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Thank you so much from Bosnian people, not just for this song but for all of them.. and to Sweden for helping us when we needed help the most, by accepting so many Bosnian refugees.🤘😎🤘
Singular wars are avoidable. West and East avoided a war about the Cuba Missle Crisis, for example. But, all of us, to simply reject warfare as a solution? Sadly, that will not ever happen.
One of my favorite things about this song is how the guitar solo is written in such a way so as to invoke a sense of chaos and fear, much like the outbreak of the Great War.
As I've read somewhere in the RUclips comments: "The worst part of the Great War are not trenches, nor 20 million dead human beings, but the fact it was the first." Thanks Sabaton, greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
i dont know if it can even be counted in the top 10 worst things of WW1, but the archduke was probably the only man in Austria that could have stopped it from spiraling out of control. had it been anyone else his guiding hand would have saved millions.
agreed, being the first of its kind gave mankind a sense that its worst achievement could be carried out, that being the terrible truth that such destructive and wanton destruction was possible... not so much what happened rather than what the possibilities of what it opened the doors for. just the fact that it was made possible is one of humanity's most terrible sins and its one we have sadly only improved upon ever since.
Gavrilo Princip was only 19 when he fired the shots that started the war. He was just a dumb kid swept up in a fervor to see the empire ruling his homeland driven out. It’s sheer random chance he wound up being, arguably, one of the most infamous assassins in history.
He Essentially Started 2 World Wars, If World War I hadn't started there would be no such thing as the Treaty of Versailles and therefore a document that Enraged A.H to claim back what he thought was Germans' Property essentially.
@@2011SoxMD36 get this: with “Angels Calling”, “The Price of a Mile”, “Last Dying Breath”, “The Lost Battalion”, and the Great War album, we have enough Sabaton songs from an epic double album, or a very long and epic playlist. “Sarajevo” is kicking it off, but will it end with “Versailles”, “The End of the War to End all Wars” or “In Flanders Field”?
"Nothing like what had come before" Everyone thought it was gonna be a quick and glorious war, the one that would end all wars, nobody was prepared for the horror and lie that it truly was.
I think that would probably be their plan, especially in the way it's composed. In my mind they start appearing at around 2:35 when the bitching 🥁 🎸 part starts, and then at 3:59 Joakim comes out for the last chorus.
The amount of pure joy and excitement i feel from listening to a song carrying the name of my country's capital cannot be expressed with words. Thank you Sabaton for making amazing music about historical events.
I studied at university of defence in Brno - CZ, once history lesson polish captain came to teach us about their history. When he spoke about hussars and how they saved Vienna and whole Europe he played Winged hussars. Still having goose bumps when thinking about it...
This song is excellent. It is too bad that we didn't learn from our past mistakes as humans even in this day and age. Glory to all soldiers past, present and future
@@xdeepxfreezex2621 Ants wage war all the time to me aslong as opposite opinion exist there will always be conflict the only way it will end is if we do. Which I hope we don't because we have done so much as a species such great invention and in many ways war is necessary evil because no time in human history has technology advanced more than during war look at all the disgusting research the Japanese and Nazis did to their prisoners yet all that research despite how gruesome it has been used to give us better medical understanding and increased our medical capability ten fold same with technology.
@@Zacharoni4085 again its impossible to avoid war its part of us whather it be the soldier's fighting it or the people leading it will alway exist we can have a long peace sure but war and conflict will always show its face no matter how much we try to avoid it some will always have a problem with someone or something and someone will always be willing to start a fight because of it Ukraine is a good example neither sides soldier's wa to fight but Putin is making them.
"From a shot that would change the world Tensions rise and a war is unfurled Nothing like what had come before It’s the war that will end all war!" Best lyrics ever
My man that's the the chorus it's the only part song (if you can even call it that) such a waste potential with this one, if they wouldn't have just cheaped out and had someone read a script they could have, you know, wrote actual lyrics to the song!?! Sadly a waste of potential, which seems to me to be a common theme with this album
@@Bigcheese1334 how did the album cheap out because only two songs feel that way, this and the final song of the album (i can't remember the name of the song)
Interesting fact that it was happened 28 of June, same date as Kosovo battle in 1389 (Serbs against Ottomans) with great losses on both side, definitely not smart move to invoke population making military parade on that date, there were few unsuccessful attempts, just moments before this one.
The full story of the assassination is absolutely bonkers, to the point where it'd be hard to tell much details about it in a song without losing the gravitas. Check out the Extra History video on the subject.
I love that Sarajevo is "Tensions rise and a war is unfurled Nothing like what had come before" and Versailles is "Tensions fall and a peace is unfurled Nothing like what had come before"
I've seen it said a hundred+ times, but Sarajevo and Versailles are heavy hitting and makes you stop and think for a moment and as well as how some of the quotes can even be applied to the world of today is just heartbreaking
Do you teach your students that Austro-Hungarians are occupiers in Sarajevo, that they annexed Bosnia 6 years before assassination of Franc Ferdinand, that this assassination was fight for freedom of southern Slavs, and that real reason for the beginning of Great War was that occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and aspiration of Austrian kaiser to occupy Serbia too, and erase Serbian country from the maps of Europe. Instead of that David beat Goliath once more, and Serbia continue to exist, but the great Austro-Hungarian empire disappeared from the European maps for good. That's the karma. 🙃 For the better explanation how strong and unbreakable libertarian spirit had Gavrilo, as well all other Serbs, is the text he wrote on the wall in his cell in Teresin prison: "Our shadows will walk around Vienna, wander around the court, scaring the lords". It means that even after death they will not stop to fight for freedom of their fatherland. And it's important to know that he was terrible torched in the prison almost every day to death. But it does not broke his spirit and will for fight for freedom till his last breath.
@@dragan024 Wow! Thank you for your passion. I definitely let my students know that Austria was conquering other people and oppressing them. However, I think it's a shame some Serbians see Gavrilo Princip as a hero; murdering a political leader and especially his pregnant wife during non-war time is a terrorist attack, not freedom-fighting. There are definitely alternatives to resisting oppression other than political assassinations. Now, if Austria-Hungary had been at war at the time with Serbia, I could see assassinating the Archduke would be a good idea since he was a military commander, but leave his wife alone so their kids wouldn't be orphaned. Yes, I understand the Hapsburg empire brought misery and death to Serbian families, but Princip was a thug who brought a more devastation from the war onto his people than any annexation would. I'm sure there are more noble heroes in Serbian history that people can look up to instead.
@@charlesroeckeriv6226 Just for your infomation Austrohungarion will atack Serbia anyway,thay nide that terrirory till today...thay think Dunow belong to them...
@@charlesroeckeriv6226 Archduke Franz Ferdinand im pretty sure had plans to federalize and stop oppression of slavic and other minorities within the empire, which was the only realistic chance to save it from total collapse. The only hope of the Austrian Empire surviving died with Franz Ferdinand.
If you think you're a influential guy, Gravrilo Princip is either directly responsible or partially responsible for WW1, WW2, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and every conflict afterwards
any songs from Sabaton about WWI are the pinnacle of their best music in my opinion, Sarajevo and Versailles in particular, 2 songs almost identical, 2 completely different tones, not many bands can do that.
