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Joakim looks like they guy you'd befriend in a bar while Indy looks like the guy you would already be friends with and take you to the bar you meet Joakim at
Cat + metal in the same sentence... (puts the CD in the player) (turns the volume to the maximum) (play button) THEY ARE THE PANZER ELITE, BORN TO COMPETE, NEVER RETREAT !
My metal journey started with sabaton, i was playing a game called hearts of iron 4 and i noticed a mod called sabaton music. I didnt know what the hell a sabaton is but i installed it and a week later i realized i was listening to a heavy/power metal band and then about 2 years later after only hearing sabaton i found powerwolf and civil war.
That's how I first heard of Sabaton as well. Although I first heard them in Europa Universalis before I played Hearts of Iron IV. Was listening to their music for years through Paradox games until a friend told me to check out songs from The Great War album like Attack of the Dead Men. Then I started listening to all their music. Can't say I'm the biggest Heavy Metal Fan, but I absolutely love History and I've always preferred more baritone singing and Joakim's voice and singing just hit that for me. Sabaton is as if someone was trying to make a perfect Metal band for me.
When I was a baby, my father told me that the only song that could get me to eat, sleep, dress etc etc. was Private School Kid by Sarah McLeod, and ever since then, I have grown up around black sabbath, iron maiden, all the greats. I discovered Sabaton when I was 12, with the last stand, and I’ve been hooked ever since! Thank you for the great music!
Growing up in Wisconsin in the 60's & 70's, I grew up listening to Polka music at home. I never really got into metal or hard rock. When my son was about 12, I came home & he insisted I should listen to a song. He blasted a hard rock song that started with what sounded like cathedral bells. I still don't know what it was, other than really really loud. 25 years later, Bismarck popped up in my RUclips feed. I was watching a lot of history, including The Great War. So I watched the video. Holey Moley!!!! I now listen to Sabaton every morning when I get up at 5 am for my job at a maximum security prison.
My history in metal. Year 1977 I was 10yrs ol, elementary school. One kid brought to school (catholic school in Mexico), KISS Alive II. EVERYONE that saw that album cover and inside that cover were in awe!! Really eye and jaw dropping. We never seen anything like it!!! Blood spitting from the demon, fire all over the stage!! Drum set high in the air on top of 2 huge cats, elevated platforms. Really out of planet earth. I had a Beatles album but after seen that Kiss alive, well, Beatles became nothing. Then going to shoppe with Mom, I saw Kiss rock'nroll over, the cover super! All faces of kiss in like cartoonish with space/fire in it. I save to buy it, put it on at home and...... that music was engraved in my sould dip dip inside and never to be changed, found the missing piece. Then all metal started showing all over. But one very special night in 1999. Saw a video/concert that change the black and white picture of the metal I grew up. It was NIGHTWISH, music took color!!! The arrangements, the voice (Tarja) all the elements of epic music change my way of seen old metal. I have found symphonic Metal that gide me to find power metal and the circle was complete..... my history.
My metal journey began kind of late in life. I was an only child of a single mother brought up by a very controlling family (both my grandparents and my mom). So I didn't have a lot of contact with music besides what they considered to be suitable for a young girl. So yeah, I liked signing so during my early childhood I would learn the 80's corny love songs my mom liked so she would be happy hearing me sing. Then in the nineties, I got to go to school but the experience wasn't good. I wouldn't fit in and I was bullied. I was a mix between the pop music that was popular at the time to try to fit in and children music. My house wasn't very keen to music anyway. Music was mostly considered "background" at home and it didn't matter if it was a hit station at the radio or just the sound of the TV that nobody was watching to provide that "noise". All in all, my family hated silence, but didn't particularly liked music. My grandpa was a Frank Sinatra fan, and he was the person I got along the most, so I still listen (very sparsely) to Sinatra until this day... But one day, 1995, I was in year 5 at school and they left me alone in front of the TV. So I could just change the channels away from the cartoon channels that they would let me watch and I found MTV. And there, they were playing Black Sabbath's video "Perry Mason". An Ho-Ly shit! I didn't know English at the time, but the visuals, the loud sound, the guitar... What was this? I had no idea. But I was in love. Grandma made me change the channel because it annoyed her. But I never forgot... I had to find that sound again. One year later, word spread in my block that I was a good Mortal Kombat player (I used to play lots of videogames at the nearby arcade, I had a Nintendo and a Sega Genesis, and then nothing else) so some random kids from the next block appeared and invited me to play in their new playstation. They had just got MK trilogy game and wanted to play with someone else, so they asked at the arcade and I don't know how they got to me. They were slightly older. So I began asking if they knew about loud music with distinctive guitar sounds (I must have sounded so ignorant and naive). They were nirvana fans. I liked it, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for... But they pointed out to a music store where teenagers gather to exchange/borrow cassette tapes among them and to get to know bands. So, that was my new goal. I asked my mom if I could go, but she was a bit worried because it was full of teens and young adults wearing dark clothes ab what have you, so one day that mom left me at the arcade I sneaked to the music store, my newfound friends had gifted me some recorded Nirvana tapes for me to have. So I took those and stepped into the store. So there I was, an 11 year old, dressing in jeans and an awful green flowered t-shirt (my family said bright colours made me easy to find) entering the metal scene with a Nirvana cassette... Yeah... It went... Actually quite well. The guy's were friendly. I explained I was looking for a rougher sound, with strong guitars and strong, constant drum beats and distinct melodies. I went back home with three tapes: Helloween's keeper of the seven keys part 1, Metallica's master of puppets and Iron Maiden's number of the beast... Oh My God... THAT WAS IT!!! THAT WAS TOTALLY IT!! I played them countless times on my Walkman, learned the songs by heart and played them loud, screaming to the lyrics from the bottom of my heart ever time I was left alone at home. I bought cheap booklets with the lyrics to the songs and grabbed and English dictionary to look for the words I didn't know (something I had done before only for videogames). My god I was in love. I still heard pop music, mostly with my mom and classmates, but it wasn't more than a fit in strategy. In 1998 I changed schools and began ditching pop completely. I had already accepted that I was never going to be "normal" or "accepted" and started embracing I just wasn't like other girls. I openly talked about my love for rock music and videogames. So a classmate said that her older brother was going to study in Europe, so he was giving away his cassette collection. "I don't know much about it, but it sounds you might like them" she said. And, wow, I got the entire iron maiden collection (I still remember nearly even breaking the magnetic tape from the "Somewhere in time" cassette and the "fear of the dark" cassette because I listed to those so much, lots of Metallica and Stratovarius and many others. Ride the lightning became my favourite Metallica album... From there, there was no turning back. And when I was 16, I worked the entire summer to afford my first Concert ticket and went to see Iron Maiden live for their Brave New World tour. Now I long for every new gig and every new record and every band I discovered. Heavy metal saved me from depression. It saved me from hating myself, it help me escape bulling. I told Joakim at a Meet and Greet that his music meant a lot to me, he asked me why and I was so nervous that I couldn't answer. But I can now. Sabaton makes me put into perspective. Every time I'm struggling, I listen to their war songs and think to myself "if those brave men could endure that type of hell, you can certainly endure this!" And that feeling, that thought, that certainty saved me from suicide at least once. That's my metal journey.
@@area609joe2 thank you. Yeah... I think my early Sinatra exposure allowed me to appreciate the value of good quality signing and interpretation (being a "showman"). Right? ☺️
@Catalina Reyes He was amazing. That’s why Music is a wonderful form of communication. I found that when I’m at a lose for words, sometimes I use music to convey how I feel. I appreciate you sharing your story. I’m sure others will as well. Hope you have a wonderful day.
I was raised by a dad who enjoyed '80s, '90s, and some '00 style music. When roughly 2005 hit (I was 5), my dad introduced me to some of his favorites, just to name a few: Van Halen Iron Maiden Judas Priest Cheap Trick Slipknot Metallica Twisted Sister By the time I was in middle school (Mid 2010s) I had expanded a little more, with bands like 5FDP, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Godsmack, and Rammstein, for a few examples. I found Sabaton in roughly 2015-2016, after finding 'Primo Victoria' in a RUclips 'recommended for you' ad, and gave it a listen. I gave a few more songs a listen and after that, I didn't look back. Never have I been so hooked by a band where I can listen to songs and still get goosebumps. Long Live Sabaton! (This is quite long, I realize, and I apologize profusely for it's length)
Sabaton launches Bismark: Yeah, we made a song for a famous battleship. Iron Maiden, with a 16 minutes song about a very obscure single used zeppelin: Very good kid, you are learning...
Technically the airship song is 100% from Dickinson. And the most badass part of it? He flew the same route with a 737, landing at Beauvais airport (in France), 10kms from where the R101 crashed. Dickinson is an airship guy, he has shares in an airship building company, amongst other aeronautical ventures.
I started out by hearing Thunderstruck by AC/DC and that planted the seeds of being a lover of hard rock and metal. Not long after that night, my parents went and bought me AC/DC and Gun n Roses CDs that I listened to over and over again. I found out that one of the kids in my class also liked those bands along with other things that I enjoyed doing and we became best friends. I slowly started adding more bands to my list of bands that I loved like KISS, Metallica, and some Black Sabbath. The song Crazy Train became one of my favorites instantly. My then best friend eventually changed schools, so I listened to my music more privately. It helped me through the early days of my diagnosis with mental illness and I kept slowly branching out. In middle school, I made a new best friend who yet again was into metal as much as I was. We hung out a lot and we even went Trick or Treating together. But middle school wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. My mental health got way worse very quickly. I was suicidal and my grades took a huge hit. I listened to metal a lot then because it made me feel a lot better. What made me and my then best friend drift apart was when he started saying some derogatory stuff about my mental illness. I cut him off and spent more time with my other friends and I went back to listening to metal on my own. Last year, I started high school and around the same time found Sabaton through the online Warhammer 40,000 community and I instantly fell in love. Since then I’ve listened to Sabaton daily and they’ve become my favorite band of all time. My sister who has her room directly below me sometimes complains about being able to hear my music blasting from my speakers and me trying my best to sing along with all of the voice cracks that come with being 15. Metal has changed my life, and no band has had a greater impact than Sabaton. I’m constantly trying to teach myself their songs on my cello and I often end up driving my parents crazy with my desperate attempts to find the right notes. The only song that I’ve figured out so far is Night Witches and it’s one of my go to songs for warmups.
My father died when I was 4 years old. At the age of 12ish I found his old record player and records and started to play them based on the covers I liked the look of. Black sabbath, led zeppelin, Magnum (Bob Catley and his sister were friends of my parents). Then I discovered Saxon, Iron Maiden and most importantly Manowar, and it's been twenty years and my musical taste hasn't changed! Black Sabbath ruined my life, and I love them for it!
My metal journey began in 2018. I discovered "The Last Stand" in a crusade meme. It was only about 5 seconds of the song, but it sounded pretty cool so searched up the Band and found Sabaton. After listening to Last Stand, Night Witches, To hell and Back, and Shiroyama, I became addicted. As a historian it encouraged me to research more into history topics including the great northern war which fascinates me to this day.
I actually did the same thing with Gloryhammer actually. I heard a three-second snippet of the song "The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee." And knew I needed to know more.
My Metal journey started during my early teenage years. It was in 2003 when I was at a friend of mine and he introduced me to a band he found out about called Manowar. I was never really interested too much in music before that, maybe sometimes listening to the radio, but in that moment when he put on the CD I was almost instantly blown away and hooked. From then on Metal music was a constant part of my life. My passion more and more deepened with bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rammstein, Motörhead, Korn, Metallica, Nightwish, In Flames, Slipknot and many many more. Band shirts increasingly dominated my closet and in 2007 I was able to go to my first concert to see Iron Maiden. It was an absolute blast to see them finally live and one of my fondest memories. Many more concerts would follow. While my mother was never fond of Metal music it was a big surprise for me when my father one day came to me and wanted to show me something in our basement hobby room. He revealed that he and his brother were also big fans of Metal in their youth and showed me their collection of vinyl records of bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, Kiss and Motörhead. Their passion for Metal was also reignited and up to this day my father and uncle come along to a concert from time to time. If we can manage to get tickets, we are as well planning to visit Wacken festival together in one of the next years. Speaking of festivals, one of my first festival experiences was the Rockarea Festival in 2009 at the top of the beautiful Lorelei. It was there that I went to see a band in the early evening I never heard of up to this point. It was a band called Sabaton. They have gotten me right from their opening track Ghost Division and I was a fan ever since this moment never missing one of their shows if a tour brings them near to my home town. I will never forget that day. Noch ein Bier!
Bit of a late comment on this vid, but my metal journey started in 2003 when I was 13, the son of my mums best friend gave us a old 98 computer that he'd added a bunch of songs to. Before that computer, the heaviest music I listened to was Celine Dion, because that's what my mum and sister always listened to. One of the folders was labelled "Metal," and going into it I found a song by Metallica called Seek and Destroy. Blew my mind, and knew I'd found my favourite genre. Spent the next couple of years mostly listening to them, but slowly adding to my cd collection (mostly by borrowing from my brother and burning the albums on the computer). In 2019, was playing World of Warships with my sister and a friend from Belgium (I'm from New Zealand btw), and he was auditioning to join the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and he shared the Sabaton Bismarck music video with us, since that's his favourite ship in the game. Thought it was an awesome song, but then listened to The Red Baron, then Great War, and thought I'd come across a really patriotic German band, and didn't listen to anything else for a couple of months, until my sister listened to a few more songs, done some research, and found you guys did general military history, which is one of my favourite topics, and ended up hooked, mostly listening to you guys. Me and my sister aren't the only ones in our family who love your music either, when we found this history channel, my sister started playing some of the videos with our 75 year old mum, and she's hooked as well. Can't wait for you to tour New Zealand btw, and when you do, you should try to have a concert on ANZAC day and feature Cliffs of Gallipoli. It'll be the only way our mum can get to one of your concerts, because her health doesn't allow to travel, but I guarantee she'll be in the front row in her wheelchair bobbing her head to the beat and waving her fists in the air like only old people can🤣
My metal journey started very early. According to my mother at least. She told me that when i was a toddler, around 2 or 3, she had pulled up to a gas station as we were on a trip to visit some family in northern NH, USA. I had been wailing in the backseat for most of the ride. My mother, having done everything she could to get me to stop pitching my fit, decided to drown out my cries with some music. She herself liked hard rock so when Metallica's enter the sandman came on, she didn't mind it so much. While this was going on, some bikers parked at the pump next to us. They had watched my mom finally turn up the radio. They noticed something she didn't. She heard one of the bikers call out, holding up this devil horns 🤘 and he pointed to the backseat. "I think he likes it" one of them had said. My mom said that when she looked back she couldn't help but smile. I had not only stopped crying, but had started to bob my head to the music. Metal would go on to be a sort of support in my life. My dad walked out before i was born, my mom developed a problem with alcohol, i was bullied relentlessly at school, and i grew up way below the poverty line. The frustration and anger i had built up inside was overwhelming at times but i knew better than to take it out on other people. Something my mom taught me well. So I'd blast heavy metal when i got home from school and play Doom to sort of vent this frustration. I loved video games almost as much as i loved metal. Being poor, my mom couldn't afford much, but shed buy me video games and music on holidays and special occasions. When she bought me guitar hero, and later rockband, it really exposed me to some classics like Through the Fire and Flames. Dragon Force was my first exposure to power metal. This combination of music and video games continues to be a form of support for me. It was only recently that i was introduced to Sabaton. I was playing the beta for a game that i would continue to play till this day, For Honor. I kept skipping through spotify, trying to find a song that would inspire me. That would help me forget the struggles i was going through and empower me. At the time i was feeling hopeless, circumstances in my life at the time weighing down on me. Finaly, when my number of skips ran out, i landed on Shiroyama. A song about men who fought for what they believed in despite the certainty of death. That charged an enemy that outnumbered them 60:1, refusing to surrender. And I felt strong again. As though I could take on the world. I immediately fell in love with my now favorite band and my favorite album, the last stand. Because for me, this was my last stand. I had thought for a long time about giving up. That there was nothing that i could do that would ever matter. That i would never achieve anything. And i wont say this album gave me hope. But i will say that it gave me the resolve to keep going. To say "So what?" In the face of my depression, self doubt, and to the people who looked down on me. So what if the weight of the world is on my shoulders? So what if it all comes crashing down around me? Even if everything goes up in flames, theyll say "he went out in a blaze of glory, just like those heroes he always talked about." I may have considered it once, but not today. Never again. There's more to my story. My journey wont end here. Thank you Sabaton. For everything.
My metal journey: At the time of writing this I'm 22 years old and parents are 63 and 57. So growing up, I was always around "older" music. It wasn't until about 1st grade that I got my first introduction to Rock n' Roll. I was supposed to do a country song for my school's talent show but it had the word "ass" in it so I ended up doing Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. After that there was some more older bands like The Beatles, Yes, Tom Petty, but no real "metal". My love for metal finally happened back in 10th grade. I had been listening to Metallica and such before hand but never had a strong appreciation for it. Around high school was when I first found Sabaton. My cousin had a video of Carolus Rex and we were seduced immediately. I can remember for the longest time my Pandora Playlist was only Sabaton, Rise Against, Barry Manillow, Neil Young, The Beatles, and Daft Punk. Once 10th grade hit it was like an explosion of metal music. I found Pantera, Anthrax, Parkway Drive. Of Mice & Men, Slipknot, and much more. Metal music, rock music, and just music in general have become a staple and definition for me and my life. Rock and roll will never die!
