were some minor wars but not even half a million men died in total in any of them.
Dankeschön für deine Übersetzung. *bow*
if anyone knows history there is a battle in the 1950's this song applies to in alot of ways
aceshgh39 what battle?
Rest in Piece, Queen Elizabeth