In the "Heeresgeschichtliches Museum" in Vienna you can see the orginal car and blood stained uniform of Franz Ferdinand on display. Pretty powerful sight!
This song and Versailles are the perfect bookmarks for the album imo. This, Versailles, Race to the Sea, Stormtroopers and Dreadnoughts are my favorites
I was fan of Sabaton for years, but seeing name of the city I work and live as a song title is just beyond any words can explain. Sabaton, you have just earned highest of my respect. Greetings from Sarajevo
The song is about the assassination carried out by a Bosnian Serb, the revolutionary Gavrilo Princip. The song has nothing to do with your Bosniak people. You were on the side of Austria-Hungary.
@@greenfogguni9001 No problem, listen to the music. But don't falsify history and steal something that doesn't belong to you. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was attended by Orthodox Bosnian Serbs, Gavrilo Princip.
@@nikolas.3223 "Don't falsify history and steal something that doesn't belong to you", man what are you saying??? Sedad wrote a comment doing none of what you are mentioning! Wow, imagine being as full of hate and nationalism as you are! Must be painful to live with!
1:22 Has to be one of my favorite Sabaton moments. It perfectly encapsulates the tension and anxiety one must have felt after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, wondering how the empires of the world would respond, hoping cooler heads would prevail. But then the guitar riff hits like a ton of bricks, signaling that things are only going to escalate. Helps that the riff also happens to be one of the hardest of any Sabaton song!
They literally only made a chorus to a song made a tune then went aw crap we haven't figured out any lyrics, so they just had some chick talk about what should have been in them!!!
I like that in Sarajevo witch is about how the war started it has the line "Tensions rise and a war is unfurled" and in Versailles which is about how the war ends it has the lines "Tensions fall and a peace is unfurled"
We have to get a history version in chronological order with the songs off both albums. Sabaton; you continue to amaze me with every album. Keep doing what you are doing 🤘🏻
That's a great idea! It would start with this song, then go in chronological order using both albums. A little blurb by Indy in between (or fact cards written by him at least).
Hey i got a playlist of the songs as is from 1912 -lady of the dark to 1919 -versialles on my profile use it for now it feeos great seeing then in order. I also have a google doc with the way i organized it available as well to use as reference
Being an anarchist and his Surname is "Princep" I always found it humorous. and ironic that he caused such mass scale warfare that the British Empire was forever changed.
@@henrypaleveda7760he was not an anarchist. Please do not listen to stupid people who tried to plaim him. He was a Serbian patriot/nationalist and absolutely nothing else.
@@Central-Intelligence ..Not like Putin has done anything wrong right? Isn't that the reason why Eastern Europeans immediately tried to join NATO after the fall of the USSR right? *looks at Navalny, Georgia 2008, Annexation of Crimea, Syrian intervention in 2014, The 1999 Moscow apartment bombings, and literally what the Warsaw Pact had done to the Eastern Europeans from 1955 to 1991*
Хвала Sabaton што одржавате сећање и ширите причу о великим борбама које је проживео народ Балкана кога ни дан данас нису успеле да сломе велике светске силе. Што би рекао владика Данило "Тврд је орах воћка чудновата, не сломи га ал’ зубе поломи" 🤘
Ne mogu se sjetiti tačno ko ali neki je historičar jednom izjavio da su se narodi balkana uvijek najmanje pitali ali se sve prelamalo preko njihovih leđa. Po meni jedna velika istina
@@sasha_user-hg4bu1eq4v Stvarno? Daj još malo nam slaži :) Bosna je slala vojsku zajedno sa drugim Evropskim državama da se bore protiv turaka još kada su napadali tadašnje teritorije Rumunije i Bugarske. Husein-kapetan Gradaščević je vodio Bosance u rat protiv Turskih okupatora. Albanci su se strahovito borili protiv turaka. Ko te je slagao da su jedino srbi ti koji su se borili protiv okupatora? Srpskim lažima nikad kraja. Slavite bitku na Kosovu a izgubili i bitku i cijelu Srbiju...
@@sasha_user-hg4bu1eq4v ne pričam sa nacionalistima molim te zaobiđi me se sa daljim tagovanjima A Bog dao sve najbolje, sreću i uputu, i tebi i svim ljudima kojima je potrebna
@@crnivojvoda8668 Pašice ovo je o atentatu na Franza Ferdinanda. A ovaj moj komentar je iz još jedne pjesme "Sarajevo". Samo na engleskom. Tkd nemoj da sereš svega ti.
@@crnivojvoda8668 Who was Gavrilo Princip? The Bosnian who was born in Bosnia. The Bosnian who grew up in Bosnia. The Bosnian who was raised in Bosnia by Bosnian tradition, Bosnian culture, Bosnian language. The Bosnian who went to Bosnian school. The Bosnian who loved his homelad Bosjia and was the member of the organisation "Young Bosnia". The Bosnian that killed occupants' leader in Bosnia's capital city - Sarajevo.
Ok everybody hold up. This as the opening. Versailles as the closing. The perfect ending to a perfect cyrcli that this album is. Masterpiece guys. Absolutely masterpiece.
Welcome to most of Sabatoms songs if this was your first song please stick around and enjoy this great band and their great tracks and welcome to the Sabaton community
@@mega-chad8809 one thing is for sure and that's that this will change the outcome of the elections by a few percentages at least. And it might be all that's needed to change who wins
Thank you once again for making a song in which a Serb is a main character.Most of the people don't know that in ww1 Serbia lost 56.5% of total male population... Anyway,we really love Sabaton in Serbia and with every song that love grows even stronger. Stay strong brothers🇷🇸☝️🇸🇪
@@jovanmucibabic1884 Yeah, “freed” by cowardly murdering a man & his wife and sending a third of his own nation to death. Then failing to hang himself with a towel in prison. What a hero.
@@zaxxxppe before the murders,Austria-Hungary was slaughtering Serbs in Bosnia and Krajina... The war was going to begin anyways,they just needed the cause and this,this was a perfect one.
@@jovanmucibabic1884 Serbian government was supplying peasant raids on Austro-Hungarian and Bosnian border for decades prior to the war. The statement “war was going to happen anyways” has no historical relevance - it was still Gavrilo who fired the shot and threw Europe into a slaughterhouse of a war.
ExYugovici opcenito a Srbi pogotovo u stotinama hiljada (najveca strana populacija Beca), danas hodaju tj. zive u Becu jer su otisli trbuhom za kruhom za boljim zivotom. Taj citat bi tek imao smisla da cetvrtina stranaca u Austriji nisu exYugovici. Srba u Austriji ima vise nego Slovenaca, Bosnjaka, Crnogoraca i Makedonaca zajedno. Toliko o tome citatu, koji bas i nije za citirat!