Here's my son's metal journey. We have a 20 minute drive to school every day, and my (now) 7 year old son (5 at the time) was sick of hearing my "boring" podcasts with talking. He wanted music. I have a pretty wide and eclectic taste: everything from Bach, to John Prine, to Bluegrass, Dropkick Murphy's, and of course Metal... especially "Power Metal" (Dio, Dragon Force, Iron Maiden, Rhapsody of Fire). At this point I had not yet heard of Sabaton until my streaming service added them into the mix of similar music. My son wanted to know what the songs were about, I (a history geek myself) was able to sometimes pick up the historical reference in the car and then tell him an honest (but age appropriate) telling of the history of this battle or historical event. Now 9 times out of 10 he wants to listen to Sabaton not only for the music but also for the story.
My metal journey: One of my friends back in 2009 (I was 11) introduced me to a classic rock radio here in São Paulo and I got to rehearse a Beatles song in music class thanks to my teacher - that's how I started listening to rock and roll as a whole. In 2011, everyone was talking about Rock In Rio coming back to Brazil and I saw Metallica and Motörhead for the 1st time on TV. It changed completely my teenage years! During High School I discovered more classic bands and got into Symphonic Metal - my phone was full of Nightwish, Within Tempation, Tarja, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Metallica, Matanza, KISS and similar stuff. My parents kinda supported me for listening to some of the bands from their youth (mom is 64 and dad is 76), but, since they're musicians who worked mostly with MPB music, they pressured me to appreciate more Brazilian non-metal artists - I don't think other kids were charged like this LOL. When it comes to concerts, the first one I went to was a Ringo Starr show in 2011 and my first festival was Monsters of Rock 2013, both in my city (I know Ringo is not metal at all, but it was important for the 12-year-old Beatlemaniac Ana). Sabaton came into my life literally two years ago when I got my first job during college and I was already a fan of Power Metal - I'm 22 now and no one can say it was just a phase hahaha. As a History nerd myself, I fell in love immediately with you guys (and Joakim's voice) and I got to see you last year at Dream Festival in the front row! Thank you for making such awasome music and for investing in content like this on the internet \m/
Loved this episode! I've had a very random and expansive journey through music! My parents would always listen to music mostly from the 60s/70s (and some 80s mainstream) during road and camping trips. As I grew older and radio/tv and friends started influencing my choices it evolved into 90s pop and dance. But once I hit late elementary and high school is when I was introduced to hard rock and metal music via bands like Godsmack, Disturbed and Slipknot. Since then I've always had metal in my life. I go through spurts of other genres and eras (the Fallout video game series has given me a new love of the 20s/30s/40s) but I've always drifted back. Spotify has been my huge music influence over the last 8 years and is how I discovered Sabaton!! 🥰🤘 in 2017 I was browsing through another band's (I can't remember which) "fans also like" section and came across Sabaton. Listened to "The Last Stand" and I was hooked hard! After then watching interviews I felt they were all such genuine guys that loved their fans. Easily became my favorite band of all time. became a Patreon supporter within weeks of this history Channel going live then attended my first show in Edmonton that October. Sorry, this got more long winded than I expected 🤣
There's no such thing as longwinded when it comes to hearing our fans' stories, Bex! You've been on quite the musical journey and it's always nice that you eventually stumbled across our music and enjoyed it so much. Hearing that we're one of your favourite bands is just the icing on the cake! Thank you for your support of the channel - stay tuned - there's plenty more content to come.
My metal journey began before I was even born - my pregnant mum and dad went to a rock concert of a Serbian rock band, Riblja Čorba. Both of my parents are metalheads, so I started listening to metal before I even knew what it was. When I was little, I used to dance along Nightwish songs from the album "Once" and I listened to Iron Maiden a lot - my ultimate favorite song is Fear of the Dark. I heard Panzerkampf and The Art of War when I was younger and I fell in love with both songs, but I didn't know the lyrics, nor the band. One December day in 2016, I fell ill, so I slept for a few hours during the day so I can rest. I woke up in the evening and heard that my mother played a concert on RUclips. I suddenly heard a song that I hadn't heard before and a deep male voice singing the song - I fell in love with the song and turned my back to my parents (since I was still lying in bed) so they couldn't see my huge smile. Near the end of the concert, I told my parents that I had to go to the bathroom (which I didn't actually need to do) so I can see the name of the band. I turned my head and read "Sabaton - The Last Stand (live at Nantes)" and while I was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom, I kept repeating the word Sabaton because I wanted to memorize it. Days later, when I was home alone, I listened to Wolfpack and Primo Victoria (because I heard Joakim saying those names of songs during the concert) and then I couldn't stop listening to this certain Swedish heavy metal band. In January I was snooping around sabaton.net and found out they were on tour and that they were coming to Serbia (that's where I live) in March. I told my parents the next day and, despite them thinking that we can't afford to go to both Sabaton's concert in March and Apocalyptica's in April, we went to both. Long story short, you guys have a special place in my heart (Wehrmacht and Great War are standing side by side with Fear of the Dark now) and you always will❤️
I started 1986 with kiss and their animaliska album. Me and some friends had a lot of music from kiss, maiden, pantera, Metallica . My Sabaton story starta åt Sweden rock festival when Sabaton played at Spendrup stage. Me and my wife took shelter from the rain in a beertent when we looking at the timetable when we asked a man what time it was. The man answered and asked what we should see. And one of the band we should se was Sabaton. And the man said I'm the singer in Sabaton. So thank you for this memory
First vinyl 1988. Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden! I was 10 years old! Just love Eddie! Later I have discovered Helloween, Manowar, Metallica, then went back to roots, Black Sabbat, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Iron Butterfly, and others. Much later I have discovered Sabaton, that touched my heart and soul with Last dying breath (me being Serb whose great grandfather fought in WW1 and commanded gun that brought down first aircraft in the Balkans, even Europe maybe). Long live Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, keep up with great work! Love you all guys!
The first metal song i consciously listened to was in 7th grade in my history class (about 2010). We were learning about world war one and my teacher (on of my favorite teachers i ever had) played metallica's one and i really enjoyed it. Sadly my metal journey got put on hold until 2019 in may. I had known about sabaton for years, i play paradox games and world of warships so i knew about them from collaborations there but never listened to them until one day i thought to my self 'hey, i should listen to that metal band' so i downloaded the great war album on my phone and i was hooked from the opening of future of warfare. Before even listening to any other albums i bought tickets to their great war tour, then listened to more songs. Only since sabaton history playlist started on patreon have i started to expand my listening, after listening to sabaton on repeat for a year straight. Cant wait for sabaton open air next year! Already got my ticket.
It sounds like you had a pretty awesome teacher, I don't remember any of mine playing any good music like that. Hearing that your metal journey came to a standstill for a while is a shame, but it's amazing to hear that we re-ignited your passion for the genre! We hope to see you again soon live, keep being awesome!
My metal journey began when I was back in 4th or 5th grade, my best friend at the time, who was also in my class, and I listened to Iron Maiden, Judas Preist and Ozzy Osbourne while doing homework. I then kinda stopped listening to music for a while, until another friend of mine recommended Sabaton to me, and it became all I ever listened to for almost a year. until I went to Copenhell, our local metal festival, with some friends which really opened my eyes to newer metal bands and reignited my love for the old classics.
My metal journey began in 1997 when I was about 2 years old. My father and I used to sit in the back yard and listen to Metallica, megadeth, nine inch nails, and whatever else came onto the local rock stations. I stayed in that comfort zone until around 14 where I first heard Slayer and Anthrax. I was blown away by the drums and guitar so I explored more of the genre and even learned to play the drums. But 17 was the age that changed my life when I discovered Sabaton. The first track I ever heard was The White Death and I loved it so much that I dove head first into the trenches of Sabaton. At 22, my world changed. I attended my first Sabaton show and left almost in tears. I loved the show, but the power and emotion coming from the stage broke me when I heard In Livstid I Krieg. I made friends with complete strangers whose names I never learned all because one band brought everybody together and I realized that no matter who we are, where we come from, or what we do...we are all brothers and sisters of metal.
I guess I'm abit younger than some of the people here (born 2000). I remember watching Eurovision as a kid and saw Lordi perform Hard Rock Hallelujah on TV, it blow my mind and I was hooked. My brother who is a couple of years older later introduced me to Hammerfall and I fell in love with metal. But the strongest memory I have is when I'm sitting in from of my PC playing some videogames and my brother comes in and says "Hey I think I've found a song your going to like since you enjoy history", and he put on Primo Victoria, it was the best shit I've ever heard. I quickly started to listen to Back in Controll and Ghost Division! Since that day I've been a huge Sabaton fan. Now my metal taste has spread to more than just Lordi, Hammerfall and Sabaton but all of those bands will forever be cherished and deeply loved by me. Can't wait untill we meet again once Covid is over!
Hell yeah, another Lordi fan! \m/ Edit: was scrolling the comments and just noticed were born on the same year. Haha next you're gonna say you're finnish too? :P
Liking Hammerfall you might also like Blind Guardian. Their first couple albums are trash metal and then they've gone more melodic way with distinctive overlapping vocals.
My metal journey is a little bumpy, but it started with Sabaton about 12 years ago when I was 9. My older brother (3 years older) and I was really into playing games for as long as I can remember. As we got older however, he got a computer and started playing on that without me since I wasn't allowed one. But he would put in speakers and let me sit beside him and quietly watch as he played which was very kind. One day he had some music in the background (he usually had something playing in the background), but this music was different from the stuff he usually played and sounded unlike anything I had ever heard up until this point. I asked him what the song was called and where I could listen to it. The name of the song was The Price of a Mile and the band was Sabaton. It was pure accident that I heard this song and for whatever reason, the moment I heard the intro, and not to mention the chorus, I was instantly hooked and wanted more. I would lie in my bed entire afternoons after coming home from school and just listen through all the Sabaton songs I could find at time, with my favorites being The Price of a Mile, Cliffs of Gallipoli, Panzerkampf, The Hammer Has Fallen, Swedish Pagan and many more (The Art of War album is an album with huge emotional value to me if that wasn't obvious). For about the coming 8 or 9 years however, I would never go to a concert. Partly because I never knew what a concert even was and also partly due to social phobia and me having Aspergers syndrome. During this time I would explore artists and bands from many different genres without fully being committed. Music at this point was mostly something I had in the background and wasn't a full-time interest. However, after struggling through a 5 year stretch of severe depression, losing friends and interests along the way, I would still have music in the background, I moved a lot between different artists and styles but one band that was always with me for all those years was Sabaton and I was heavily associated with their music. It in fact became my most defining feature to other people in school, that I could name any and all Sabaton songs 1 to 3 seconds into the song and knew the lyrics by heart. After the years of depression when I got medication and was a lot better I had a new-born appreciation for Sabatons music and how it had helped me through this time and made me feel alive again. It was around 1 or 2 years later that my dad would take me to my first concert ever which was, you guessed it, Sabaton. That night was one of the best of my life so far and it was from that moment I became a fully committed Sabaton fan, hard rocker and metalhead. Since then I devoted myself fully to the music, but first and foremost to my favorite band of all time Sabaton. I have since then been to Sabaton Open Air, bought all their CDs, got The Art of War on vinyl (among my most priced possessions), bought merch in all its forms, watched and read any and all interviews, vlogs and documentaries I could find on the internet, learned to play their songs on guitar, become a Sabaton History Patreon, and had the best night of my life in the front row of Stockholm Hovet during the Great War Tour where I caught the set-list from Joakim which is now framed and hanging ornamentally on my apartment wall along with the Great War crads for the different songs I collected that night. I now wear a Sabaton dog tag proudly every day and they will be my favorite band until the day I die and I intend to always support the band that has had such a huge influence on my life it is hard to describe in this (rather long) comment alone. Thank you Sabaton, thank you everyone and congratulations to whoever read this whole thing! I'm sorry if it's a bit incoherent I did it in one take with no structure in mind :D
The earliest metal related memory I have is when my father had his friend burn a mixed CD of songs from various bands and genres for me and my brother to listen to. I don't really remember the exact time but considering the songs I would guess 2006, when I was 11 years old. It included at least Rammstein and Ruoska, both which I still like. I didn't really care about knowing bands until the age of 19. I had heard other songs from friends and on the radio but never gave it much thought. In 2014, I was driving to an university entrance exam with a friend, who was also somewhat into metal. We turned on the radio channel that plays the genre, and the friend used his Shazam app to identify a bunch of good songs. One of those was Sabaton's Soldier of 3 Armies. Later I looked up the bands we had discovered and listened to more of their songs. I instantly liked every song in Sabaton's Heroes album. That also got me to listen to lyrics a lot more in general and think about what they're telling, for other bands as well. Also, I was never really a fan of history in school and never really liked modern war themes in movies and games, but Sabaton and Sabaton History has made it interesting. I am grateful to that friend for whipping out his shazam on the passenger seat.
My metal journey began at the start of my life. I had the fortune to have a father who's as big of a metal head as me, and I love to say tongue-in-cheek that my first concerts were KISS and Rush while my mom was pregnant with me. Though my father always leaned to progressive, with Rush being his favorite and Dream Theater being a common house-hold sound, I fell in love with his old Iron Maiden albums, often putting myself to bed while listening to the Greatest Hits, with Paschendale being among the top, and Aces High one of my favorites (Though, Hallowed be Thy Name is my favorite song). As I grew up though I started loving the storytelling aspect of Iron Maiden, and that really hit me when I discovered A Matter of Life and Death. I actually discovered Sabaton through a friend one day while listening to Paschendale, as the friend had known of the battle through Price of a Mile, and we song-swapped, playing one after the other to really appreciate the storytelling, music, and the history behind the songs. I always think on it being pretty funny that, due to my families love (and my mother's near tolerance) of Heavy Metal, I've only ever bought three albums in my life because my brother or father will end up buying it for us first; American Idiot by Green Day and Sabaton's The Last Stand and The Great War. Love your work as always, both to the band and Indy!
It took me less than a minute to become a metalhead. I live in India, where the mainstream media only ever plays pop, rap, or Bollywood music. I knew about rock and roll, and metal, but I thought they were a relic of the past. I had no idea that they were still very much alive. I spent most of my middle school and high school life (2012 - 2019) thinking that pop and rap were all that existed. And I never enjoyed listening to that. So when people asked me what music I liked, I always said I didn't really listen to music. Yet, I felt like something was missing. I knew that music could be amazing, and fun, and emotional, but I never really connected with the music that I knew about. Then one day, when I was in my senior year of high school, I was browsing reddit (or maybe it was 9gag), and I came across this post that had a song playing in the background. And I heard a voice mightier that I could've ever imagined sing the most powerful chorus I had ever heard: FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD. FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY. FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD. GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY! I was absolutely awestruck. I had never heard music like this before. I didn't know what it was, but it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. A quick google search later, and I found a RUclips video for the song The Last Stand by Sabaton. I played the song and was taken aback. I had no idea that music like this existed. I sat there, absorbing it, feeling it. And the second the chorus started, I became a metalhead.
I can tell you the day I evolved to a metal head. June 8, 1996: target center, Minneapolis Mn. Eyehategod, Deftones, White Zombie, and Pantera was the first real concert I attended just out of high school. I was a fresh Zombie fan at the time, and I couldn’t understand why all these people were sitting in the stands while zombie was playing. Then I experienced the awesome power of Pantera and was changed deep in my core forever. 🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼
It's interesting thinking about my metal journey. I grew up listening to country music. Then, I made some friends in high school who introduced me to D&D and to Manowar. Kings of Metal was the first album I heard and Warrior's Prayer would always get me. From there it went on to 80's hair metal, but also to heavier metal as well. Priest, Maiden and Metallica were on my list, though my mains were Manowar and Queensryche. And that's how it stayed until the late 2010s. Then I pulled up Pandora and had it build me a station based on Manowar. And suddenly, I heard Sabaton. The rest is history. Now my sons are Sabaton fans as well. In fact, the older 2 went with me to the show last October in Cleveland. Their first concert and my first in years. Amazing show and we can't wait to do it again. Maybe even make the cruise someday. Thank you so much for your music, it gives us so much enjoyment and pushes us to learn about areas of history we'd never know otherwise.
I stumbled across Sabaton's video for Screaming Eagles. My grandfather was a Screaming Eagle who went from D-Day all the way to Berlin. He was a Battered Bastard of Bastogne. As a metal fan, I fell in love with them then and there. My mother said that her dad refused to talk about WW2 and I remember walking out of the room when it was brought up. To me, they honored my Grandfather, Charles Otis Griswold. Thank you
My journey started when I was 5 years old in the mid 2000's. My dad, who oddly likes both reggae and 70's and 80's metal in a weird combination, used to play Dio on his big speakers in the living room. I instantly got stuck with Holy Diver and Rainbow in the Dark. Around the same time I got a radio which I tuned in to the only available rock channel where I live, Bandit Rock. Two songs in particular were played all the time and made its way into my heart, Deliver Us with In Flames and B.Y.O.B by system of a down, but I didn't know that at the time since I could never make out who any of the artists were and what the songs were called! 😅 Then it all changed when I heard Sabaton. I have always been obsessed with history and even though I was 9 I got really excited when the radio host proclaimed that the next song was about Gallipoli. At first I thought that it was no way that the two things I enjoyed the most could be combined for glorious results. How wrong I was! It was an emotional moment, partly due to the tragic topic but also due to the realization that I had found perfection. And that I caught the name of the song and thus properly anchoring me to the metal scene. A few years later I found perfection, Carolus Rex. The sound of that album is the perfect fit, the ideal sound that my soul craves. After that, I cut all the ties to mainstream music and delved headfirst into the world of metal. Now, hundreds of dollar of Sabaton concerts, albums and merch later, I am a die hard metalhead. And although I sometimes venture into black, death, metalcore, industrial, you name it, my compass always leads me back to Sabaton and my heart is forever tied to them.