The thing I love most about your albums is when they tell a story from start to finish. It really solidifies that online moniker you guys have of being bards, telling stories. Your storytelling is what makes you stand out and I love when stories are told through music and albums. Carolus Rex does this the best imo, especially the Swedish Version, it's so powerful. The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire told through epic metal music. Incredible. The next best I think is Great War, because ending with In Flanders Fields is just like being hit with a truck. And then comes this- I really like the musical parallels of Sarajevo and Versailles, the naming parallels AND the parallels between GW and TWTEAW throughout the album. In fact, I would LOVE, I would LOVE, a special double album about WWI that combines these two albums into one- I think that would be really awesome, and bring the story into a more complete loop. However, it's because of this, that I find the lack of this song on digital releases of the album to be so frustrating, and indeed, even heartbreaking. The story isn't right without it. How can I listen to the story without the first chapter?! How can I end the story without the beginning? It feels WRONG. And what's more is, I don't understand WHY. I don't want to believe the rumours that this is a marketing ploy to boost physical sales, I really don't, because I think that would be a shitty move. Especially to do so without any notice prior. So I really instead just hope, it's a tech issue, and you'll resolve it once you've sorted out the Vinyl Ordering issue. Please do. Your millions of listeners worldwide, who cannot get or have to wait for a physical album in the mean time, want to listen to your new album as the complete story. Not a cut off one. Please give us this song on digital releases~!
This and versaille are masterpieces. Especially this one where the sound of the song with the narration sets the stage, and the tone is ominous and sinister, like the creeping feeling of an inevitable war coming. And the sound gradually changes as the song progresses to become more and more frantic until it absolutely just goes off the rails and that is when you know that the war has started. When the song goes hectic and almost hateful it transitions over to a somber and almost desperate sound. It's just perfect. The tone, the voice, the lyrics are so perfect in this song it's hard to describe, and the story the song tells perfectly reflects those feelings and those chaotic and frigthful days before the war to end all wars would start. Bravo Sabaton. Bravo
The riff in this song is fucking brutal, its so good. Goosepumps when you combine it with the story. Imagining Gavrilo going in to do the assassination, goosepumps man.
I've got randomly recommended to the symphonic version of the album at RUclips Premium Player. Listened to it all, loved it. Then I saw that it was a symphonic version of another album, and based on true events of WWI. I was mind blown! I've been listening to it several times a day the last week. I am 33 and I think the last time that happened I was 17. Thank you very much for this fine piece of art, Sabaton!
Hands down best opening song of a record ever. Will be hard to top. Strong excellent narrative voice, chorus to the point, solo that's absolutely epic and a closure that actually brings horror. *War begins...*
Love the song, just think it's absolute bullshit that the album opener isn't available on the digital versions of the album. Make bonus tracks exclusive to physical releases all you like, but the opening track that is even referenced again in the closing song (the second half of Versailles repeats the chorus of Sarajevo) being kept from the album is complete and utter nonsense. Like the album was supposed to come full circle with Versailles harkening back to Sarajevo, illustrating how indeed war is a never ending cycle that is doomed to repeat itself, but now every time you listen to the album on Spotify or wherever you're missing the setup for that brilliant callback. Just a shame really.
100% agree. The album is so off narratively because of it. If it really was intentional, I think there are better ways of promoting your physical sales than this.
There were some changes at Nuclear Blast Records after a French investor that is specialized on digital sales (and usually not metal) bought the label. For example they let the contracts of bands like Amorphis, Helloween, Meshuggah, Opeth or Sonata Arctica expire without even talking to them and my guess is that some others will follow in the next years. Not Sabaton of course because they've become a very big name in the business. For the new album I could imagine that they thought that the CD needs to be pushed to make good sales and cut out a song to make it exclusive for physical copies and somehow choose the opener.
The history version now has it, so you can put that in a playlist with that song and then put the rest of the normal album in (or listen to the history version cus its great.)
I bought the great wars album after being introduced to you last Friday. You are bloody awesome. Thank you for the amazing tracks. I love En livstid i krig. I do not think I have recovered from the emotional rollercoaster yet. Wow, just wow!!!
@@Cocomelonander42069 Archduke Franz feridanad is shot dead in Serbia, Austria declares war on Serbia for this, there ally German stepped in too, Russia, France, and England joined in Serbias defense. When so many of the worlds most powerful nations are pitted it is called a world war, the first.
...which is precisely why the Black Hand targeted him. Zealots don't care about collateral damage, and the Black Hand believed there could be no true victory without bloodshed - that Serbia must emerge victorious from the forge of war in order to stand tall as an independent nation. Had Ferdinand ascended the throne and granted Serbia autonomy within the empire or full independence, the Black Hand would have seen that as a hollow victory borne on the pen of an Austrian autocrat. They wanted Austrians, and a lot of them, dead at Serbian hands. Little did the Black Hand know that their actions signed the death warrants of a full 25% of Serbia's population, and doomed the Western world to three decades of chaos and carnage.
@@johnl1091and all the stuff that happened afterwards. WW1 leads to WW2 which leads to tito taking over and honestly doing an amazing job keeping Yugoslavia together, which leads to the country collapsing after he dies, which leads to the Yugoslav wars which leads to today where Serbia is a European backwater who’s only friend is a second rate power ruled by a dictator.
@@johnl1091 half-truths are worse than lies cuz they make sense. you ever considered the possibility it was the other side who made sure the only person who didn't want war with serbia was present in serbian populated part of the country on 28th of june? this is the date serbs celebrate their heroism in the 1389 kosovo war. it's as if austrohungarians (or any other great power) knew some extreme elements would take that as offense... truth is, we don't fucking know. but you know the secrets of black hand better than us in serbia. apparently...
I am so glad that these songs were released it really gets your mind of what’s going on in the world and for sometime you can forge its even happening. Thank you very much Sabaton best of wishes and luck.
A perfect opener to the album. From the initial narration to the way the song builds. Very dark and ominous. Great way to symbolize the beginning of the Great War.
When i visited Vienna, i had the chance to visit the museum of military history, and inside i saw something i was not quite prepared for and that i won't ever forget. I saw the last uniform of Franz Ferdinand, yes, the very one in which he was assassinated. I saw the dress of his wife, the car and the gun of Gavrilo too. The bullet holes in the car and the vest, the long since dried blood that only darken the blue uniform ... the sight of such historical items, enshrined like relics, testimony of the very start of a bloody and history turning war gave me chills i would never forget.
It's both unnerving and unironically also inspiring to think of the global impact from one person's actions. For good or ill, this assassin's choice fundamentally shaped the course of history in Europe and beyond.
It's one initial action, but the war was coming anyway. Plans were already made. Not only by Austria-Hungary. The other European powers already had plans for a new European order. These are historical facts and accepted by most of today's historians. Today we know a lot more than some 50 or 30 years ago.
That guitar solo... Such an impression of the descent into madness triggered by the shots in Sarajevo... Truly disturbing, and never fails to trigger goosebumps. This is just such a powerful opener, really sets the mood for the album - And THEN the finisher with Versailles... "This was terrible, and we're not done yet...."
Sarajevo is the first track from our album The War To End All Wars! Do you like this intro track?
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It's isn't on the RUclips Music Album. Kinda curious. Great song! Would be a great start to the album, ending with Versailles
It’s not on spotify either
Or iTunes. The album needs to start with this song.
Or Amazon music
Thank you so much from Bosnian people, not just for this song but for all of them.. and to Sweden for helping us when we needed help the most, by accepting so many Bosnian refugees.🤘😎🤘
I walked the steps of Gavrilo Princip when I was in Sarajevo, the chills this gave...