You sound like a pretty awesome fan Thomas, we appreciate you sharing your story with us. We're glad that our music eventually reached you and for a 9 year old, you sound like you were ahead in your years. It's really cool to hear that we've become your favourite and that we've managed to have such a profound impact on you through our music. The passion and support of fans like you really give us the drive to make more music and more SH videos, so thank you. Please keep up your support and we hope that we'll get to play live somewhere near you again soon!
@@SabatonHistorysabaton has really meant the world to me over the years. This year would have been the fifth year in a row that would have been to Sabaton open air. But I went to the concert in Göteborg. I drove all the way from Norrköping, saw the show, (majestic btw) and then drove all night to my aunt in Enköping so that I could hang long to a skiing trip in Idre. 😅 Sabaton history has been a god send for me. I became a Hussar patreon in June 2019 and my favorite day of the week is Tuesday when a new episode is released. Thank you so much for making these episodes.
@@Cssisabeautifulthang I mean, they are technically classified as alternative metal, but as so many other bands they don't really fit into a single genre.
I get to see Judas Priest and Sabaton next year in Denver! It's going to be my first concert ever and I'm really excited! I guess my metal journey started with my dad showing me Ride the Lighting when I was probably 6. My dad had all of these Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest CDs and I would listen to it every night to go to bed. According to my dad I would ask him almost every night to show me one of their music videos. I mainly stuck with the "mainstream" bands but then I discovered Sabaton in 2018 when I was 14 and then just plunged into the wormhole of historical metal. I have a collection of tons of CDs from so many different bands I've almost always been a fan and will never stop loving metal.
Whoaaaaaa I'm early, when I realised what song it would be yesterday I got so excited, I've been waiting all day! My metal journey? Propably started with the release of Nemo in 2004, just a month after my birth. Nightwish has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember as I have family from Kitee. In 2015 I had a phase when I listened to Nightwish but for some reason I went back to the mainstream music. In 2018 I found Nightwish again and after that I discovered even more metal bands and a few months later I found Sabaton and fell in love instantly. So now I am here, in my metal world collecting band shirts and waiting patiently for tours and albums yet to be released.
if you want to go down the rabbit hole you should start listening to the more underground metal, a few suggestions to thread the waters are Tool, Warlord, Cirith ungol, Black Magic. If you want to listen to music akin to Sabaton you might like Hammerfall, Helloween, Manowar, Battle beast, Beast in black and ofc Nightwish as you already know. If you want metal like Nightwish then i have a band for you Ancient Bards (Hope dies last - my favorite song of them). But the genre i have fallen into now is Black metal witch is a genre that most people like to avoid because its so "dark" or "noisy", i would say it's the just a very direction of music, my personal favorites are Burzum, Vreid and their prior band Wendir, Batushka (Polish band singing in Russian), Sigh (Japanese band singing in English) the others are Norwegians singing in Norwegian and English.
@@demowons Sounds like you have the greatest boyfriend on this earth :), btw can he recommend any black metal bands that he thinks are good or do you have any particular band that you think is great?
Great video gents. My metal journey starts pretty much from the start of my life. My dad would always play maiden, motorhead or priest in the car. Nursery rhymes were practically prohibited in his car. I felt I had to walk away from metal at school because I didn't want to get my ass kicked but as soon as I left school I scrambled to get caught up. Fast forward to last year when I'm searching for the lyrics to maiden's paschendaele on RUclips and I get one fields of verdun in my recommended. Metal is probably the key to how I stayed sane during lockdown!
@@clariidfisherman3702 yeah. Even in mum's car we only listened to nursery rhymes if her mum was in the car with us. If it was just me and her it was Saxon, Metallica, even napalm death at one point!
I am born and raised on Metal. My dad (R.I.P) knew how to play every Black Sabbath song on guitar and my mother wouldn't go a single day without Judas Priest every car drive.
Fun fact of how I discovered Sabaton. I'm from an franco-polish family, with family histories tied to WWII and cold war, half of my family going back and forth between the two countries following the tides of History. To the point of having to flee in urge the eastern block, with just a polish-made FIAT and four luggages, following a shady story of my grandfather (who was, amongst other high profile jobs, a production director for MIG fighters and Antonov transport planes at PZL Mielec) visiting Moscow and my grandmother being nearly arrested for unjustified reasons.... Anyway we're in France now and one day my mother was watching polish TV, and they've talked about Sabaton, and she told me to check about these guys who where making metal songs about polish military history. By the way my parents are into rock music since before I was born and Black Sabbath records were at home before me so I can say i'm a metalhead since day 1... By the way I wish Sabaton made a song about cold war. It was a war after all, one that nearly wiped the surface of the planet with nuclear threats multiple times, and a war that cut in half way too many families. Travelling by road to Poland, crossing the iron curtain checkpoints that still stands today still gives me shivers.
I was in my early teens (late 80's) when I stumbled on a televised Monsters of Rock concert. It was studded with legends like Ozzy, Scorpions, Iron Maiden & Judas Priest. First time I heard Rob Halford I got goosebumps. I was totally enthralled. Day after I bought Ozzy's Bark at the Moon on cassette and since then I've been a metal head, listening to both the classics and a lot of new, extreme stuff. The harder the better.
My son is now 5. He fell in love with metal and rock through Twisted Sisters' We're not gonna take it and Queen's We will rock you. He's still a huge Twisted sisters fan, but loves AC/DC and Sabaton and I keep introducing more metal and rock to him. As for my journey, my taste in music is eclectic so metal and any heavy rock just follows my current mood. As for my introduction to Sabaton, I had a friend in the mid 2000's that was a military fan and a metal head. He introduced Sabaton to me and I've sorta listend to them on and off through the years and always liked them. Metal machine being one of my favorite songs since it came out. Now with a metal head kid at home we explore more of their songs and the history behind it. The more I learn about Sabaton, the more I love them.
@@jfarrar19 I am convinced the charge of the Riders of Rohan in the fields before Minas Tirith was the charge of the Hussars in the Battle of Vienna. Many parallels.
I was 6 in 1972 . Our house was a non-stop rotation of Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Who, Johnny Cash, etc ... my brother (10 yrs older) brought home an armful of borrowed albums from a friend.... it included the first 3 Black Sabbath albums, the first 4, Led Zeppelin albums, a couple of Uriah Heep albums, Deep Purple Machine Head... a few others...... and I was hooked. Immediately afterwards... at my next birthday ... I took my birthday money and went and bought my first music .... I bought Alice Cooper-Killers and Deep Purple In Rock.... albums were only $3-$5 back then ... so I saved my weekly 50c allowance and everytime I had enough I went and bought another hard rock/heavy metal album. Or I would join/re-join the Columbia Record Club and get 15 albums for 1 penny as part of joining. By the time I got to high school I owned over 300 vinyl records. With my parents help I had an Ibanez Les Paul copy (a lawsuit era guitar. that I wish I still owned) a very used/abused Fender Strat and a Marshall half-stack. I had my first band when I was 14-15 .... playing parties every weekend with beer and weed for payment ..... hours of non-stop medleys of Black Sabbath, Rush and Iron Maiden songs. I got Metallica Kill em All when it was still only available as an Import (pricey) ... and by the time Ride the Lightning came out the party band had a dozen Metallica songs added to our non-stop medley of basement party concerts to roaring crowds... sometimes 10 people.... sometimes a hundred people.... sometimes it was an outdoor party to a 1000 people. It was a great era to be a fan of hard rock and heavy metal. And it began on that day my older brother brough home that big armload of borrowed albums in 1972.
3:44 "Find 4 cats in Indy's living room" *challenge accepted* - One sitting near the window (black/white) - One sitting on the radio (also black/white) - One lying on the carpet (brown) - One lying besides the TV (also brown) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As for my metal history, it's a weird one. When I was about 8 or so years old, a friend played some Iron Maiden. I hated it so much, that I dismissed the metal genre as a whole as nothing but noise for many, many years. For year,s I went on without having any kind of musical preference, just listening to whatever I liked hearing on the radio. Then, around 1995, a different friend made me listen to Anthrax for the first time, and then the coin dropped. I was still not fuly sold back then, though. That would come when I heard Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" a few years later. I suddenly had a craving for this "new" type of music I had dismissed for so long (more than 10 years), and in the timespan of a few months, I hadn't only heard Metallica's whole discography, but owned all of their albums up until that point, too ("Re-Load" was the most recent release back then, and the album I bought first, followed by "Master of Puppets" a bit later). From there, I would move on to the remaining bands of the Big Four, and many other bands (including Iron Maiden). Thus, my status as metalhead was (finally) forged. Then, around 2007, the owner of a metal forum I was moderator at knew some songs of a then-unknown band called Sabaton we could freely download and listen to. When I first heard them, it was pretty much a match made in heaven, and I knew this was a band I had to check out more of. "The Art Of War" came out not much later, so I bought the album, loved it, and immediately afterwards bought a ticket for the Dragonforce tour Sabaton was playing support for. Dragonforce ultimately didn't impress me, but Sabaton's performance was, at least compared to the headliner, tight and flawless. Since then, with the exception of the tour supporting "Coat Of Arms", I've been to each of their tours whenever they were in the Netherlands (which is where I live). Including the gig from right before the lockdown due to the beervirus, that makes it 6 times I've seen them, more than any other band so far.
The first song I ever heard from Sabaton was Seven Pillars of Wisdom at 1.25x speed (I like listening to songs sped up as they often sound better to me that way), and it was because the music video randomly showed up in my RUclips feed one day. Most stuff I've listened to include stuff by artists and groups like Kutless, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Seventh Day Slumber, Red, Survive Said the Prophet, Joe Inoue, Jeremy Camp, Michael W. Smith, Divide Music, Spyair, Anberlin, For King & Country, Jonathan Young, One Ok Rock, Stria, Sent By Ravens, We As Human, Nickelback, Disciple, AmaLee, Pellek, BroKeN, 12 Stones, Dima Lancaster, Breaking Benjamin and Demon Hunter just to name a few. I do try to keep an open mind when it comes to music, although I'm not particularly the biggest fan of songs with screaming, rapping or cussing in them. Not the most interesting journey I know, but most of the stuff I listened to growing up were Christian artists, and as I got older I started branching out thanks to TV, RUclips and general curiosity.
When i was young, my dad had metallica and ozzy on repeat constantly. I fell in love with the chug of the guitars on the black album and no nore tears. I eventually went my own way and found slipknot which opened my ears to the heavier side of metal. That turned into death metal. I eventually got bored with metal around the time i turned 25. Then i seen the cover for a sabaton album where a soldier was punching another soldier in the head and i thought that was the coolest cover i had ever seen. So i looked up the band and being a bit of a history buff i fell in love with these guys instantly. Heros is still my favorite sabaton album and has the best cover i have ever seen on an album 🤘🤘🤘
I just got into metal during this pandemic. I’m a runner and use music while I run, so I asked a friend for recommendations. She’s a metalhead, so I started listening to metal while running, and found Sabaton in particular from the Winged Hussars memes
My metal journey begins with my parents introducing me to Queen when I was a child. They frequently put on the Greatest Hits album in the living room and I remember loving it, especially songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and Bicycle Race. My dad also showed me a band called Oomph! which led to me getting into Neue Deutsche Härte. The next few years I didn't listen to much heavy music, but my passion was reignited when a few of my friends in school started listening to Rammstein. After checking out their songs, I also became a huge Rammstein fan. From there I began exploring the world of metal and I discovered Metallica, 90's nu metal stuff like Slipknot and so on. I discovered Sabaton when browsing through Spotify around the time that the Heroes album was released. I became instantly hooked and Heroes is probably still my favorite Sabaton album. I went to Sabaton shows pretty much every time they came to my country which has to be at least 5 times now (it's crazy how you guys were constantly on tour before all this covid stuff happened). Anyway, once this quarantine is over you can bet on me being there at the next show 🤘🏻
So I grew up in a Baptist’s home and all that was being played was gospel and some country and a few times I heard the newest song at that time. This was the early 2000s. Then one day I heard WE WILL ROCK YOU and I was captivated, it’s a short song but when I heard it felt like it went on forever and loved every moment. What got me was the beat and I would go through the tv channels to see if I could hear it on one of the music channels. No luck and ever since I find my self tap my finger or foot to the beat subconsciously. Years later I heard Hurt by Johnny Cash and again I was mesmerized not by the beat but by the story. These two songs started my journey to find song similar but only growing up to gospel and country it wasn’t easy . One day right before my family and I left to go eat dinner at a restaurant I heard the the intro to what years later I found out to be Enter SandMan and did all I could to stall them from leaving so I could hear it. I eventually forgot about it. So I continued to find songs to my taste but the only songs but being a small kid all there is to listen was Disney and pop songs from school. One of the reasons I hate school. As I started jr.high I got into rock and hard rock, it was ok but not really for me. Then I entered high school and as I was going to school I heard Enter SandMan again and flashback to that day I first heard it so I asked my friends what is this , they told me and for the rest of the day couldn’t wait to go home and look up the song. When I did I said to my self this is it . My eyes were opened to a new world of metal and listened to Metallica to Iron Maiden to Disturbed. Over this journey I have come to appreciate other types of music from rap to even songs from the dark ages that sound mor like chants and shouts because they feel powerful. Eventually I came across Price of a Mile and learned of Sabaton and I’ve been on a Sabaton high ever since.
I like how when they talked about Metallica becoming softer they showed them rehearsing for a show that ultimately got them banned from MTV for being to Vulgar and disobeying the producers "authority"
My metal history started 4 years ago, when I was 13. My first real contact with metal came in an AMV of Panzerkampf, after that I only listened to Sabaton for 6 months straight (thanks to that, I know the lyrics of approximately 90 Sabaton songs, from Fist for Fight to The Last Stand, with The Great War the number goes to 100 and something), my neighbours were always pissed about metal beying played all day long, those were good times.
My metal journey began with Transformers 2 when I was 11. As I was leaving theater and the credits were rolling, I heard New Divide by Linkin Park. The song just sounded so good and the only thing I wanted to do was hear it again. It was so different than the pop music I was listening to at the time. When I got home I downloaded the New Divide EP along with Hybrid Theory, Meteora, and Minutes to Midnight. I had to delete all of the music on my 5G iPod to make room for the new music. Once my dad realized that I wasn't listening to Usher and Mike Posner, he took me with him to a RUSH concert. This was my very first concert and I was mesmerized by the instrumentals. Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson displayed absolute mastery of the drums and guitars right before my eyes. Amongst the chaos and the noise was the most inspiring music I had ever heard. After that it all became about live music for me. Shortly after, my dad took me the 2012 Uproar Tour where I saw Shidedown, Godsmack, Staind, and Papa Roach. Although I wasn't quite to Metal yet, my music taste was getting heavier. My playlist then consisted of the bands I mentioned along with others like Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. It wasn't until my dad got a Sirius XM subscription in his car. We were sitting in a drive through listening to Octane when we first heard Bat County by Avenged Sevenfold. We went on to download every last song by A7X. Their music sounded sinister and dark like halloween. The lyrics conjured up scenes of the underworld and an Edgar Allen Poe like universe. From that point on music that took me to different settings and worlds is what attracted me. Soon after, Trivium took me to a bloody mythical Japanese world with Shogun and Volbeat took me to a distorted version of the American West. It wasn't long after that I discovered Viking Metal. Amon Amarth and Ensiferum placed me in nordic Scandinavia amongst vikings who sailed in longships and fought epic battles. I didn't think it could get any better than that but I was mistaken. I came across a meme on the internet one day that went something like this. 8:43 Google Search: Sabaton 8:48 Google Search: Where can I purchase a sword? I didn't understand the meme because I didn't know anything about Sabaton other than the fact that they are a Power Metal band. I jumped on my music streaming app and searched for Sabaton. I played the most popular song which was "The Last Stand" and gave it a listen. And excuse the pun but, the rest was history! Sabaton took back through time to the greatest battles and acts of heroism. After adding a number of Sabaton songs to my 2,000+ song Metal playlist, I looked online to see when the next Sabaton tour was. To my surprise, they were on tour and scheduled to play in my home town in 4 days from then. Seeing Sabaton preform live sealed the deal. It was one of the most fun and energetic concert that we have ever been to. After that concert my dad and I became Sabaton super fans. Here is a video of me when I received Joakim's Signature Sunglasses and the Ghost Division t-shirt: ruclips.net/video/w7hnT24q_pY/видео.html Sabaton has also opened up an alley to more Power Metal and since then I have become a fan of bands such as Helloween and Release the Archers. I honestly can't imagine my life without Sabaton's music. In my opinion, it's the best music for work, workouts, driving, skiing, and running. Keep up the good work guys and know that you are inspiring people all over the world. Looking foreword to whatever the future has in store. Jake
See that's the thing, I don't know what it was like back in the 80's (I'm 26) but now, the metal scene to me; is probably one of the most diverse and accepting. It's half the reason I love it.
@@jackbanton1226 It IS quite accepting, especially 'cause of Rob. Back then (at least here in Argentina), there was still a sort of "not with me" attitude, but he (and others) helped us see the stupidity of homophobia.
@@jackbanton1226 The Metal community has been that way for quite a while, since waaaaayyyyyyy before this new "woke" crap where people are so oversensitive and get offended at everything, it's insane. Then they try to force ultra-political correctness on us. Yeah we accept everyone who loves Metal, and we don't need the "professionally offended" dweebs on Twitter to tell us that. 🤘😁🍺
When i was a kid i can remember playing burned CD's that my mom had gotten for me. With tracks from Black sabbath and Metallica, that triggers memories in me to this day. But after we got rid of the Burned CD's i almost didnt listen to metal for 10 years (exept for the occational track on the radio). What realy braught me back into metal was my 10th grade history teacher. Once, in 2018, we got an assignment where we had to listen to a Sabaton song: Carolous Rex. The song reignited a fire in me, got me into Sabaton, metal and made history one of my favorite hobbies. I´ve been a fan ever since, and i dont think a day goes by without me listening to Heavy Metal. I dont think you will see this, but if you do, thank you for being awsome Proffesor Karl. Keep on Rocking.
I've never before actually thought about my journey to becoming a metal/sabaton fan. I remember my mom telling me how as a kid I used to play with a toy guitar in front of a tv, listening to Fröbelin Palikat, which is a finnish band who played rock-ish children's songs. Next what I remember is that when I was around 9 years old (give or take a year or two) my parents bought me Guitar Hero 3 which I played the crap out of. After that I got interested in playing a real guitar and applied for lessons. However, instead of guitar I ended up learning bass, and when I think about it, I'm not even sure what kind of music I listened to then, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't metal (my best guess would be some kind of electronic music). Then, around 13-15 years of age, I gave up on playing bass, because I was more interested in guitar and started learning that on my own. When starting that, I found my interests going back to the rock/metal classics of Guitar Hero, and since my new friends I made when starting middle school(?) also listened to mostly metal music I got more and more into it. And it was all downhill from there... As for how I found Sabaton... A few of the new friends I mentioned listened to a lot of Sabaton, but for some reason I never really got into it, even though I liked metal music already. I started listening to Sabaton for myself a few years ago, when I was in high school, and really started loving it around the time when this Sabaton History channel was announced. From then on Sabaton has been my favourite band with barely no others even coming close to contesting that position. Well... looks like this formed into quite a wall of text. If you managed read this far, I can only say thank you for spending your precious time for my story.
Similar story with Fröbelin Palikat. I apparently used to take some empty boxes in front of the tv and play them like drums. I also stole buckets from other kids to use them as drums when playing outside in the park. Or I tried, but my mom stopped me. :P Also, Suomi perkele I suppose?
Good to know I wasn't the only weird kid doing things like that. On a side note: Nyt kun suomi mainittu niin kai se on sanottava se kuuluisa torilla tavataan! :D
I can confirm: My cats find Sabaton extremely calming. As soon as I start to play something at a medium volume I hear them meowing at my door, wanting to get in and sleep on my bed. Their favorite songs are Night Witches and Primo Victoria My metal journey (to Sabaton) a very high friend of mine and I were on a CSD (Christopher Street Day) and there were Drag Queens performing. He yelled in the middle of the performance: "Play Sabaton!" And I had a crush on him that time and looked into it. Now I'm here, 3 years later, listening to Sabaton, trying to get all the history teachers at my school to listen to Sabaton (we got 90% of them already) and my whole closet exploding with band t-shirt.... My mom thought it was just a phase. That phase has been going on since I was 8. I am now 16. My metal journey: It started with emo and goth rock and I was oriented in the american bands such as my chemical romance or Black Veil Brides. Then my metal phase with Coven (the band before Black Sabbath) Slayer, Lordi (even though they got popular later) and Kiss. I have some Kiss Vinyls from my mum because she had a similar phase but grew out of it pretty quick. She still goes to some metal shows with me and always calmes my dad down when I'm playing any kind of metal and screaming along to it. (He hates when I do it, which is a motivation to do it even more often) If you read this far: Thank you, I hope you have a wonderful day/evening, night, morning or what ever suits for your situation and you're doing well.
My metal story: I was in middle school and was not really sure what music I liked. Until I found out about AC/DC. They got me into hard rock and led me to Metal bands. Then I found my two favorite bands. Metallica and Sabaton. I had never enjoyed listening to music that much until I heard them and realized how great music could be. They led me to more heavy stuff like death core bands and such. Now I am taking a class in college about the history of rock and we are getting to metal very soon. Also, my first metal concert was Sabaton’s most recent tour to Colorado with Hamerfall. It was the greatest concert I have ever been to. I am in a band now and I am the lead singer and learning to be a rhythm guitarist as well. Metal has been my biggest musical influence in life and no matter what mood I am in, I am always up for listening to metal!
First of all, please, play Metal Medley again on tour. That´s my dream since hearing it live back in 2010 in Zlin. And to my metal journey. It, of course, started with Sabaton back in 2008. It was on a school trip where my schoolmate played me Attero Dominatus (and then Over the Hills and Far Away by Nightwish). I still remember that like it was yesterday. We were sitting on the train and playing music on our old (inherited) Nokias. We felt like masters of the world while listening to this hard music. First attended concert was in Zlin 6. 11. 2010 where Sabaton played with Alestorm and Steelwing. And the first album, I ever bought, was Carolus Rex Digibook Edition which I bought in the Netherlands, again on a school trip. I remember every single moment of these memories so thanks for them!
Thank you for your kind words, it's very touching to hear that some of your best memories concern Sabaton. It sounds like you had some pretty amazing school trips too, we're glad we played such a part in them. Keep on supporting us and keep making those Sabaton memories!
My dad always told me stories about getting bootlegs from across the “pond” in the 70s and being the first to hear bands like Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, and Iron Maiden in his neighborhood. Fast forward to 2005 and a good friend hands me a bootleg CD with random tracks off Fist for Fight, Primo, and Attero. With the internet growing, I didn’t think I’d ever get that old school feel of having “my band” but Sabaton was just that to me (still is). Primo Victoria was the first song I heard and Wolfpack is my favorite to this day. Big soft spot for The Hammer Has Fallen.
Well Indy and anyone else who may or may not be reading this. Let me tell you my metal journey...... It started I believe on a family trip in early 2000's when my brother bought a collection cd of rock songs. This is the first time I can remember hearing songs like Paranoid and We will rock you and I fell instantly in love and wanted to buy more of these cd's for my very limited money as a kid. When ever I would obtain any of the cd's I would become obsessed with them and play whenever I got the chance. Fast forward to mid 2000's and my brother has exposed me to more bands Like Helloween, Hammerfall , Sabaton and Metallica: out of these bands I chose the last two to be my bands as a pre teen. I heard somewhere that the music you listen too around the age 14 you will hold on too for the rest of your life and as much as I loved The art of war at some point I dropped Sabaton I'm sorry to say. So I jumped head first into Metallica and for the coming years they completely and totally took over my playlists. So it was pretty much only Metallica I listened to when I got my first smartphone in early 2010 and downloaded Spotify on it, and sense Metallica where not yet on Spotify at that point, I had to expand my music taste a little and that's how I found Megadeth and other bands similar to Metallica, Basically discovered and fell in love with thrash metal which I still love to this day. During this time thanks to Spotify I also went back in time to find older stuff like Queen, Black Sabbath and Motörhead who I fell in love with. This was what I listened to in 2015 when I added Led Zeppelin and some blues rock influence to the mix and started to buy vinyl records and among the first ones I bought was The black album and Paranoid. And that takes us to today as 26 year old whos music tastes at this point mainly consists of metal. Still love thrash ,the classics and some other noteworthy stand alone bands are Amon amarth, Rage against the machine, Alestorm and Black label society. And I have rediscovered Sabaton.
I grew up with bands like Sweet, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Queen. As a teenager, I've listened to Linkin Park, Nightwish and Rammstein. The first CD I bought for my own money was HIM - Razorblade Romance. At 15 I got Metallica from my therapist, due to sleeping issues. Years later, video of Joakim playing Master of Puppets poped up on YT and that's how Sabaton became a center of my music life. And I really thank you Joakim, for recommending The Lightbringer of Sweden in your playlist. For me - the best album of 2020!🤘🏻
We're glad to hear that we've become one of your favourites, Eva. You've been on quite the musical journey from when you were young but settling on Sabaton works for us! Keep up the support and thank you for sharing your story with us.
My Metal journey, so far. It started when I was in elementary, I saw my dad playing the music video for Alestorm's Keelhauled on the TV. My parents always played a wide range of music; I got the punk and classic rock from my mom and all the metal bands mentioned in this video from my dad. When I started 8th grade, I got into Alestorm and Ensiferum, working may way to them from MCR, Green Day, Nickelback, and Theory of a Deadman. By 10th grade, I was fully into metal, and I found my now favourite band Sabaton, who in turn has inspired me to go into history in University. High school for me was filled with Power Metal; Sabaton, Alestorm, Powerwolf, Beast in Black, Gloryhammer, and later Warkings and Brothers of Metal. It was once I went to college that I started to get into the heavier bands like Avatar, In Flames, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, & Disturbed. Now I'm only 19 and I'm still finding new bands all the time, most recently Equilibrium
I'm new to metal, my journey started this year, with Winged Hussars. Now i'm a big fan of metal and constantly broadening my horizons so this video was especially interesting to me bc i now know where all the sounds that i've learned to love over the past few months came from, and you lot have given me a number of bands to check out now. Only kind of homework i enjoy.
I was introduced into metal when I first heard Gun N' Roses and then went to Metallica and Twisted Sister I was then listening to some ACDC and just a mix of songs on RUclips when I came across Back In Control and Panzerkampf, that's when I first discovered you guys and then I started getting more of your songs recommended to me like Nuclear Attack and couple others including Midway, and I just fell in love with you guys as all your music is historical and you don't pick sides you just choose a story and tell it from a perspective which is what I really enjoy about you guys. I am currently only 15 but love all your songs with my current favorite being Night Witches but I'll forever be glad I clicked on that Falkland War music video for Back in Control made by whoever made it and will always love your songs, lots of love from Australia.
My journey started when I was 7 in 1991 with Metallica’s black album, Metallica led me to Apocalyptica, Apocalyptica’s cover of Fields of Verdun brought me to Sabaton in 2019 shortly before The Great War album. I was already a huge fan of Indy and The Great War channel before, so Sabaton History is perfect to Me.
I grew up in a house where I had no control of the music, no MTV, nothing. So I had to listen to my parents music, which was all 50s. As I got older I started hearing things like AC/DC and Metallica when at friends' houses, which were awesome. But one day when I was 13, a friend of mine played "Hail and Kill" and "Heart of Steel" by Manowar, and I fell in love. I discovered many other bands, Sabaton included, from listening to Manowar and finding similar music.
My parents were divorced when I was young. So we had visitation weekends. In the car with my mom she HATED everything .y dad listened to, so it was almost exclusively 90s R&B and country from her, but my dad, and old school leather clad judas priest fan, he always gave my sister and I a choice. It started with kids film sound tracks, then eventually I had to dive into his collection which was full of classics. Dio, Priest, Metallica, Motorhead, Twisted Sister, up to Megadeth, Trivium, 3 inches of Blood, Obituary, Metal church. Having that choice, and being exposed to it young really let me fall into it, and the fact that I was given a choice, and metal is all about choosing your own path...well that message just hit me like a ton of bricks. I grew out my hair against my mothers wishes, learned how to scream, and started wearing leather and band shirts...here I am a grown ass man now and my style hasn't changed. Metal helped me define myself really early on in my life.
I can't recall how old I was when I was first introduced to metal, because it was a slow and gradual thing. My dad was an avid metal fan and he made this CD for me with a dozen tracks on it, most of it metal and some not. It was a Hammerfall song, an Axel Rudi Pell song, a Rainbow song I believe and some others. The first time I can remember being made acutely aware of a band, how they sounded and what they looked like and what they were called (band and members) waswhen my dad took me to the living room one day and sat me down in front of the TV and put on this music video. It was "I wish I had an angel" by Nightwish and I was just hooked. I would routinely go to him and ask dad to put on the music video on the TV again and I'd just sit and watch it on repeat. At around the same time I also started listening more to Hammerfall, and my dad gave me more albums like Gamma Ray's No world order, Elements by Stratovarius, some Helloween, Manowar, Rainbow, Priest and Accept stuff, and I also saw "We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister. Then one day he came into my room with his iPod and asked me to listen to something. He put the iPod on this speaker/digital wake-up clock thing I owned at the time and put on.... the album The Art of War, and I loooooved it. You really had me at Ghost Division XP That was when I was 10-13 years old I believe, and since then my metal trifecta has been Sabaton, Nightwish and Hammerfall. In later years I've also become a big fan of Raubtier and Amaranthe in particular.
My Metal Journey started rather recently. It started with you guys actually, you guys lead to me falling in love with metal and it lead me to take up the older stuff loved by my parents. Thank you for it.
My metal journey started out early, I was around 5-6 years old when TV introduced me to Kiss and Guns n' Roses. However my household was not metal friendly at all, so it wasn't until I was 12 when I found Iron Maiden through school. And from there it started to accelerate, and fast. While I am a lover of all classic 80s and 90s heavy metal such as Judas Priest and Candlemass, I became a huge fan of symphonic / goth metal in 2005/2006 with bands such as Nightwish and Within Temptation. I think it was 2008 or 2009 when I first found Sabaton via RUclips. I had been watching Nightwish and got a "because you liked" video of Primo Victoria. Absolutely loved the sound and instantly became a fan. Still keep discovering bands to this day, both old and new and I just can't have enough. Metal is my life and blood 💜🤘
Oh man, finding sabaton because of related videos to nightwish is how I found them too! i miss when related videos were actually related. I found so many amazing bands that way.
@@ladymaeve yeah, im getting there with Spotify, the algorithm is still kinda confused by me but as i use it more it's getting a little better. Still tries to give me bands i already know and dont really like, but there have been some gems as well
My metal journey actually started with Sabaton. My older brother went to a german metalfestival and came back with Last Stand album. He just said: Listen to it. Maybe you like it. Oh yesss i did. With 13 years old i listened to just that album on repeat for one or even two months. Then i listened to their other albums and discovered other bands like alstorm, arch enemy, gloryhammer, powerwolf, blind gurdian and feuerschwanz, just to name a few. But sabaton will always be special to me, because it was my very first metal band
Aight so my metal journey, here we go Alright so my mom and dad were, and still are, big linkin park fans and breaking benjamin fans, they never really got out of the gothic music faze and neither have I, and I loved listening to linkin park and breaking Benjamin. And it was like this until I started watching a bit of youtube. And I found this RUclipsr that makes so music called DAGames and he made some video game music and made some about my favorite video games at the time, however at the time it was more pop than rock and metal. Then I started getting into the music that he was making about either video games I didn't care about or no video games at all. And these songs were more rock and metal, and I started listening to more of that. Then I started getting into history, specifically military history, because of one of if not the greatest history teacher. And it mainly stayed that way until my eight grade year, where I was watching one of dagames videos and parts of primo victoria started playing. I went searching for primo victoria without any idea of the topic, any idea of the name, all I heard was him saying that he loved sabaton. So all I knew was the name and i didn't find primo Victoria first, I found the lost battalion first, and then i fell in love with sabaton. And here i is now, learning about military history and heavy metal on the history channel for sabaton. I say my life be good.
My Metal Journey: I can't remember how old I was at the time, but my dad got multiple metal albums for Christmas. It was all of the same band, Iron Maiden. I listened to them solely for years. One day, a game I was playing started a promotion in conjunction with a metal band. The game was World of Tanks. I didn't pay much attention to the promotion at the time, but later looked up the band, Sabaton, on RUclips and here I am a massive fan. While I have heard songs from other famous metal icons and enjoy said songs, Iron Maiden and Sabaton are the only two bands I listen too on a regular basis. Fear of the Dark live is my favorite metal song.
Growing up in the South in the early 80’s I didn’t have any real access to heavy metal until MTV, through cable, came to our to our town. Then I saw the video to Judas Priest’s “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” and my musical world changed forever. I have been a metalhead ever since!
The_Shuffle Both ? Utah is filled with freedom loving Americans who don’t buy into this hoax, SLC is full of leftist scum that think they have a right to dictate your life. I don’t blame the band, I blame my shitty governor and my even shittier senator(Romney).
Victory or Valhalla , it's the fear mongering (and lying) main stream media and all the left, from the WHO to the CDC that turned a cold virus into "the apocalypse!" It was always about the election(defeat orange man bad) not the virus. I was going to see them in Los Angeles(birthday) and am sooooo pissed. Was so looking forward to seeing Sabaton live on a large stage. Followed by the band I have never missed a show to since 81. Thanks 2020😕. You think you got it bad? We've got Newsome, and Feinstein and Kamala Harris. #Trump2020
@Victory or Valhalla I know how you feel: my mom had gotten tickets to see Sabaton and Judas Priest in Fox Theater, Detroit, as a late birthday gift, but it got cancelled. Very unfortunate.
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Can't wait to get a Sabaton history episode but actually about Sabaton's history.
First they need to make a song about it
Episode 100. 100%
True that
Maybe that could be the theme for 7734?
@@bobby_bretwalda I think Masters of the World would fit pretty well too.
Joakim looks like they guy you'd befriend in a bar while Indy looks like the guy you would already be friends with and take you to the bar you meet Joakim at
why is that so true
I need to hear more about Indy's metal-loving cats
Stay tuned, who knows when they may be mentioned again!
By the throne, why do I see you in every comment section I enter?
This is solid!
Cat + metal in the same sentence...
(puts the CD in the player)
(turns the volume to the maximum)
(play button)
THEY ARE THE PANZER ELITE, BORN TO COMPETE, NEVER RETREAT !
This retrofitted HMS London lover is everywhere
“This is just a tribute” 😂 Love that reference.