I did not expect to see you here, I love those fancy reels you post on instagram.
Sarajevo is my neighborhood
The mayor removed all traces of this event happening. A new jihad agenda sarajevo is pushing 🤦
@@faxepower4657 I really hope the mayor doesn’t think the world will forget Ferdinand assassination due to his meddling?
@@Flynnbob12345 Thank you
"War is unavoidable." instant goosebumps and shivers. Such a mistic power in that song.
there is a wise word says "peace will never be gained unless there are wars".
war is the price for peace
mystic*
it is an expression of human competitivness
Singular wars are avoidable.
West and East avoided a war about the Cuba Missle Crisis, for example.
But, all of us, to simply reject warfare as a solution?
Sadly, that will not ever happen.
One of my favorite things about this song is how the guitar solo is written in such a way so as to invoke a sense of chaos and fear, much like the outbreak of the Great War.
Thanks for your appreciation Elena!
Never thought of that. That's fuckin awesome
The hurry to scramble to arms as unprecedented violence descends.
Just goes to show how much thought & creativity they put into their music, they're a fantastic one of a kind band
It's a crime that this isn't available on spotify. Such a cool song. Such a powerful chorus!
yeah why ain't it?
Need a petiton to get this on spotify ngl
Well considering they fucked up their vinyl/CDs. Wouldn't surprise me they messed up their streaming in some way aswell
@@SteveMcbrain oh shit really??
@@SteveMcbrain Really? What happened?
As I've read somewhere in the RUclips comments:
"The worst part of the Great War are not trenches, nor 20 million dead human beings, but the fact it was the first."
Thanks Sabaton, greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
i dont know if it can even be counted in the top 10 worst things of WW1, but the archduke was probably the only man in Austria that could have stopped it from spiraling out of control. had it been anyone else his guiding hand would have saved millions.
"..,but the fact it would not be the last."
"..,but the fact it was not the war to end all wars."
And now we have a third
agreed, being the first of its kind gave mankind a sense that its worst achievement could be carried out, that being the terrible truth that such destructive and wanton destruction was possible... not so much what happened rather than what the possibilities of what it opened the doors for. just the fact that it was made possible is one of humanity's most terrible sins and its one we have sadly only improved upon ever since.
Top comm from "the end of the war to end all wars"
Gavrilo Princip was only 19 when he fired the shots that started the war. He was just a dumb kid swept up in a fervor to see the empire ruling his homeland driven out. It’s sheer random chance he wound up being, arguably, one of the most infamous assassins in history.
He Essentially Started 2 World Wars, If World War I hadn't started there would be no such thing as the Treaty of Versailles and therefore a document that Enraged A.H to claim back what he thought was Germans' Property essentially.
Glory Gavrilo!
@@zoranrajic78 he indirectly caused the death of millions… no
@@Guillaume_sono He just wanted freedom for ppl,learn history, Germans hate Serbs before Gavrilo
@@Guillaume_sono Do you think that ww1 wouldnt start if he didnt do it?
Besides Why tf should he care about people that dont care about his people?
THE CHORUS! FUCKING CHILLS!!!
The chorus hits so different right now...
i could honestly listen to it over and over and not get tired
@@fireshredder24 Sabaton in general hits different now.
Bro the Chorus is literally the entire song lmao
@@senticov indeed, but it fucking slap
Heavy, a bit on the slower side, more of a story with the narration. Nice and powerful song!
Its weight reminds me of Inmate 4859.
@@nightbird7208 i get "art of war" vibes
This and Versailles together as the start and finish to the album are pure genius
Similar to Rise of evil
@@2011SoxMD36 get this: with “Angels Calling”, “The Price of a Mile”, “Last Dying Breath”, “The Lost Battalion”, and the Great War album, we have enough Sabaton songs from an epic double album, or a very long and epic playlist.
“Sarajevo” is kicking it off, but will it end with “Versailles”, “The End of the War to End all Wars” or “In Flanders Field”?
"Nothing like what had come before"
Everyone thought it was gonna be a quick and glorious war, the one that would end all wars, nobody was prepared for the horror and lie that it truly was.
This song should be the pre-recorded song that they play before they come on stage! This song would definitely hype up any Sabaton crowd!
I think that would probably be their plan, especially in the way it's composed. In my mind they start appearing at around 2:35 when the bitching 🥁 🎸 part starts, and then at 3:59 Joakim comes out for the last chorus.
That would be so dope
@@P3TARK ooooh, I can already feel the crowd cheering, singing and being all hyped up
@@theindigodiamond2464 noch ein bier!
Ghost division as a starter is too much of a classic but it would be nice to hear Sarajevo for this album in particular.
The amount of pure joy and excitement i feel from listening to a song carrying the name of my country's capital cannot be expressed with words. Thank you Sabaton for making amazing music about historical events.
sup bosnian
@@HuzzBon oh you know im bosnian? how can you tell! lmao
@@greenfogguni9001 from "my country's capital" + your pfp
just had the same experience with race to the sea =p
Nasa draga Bosna
I want to be a history teacher just so I can play Sabaton songs to my students
We fully support your aim here 😎
I studied at university of defence in Brno - CZ, once history lesson polish captain came to teach us about their history. When he spoke about hussars and how they saved Vienna and whole Europe he played Winged hussars. Still having goose bumps when thinking about it...
Hell yes
Don't let everyone know my lesson plans cause I actually do that
I would love this class
I quite like how Sarajevo and Versailles share the same tone and beats. The war began with this song and it will end with it.
Both songs are named after cities too!
@@Nexandr the city that began the war, and the city that ended it
The Peace Treaty that started the most destructive war in history
@@anonymousleftwingtroll7677 And began the next.
Imagine next 2 Sabaton albums being solely about WW2. I could dig that. Better than all these lame suggestions to make a song about current events.
This song is excellent. It is too bad that we didn't learn from our past mistakes as humans even in this day and age. Glory to all soldiers past, present and future
Humans never will its in our DNA nothing will change that and it isn't unique to us either..
@@samuel10125 Sadly thats true
@@xdeepxfreezex2621 Ants wage war all the time to me aslong as opposite opinion exist there will always be conflict the only way it will end is if we do. Which I hope we don't because we have done so much as a species such great invention and in many ways war is necessary evil because no time in human history has technology advanced more than during war look at all the disgusting research the Japanese and Nazis did to their prisoners yet all that research despite how gruesome it has been used to give us better medical understanding and increased our medical capability ten fold same with technology.
@@samuel10125 so should we be emotionless hive mind drones instead to avoid war
@@Zacharoni4085 again its impossible to avoid war its part of us whather it be the soldier's fighting it or the people leading it will alway exist we can have a long peace sure but war and conflict will always show its face no matter how much we try to avoid it some will always have a problem with someone or something and someone will always be willing to start a fight because of it Ukraine is a good example neither sides soldier's wa to fight but Putin is making them.
"From a shot that would change the world
Tensions rise and a war is unfurled
Nothing like what had come before
It’s the war that will end all war!"