Being called a menace to society by Indy makes me happy
My metal journey started with sabaton, i was playing a game called hearts of iron 4 and i noticed a mod called sabaton music. I didnt know what the hell a sabaton is but i installed it and a week later i realized i was listening to a heavy/power metal band and then about 2 years later after only hearing sabaton i found powerwolf and civil war.
That's how I first heard of Sabaton as well. Although I first heard them in Europa Universalis before I played Hearts of Iron IV. Was listening to their music for years through Paradox games until a friend told me to check out songs from The Great War album like Attack of the Dead Men. Then I started listening to all their music. Can't say I'm the biggest Heavy Metal Fan, but I absolutely love History and I've always preferred more baritone singing and Joakim's voice and singing just hit that for me. Sabaton is as if someone was trying to make a perfect Metal band for me.
Hell yeah. Sabaton was my first metal band and they lead me to others like PowerWolf and so on too
"And general threats to society."
I don't know who writes your jokes but they're awesome.
When I was a baby, my father told me that the only song that could get me to eat, sleep, dress etc etc. was Private School Kid by Sarah McLeod, and ever since then, I have grown up around black sabbath, iron maiden, all the greats. I discovered Sabaton when I was 12, with the last stand, and I’ve been hooked ever since! Thank you for the great music!
2020 or 2019 with devil dogs age 9 or 10, I wear my sabaton as a metal machine
Piscator’s lyric video for this song is fantastic, it basically explains every single reference in the song, in real time.
If your surname is Piscator you allways deliver fantastic stuff lmao.
@@vapomaster6967 Don't be ridiculous, how can one's surname be Piscator? 🙃
@@PiscatorLager lmao
@@PiscatorLager Hey, your lyrics videos were a big influence on me of liking Sabaton. Thank you, very much thank you
@@PiscatorLager you dead
Growing up in Wisconsin in the 60's & 70's, I grew up listening to Polka music at home. I never really got into metal or hard rock. When my son was about 12, I came home & he insisted I should listen to a song. He blasted a hard rock song that started with what sounded like cathedral bells. I still don't know what it was, other than really really loud. 25 years later, Bismarck popped up in my RUclips feed. I was watching a lot of history, including The Great War. So I watched the video. Holey Moley!!!! I now listen to Sabaton every morning when I get up at 5 am for my job at a maximum security prison.
"The band delivered one Jawbreaker after another"
I see what you did there, Indy, and I love it!!!
JAAAAAWWWBREAKEEEEEER
Not to forget how he said that the guitars were "screaming for Vengeance"
My history in metal. Year 1977 I was 10yrs ol, elementary school. One kid brought to school (catholic school in Mexico), KISS Alive II. EVERYONE that saw that album cover and inside that cover were in awe!! Really eye and jaw dropping. We never seen anything like it!!! Blood spitting from the demon, fire all over the stage!! Drum set high in the air on top of 2 huge cats, elevated platforms. Really out of planet earth.
I had a Beatles album but after seen that Kiss alive, well, Beatles became nothing.
Then going to shoppe with Mom, I saw Kiss rock'nroll over, the cover super! All faces of kiss in like cartoonish with space/fire in it. I save to buy it, put it on at home and...... that music was engraved in my sould dip dip inside and never to be changed, found the missing piece. Then all metal started showing all over. But one very special night in 1999. Saw a video/concert that change the black and white picture of the metal I grew up. It was NIGHTWISH, music took color!!! The arrangements, the voice (Tarja) all the elements of epic music change my way of seen old metal. I have found symphonic Metal that gide me to find power metal and the circle was complete..... my history.
My metal journey began kind of late in life.
I was an only child of a single mother brought up by a very controlling family (both my grandparents and my mom). So I didn't have a lot of contact with music besides what they considered to be suitable for a young girl. So yeah, I liked signing so during my early childhood I would learn the 80's corny love songs my mom liked so she would be happy hearing me sing. Then in the nineties, I got to go to school but the experience wasn't good. I wouldn't fit in and I was bullied. I was a mix between the pop music that was popular at the time to try to fit in and children music. My house wasn't very keen to music anyway. Music was mostly considered "background" at home and it didn't matter if it was a hit station at the radio or just the sound of the TV that nobody was watching to provide that "noise". All in all, my family hated silence, but didn't particularly liked music.
My grandpa was a Frank Sinatra fan, and he was the person I got along the most, so I still listen (very sparsely) to Sinatra until this day...
But one day, 1995, I was in year 5 at school and they left me alone in front of the TV. So I could just change the channels away from the cartoon channels that they would let me watch and I found MTV. And there, they were playing Black Sabbath's video "Perry Mason". An Ho-Ly shit! I didn't know English at the time, but the visuals, the loud sound, the guitar... What was this? I had no idea. But I was in love.
Grandma made me change the channel because it annoyed her. But I never forgot... I had to find that sound again.
One year later, word spread in my block that I was a good Mortal Kombat player (I used to play lots of videogames at the nearby arcade, I had a Nintendo and a Sega Genesis, and then nothing else) so some random kids from the next block appeared and invited me to play in their new playstation. They had just got MK trilogy game and wanted to play with someone else, so they asked at the arcade and I don't know how they got to me. They were slightly older. So I began asking if they knew about loud music with distinctive guitar sounds (I must have sounded so ignorant and naive). They were nirvana fans. I liked it, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for... But they pointed out to a music store where teenagers gather to exchange/borrow cassette tapes among them and to get to know bands. So, that was my new goal. I asked my mom if I could go, but she was a bit worried because it was full of teens and young adults wearing dark clothes ab what have you, so one day that mom left me at the arcade I sneaked to the music store, my newfound friends had gifted me some recorded Nirvana tapes for me to have. So I took those and stepped into the store. So there I was, an 11 year old, dressing in jeans and an awful green flowered t-shirt (my family said bright colours made me easy to find) entering the metal scene with a Nirvana cassette... Yeah... It went... Actually quite well. The guy's were friendly. I explained I was looking for a rougher sound, with strong guitars and strong, constant drum beats and distinct melodies. I went back home with three tapes: Helloween's keeper of the seven keys part 1, Metallica's master of puppets and Iron Maiden's number of the beast... Oh My God... THAT WAS IT!!! THAT WAS TOTALLY IT!! I played them countless times on my Walkman, learned the songs by heart and played them loud, screaming to the lyrics from the bottom of my heart ever time I was left alone at home. I bought cheap booklets with the lyrics to the songs and grabbed and English dictionary to look for the words I didn't know (something I had done before only for videogames). My god I was in love.
I still heard pop music, mostly with my mom and classmates, but it wasn't more than a fit in strategy.
In 1998 I changed schools and began ditching pop completely. I had already accepted that I was never going to be "normal" or "accepted" and started embracing I just wasn't like other girls. I openly talked about my love for rock music and videogames. So a classmate said that her older brother was going to study in Europe, so he was giving away his cassette collection. "I don't know much about it, but it sounds you might like them" she said. And, wow, I got the entire iron maiden collection (I still remember nearly even breaking the magnetic tape from the "Somewhere in time" cassette and the "fear of the dark" cassette because I listed to those so much, lots of Metallica and Stratovarius and many others. Ride the lightning became my favourite Metallica album... From there, there was no turning back. And when I was 16, I worked the entire summer to afford my first Concert ticket and went to see Iron Maiden live for their Brave New World tour.
Now I long for every new gig and every new record and every band I discovered. Heavy metal saved me from depression. It saved me from hating myself, it help me escape bulling.
I told Joakim at a Meet and Greet that his music meant a lot to me, he asked me why and I was so nervous that I couldn't answer. But I can now. Sabaton makes me put into perspective. Every time I'm struggling, I listen to their war songs and think to myself "if those brave men could endure that type of hell, you can certainly endure this!" And that feeling, that thought, that certainty saved me from suicide at least once.
That's my metal journey.
I love Sinatra as well, glad you’re still here.
@@area609joe2 thank you.
Yeah... I think my early Sinatra exposure allowed me to appreciate the value of good quality signing and interpretation (being a "showman"). Right? ☺️
Good story , also a really good reason and perspective on why you like Sabaton
@Catalina Reyes He was amazing. That’s why Music is a wonderful form of communication. I found that when I’m at a lose for words, sometimes I use music to convey how I feel. I appreciate you sharing your story. I’m sure others will as well. Hope you have a wonderful day.
OK. Catalina gets a t-shirt or whatever the prize is. Catalina just won! :-)
I was raised by a dad who enjoyed '80s, '90s, and some '00 style music.
When roughly 2005 hit (I was 5), my dad introduced me to some of his favorites, just to name a few:
Van Halen
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Cheap Trick
Slipknot
Metallica
Twisted Sister
By the time I was in middle school (Mid 2010s) I had expanded a little more, with bands like 5FDP, Breaking Benjamin, Shinedown, Godsmack, and Rammstein, for a few examples.
I found Sabaton in roughly 2015-2016, after finding 'Primo Victoria' in a RUclips 'recommended for you' ad, and gave it a listen. I gave a few more songs a listen and after that, I didn't look back. Never have I been so hooked by a band where I can listen to songs and still get goosebumps.
Long Live Sabaton!
(This is quite long, I realize, and I apologize profusely for it's length)
Sabaton launches Bismark: Yeah, we made a song for a famous battleship.
Iron Maiden, with a 16 minutes song about a very obscure single used zeppelin: Very good kid, you are learning...
18 minutes and 1 second*
Technically the airship song is 100% from Dickinson.
And the most badass part of it? He flew the same route with a 737, landing at Beauvais airport (in France), 10kms from where the R101 crashed.
Dickinson is an airship guy, he has shares in an airship building company, amongst other aeronautical ventures.
And one of their best song ever.
@@IIARROWS it is their best song ever
@Rodycaz Your mother is boring
I started out by hearing Thunderstruck by AC/DC and that planted the seeds of being a lover of hard rock and metal. Not long after that night, my parents went and bought me AC/DC and Gun n Roses CDs that I listened to over and over again. I found out that one of the kids in my class also liked those bands along with other things that I enjoyed doing and we became best friends. I slowly started adding more bands to my list of bands that I loved like KISS, Metallica, and some Black Sabbath. The song Crazy Train became one of my favorites instantly. My then best friend eventually changed schools, so I listened to my music more privately. It helped me through the early days of my diagnosis with mental illness and I kept slowly branching out. In middle school, I made a new best friend who yet again was into metal as much as I was. We hung out a lot and we even went Trick or Treating together. But middle school wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. My mental health got way worse very quickly. I was suicidal and my grades took a huge hit. I listened to metal a lot then because it made me feel a lot better. What made me and my then best friend drift apart was when he started saying some derogatory stuff about my mental illness. I cut him off and spent more time with my other friends and I went back to listening to metal on my own. Last year, I started high school and around the same time found Sabaton through the online Warhammer 40,000 community and I instantly fell in love. Since then I’ve listened to Sabaton daily and they’ve become my favorite band of all time. My sister who has her room directly below me sometimes complains about being able to hear my music blasting from my speakers and me trying my best to sing along with all of the voice cracks that come with being 15. Metal has changed my life, and no band has had a greater impact than Sabaton. I’m constantly trying to teach myself their songs on my cello and I often end up driving my parents crazy with my desperate attempts to find the right notes. The only song that I’ve figured out so far is Night Witches and it’s one of my go to songs for warmups.
My father died when I was 4 years old. At the age of 12ish I found his old record player and records and started to play them based on the covers I liked the look of. Black sabbath, led zeppelin, Magnum (Bob Catley and his sister were friends of my parents).
Then I discovered Saxon, Iron Maiden and most importantly Manowar, and it's been twenty years and my musical taste hasn't changed!
Black Sabbath ruined my life, and I love them for it!
Joakim and Indy have amazing chemistry together I love it!
My metal journey began in 2018. I discovered "The Last Stand" in a crusade meme. It was only about 5 seconds of the song, but it sounded pretty cool so searched up the Band and found Sabaton. After listening to Last Stand, Night Witches, To hell and Back, and Shiroyama, I became addicted. As a historian it encouraged me to research more into history topics including the great northern war which fascinates me to this day.
Love that song. The album actually came out on my birthday. Best birthday gift EVER.
Madlad. That's one of the reasons I like Sabaton.
I actually did the same thing with Gloryhammer actually. I heard a three-second snippet of the song "The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee." And knew I needed to know more.
My Metal journey started during my early teenage years. It was in 2003 when I was at a friend of mine and he introduced me to a band he found out about called Manowar. I was never really interested too much in music before that, maybe sometimes listening to the radio, but in that moment when he put on the CD I was almost instantly blown away and hooked. From then on Metal music was a constant part of my life.
My passion more and more deepened with bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rammstein, Motörhead, Korn, Metallica, Nightwish, In Flames, Slipknot and many many more. Band shirts increasingly dominated my closet and in 2007 I was able to go to my first concert to see Iron Maiden. It was an absolute blast to see them finally live and one of my fondest memories. Many more concerts would follow.
While my mother was never fond of Metal music it was a big surprise for me when my father one day came to me and wanted to show me something in our basement hobby room. He revealed that he and his brother were also big fans of Metal in their youth and showed me their collection of vinyl records of bands like Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, Kiss and Motörhead. Their passion for Metal was also reignited and up to this day my father and uncle come along to a concert from time to time. If we can manage to get tickets, we are as well planning to visit Wacken festival together in one of the next years.
Speaking of festivals, one of my first festival experiences was the Rockarea Festival in 2009 at the top of the beautiful Lorelei. It was there that I went to see a band in the early evening I never heard of up to this point. It was a band called Sabaton. They have gotten me right from their opening track Ghost Division and I was a fan ever since this moment never missing one of their shows if a tour brings them near to my home town. I will never forget that day.
Noch ein Bier!
Bit of a late comment on this vid, but my metal journey started in 2003 when I was 13, the son of my mums best friend gave us a old 98 computer that he'd added a bunch of songs to. Before that computer, the heaviest music I listened to was Celine Dion, because that's what my mum and sister always listened to. One of the folders was labelled "Metal," and going into it I found a song by Metallica called Seek and Destroy. Blew my mind, and knew I'd found my favourite genre. Spent the next couple of years mostly listening to them, but slowly adding to my cd collection (mostly by borrowing from my brother and burning the albums on the computer). In 2019, was playing World of Warships with my sister and a friend from Belgium (I'm from New Zealand btw), and he was auditioning to join the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and he shared the Sabaton Bismarck music video with us, since that's his favourite ship in the game. Thought it was an awesome song, but then listened to The Red Baron, then Great War, and thought I'd come across a really patriotic German band, and didn't listen to anything else for a couple of months, until my sister listened to a few more songs, done some research, and found you guys did general military history, which is one of my favourite topics, and ended up hooked, mostly listening to you guys. Me and my sister aren't the only ones in our family who love your music either, when we found this history channel, my sister started playing some of the videos with our 75 year old mum, and she's hooked as well. Can't wait for you to tour New Zealand btw, and when you do, you should try to have a concert on ANZAC day and feature Cliffs of Gallipoli. It'll be the only way our mum can get to one of your concerts, because her health doesn't allow to travel, but I guarantee she'll be in the front row in her wheelchair bobbing her head to the beat and waving her fists in the air like only old people can🤣
We love reading these stories about how everything came to be 😎 Thanks a lot for your message, we hope to be with y'all very soon!
Haha, yeah, I can definitely see Mum waving her fists in the air at a Sabaton concert 🤣
My metal journey started very early. According to my mother at least. She told me that when i was a toddler, around 2 or 3, she had pulled up to a gas station as we were on a trip to visit some family in northern NH, USA. I had been wailing in the backseat for most of the ride. My mother, having done everything she could to get me to stop pitching my fit, decided to drown out my cries with some music. She herself liked hard rock so when Metallica's enter the sandman came on, she didn't mind it so much. While this was going on, some bikers parked at the pump next to us. They had watched my mom finally turn up the radio. They noticed something she didn't. She heard one of the bikers call out, holding up this devil horns 🤘 and he pointed to the backseat. "I think he likes it" one of them had said. My mom said that when she looked back she couldn't help but smile. I had not only stopped crying, but had started to bob my head to the music.
Metal would go on to be a sort of support in my life. My dad walked out before i was born, my mom developed a problem with alcohol, i was bullied relentlessly at school, and i grew up way below the poverty line. The frustration and anger i had built up inside was overwhelming at times but i knew better than to take it out on other people. Something my mom taught me well. So I'd blast heavy metal when i got home from school and play Doom to sort of vent this frustration. I loved video games almost as much as i loved metal.
Being poor, my mom couldn't afford much, but shed buy me video games and music on holidays and special occasions. When she bought me guitar hero, and later rockband, it really exposed me to some classics like Through the Fire and Flames. Dragon Force was my first exposure to power metal.
This combination of music and video games continues to be a form of support for me. It was only recently that i was introduced to Sabaton. I was playing the beta for a game that i would continue to play till this day, For Honor. I kept skipping through spotify, trying to find a song that would inspire me. That would help me forget the struggles i was going through and empower me. At the time i was feeling hopeless, circumstances in my life at the time weighing down on me. Finaly, when my number of skips ran out, i landed on Shiroyama. A song about men who fought for what they believed in despite the certainty of death. That charged an enemy that outnumbered them 60:1, refusing to surrender. And I felt strong again. As though I could take on the world. I immediately fell in love with my now favorite band and my favorite album, the last stand. Because for me, this was my last stand. I had thought for a long time about giving up. That there was nothing that i could do that would ever matter. That i would never achieve anything. And i wont say this album gave me hope. But i will say that it gave me the resolve to keep going. To say "So what?" In the face of my depression, self doubt, and to the people who looked down on me. So what if the weight of the world is on my shoulders? So what if it all comes crashing down around me? Even if everything goes up in flames, theyll say "he went out in a blaze of glory, just like those heroes he always talked about."