Best lyrics ever
My man that's the the chorus it's the only part song (if you can even call it that) such a waste potential with this one, if they wouldn't have just cheaped out and had someone read a script they could have, you know, wrote actual lyrics to the song!?!
Sadly a waste of potential, which seems to me to be a common theme with this album
@@Bigcheese1334 idk I quite like this even if it isn't really a song
@@amiriki me too man the chorus is kick ass but that's the only part waste of potential
@@Bigcheese1334 how did the album cheap out because only two songs feel that way, this and the final song of the album (i can't remember the name of the song)
@@thenexus8384 I meant creatively cheap out financially only really applies to these two
So much better than I thought it would be, being about an assassination. Expectations shattered and that’s always a good thing!
Agree! Expected "Inmate 4859" or "Ballad of the Bull"- vibe kind of song, got something waay better and unique! 🤩
Interesting fact that it was happened 28 of June, same date as Kosovo battle in 1389 (Serbs against Ottomans) with great losses on both side, definitely not smart move to invoke population making military parade on that date, there were few unsuccessful attempts, just moments before this one.
The full story of the assassination is absolutely bonkers, to the point where it'd be hard to tell much details about it in a song without losing the gravitas. Check out the Extra History video on the subject.
@@Meloncov Yeah, I’ve watched a video on the ridiculousness of the assassination that’s why I didn’t expect an absolute banger
I love that Sarajevo is "Tensions rise and a war is unfurled
Nothing like what had come before" and Versailles is "Tensions fall and a peace is unfurled
Nothing like what had come before"
the two events that lead to world wars
Great intro and outro for a WW1 album for sure!
ahh yes a supported for the iron blood
@@chrisb9143 which I think is why versailles doesnt actually end but slowly fades. Because its not over yet...
@@Evp1902 Then Rise of Evil plays
I've seen it said a hundred+ times, but Sarajevo and Versailles are heavy hitting and makes you stop and think for a moment and as well as how some of the quotes can even be applied to the world of today is just heartbreaking
What, like "War is unavoidable?"
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@moritamikamikara3879 I see what you did there
@@moritamikamikara3879 I see what you did there
I'm a history teacher. I'll use this song in my lesson about the beginning of World War I. This band is FREAKIN' AWESOME!
How’d it go
Do you teach your students that Austro-Hungarians are occupiers in Sarajevo, that they annexed Bosnia 6 years before assassination of Franc Ferdinand, that this assassination was fight for freedom of southern Slavs, and that real reason for the beginning of Great War was that occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and aspiration of Austrian kaiser to occupy Serbia too, and erase Serbian country from the maps of Europe. Instead of that David beat Goliath once more, and Serbia continue to exist, but the great Austro-Hungarian empire disappeared from the European maps for good. That's the karma. 🙃
For the better explanation how strong and unbreakable libertarian spirit had Gavrilo, as well all other Serbs, is the text he wrote on the wall in his cell in Teresin prison: "Our shadows will walk around Vienna, wander around the court, scaring the lords". It means that even after death they will not stop to fight for freedom of their fatherland. And it's important to know that he was terrible torched in the prison almost every day to death. But it does not broke his spirit and will for fight for freedom till his last breath.
@@dragan024 Wow! Thank you for your passion. I definitely let my students know that Austria was conquering other people and oppressing them. However, I think it's a shame some Serbians see Gavrilo Princip as a hero; murdering a political leader and especially his pregnant wife during non-war time is a terrorist attack, not freedom-fighting. There are definitely alternatives to resisting oppression other than political assassinations. Now, if Austria-Hungary had been at war at the time with Serbia, I could see assassinating the Archduke would be a good idea since he was a military commander, but leave his wife alone so their kids wouldn't be orphaned. Yes, I understand the Hapsburg empire brought misery and death to Serbian families, but Princip was a thug who brought a more devastation from the war onto his people than any annexation would. I'm sure there are more noble heroes in Serbian history that people can look up to instead.
@@charlesroeckeriv6226 Just for your infomation Austrohungarion will atack Serbia anyway,thay nide that terrirory till today...thay think Dunow belong to them...
@@charlesroeckeriv6226 Archduke Franz Ferdinand im pretty sure had plans to federalize and stop oppression of slavic and other minorities within the empire, which was the only realistic chance to save it from total collapse. The only hope of the Austrian Empire surviving died with Franz Ferdinand.
If you think you're a influential guy, Gravrilo Princip is either directly responsible or partially responsible for WW1, WW2, the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and every conflict afterwards
Ik right he told me like it’s amazing
*This is actually my favorite song, from the history, to the tone of this song, this. Is. AWESOME-*
any songs from Sabaton about WWI are the pinnacle of their best music in my opinion, Sarajevo and Versailles in particular, 2 songs almost identical, 2 completely different tones, not many bands can do that.
This album in general just slaps. Idk why but dreadnought is such a beautiful song it's probably my favorite sabaton song now
In the "Heeresgeschichtliches Museum" in Vienna you can see the orginal car and blood stained uniform of Franz Ferdinand on display. Pretty powerful sight!
Some people said that the car is cursed because it has caused many death to its previous owners.
TO THE DRUMMER AND THE GUITARS SPECIAL RESPECT
I was born in Sarajevo, and Sabaton I gotta say I'm impressed
Its Vrhobosna, not sarajevo. Sarajevo is turkish word.
@@eltoro10-v5t what was then was then now is now so it's Sarajevo
Da brate, Sarajevo je poznato u dve znatosto kao Antetat u Sarajevu i Rat u 90h.
@@bosnianphantom480 yeah you sed to be Croat Muslims and now you call yourself "Bosniaks". Sunflower business.
@@kristijanEX we never used to be Croats buddy shut up
This song and Versailles are the perfect bookmarks for the album imo. This, Versailles, Race to the Sea, Stormtroopers and Dreadnoughts are my favorites
versailles not so good
@@sethdaboss245 Thats your opinion
from Sarajevo to Versailles - in the album playlist as well as in history - i love this level of thought being put in an album
Sabaton is Metalus Rex.
@@sethdaboss245 bruh, it's almost the same song
I was fan of Sabaton for years, but seeing name of the city I work and live as a song title is just beyond any words can explain. Sabaton, you have just earned highest of my respect. Greetings from Sarajevo
The song is about the assassination carried out by a Bosnian Serb, the revolutionary Gavrilo Princip.
The song has nothing to do with your Bosniak people. You were on the side of Austria-Hungary.
@@nikolas.3223 problem?
@@greenfogguni9001
No problem, listen to the music. But don't falsify history and steal something that doesn't belong to you.
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was attended by Orthodox Bosnian Serbs, Gavrilo Princip.
@@nikolas.3223 never did, but just the mention of our capitals name in a foreign song gives us exposure which is nice
@@nikolas.3223 "Don't falsify history and steal something that doesn't belong to you", man what are you saying??? Sedad wrote a comment doing none of what you are mentioning! Wow, imagine being as full of hate and nationalism as you are! Must be painful to live with!
1:22 Has to be one of my favorite Sabaton moments. It perfectly encapsulates the tension and anxiety one must have felt after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, wondering how the empires of the world would respond, hoping cooler heads would prevail. But then the guitar riff hits like a ton of bricks, signaling that things are only going to escalate. Helps that the riff also happens to be one of the hardest of any Sabaton song!
This feels more like a tv show intro from the 90s
Great job as always
That's honestly no a bad thing
@@sirflapfla97 i didn’t say it was, it just reminds me of that era of tv
@@acemarvel1564 oh I know
based
I'm so sad this isn't on spotify, it's sooo epic
do you know why it isn't?
yeah so sad indeed only Versailles is.
Not on iTunes, I wonder why
@@hardmasternl It's the second half of Versailles, but no solos sadly
Apparently it’s a CD-only exclusive. :(
110 years ago it was very tense in Sarajevo.
28.6.1914 - 28.6.2024.
Thank you Sabaton for this song and greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
I’ve been so hyped for this album and the opener has not disappointed! Love this song. 🤘
Same! So epic
i am
They literally only made a chorus to a song made a tune then went aw crap we haven't figured out any lyrics, so they just had some chick talk about what should have been in them!!!
it's called an intro michael, ever heard of it?
@@OrionOnion there's an intro in the middle of the song?
This one just fucking DROPS halfway through. Awesome shit here
I like that in Sarajevo witch is about how the war started it has the line "Tensions rise and a war is unfurled" and in Versailles which is about how the war ends it has the lines "Tensions fall and a peace is unfurled"
Fastest I’ve ever clicked on a notification
Ditto
Same
Same
Same
Bro me too
We have to get a history version in chronological order with the songs off both albums.
Sabaton; you continue to amaze me with every album. Keep doing what you are doing 🤘🏻
That's a great idea! It would start with this song, then go in chronological order using both albums. A little blurb by Indy in between (or fact cards written by him at least).
the issue would be with songs covering a wider range of dates, how do you decide which comes first when they both happen at the same time?
Hey i got a playlist of the songs as is from 1912 -lady of the dark to 1919 -versialles on my profile use it for now it feeos great seeing then in order. I also have a google doc with the way i organized it available as well to use as reference
В Спотифае есть такой плейлист
Someone did it! 🎉
Fitting first track to a great album. Love the connecting dialogue between tracks, getting to love this album. Well done guys.
Thank you for appreciating it Graham
Greetings for Sabaton, we are very thankful for this song!
Heck yea we are! Wish more songs came out about our history! Legit every country that tried to occupy us collapsed
@@АндрейМаринетти Thank you for your protection slavic brothers
@@АндрейМаринетти братья!
Our shadows will roam through Vienna, wander through the court, frightening the nobility. Hier Ruhen Serbische Helden!
Adem Jashari = freedom fighter 🇦🇱♥️🇦🇹
Наше ће сјене ходати по Бечу, лутати по двору, плашити господу
-Gavrilo Princip
Being an anarchist and his Surname is "Princep" I always found it humorous. and ironic that he caused such mass scale warfare that the British Empire was forever changed.
@@henrypaleveda7760 What's the "English Empire"
@@apollo1694 England ruled in 1914 over 1/3 of the world...
@@groundhoppingwlkp3622 1/4th* 1924* British Empire*
@@henrypaleveda7760he was not an anarchist. Please do not listen to stupid people who tried to plaim him. He was a Serbian patriot/nationalist and absolutely nothing else.
Honestly, right now and all that it is happening in Europe, this song is a punch in the gut. Beautiful and powerful.
Nit really and frankly you can thank America and nato for the mess in Ukraine
@@tylerdunn9683 ah yes, it’s always America’s fault for shit happening in Europe and not the Europeans
@@Central-Intelligence ..Not like Putin has done anything wrong right? Isn't that the reason why Eastern Europeans immediately tried to join NATO after the fall of the USSR right?
*looks at Navalny, Georgia 2008, Annexation of Crimea, Syrian intervention in 2014, The 1999 Moscow apartment bombings, and literally what the Warsaw Pact had done to the Eastern Europeans from 1955 to 1991*
@@tylerdunn9683 Bull****. America has nothing to do with that. It´s just Putin being a crazy warmonger as always.
@@rbgerald2469 😆
I love the voice over telling the story between the terrific chorus lines.
Хвала Sabaton што одржавате сећање и ширите причу о великим борбама које је проживео народ Балкана кога ни дан данас нису успеле да сломе велике светске силе. Што би рекао владика Данило "Тврд је орах воћка чудновата, не сломи га ал’ зубе поломи" 🤘
Ne mogu se sjetiti tačno ko ali neki je historičar jednom izjavio da su se narodi balkana uvijek najmanje pitali ali se sve prelamalo preko njihovih leđa. Po meni jedna velika istina
Привет Сербии от России!
Балкан је пао са падом Југославије
@@sasha_user-hg4bu1eq4v Stvarno? Daj još malo nam slaži :) Bosna je slala vojsku zajedno sa drugim Evropskim državama da se bore protiv turaka još kada su napadali tadašnje teritorije Rumunije i Bugarske. Husein-kapetan Gradaščević je vodio Bosance u rat protiv Turskih okupatora. Albanci su se strahovito borili protiv turaka. Ko te je slagao da su jedino srbi ti koji su se borili protiv okupatora? Srpskim lažima nikad kraja. Slavite bitku na Kosovu a izgubili i bitku i cijelu Srbiju...
@@sasha_user-hg4bu1eq4v ne pričam sa nacionalistima molim te zaobiđi me se sa daljim tagovanjima
A Bog dao sve najbolje, sreću i uputu, i tebi i svim ljudima kojima je potrebna
Unaware of the assassins awaiting him and what will come
really puts in the chills
"That is my city! SA-RA-JE-VO!"
Ova pjesma nema nikakve veze sa tvojim sadasnjim sarajevom, njegovim stanovnicima ili bilo cim, sadasnjim tamo 😌..
@@crnivojvoda8668 Pašice ovo je o atentatu na Franza Ferdinanda. A ovaj moj komentar je iz još jedne pjesme "Sarajevo". Samo na engleskom. Tkd nemoj da sereš svega ti.
@@crnivojvoda8668 Who was Gavrilo Princip? The Bosnian who was born in Bosnia. The Bosnian who grew up in Bosnia. The Bosnian who was raised in Bosnia by Bosnian tradition, Bosnian culture, Bosnian language. The Bosnian who went to Bosnian school. The Bosnian who loved his homelad Bosjia and was the member of the organisation "Young Bosnia". The Bosnian that killed occupants' leader in Bosnia's capital city - Sarajevo.
@@nedimredzovic3759 😄
Vazi vazi
@@adrians2521 ejjj da je, nisam znao tebras.
Iz jos neke herojske pjesme o sarajevu? Posto ih ima pregrst...
bro's stats: 2 kills 20 million assists
Lmao
nah 100 million assists
@@felexl32That belongs to the Spanish Flu.
Well he also started the second war. Because the second war happened because of discontentment about the first war
Ok everybody hold up.
This as the opening.
Versailles as the closing.
The perfect ending to a perfect cyrcli that this album is.
Masterpiece guys. Absolutely masterpiece.
Yeah. That's the point.
The narrator's voice is incredible, and perfectly pitched for this song
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Bethan Dixon Bate.
(Very familiar to anyone who has played Vermintide.)