I may have considered it once, but not today. Never again. There's more to my story. My journey wont end here. Thank you Sabaton. For everything.
My metal journey:
At the time of writing this I'm 22 years old and parents are 63 and 57. So growing up, I was always around "older" music. It wasn't until about 1st grade that I got my first introduction to Rock n' Roll. I was supposed to do a country song for my school's talent show but it had the word "ass" in it so I ended up doing Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. After that there was some more older bands like The Beatles, Yes, Tom Petty, but no real "metal".
My love for metal finally happened back in 10th grade. I had been listening to Metallica and such before hand but never had a strong appreciation for it. Around high school was when I first found Sabaton. My cousin had a video of Carolus Rex and we were seduced immediately. I can remember for the longest time my Pandora Playlist was only Sabaton, Rise Against, Barry Manillow, Neil Young, The Beatles, and Daft Punk.
Once 10th grade hit it was like an explosion of metal music. I found Pantera, Anthrax, Parkway Drive. Of Mice & Men, Slipknot, and much more. Metal music, rock music, and just music in general have become a staple and definition for me and my life. Rock and roll will never die!
Here's my son's metal journey. We have a 20 minute drive to school every day, and my (now) 7 year old son (5 at the time) was sick of hearing my "boring" podcasts with talking. He wanted music. I have a pretty wide and eclectic taste: everything from Bach, to John Prine, to Bluegrass, Dropkick Murphy's, and of course Metal... especially "Power Metal" (Dio, Dragon Force, Iron Maiden, Rhapsody of Fire). At this point I had not yet heard of Sabaton until my streaming service added them into the mix of similar music. My son wanted to know what the songs were about, I (a history geek myself) was able to sometimes pick up the historical reference in the car and then tell him an honest (but age appropriate) telling of the history of this battle or historical event. Now 9 times out of 10 he wants to listen to Sabaton not only for the music but also for the story.
My metal journey started with Crusade memes with the song last stand
thats how I got into sabaton and back into heavy metal
Hahaha same mate
I started in a song about you that made me ascend HIGHER
My serious metal journey started with Crusade memes featuring Powerwolf's "Army of the Night"
Same lmao
My metal journey:
One of my friends back in 2009 (I was 11) introduced me to a classic rock radio here in São Paulo and I got to rehearse a Beatles song in music class thanks to my teacher - that's how I started listening to rock and roll as a whole. In 2011, everyone was talking about Rock In Rio coming back to Brazil and I saw Metallica and Motörhead for the 1st time on TV. It changed completely my teenage years!
During High School I discovered more classic bands and got into Symphonic Metal - my phone was full of Nightwish, Within Tempation, Tarja, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Metallica, Matanza, KISS and similar stuff. My parents kinda supported me for listening to some of the bands from their youth (mom is 64 and dad is 76), but, since they're musicians who worked mostly with MPB music, they pressured me to appreciate more Brazilian non-metal artists - I don't think other kids were charged like this LOL. When it comes to concerts, the first one I went to was a Ringo Starr show in 2011 and my first festival was Monsters of Rock 2013, both in my city (I know Ringo is not metal at all, but it was important for the 12-year-old Beatlemaniac Ana).
Sabaton came into my life literally two years ago when I got my first job during college and I was already a fan of Power Metal - I'm 22 now and no one can say it was just a phase hahaha. As a History nerd myself, I fell in love immediately with you guys (and Joakim's voice) and I got to see you last year at Dream Festival in the front row! Thank you for making such awasome music and for investing in content like this on the internet \m/
Loved this episode!
I've had a very random and expansive journey through music! My parents would always listen to music mostly from the 60s/70s (and some 80s mainstream) during road and camping trips. As I grew older and radio/tv and friends started influencing my choices it evolved into 90s pop and dance. But once I hit late elementary and high school is when I was introduced to hard rock and metal music via bands like Godsmack, Disturbed and Slipknot. Since then I've always had metal in my life. I go through spurts of other genres and eras (the Fallout video game series has given me a new love of the 20s/30s/40s) but I've always drifted back. Spotify has been my huge music influence over the last 8 years and is how I discovered Sabaton!! 🥰🤘 in 2017 I was browsing through another band's (I can't remember which) "fans also like" section and came across Sabaton. Listened to "The Last Stand" and I was hooked hard! After then watching interviews I felt they were all such genuine guys that loved their fans. Easily became my favorite band of all time. became a Patreon supporter within weeks of this history Channel going live then attended my first show in Edmonton that October.
Sorry, this got more long winded than I expected 🤣
There's no such thing as longwinded when it comes to hearing our fans' stories, Bex! You've been on quite the musical journey and it's always nice that you eventually stumbled across our music and enjoyed it so much. Hearing that we're one of your favourite bands is just the icing on the cake! Thank you for your support of the channel - stay tuned - there's plenty more content to come.
Don't worry mate mine is longer!
My metal journey began before I was even born - my pregnant mum and dad went to a rock concert of a Serbian rock band, Riblja Čorba. Both of my parents are metalheads, so I started listening to metal before I even knew what it was. When I was little, I used to dance along Nightwish songs from the album "Once" and I listened to Iron Maiden a lot - my ultimate favorite song is Fear of the Dark. I heard Panzerkampf and The Art of War when I was younger and I fell in love with both songs, but I didn't know the lyrics, nor the band. One December day in 2016, I fell ill, so I slept for a few hours during the day so I can rest. I woke up in the evening and heard that my mother played a concert on RUclips. I suddenly heard a song that I hadn't heard before and a deep male voice singing the song - I fell in love with the song and turned my back to my parents (since I was still lying in bed) so they couldn't see my huge smile. Near the end of the concert, I told my parents that I had to go to the bathroom (which I didn't actually need to do) so I can see the name of the band. I turned my head and read "Sabaton - The Last Stand (live at Nantes)" and while I was sitting on the toilet in the bathroom, I kept repeating the word Sabaton because I wanted to memorize it. Days later, when I was home alone, I listened to Wolfpack and Primo Victoria (because I heard Joakim saying those names of songs during the concert) and then I couldn't stop listening to this certain Swedish heavy metal band. In January I was snooping around sabaton.net and found out they were on tour and that they were coming to Serbia (that's where I live) in March. I told my parents the next day and, despite them thinking that we can't afford to go to both Sabaton's concert in March and Apocalyptica's in April, we went to both.
Long story short, you guys have a special place in my heart (Wehrmacht and Great War are standing side by side with Fear of the Dark now) and you always will❤️
Damn, we need a downloadable folder of all those pictures at the end! So much gold in there
I started 1986 with kiss and their animaliska album. Me and some friends had a lot of music from kiss, maiden, pantera, Metallica .
My Sabaton story starta åt Sweden rock festival when Sabaton played at Spendrup stage. Me and my wife took shelter from the rain in a beertent when we looking at the timetable when we asked a man what time it was. The man answered and asked what we should see. And one of the band we should se was Sabaton. And the man said I'm the singer in Sabaton. So thank you for this memory
I’m so happy you talked about Manowar, they’re my second favourite band after Sabaton🤟🏻
Sabaton have an entire song about them called man of war
First vinyl 1988. Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden! I was 10 years old! Just love Eddie! Later I have discovered Helloween, Manowar, Metallica, then went back to roots, Black Sabbat, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Iron Butterfly, and others. Much later I have discovered Sabaton, that touched my heart and soul with Last dying breath (me being Serb whose great grandfather fought in WW1 and commanded gun that brought down first aircraft in the Balkans, even Europe maybe).
Long live Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, keep up with great work! Love you all guys!
Rhapsody’s Symphony of Enchanted Lands is to this day my favorite album.
Rhapsody is amazing!
„Like a jawbreaker“…..“which were seemingly screaming for vengeance“. Hot damn,you nailed it Indy
The first metal song i consciously listened to was in 7th grade in my history class (about 2010). We were learning about world war one and my teacher (on of my favorite teachers i ever had) played metallica's one and i really enjoyed it. Sadly my metal journey got put on hold until 2019 in may. I had known about sabaton for years, i play paradox games and world of warships so i knew about them from collaborations there but never listened to them until one day i thought to my self 'hey, i should listen to that metal band' so i downloaded the great war album on my phone and i was hooked from the opening of future of warfare. Before even listening to any other albums i bought tickets to their great war tour, then listened to more songs. Only since sabaton history playlist started on patreon have i started to expand my listening, after listening to sabaton on repeat for a year straight. Cant wait for sabaton open air next year! Already got my ticket.
It sounds like you had a pretty awesome teacher, I don't remember any of mine playing any good music like that. Hearing that your metal journey came to a standstill for a while is a shame, but it's amazing to hear that we re-ignited your passion for the genre! We hope to see you again soon live, keep being awesome!
The power of Sabaton is amazing
My metal journey began when I was back in 4th or 5th grade, my best friend at the time, who was also in my class, and I listened to Iron Maiden, Judas Preist and Ozzy Osbourne while doing homework. I then kinda stopped listening to music for a while, until another friend of mine recommended Sabaton to me, and it became all I ever listened to for almost a year. until I went to Copenhell, our local metal festival, with some friends which really opened my eyes to newer metal bands and reignited my love for the old classics.
It's always nice to get a History lesson of any kind from Sabaton History. So much better than a college class, and far more fun.
And we're encouraged to drink more beer.
Quite a few high school history teachers and college history professors are now using Sabaton songs to get their students interested in history.
My metal journey began in 1997 when I was about 2 years old. My father and I used to sit in the back yard and listen to Metallica, megadeth, nine inch nails, and whatever else came onto the local rock stations. I stayed in that comfort zone until around 14 where I first heard Slayer and Anthrax. I was blown away by the drums and guitar so I explored more of the genre and even learned to play the drums. But 17 was the age that changed my life when I discovered Sabaton. The first track I ever heard was The White Death and I loved it so much that I dove head first into the trenches of Sabaton. At 22, my world changed. I attended my first Sabaton show and left almost in tears. I loved the show, but the power and emotion coming from the stage broke me when I heard In Livstid I Krieg. I made friends with complete strangers whose names I never learned all because one band brought everybody together and I realized that no matter who we are, where we come from, or what we do...we are all brothers and sisters of metal.
I guess I'm abit younger than some of the people here (born 2000). I remember watching Eurovision as a kid and saw Lordi perform Hard Rock Hallelujah on TV, it blow my mind and I was hooked. My brother who is a couple of years older later introduced me to Hammerfall and I fell in love with metal. But the strongest memory I have is when I'm sitting in from of my PC playing some videogames and my brother comes in and says "Hey I think I've found a song your going to like since you enjoy history", and he put on Primo Victoria, it was the best shit I've ever heard. I quickly started to listen to Back in Controll and Ghost Division! Since that day I've been a huge Sabaton fan. Now my metal taste has spread to more than just Lordi, Hammerfall and Sabaton but all of those bands will forever be cherished and deeply loved by me. Can't wait untill we meet again once Covid is over!
I'm younger mate. Don't worry. 😉
Hell yeah, another Lordi fan! \m/
Edit: was scrolling the comments and just noticed were born on the same year. Haha next you're gonna say you're finnish too? :P
Liking Hammerfall you might also like Blind Guardian. Their first couple albums are trash metal and then they've gone more melodic way with distinctive overlapping vocals.
Darth Walrus heheh im from Sweden, so atleast we are neighbours :)
Adrian Alexandrov Yeah those guys are great!
My metal journey is a little bumpy, but it started with Sabaton about 12 years ago when I was 9. My older brother (3 years older) and I was really into playing games for as long as I can remember. As we got older however, he got a computer and started playing on that without me since I wasn't allowed one. But he would put in speakers and let me sit beside him and quietly watch as he played which was very kind. One day he had some music in the background (he usually had something playing in the background), but this music was different from the stuff he usually played and sounded unlike anything I had ever heard up until this point. I asked him what the song was called and where I could listen to it. The name of the song was The Price of a Mile and the band was Sabaton. It was pure accident that I heard this song and for whatever reason, the moment I heard the intro, and not to mention the chorus, I was instantly hooked and wanted more. I would lie in my bed entire afternoons after coming home from school and just listen through all the Sabaton songs I could find at time, with my favorites being The Price of a Mile, Cliffs of Gallipoli, Panzerkampf, The Hammer Has Fallen, Swedish Pagan and many more (The Art of War album is an album with huge emotional value to me if that wasn't obvious). For about the coming 8 or 9 years however, I would never go to a concert. Partly because I never knew what a concert even was and also partly due to social phobia and me having Aspergers syndrome. During this time I would explore artists and bands from many different genres without fully being committed. Music at this point was mostly something I had in the background and wasn't a full-time interest. However, after struggling through a 5 year stretch of severe depression, losing friends and interests along the way, I would still have music in the background, I moved a lot between different artists and styles but one band that was always with me for all those years was Sabaton and I was heavily associated with their music. It in fact became my most defining feature to other people in school, that I could name any and all Sabaton songs 1 to 3 seconds into the song and knew the lyrics by heart. After the years of depression when I got medication and was a lot better I had a new-born appreciation for Sabatons music and how it had helped me through this time and made me feel alive again. It was around 1 or 2 years later that my dad would take me to my first concert ever which was, you guessed it, Sabaton. That night was one of the best of my life so far and it was from that moment I became a fully committed Sabaton fan, hard rocker and metalhead. Since then I devoted myself fully to the music, but first and foremost to my favorite band of all time Sabaton. I have since then been to Sabaton Open Air, bought all their CDs, got The Art of War on vinyl (among my most priced possessions), bought merch in all its forms, watched and read any and all interviews, vlogs and documentaries I could find on the internet, learned to play their songs on guitar, become a Sabaton History Patreon, and had the best night of my life in the front row of Stockholm Hovet during the Great War Tour where I caught the set-list from Joakim which is now framed and hanging ornamentally on my apartment wall along with the Great War crads for the different songs I collected that night. I now wear a Sabaton dog tag proudly every day and they will be my favorite band until the day I die and I intend to always support the band that has had such a huge influence on my life it is hard to describe in this (rather long) comment alone. Thank you Sabaton, thank you everyone and congratulations to whoever read this whole thing! I'm sorry if it's a bit incoherent I did it in one take with no structure in mind :D
My story is quite short, I found Sabaton through memes. And would start with them and German power metal band Powerwolf.
Good start
A late start but a danm good start
Can you guys guess what kind of memes I find both these bands in?
If you like Reddit, r/Sabatonmemes is a great start
@@reyntime8735 I suppose even more hilarious since I found these bands through Crusade memes.
The earliest metal related memory I have is when my father had his friend burn a mixed CD of songs from various bands and genres for me and my brother to listen to. I don't really remember the exact time but considering the songs I would guess 2006, when I was 11 years old. It included at least Rammstein and Ruoska, both which I still like.
I didn't really care about knowing bands until the age of 19. I had heard other songs from friends and on the radio but never gave it much thought. In 2014, I was driving to an university entrance exam with a friend, who was also somewhat into metal. We turned on the radio channel that plays the genre, and the friend used his Shazam app to identify a bunch of good songs. One of those was Sabaton's Soldier of 3 Armies.
Later I looked up the bands we had discovered and listened to more of their songs. I instantly liked every song in Sabaton's Heroes album. That also got me to listen to lyrics a lot more in general and think about what they're telling, for other bands as well. Also, I was never really a fan of history in school and never really liked modern war themes in movies and games, but Sabaton and Sabaton History has made it interesting.
I am grateful to that friend for whipping out his shazam on the passenger seat.
My metal journey began at the start of my life.
I had the fortune to have a father who's as big of a metal head as me, and I love to say tongue-in-cheek that my first concerts were KISS and Rush while my mom was pregnant with me. Though my father always leaned to progressive, with Rush being his favorite and Dream Theater being a common house-hold sound, I fell in love with his old Iron Maiden albums, often putting myself to bed while listening to the Greatest Hits, with Paschendale being among the top, and Aces High one of my favorites (Though, Hallowed be Thy Name is my favorite song). As I grew up though I started loving the storytelling aspect of Iron Maiden, and that really hit me when I discovered A Matter of Life and Death. I actually discovered Sabaton through a friend one day while listening to Paschendale, as the friend had known of the battle through Price of a Mile, and we song-swapped, playing one after the other to really appreciate the storytelling, music, and the history behind the songs.
I always think on it being pretty funny that, due to my families love (and my mother's near tolerance) of Heavy Metal, I've only ever bought three albums in my life because my brother or father will end up buying it for us first;
American Idiot by Green Day and Sabaton's The Last Stand and The Great War.
Love your work as always, both to the band and Indy!
It took me less than a minute to become a metalhead.
I live in India, where the mainstream media only ever plays pop, rap, or Bollywood music. I knew about rock and roll, and metal, but I thought they were a relic of the past. I had no idea that they were still very much alive.
I spent most of my middle school and high school life (2012 - 2019) thinking that pop and rap were all that existed. And I never enjoyed listening to that. So when people asked me what music I liked, I always said I didn't really listen to music. Yet, I felt like something was missing. I knew that music could be amazing, and fun, and emotional, but I never really connected with the music that I knew about.
Then one day, when I was in my senior year of high school, I was browsing reddit (or maybe it was 9gag), and I came across this post that had a song playing in the background.
And I heard a voice mightier that I could've ever imagined sing the most powerful chorus I had ever heard:
FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF OUR LORD. FOR THE HOME OF THE HOLY. FOR THE FAITH, FOR THE WAY OF THE SWORD. GAVE THEIR LIVES SO BOLDLY!
I was absolutely awestruck. I had never heard music like this before. I didn't know what it was, but it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. A quick google search later, and I found a RUclips video for the song The Last Stand by Sabaton. I played the song and was taken aback. I had no idea that music like this existed. I sat there, absorbing it, feeling it. And the second the chorus started, I became a metalhead.
I can tell you the day I evolved to a metal head. June 8, 1996: target center, Minneapolis Mn. Eyehategod, Deftones, White Zombie, and Pantera was the first real concert I attended just out of high school. I was a fresh Zombie fan at the time, and I couldn’t understand why all these people were sitting in the stands while zombie was playing. Then I experienced the awesome power of Pantera and was changed deep in my core forever. 🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥🤘🏼
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It's interesting thinking about my metal journey. I grew up listening to country music. Then, I made some friends in high school who introduced me to D&D and to Manowar. Kings of Metal was the first album I heard and Warrior's Prayer would always get me. From there it went on to 80's hair metal, but also to heavier metal as well. Priest, Maiden and Metallica were on my list, though my mains were Manowar and Queensryche. And that's how it stayed until the late 2010s. Then I pulled up Pandora and had it build me a station based on Manowar. And suddenly, I heard Sabaton. The rest is history. Now my sons are Sabaton fans as well. In fact, the older 2 went with me to the show last October in Cleveland. Their first concert and my first in years. Amazing show and we can't wait to do it again. Maybe even make the cruise someday. Thank you so much for your music, it gives us so much enjoyment and pushes us to learn about areas of history we'd never know otherwise.
YESSSSS FINALLY HISTORY OF JOAKIM'S SCHLONG
"suck my metal machine"
I stumbled across Sabaton's video for Screaming Eagles. My grandfather was a Screaming Eagle who went from D-Day all the way to Berlin. He was a Battered Bastard of Bastogne. As a metal fan, I fell in love with them then and there. My mother said that her dad refused to talk about WW2 and I remember walking out of the room when it was brought up. To me, they honored my Grandfather, Charles Otis Griswold. Thank you
My journey started when I was 5 years old in the mid 2000's. My dad, who oddly likes both reggae and 70's and 80's metal in a weird combination, used to play Dio on his big speakers in the living room. I instantly got stuck with Holy Diver and Rainbow in the Dark. Around the same time I got a radio which I tuned in to the only available rock channel where I live, Bandit Rock. Two songs in particular were played all the time and made its way into my heart, Deliver Us with In Flames and B.Y.O.B by system of a down, but I didn't know that at the time since I could never make out who any of the artists were and what the songs were called! 😅
Then it all changed when I heard Sabaton. I have always been obsessed with history and even though I was 9 I got really excited when the radio host proclaimed that the next song was about Gallipoli. At first I thought that it was no way that the two things I enjoyed the most could be combined for glorious results. How wrong I was! It was an emotional moment, partly due to the tragic topic but also due to the realization that I had found perfection. And that I caught the name of the song and thus properly anchoring me to the metal scene. A few years later I found perfection, Carolus Rex. The sound of that album is the perfect fit, the ideal sound that my soul craves. After that, I cut all the ties to mainstream music and delved headfirst into the world of metal. Now, hundreds of dollar of Sabaton concerts, albums and merch later, I am a die hard metalhead. And although I sometimes venture into black, death, metalcore, industrial, you name it, my compass always leads me back to Sabaton and my heart is forever tied to them.
You sound like a pretty awesome fan Thomas, we appreciate you sharing your story with us. We're glad that our music eventually reached you and for a 9 year old, you sound like you were ahead in your years. It's really cool to hear that we've become your favourite and that we've managed to have such a profound impact on you through our music. The passion and support of fans like you really give us the drive to make more music and more SH videos, so thank you. Please keep up your support and we hope that we'll get to play live somewhere near you again soon!
@@SabatonHistorysabaton has really meant the world to me over the years. This year would have been the fifth year in a row that would have been to Sabaton open air. But I went to the concert in Göteborg. I drove all the way from Norrköping, saw the show, (majestic btw) and then drove all night to my aunt in Enköping so that I could hang long to a skiing trip in Idre. 😅
Sabaton history has been a god send for me. I became a Hussar patreon in June 2019 and my favorite day of the week is Tuesday when a new episode is released. Thank you so much for making these episodes.
Thomas Sundvall is System of a down a metal band or a hard rock band. I keep hearing both.
@@Cssisabeautifulthang I mean, they are technically classified as alternative metal, but as so many other bands they don't really fit into a single genre.
Thomas Sundvall ok thanks
I get to see Judas Priest and Sabaton next year in Denver! It's going to be my first concert ever and I'm really excited!
I guess my metal journey started with my dad showing me Ride the Lighting when I was probably 6. My dad had all of these Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest CDs and I would listen to it every night to go to bed. According to my dad I would ask him almost every night to show me one of their music videos. I mainly stuck with the "mainstream" bands but then I discovered Sabaton in 2018 when I was 14 and then just plunged into the wormhole of historical metal. I have a collection of tons of CDs from so many different bands I've almost always been a fan and will never stop loving metal.
Whoaaaaaa I'm early, when I realised what song it would be yesterday I got so excited, I've been waiting all day!
My metal journey? Propably started with the release of Nemo in 2004, just a month after my birth. Nightwish has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember as I have family from Kitee. In 2015 I had a phase when I listened to Nightwish but for some reason I went back to the mainstream music. In 2018 I found Nightwish again and after that I discovered even more metal bands and a few months later I found Sabaton and fell in love instantly. So now I am here, in my metal world collecting band shirts and waiting patiently for tours and albums yet to be released.
Same dude
if you want to go down the rabbit hole you should start listening to the more underground metal, a few suggestions to thread the waters are Tool, Warlord, Cirith ungol, Black Magic. If you want to listen to music akin to Sabaton you might like Hammerfall, Helloween, Manowar, Battle beast, Beast in black and ofc Nightwish as you already know. If you want metal like Nightwish then i have a band for you Ancient Bards (Hope dies last - my favorite song of them).
But the genre i have fallen into now is Black metal witch is a genre that most people like to avoid because its so "dark" or "noisy", i would say it's the just a very direction of music, my personal favorites are Burzum, Vreid and their prior band Wendir, Batushka (Polish band singing in Russian), Sigh (Japanese band singing in English) the others are Norwegians singing in Norwegian and English.
@@linus8594 yes, I listen to almost all the bands you listed, my boyfriend got me into black metal last year
@@demowons Sounds like you have the greatest boyfriend on this earth :), btw can he recommend any black metal bands that he thinks are good or do you have any particular band that you think is great?
@@linus8594 I like Betlehem, Behexen, Anaal Nathrakh and Valkyrja, my boyfriend actually just sent me a band, Vindland
Great video gents.
My metal journey starts pretty much from the start of my life. My dad would always play maiden, motorhead or priest in the car. Nursery rhymes were practically prohibited in his car.
I felt I had to walk away from metal at school because I didn't want to get my ass kicked but as soon as I left school I scrambled to get caught up. Fast forward to last year when I'm searching for the lyrics to maiden's paschendaele on RUclips and I get one fields of verdun in my recommended.
Metal is probably the key to how I stayed sane during lockdown!
Nursery rhymes prohibited. Now THAT is something I wish was a thing all over the world
@@clariidfisherman3702 yeah. Even in mum's car we only listened to nursery rhymes if her mum was in the car with us. If it was just me and her it was Saxon, Metallica, even napalm death at one point!
I am born and raised on Metal. My dad (R.I.P) knew how to play every Black Sabbath song on guitar and my mother wouldn't go a single day without Judas Priest every car drive.
Did Indy make a Tenacious D reference at the start?
Yes
Yes
Indeed he did
It wasn't a reference
Just a tribute
I'll show myself out
Fun fact of how I discovered Sabaton. I'm from an franco-polish family, with family histories tied to WWII and cold war, half of my family going back and forth between the two countries following the tides of History. To the point of having to flee in urge the eastern block, with just a polish-made FIAT and four luggages, following a shady story of my grandfather (who was, amongst other high profile jobs, a production director for MIG fighters and Antonov transport planes at PZL Mielec) visiting Moscow and my grandmother being nearly arrested for unjustified reasons....
Anyway we're in France now and one day my mother was watching polish TV, and they've talked about Sabaton, and she told me to check about these guys who where making metal songs about polish military history. By the way my parents are into rock music since before I was born and Black Sabbath records were at home before me so I can say i'm a metalhead since day 1...
By the way I wish Sabaton made a song about cold war. It was a war after all, one that nearly wiped the surface of the planet with nuclear threats multiple times, and a war that cut in half way too many families. Travelling by road to Poland, crossing the iron curtain checkpoints that still stands today still gives me shivers.
I was in my early teens (late 80's) when I stumbled on a televised Monsters of Rock concert. It was studded with legends like Ozzy, Scorpions, Iron Maiden & Judas Priest. First time I heard Rob Halford I got goosebumps. I was totally enthralled.
Day after I bought Ozzy's Bark at the Moon on cassette and since then I've been a metal head, listening to both the classics and a lot of new, extreme stuff. The harder the better.
My son is now 5. He fell in love with metal and rock through Twisted Sisters' We're not gonna take it and Queen's We will rock you. He's still a huge Twisted sisters fan, but loves AC/DC and Sabaton and I keep introducing more metal and rock to him.
As for my journey, my taste in music is eclectic so metal and any heavy rock just follows my current mood. As for my introduction to Sabaton, I had a friend in the mid 2000's that was a military fan and a metal head. He introduced Sabaton to me and I've sorta listend to them on and off through the years and always liked them. Metal machine being one of my favorite songs since it came out. Now with a metal head kid at home we explore more of their songs and the history behind it. The more I learn about Sabaton, the more I love them.
Thanks for sharing it!
@@SabatonHistory Twisted Sisters is a gateway drug to the heavier riffs. 😎
"Every single song"
Okay so you're telling me you have proof LotR is historical...?
Author himself said it was history of earth a really long time ago.
You mean it isn’t
Blind Guardian did that years and years ago ;)
@@jfarrar19 I am convinced the charge of the Riders of Rohan in the fields before Minas Tirith was the charge of the Hussars in the Battle of Vienna. Many parallels.
I was 6 in 1972 . Our house was a non-stop rotation of Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Who, Johnny Cash, etc ... my brother (10 yrs older) brought home an armful of borrowed albums from a friend.... it included the first 3 Black Sabbath albums, the first 4, Led Zeppelin albums, a couple of Uriah Heep albums, Deep Purple Machine Head... a few others...... and I was hooked. Immediately afterwards... at my next birthday ... I took my birthday money and went and bought my first music .... I bought Alice Cooper-Killers and Deep Purple In Rock.... albums were only $3-$5 back then ... so I saved my weekly 50c allowance and everytime I had enough I went and bought another hard rock/heavy metal album. Or I would join/re-join the Columbia Record Club and get 15 albums for 1 penny as part of joining. By the time I got to high school I owned over 300 vinyl records. With my parents help I had an Ibanez Les Paul copy (a lawsuit era guitar. that I wish I still owned) a very used/abused Fender Strat and a Marshall half-stack. I had my first band when I was 14-15 .... playing parties every weekend with beer and weed for payment ..... hours of non-stop medleys of Black Sabbath, Rush and Iron Maiden songs. I got Metallica Kill em All when it was still only available as an Import (pricey) ... and by the time Ride the Lightning came out the party band had a dozen Metallica songs added to our non-stop medley of basement party concerts to roaring crowds... sometimes 10 people.... sometimes a hundred people.... sometimes it was an outdoor party to a 1000 people. It was a great era to be a fan of hard rock and heavy metal. And it began on that day my older brother brough home that big armload of borrowed albums in 1972.
3:44 "Find 4 cats in Indy's living room" *challenge accepted*
- One sitting near the window (black/white)
- One sitting on the radio (also black/white)
- One lying on the carpet (brown)
- One lying besides the TV (also brown)
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As for my metal history, it's a weird one.
When I was about 8 or so years old, a friend played some Iron Maiden. I hated it so much, that I dismissed the metal genre as a whole as nothing but noise for many, many years. For year,s I went on without having any kind of musical preference, just listening to whatever I liked hearing on the radio.
Then, around 1995, a different friend made me listen to Anthrax for the first time, and then the coin dropped. I was still not fuly sold back then, though. That would come when I heard Metallica's "Ride The Lightning" a few years later. I suddenly had a craving for this "new" type of music I had dismissed for so long (more than 10 years), and in the timespan of a few months, I hadn't only heard Metallica's whole discography, but owned all of their albums up until that point, too ("Re-Load" was the most recent release back then, and the album I bought first, followed by "Master of Puppets" a bit later). From there, I would move on to the remaining bands of the Big Four, and many other bands (including Iron Maiden). Thus, my status as metalhead was (finally) forged.
Then, around 2007, the owner of a metal forum I was moderator at knew some songs of a then-unknown band called Sabaton we could freely download and listen to. When I first heard them, it was pretty much a match made in heaven, and I knew this was a band I had to check out more of. "The Art Of War" came out not much later, so I bought the album, loved it, and immediately afterwards bought a ticket for the Dragonforce tour Sabaton was playing support for. Dragonforce ultimately didn't impress me, but Sabaton's performance was, at least compared to the headliner, tight and flawless. Since then, with the exception of the tour supporting "Coat Of Arms", I've been to each of their tours whenever they were in the Netherlands (which is where I live). Including the gig from right before the lockdown due to the beervirus, that makes it 6 times I've seen them, more than any other band so far.
Congratulations, looks like you found all four. Also, thanks for sharing your metal journey, glad you gave metal a second chance.
Saw Priest live, BEST SHOW EVER. Hope to see them again with Sabaton.
Saw them in St. Louis together - FUCKING EPIC
Honestly, speaking of Black Sabbath, i would love to see Sabaton doing a cover of Eletric Funeral or War Pigs.
War pigs is great
War Pigs would fit sabaton quite well
I also vote for War Pigs
TheGoverment StoleMyBaby your next
War Pigs is pretty good, but they rhyme masses with masses and that isn't cool.
The first song I ever heard from Sabaton was Seven Pillars of Wisdom at 1.25x speed (I like listening to songs sped up as they often sound better to me that way), and it was because the music video randomly showed up in my RUclips feed one day. Most stuff I've listened to include stuff by artists and groups like Kutless, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Seventh Day Slumber, Red, Survive Said the Prophet, Joe Inoue, Jeremy Camp, Michael W. Smith, Divide Music, Spyair, Anberlin, For King & Country, Jonathan Young, One Ok Rock, Stria, Sent By Ravens, We As Human, Nickelback, Disciple, AmaLee, Pellek, BroKeN, 12 Stones, Dima Lancaster, Breaking Benjamin and Demon Hunter just to name a few.
I do try to keep an open mind when it comes to music, although I'm not particularly the biggest fan of songs with screaming, rapping or cussing in them. Not the most interesting journey I know, but most of the stuff I listened to growing up were Christian artists, and as I got older I started branching out thanks to TV, RUclips and general curiosity.
When i was young, my dad had metallica and ozzy on repeat constantly. I fell in love with the chug of the guitars on the black album and no nore tears. I eventually went my own way and found slipknot which opened my ears to the heavier side of metal. That turned into death metal. I eventually got bored with metal around the time i turned 25. Then i seen the cover for a sabaton album where a soldier was punching another soldier in the head and i thought that was the coolest cover i had ever seen. So i looked up the band and being a bit of a history buff i fell in love with these guys instantly. Heros is still my favorite sabaton album and has the best cover i have ever seen on an album 🤘🤘🤘
I just got into metal during this pandemic. I’m a runner and use music while I run, so I asked a friend for recommendations. She’s a metalhead, so I started listening to metal while running, and found Sabaton in particular from the Winged Hussars memes
Sabaton is great running music.
My metal journey begins with my parents introducing me to Queen when I was a child. They frequently put on the Greatest Hits album in the living room and I remember loving it, especially songs like Bohemian Rhapsody and Bicycle Race. My dad also showed me a band called Oomph! which led to me getting into Neue Deutsche Härte. The next few years I didn't listen to much heavy music, but my passion was reignited when a few of my friends in school started listening to Rammstein. After checking out their songs, I also became a huge Rammstein fan. From there I began exploring the world of metal and I discovered Metallica, 90's nu metal stuff like Slipknot and so on.
I discovered Sabaton when browsing through Spotify around the time that the Heroes album was released. I became instantly hooked and Heroes is probably still my favorite Sabaton album. I went to Sabaton shows pretty much every time they came to my country which has to be at least 5 times now (it's crazy how you guys were constantly on tour before all this covid stuff happened). Anyway, once this quarantine is over you can bet on me being there at the next show 🤘🏻
So I grew up in a Baptist’s home and all that was being played was gospel and some country and a few times I heard the newest song at that time. This was the early 2000s. Then one day I heard WE WILL ROCK YOU and I was captivated, it’s a short song but when I heard it felt like it went on forever and loved every moment. What got me was the beat and I would go through the tv channels to see if I could hear it on one of the music channels. No luck and ever since I find my self tap my finger or foot to the beat subconsciously. Years later I heard Hurt by Johnny Cash and again I was mesmerized not by the beat but by the story. These two songs started my journey to find song similar but only growing up to gospel and country it wasn’t easy . One day right before my family and I left to go eat dinner at a restaurant I heard the the intro to what years later I found out to be Enter SandMan and did all I could to stall them from leaving so I could hear it. I eventually forgot about it. So I continued to find songs to my taste but the only songs but being a small kid all there is to listen was Disney and pop songs from school. One of the reasons I hate school. As I started jr.high I got into rock and hard rock, it was ok but not really for me. Then I entered high school and as I was going to school I heard Enter SandMan again and flashback to that day I first heard it so I asked my friends what is this , they told me and for the rest of the day couldn’t wait to go home and look up the song. When I did I said to my self this is it . My eyes were opened to a new world of metal and listened to Metallica to Iron Maiden to Disturbed. Over this journey I have come to appreciate other types of music from rap to even songs from the dark ages that sound mor like chants and shouts because they feel powerful. Eventually I came across Price of a Mile and learned of Sabaton and I’ve been on a Sabaton high ever since.