0:40 i hear 2 actual gunshots, your tribute is legendary
Two songs at once.this is great way to start my morning
3 actually. And it's 12.09 am here, so i have to listen in headphones ;-;
@@IDoSnipeYT The whole album actually
@@lordmilchreis1885 Yup. But by the time this person wrote their comment, only 3 was available
Yet another great song. I love the historical narration.
Welcome to most of Sabatoms songs if this was your first song please stick around and enjoy this great band and their great tracks and welcome to the Sabaton community
It reminds of the narrator in the old god of war games. Really epic
Pozdrav iz Bosne, Sarajevo! Hvala vam na kreativnosti, uključujući i pjesmu o mojoj domovini.
I love it, excited for the rest of the album
It's not in the album, that's what's awesome, this is a bonus song!
@@nopenope8418 No it’s on the original album. But it’s not on the digital stuff
I love how it goes with Versailles. The beginning and the end match, so fitting.
Serbian flute in background mixes so well into song.
A 1,000 kisses from Belgrade, Serbia loves Sabaton ❤️🤘
bruh we need this on Spotify and not just physical releases
The album is on spotify
@@fareschikhi8630 this song isn't
@@dl_supertroll it's a shame too, already one of my faves
@@samuelholloway9583 Yeah, same on Apple Music. Album is there minus this song. :-(
@@dl_supertroll that is because it is not a song it is a comentary.
This song's been in my head since 2 hours. I hold my heart and hope for the least bad outcome
Yeah, the heart of the nation is still, braced for what’s to come from this, will it be fury? Or another event to fade into obscurity.
@@mega-chad8809 one thing is for sure and that's that this will change the outcome of the elections by a few percentages at least. And it might be all that's needed to change who wins
And thus.. the drums of war thundered for four bloody years.
Amazing, loved the energy from this!
Thank you once again for making a song in which a Serb is a main character.Most of the people don't know that in ww1 Serbia lost 56.5% of total male population...
Anyway,we really love Sabaton in Serbia and with every song that love grows even stronger.
Stay strong brothers🇷🇸☝️🇸🇪
Being a “main character” as a terrorist is no heroic thing.
@@zaxxxppe he freed us from the tyrany so he is a hero to us
@@jovanmucibabic1884 Yeah, “freed” by cowardly murdering a man & his wife and sending a third of his own nation to death. Then failing to hang himself with a towel in prison. What a hero.
@@zaxxxppe before the murders,Austria-Hungary was slaughtering Serbs in Bosnia and Krajina...
The war was going to begin anyways,they just needed the cause and this,this was a perfect one.
@@jovanmucibabic1884 Serbian government was supplying peasant raids on Austro-Hungarian and Bosnian border for decades prior to the war. The statement “war was going to happen anyways” has no historical relevance - it was still Gavrilo who fired the shot and threw Europe into a slaughterhouse of a war.
I'm listening Sabaton since 15 years. At this point Sabaton is my general of war
Thank you all this long-time support!
"Nase ce sjen hodati po Becu, lutati po dvoru, plasiti gospodu!!!"Gavrilo Princip
ExYugovici opcenito a Srbi pogotovo u stotinama hiljada (najveca strana populacija Beca), danas hodaju tj. zive u Becu jer su otisli trbuhom za kruhom za boljim zivotom. Taj citat bi tek imao smisla da cetvrtina stranaca u Austriji nisu exYugovici. Srba u Austriji ima vise nego Slovenaca, Bosnjaka, Crnogoraca i Makedonaca zajedno. Toliko o tome citatu, koji bas i nije za citirat!
@@kolobara08 kako ti nije dosadno pisati iste komentare iznova.
"Naše će sjene hodati po Beču,
lutati po dvoru, plašeći gospodu.ˮ
Nato's shadowed was over Belgrade and it frightened all of you
@@elemperadordemexico So much so that Serbs went out to streets and bridges to sing "you can blow us clinton"
@@dusanporobic4329 and he did
@@elemperadordemexico and soon u will see second sun in the west "tsar" 😹
Živela srbija
MAN! the instrumental starting at 2:40 really makes it feel like everything is rushing and spiraling out of control. WELL DONE!
The thing I love most about your albums is when they tell a story from start to finish. It really solidifies that online moniker you guys have of being bards, telling stories. Your storytelling is what makes you stand out and I love when stories are told through music and albums.
Carolus Rex does this the best imo, especially the Swedish Version, it's so powerful. The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire told through epic metal music. Incredible.
The next best I think is Great War, because ending with In Flanders Fields is just like being hit with a truck.
And then comes this- I really like the musical parallels of Sarajevo and Versailles, the naming parallels AND the parallels between GW and TWTEAW throughout the album.
In fact, I would LOVE, I would LOVE, a special double album about WWI that combines these two albums into one- I think that would be really awesome, and bring the story into a more complete loop.
However, it's because of this, that I find the lack of this song on digital releases of the album to be so frustrating, and indeed, even heartbreaking. The story isn't right without it. How can I listen to the story without the first chapter?! How can I end the story without the beginning? It feels WRONG.
And what's more is, I don't understand WHY.
I don't want to believe the rumours that this is a marketing ploy to boost physical sales, I really don't, because I think that would be a shitty move. Especially to do so without any notice prior.
So I really instead just hope, it's a tech issue, and you'll resolve it once you've sorted out the Vinyl Ordering issue. Please do. Your millions of listeners worldwide, who cannot get or have to wait for a physical album in the mean time, want to listen to your new album as the complete story. Not a cut off one.
Please give us this song on digital releases~!
I find it incredible how they managed to musically adapt pure escalation right from the beginning of the song. Unsettling yet powerful pushing
This and versaille are masterpieces.
Especially this one where the sound of the song with the narration sets the stage, and the tone is ominous and sinister, like the creeping feeling of an inevitable war coming. And the sound gradually changes as the song progresses to become more and more frantic until it absolutely just goes off the rails and that is when you know that the war has started. When the song goes hectic and almost hateful it transitions over to a somber and almost desperate sound. It's just perfect.
The tone, the voice, the lyrics are so perfect in this song it's hard to describe, and the story the song tells perfectly reflects those feelings and those chaotic and frigthful days before the war to end all wars would start.
Bravo Sabaton. Bravo
The riff in this song is fucking brutal, its so good.
Goosepumps when you combine it with the story. Imagining Gavrilo going in to do the assassination, goosepumps man.
It’s happening! The album is arriving!
Edit: Need to get off the bus so I can listen.
Edit: Now off the bus, time to listen.
Edit: Simply Amazing
Listen on the bus. I'm sure your fellow passengers won't mind.
I've got randomly recommended to the symphonic version of the album at RUclips Premium Player. Listened to it all, loved it.
Then I saw that it was a symphonic version of another album, and based on true events of WWI. I was mind blown!
I've been listening to it several times a day the last week. I am 33 and I think the last time that happened I was 17.
Thank you very much for this fine piece of art, Sabaton!
Thank you very much for your message!
This song gives me such chills knowing that my great great grandfather fought in this horrible war
Hands down best opening song of a record ever. Will be hard to top. Strong excellent narrative voice, chorus to the point, solo that's absolutely epic and a closure that actually brings horror.
*War begins...*
It’s equal parts amazing and disturbing how much the world can change from one guy and his wife getting shot
I live in Sarajevo and I like this song a lot. I like all Sabaton songs! 😁 Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
WW1 and WW2 army songs are the only songs that 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 beat Sabaton. But nothing else is even gonna get close to this level of music.
Sabaton is too powerful, I get goosebumps and shivers all the time
Gavrilo Princip ! Long live Serbia !
Love the song, just think it's absolute bullshit that the album opener isn't available on the digital versions of the album. Make bonus tracks exclusive to physical releases all you like, but the opening track that is even referenced again in the closing song (the second half of Versailles repeats the chorus of Sarajevo) being kept from the album is complete and utter nonsense.
Like the album was supposed to come full circle with Versailles harkening back to Sarajevo, illustrating how indeed war is a never ending cycle that is doomed to repeat itself, but now every time you listen to the album on Spotify or wherever you're missing the setup for that brilliant callback. Just a shame really.
100% agree. The album is so off narratively because of it. If it really was intentional, I think there are better ways of promoting your physical sales than this.
There were some changes at Nuclear Blast Records after a French investor that is specialized on digital sales (and usually not metal) bought the label. For example they let the contracts of bands like Amorphis, Helloween, Meshuggah, Opeth or Sonata Arctica expire without even talking to them and my guess is that some others will follow in the next years. Not Sabaton of course because they've become a very big name in the business.
For the new album I could imagine that they thought that the CD needs to be pushed to make good sales and cut out a song to make it exclusive for physical copies and somehow choose the opener.
The history version has it
The history version now has it, so you can put that in a playlist with that song and then put the rest of the normal album in (or listen to the history version cus its great.)
If you go to Mp3Caprice the Japanese edition has all the narrations. In English.
I bought the great wars album after being introduced to you last Friday. You are bloody awesome. Thank you for the amazing tracks. I love En livstid i krig. I do not think I have recovered from the emotional rollercoaster yet. Wow, just wow!!!
Welcome on board and thanks a lot for your message!
@@Sabaton can you tell me what is this song about i didn't understand it
@@Cocomelonander42069 About Saravejo
@@Cocomelonander42069 Archduke Franz feridanad is shot dead in Serbia, Austria declares war on Serbia for this, there ally German stepped in too, Russia, France, and England joined in Serbias defense. When so many of the worlds most powerful nations are pitted it is called a world war, the first.
Put this story into song perfectly, captured a certain eeriness that makes it absolutely perfect. Completely captures the feeling of what is to come.
Sabaton should have a concert in Sarajevo
Here I am, 110 years later
The tragic irony is that Ferdinand was actually sympathetic to the Serbs’ plight
...which is precisely why the Black Hand targeted him. Zealots don't care about collateral damage, and the Black Hand believed there could be no true victory without bloodshed - that Serbia must emerge victorious from the forge of war in order to stand tall as an independent nation. Had Ferdinand ascended the throne and granted Serbia autonomy within the empire or full independence, the Black Hand would have seen that as a hollow victory borne on the pen of an Austrian autocrat. They wanted Austrians, and a lot of them, dead at Serbian hands. Little did the Black Hand know that their actions signed the death warrants of a full 25% of Serbia's population, and doomed the Western world to three decades of chaos and carnage.
@@johnl1091and all the stuff that happened afterwards. WW1 leads to WW2 which leads to tito taking over and honestly doing an amazing job keeping Yugoslavia together, which leads to the country collapsing after he dies, which leads to the Yugoslav wars which leads to today where Serbia is a European backwater who’s only friend is a second rate power ruled by a dictator.
@@johnl1091 and they emerge victorious from that war indeed
@@johnl1091 You are talking nonsense....
@@johnl1091 half-truths are worse than lies cuz they make sense. you ever considered the possibility it was the other side who made sure the only person who didn't want war with serbia was present in serbian populated part of the country on 28th of june? this is the date serbs celebrate their heroism in the 1389 kosovo war. it's as if austrohungarians (or any other great power) knew some extreme elements would take that as offense... truth is, we don't fucking know. but you know the secrets of black hand better than us in serbia. apparently...
i... cannot.. stop... listening to this...
I love how part of this is heard in Versailles, the end of the last part is the beginning symbolizing the loop of war and peace
3:32 The riffs are so beautiful, i hope to see more of it in the future! Love from South Africa
I am so glad that these songs were released it really gets your mind of what’s going on in the world and for sometime you can forge its even happening. Thank you very much Sabaton best of wishes and luck.
A perfect opener to the album. From the initial narration to the way the song builds. Very dark and ominous. Great way to symbolize the beginning of the Great War.
This song is an absolute banger, one of my favorites on the album! It's such a shame we don't have it on Spotify.
This song is actually available on Spotify, just as part of the history album - it's still the same song though.
@@justinrichards2836you say it is not on Spotify but then you say it is? You are a liar and I will touch you inappropriately
@@justinrichards2836I disliked your comment
The guitar solo's in this song are somthing else
The chorus gave me goosebumps. I've never had this feeling from any Sabaton song before
It does give goosebumps - maybe because of current events....and its about real events. (and amazingly epic)
If you've never gotten goosebumps from a Sabaton song before, then you need to listen to more Sabaton, my friend.
Спасибо Вам Ребята за ваше творчество!!!!! Очень нравятся ваши песни!!!! Так держать!
When i visited Vienna, i had the chance to visit the museum of military history, and inside i saw something i was not quite prepared for and that i won't ever forget. I saw the last uniform of Franz Ferdinand, yes, the very one in which he was assassinated. I saw the dress of his wife, the car and the gun of Gavrilo too. The bullet holes in the car and the vest, the long since dried blood that only darken the blue uniform ... the sight of such historical items, enshrined like relics, testimony of the very start of a bloody and history turning war gave me chills i would never forget.
The chorus always gives me goosebumps.
It's both unnerving and unironically also inspiring to think of the global impact from one person's actions. For good or ill, this assassin's choice fundamentally shaped the course of history in Europe and beyond.
It's one initial action, but the war was coming anyway. Plans were already made. Not only by Austria-Hungary. The other European powers already had plans for a new European order. These are historical facts and accepted by most of today's historians. Today we know a lot more than some 50 or 30 years ago.
the monologue so cool its literally gives me goosebump
That guitar solo... Such an impression of the descent into madness triggered by the shots in Sarajevo... Truly disturbing, and never fails to trigger goosebumps. This is just such a powerful opener, really sets the mood for the album - And THEN the finisher with Versailles... "This was terrible, and we're not done yet...."
Неће моћи слободно да шета онај који мом народу смета!
Вјечна слава нашем Гаврилу и слободарском духу Младе Босне! Живјело нам наше мило српство! За слободу све, слободу ни за шта!
Slobodarski srpski duh ?? Pa željeli ste veliku srbiju, a ne jugoslaviju
@@kemybolt Ваш последњи монарх је Српски стога плаките
Greetings from Sarajevo around the world !
Austro Hungary was preparing this war way before asasination of Ferdinand , he just speed up the process .As always thanks sabaton for great song :)