I like how when they talked about Metallica becoming softer they showed them rehearsing for a show that ultimately got them banned from MTV for being to Vulgar and disobeying the producers "authority"
Love watching two badass man talking about badass stuff
My metal history started 4 years ago, when I was 13.
My first real contact with metal came in an AMV of Panzerkampf, after that I only listened to Sabaton for 6 months straight (thanks to that, I know the lyrics of approximately 90 Sabaton songs, from Fist for Fight to The Last Stand, with The Great War the number goes to 100 and something), my neighbours were always pissed about metal beying played all day long, those were good times.
My metal journey began with Transformers 2 when I was 11. As I was leaving theater and the credits were rolling, I heard New Divide by Linkin Park. The song just sounded so good and the only thing I wanted to do was hear it again. It was so different than the pop music I was listening to at the time. When I got home I downloaded the New Divide EP along with Hybrid Theory, Meteora, and Minutes to Midnight. I had to delete all of the music on my 5G iPod to make room for the new music. Once my dad realized that I wasn't listening to Usher and Mike Posner, he took me with him to a RUSH concert. This was my very first concert and I was mesmerized by the instrumentals. Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson displayed absolute mastery of the drums and guitars right before my eyes. Amongst the chaos and the noise was the most inspiring music I had ever heard. After that it all became about live music for me. Shortly after, my dad took me the 2012 Uproar Tour where I saw Shidedown, Godsmack, Staind, and Papa Roach. Although I wasn't quite to Metal yet, my music taste was getting heavier. My playlist then consisted of the bands I mentioned along with others like Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin. It wasn't until my dad got a Sirius XM subscription in his car. We were sitting in a drive through listening to Octane when we first heard Bat County by Avenged Sevenfold. We went on to download every last song by A7X. Their music sounded sinister and dark like halloween. The lyrics conjured up scenes of the underworld and an Edgar Allen Poe like universe. From that point on music that took me to different settings and worlds is what attracted me. Soon after, Trivium took me to a bloody mythical Japanese world with Shogun and Volbeat took me to a distorted version of the American West. It wasn't long after that I discovered Viking Metal. Amon Amarth and Ensiferum placed me in nordic Scandinavia amongst vikings who sailed in longships and fought epic battles. I didn't think it could get any better than that but I was mistaken. I came across a meme on the internet one day that went something like this.
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Google Search: Sabaton
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Google Search: Where can I purchase a sword?
I didn't understand the meme because I didn't know anything about Sabaton other than the fact that they are a Power Metal band. I jumped on my music streaming app and searched for Sabaton. I played the most popular song which was "The Last Stand" and gave it a listen. And excuse the pun but, the rest was history! Sabaton took back through time to the greatest battles and acts of heroism. After adding a number of Sabaton songs to my 2,000+ song Metal playlist, I looked online to see when the next Sabaton tour was. To my surprise, they were on tour and scheduled to play in my home town in 4 days from then. Seeing Sabaton preform live sealed the deal. It was one of the most fun and energetic concert that we have ever been to. After that concert my dad and I became Sabaton super fans. Here is a video of me when I received Joakim's Signature Sunglasses and the Ghost Division t-shirt:
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Sabaton has also opened up an alley to more Power Metal and since then I have become a fan of bands such as Helloween and Release the Archers. I honestly can't imagine my life without Sabaton's music. In my opinion, it's the best music for work, workouts, driving, skiing, and running. Keep up the good work guys and know that you are inspiring people all over the world. Looking foreword to whatever the future has in store.
Jake
Rob Halford came out, and most of us fans just shrugged and kept listening to Judas Priest anyway. It made no difference to us. 🤘😁🍺
TBH Rob was in the most transparent closet in the world. Half the titles in the Judas Priest oeuvre are gay double entrendres.
See that's the thing, I don't know what it was like back in the 80's (I'm 26) but now, the metal scene to me; is probably one of the most diverse and accepting. It's half the reason I love it.
@@jackbanton1226 It IS quite accepting, especially 'cause of Rob. Back then (at least here in Argentina), there was still a sort of "not with me" attitude, but he (and others) helped us see the stupidity of homophobia.
@@jackbanton1226 The Metal community has been that way for quite a while, since waaaaayyyyyyy before this new "woke" crap where people are so oversensitive and get offended at everything, it's insane. Then they try to force ultra-political correctness on us. Yeah we accept everyone who loves Metal, and we don't need the "professionally offended" dweebs on Twitter to tell us that. 🤘😁🍺
M.D.Metal Amen to that 😁
When i was a kid i can remember playing burned CD's that my mom had gotten for me. With tracks from Black sabbath and Metallica, that triggers memories in me to this day. But after we got rid of the Burned CD's i almost didnt listen to metal for 10 years (exept for the occational track on the radio). What realy braught me back into metal was my 10th grade history teacher. Once, in 2018, we got an assignment where we had to listen to a Sabaton song: Carolous Rex. The song reignited a fire in me, got me into Sabaton, metal and made history one of my favorite hobbies. I´ve been a fan ever since, and i dont think a day goes by without me listening to Heavy Metal.
I dont think you will see this, but if you do, thank you for being awsome Proffesor Karl. Keep on Rocking.
I've never before actually thought about my journey to becoming a metal/sabaton fan.
I remember my mom telling me how as a kid I used to play with a toy guitar in front of a tv, listening to Fröbelin Palikat, which is a finnish band who played rock-ish children's songs. Next what I remember is that when I was around 9 years old (give or take a year or two) my parents bought me Guitar Hero 3 which I played the crap out of. After that I got interested in playing a real guitar and applied for lessons. However, instead of guitar I ended up learning bass, and when I think about it, I'm not even sure what kind of music I listened to then, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't metal (my best guess would be some kind of electronic music).
Then, around 13-15 years of age, I gave up on playing bass, because I was more interested in guitar and started learning that on my own. When starting that, I found my interests going back to the rock/metal classics of Guitar Hero, and since my new friends I made when starting middle school(?) also listened to mostly metal music I got more and more into it. And it was all downhill from there...
As for how I found Sabaton...
A few of the new friends I mentioned listened to a lot of Sabaton, but for some reason I never really got into it, even though I liked metal music already. I started listening to Sabaton for myself a few years ago, when I was in high school, and really started loving it around the time when this Sabaton History channel was announced. From then on Sabaton has been my favourite band with barely no others even coming close to contesting that position.
Well... looks like this formed into quite a wall of text. If you managed read this far, I can only say thank you for spending your precious time for my story.
Similar story with Fröbelin Palikat. I apparently used to take some empty boxes in front of the tv and play them like drums. I also stole buckets from other kids to use them as drums when playing outside in the park. Or I tried, but my mom stopped me. :P
Also, Suomi perkele I suppose?
Good to know I wasn't the only weird kid doing things like that.
On a side note:
Nyt kun suomi mainittu niin kai se on sanottava se kuuluisa torilla tavataan! :D
If you havent already you should give Lovebites,Aldious, Mary's Blood and Band Maid a listen.
I can confirm: My cats find Sabaton extremely calming. As soon as I start to play something at a medium volume I hear them meowing at my door, wanting to get in and sleep on my bed. Their favorite songs are Night Witches and Primo Victoria
My metal journey (to Sabaton) a very high friend of mine and I were on a CSD (Christopher Street Day) and there were Drag Queens performing. He yelled in the middle of the performance: "Play Sabaton!" And I had a crush on him that time and looked into it. Now I'm here, 3 years later, listening to Sabaton, trying to get all the history teachers at my school to listen to Sabaton (we got 90% of them already) and my whole closet exploding with band t-shirt....
My mom thought it was just a phase. That phase has been going on since I was 8. I am now 16.
My metal journey: It started with emo and goth rock and I was oriented in the american bands such as my chemical romance or Black Veil Brides. Then my metal phase with Coven (the band before Black Sabbath) Slayer, Lordi (even though they got popular later) and Kiss. I have some Kiss Vinyls from my mum because she had a similar phase but grew out of it pretty quick. She still goes to some metal shows with me and always calmes my dad down when I'm playing any kind of metal and screaming along to it. (He hates when I do it, which is a motivation to do it even more often)
If you read this far: Thank you, I hope you have a wonderful day/evening, night, morning or what ever suits for your situation and you're doing well.
My metal story: I was in middle school and was not really sure what music I liked. Until I found out about AC/DC. They got me into hard rock and led me to Metal bands. Then I found my two favorite bands. Metallica and Sabaton. I had never enjoyed listening to music that much until I heard them and realized how great music could be. They led me to more heavy stuff like death core bands and such. Now I am taking a class in college about the history of rock and we are getting to metal very soon. Also, my first metal concert was Sabaton’s most recent tour to Colorado with Hamerfall. It was the greatest concert I have ever been to. I am in a band now and I am the lead singer and learning to be a rhythm guitarist as well. Metal has been my biggest musical influence in life and no matter what mood I am in, I am always up for listening to metal!
First of all, please, play Metal Medley again on tour. That´s my dream since hearing it live back in 2010 in Zlin.
And to my metal journey. It, of course, started with Sabaton back in 2008. It was on a school trip where my schoolmate played me Attero Dominatus (and then Over the Hills and Far Away by Nightwish). I still remember that like it was yesterday. We were sitting on the train and playing music on our old (inherited) Nokias. We felt like masters of the world while listening to this hard music.
First attended concert was in Zlin 6. 11. 2010 where Sabaton played with Alestorm and Steelwing. And the first album, I ever bought, was Carolus Rex Digibook Edition which I bought in the Netherlands, again on a school trip.
I remember every single moment of these memories so thanks for them!
Thank you for your kind words, it's very touching to hear that some of your best memories concern Sabaton. It sounds like you had some pretty amazing school trips too, we're glad we played such a part in them. Keep on supporting us and keep making those Sabaton memories!
Pozdrav z Prahy do Zlína! :)
My dad always told me stories about getting bootlegs from across the “pond” in the 70s and being the first to hear bands like Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, and Iron Maiden in his neighborhood. Fast forward to 2005 and a good friend hands me a bootleg CD with random tracks off Fist for Fight, Primo, and Attero. With the internet growing, I didn’t think I’d ever get that old school feel of having “my band” but Sabaton was just that to me (still is). Primo Victoria was the first song I heard and Wolfpack is my favorite to this day. Big soft spot for The Hammer Has Fallen.
0:30 "sold out award" I know what they are going for, but the wording just seems so poor. "Congratz on selling out boys!"
sabaton more like shillaton
Lmao
Well Indy and anyone else who may or may not be reading this. Let me tell you my metal journey...... It started I believe on a family trip in early 2000's when my brother bought a collection cd of rock songs. This is the first time I can remember hearing songs like Paranoid and We will rock you and I fell instantly in love and wanted to buy more of these cd's for my very limited money as a kid. When ever I would obtain any of the cd's I would become obsessed with them and play whenever I got the chance. Fast forward to mid 2000's and my brother has exposed me to more bands Like Helloween, Hammerfall , Sabaton and Metallica: out of these bands I chose the last two to be my bands as a pre teen. I heard somewhere that the music you listen too around the age 14 you will hold on too for the rest of your life and as much as I loved The art of war at some point I dropped Sabaton I'm sorry to say. So I jumped head first into Metallica and for the coming years they completely and totally took over my playlists.
So it was pretty much only Metallica I listened to when I got my first smartphone in early 2010 and downloaded Spotify on it, and sense Metallica where not yet on Spotify at that point, I had to expand my music taste a little and that's how I found Megadeth and other bands similar to Metallica, Basically discovered and fell in love with thrash metal which I still love to this day. During this time thanks to Spotify I also went back in time to find older stuff like Queen, Black Sabbath and Motörhead who I fell in love with. This was what I listened to in 2015 when I added Led Zeppelin and some blues rock influence to the mix and started to buy vinyl records and among the first ones I bought was The black album and Paranoid.
And that takes us to today as 26 year old whos music tastes at this point mainly consists of metal. Still love thrash ,the classics and some other noteworthy stand alone bands are Amon amarth, Rage against the machine, Alestorm and Black label society. And I have rediscovered Sabaton.
I grew up with bands like Sweet, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Queen. As a teenager, I've listened to Linkin Park, Nightwish and Rammstein. The first CD I bought for my own money was HIM - Razorblade Romance. At 15 I got Metallica from my therapist, due to sleeping issues. Years later, video of Joakim playing Master of Puppets poped up on YT and that's how Sabaton became a center of my music life. And I really thank you Joakim, for recommending The Lightbringer of Sweden in your playlist. For me - the best album of 2020!🤘🏻
We're glad to hear that we've become one of your favourites, Eva. You've been on quite the musical journey from when you were young but settling on Sabaton works for us! Keep up the support and thank you for sharing your story with us.
Wait, Joakim played Master of Puppets? I need to see this
@@AS-Stardust Me too
I've gotta see Jocke play master of puppets
Metallica for sleeping issues!? Wtf bwahahahahhaha 😂 your therapist is awesome
My Metal journey, so far. It started when I was in elementary, I saw my dad playing the music video for Alestorm's Keelhauled on the TV. My parents always played a wide range of music; I got the punk and classic rock from my mom and all the metal bands mentioned in this video from my dad. When I started 8th grade, I got into Alestorm and Ensiferum, working may way to them from MCR, Green Day, Nickelback, and Theory of a Deadman. By 10th grade, I was fully into metal, and I found my now favourite band Sabaton, who in turn has inspired me to go into history in University. High school for me was filled with Power Metal; Sabaton, Alestorm, Powerwolf, Beast in Black, Gloryhammer, and later Warkings and Brothers of Metal. It was once I went to college that I started to get into the heavier bands like Avatar, In Flames, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, & Disturbed. Now I'm only 19 and I'm still finding new bands all the time, most recently Equilibrium
I'm new to metal, my journey started this year, with Winged Hussars. Now i'm a big fan of metal and constantly broadening my horizons so this video was especially interesting to me bc i now know where all the sounds that i've learned to love over the past few months came from, and you lot have given me a number of bands to check out now. Only kind of homework i enjoy.
*THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED*
Sorry. It has to be said.
@@Damien.D Dont apologize, of course it did
Never late. Welcome aboard!
I was introduced into metal when I first heard Gun N' Roses and then went to Metallica and Twisted Sister I was then listening to some ACDC and just a mix of songs on RUclips when I came across Back In Control and Panzerkampf, that's when I first discovered you guys and then I started getting more of your songs recommended to me like Nuclear Attack and couple others including Midway, and I just fell in love with you guys as all your music is historical and you don't pick sides you just choose a story and tell it from a perspective which is what I really enjoy about you guys. I am currently only 15 but love all your songs with my current favorite being Night Witches but I'll forever be glad I clicked on that Falkland War music video for Back in Control made by whoever made it and will always love your songs, lots of love from Australia.
My journey started when I was 7 in 1991 with Metallica’s black album, Metallica led me to Apocalyptica, Apocalyptica’s cover of Fields of Verdun brought me to Sabaton in 2019 shortly before The Great War album.
I was already a huge fan of Indy and The Great War channel before, so Sabaton History is perfect to Me.
I grew up in a house where I had no control of the music, no MTV, nothing. So I had to listen to my parents music, which was all 50s. As I got older I started hearing things like AC/DC and Metallica when at friends' houses, which were awesome. But one day when I was 13, a friend of mine played "Hail and Kill" and "Heart of Steel" by Manowar, and I fell in love. I discovered many other bands, Sabaton included, from listening to Manowar and finding similar music.
I got into metal when I was in history class and we were learning about greece and my teacher put on alexander the great from iron maiden.
My parents were divorced when I was young. So we had visitation weekends. In the car with my mom she HATED everything .y dad listened to, so it was almost exclusively 90s R&B and country from her, but my dad, and old school leather clad judas priest fan, he always gave my sister and I a choice. It started with kids film sound tracks, then eventually I had to dive into his collection which was full of classics. Dio, Priest, Metallica, Motorhead, Twisted Sister, up to Megadeth, Trivium, 3 inches of Blood, Obituary, Metal church. Having that choice, and being exposed to it young really let me fall into it, and the fact that I was given a choice, and metal is all about choosing your own path...well that message just hit me like a ton of bricks. I grew out my hair against my mothers wishes, learned how to scream, and started wearing leather and band shirts...here I am a grown ass man now and my style hasn't changed. Metal helped me define myself really early on in my life.
Also I have tickets to see the Judas priest Sabaton tour WOOH 🤘
It's nice to hear that metal has had such a profound impact on you and how you grew up. Keep being awesome and we hope to see you live soon!
21:44 Joakim looks like FPSRussia in that picture.
Kyle had a bit longer Hair then that
I can't recall how old I was when I was first introduced to metal, because it was a slow and gradual thing. My dad was an avid metal fan and he made this CD for me with a dozen tracks on it, most of it metal and some not. It was a Hammerfall song, an Axel Rudi Pell song, a Rainbow song I believe and some others. The first time I can remember being made acutely aware of a band, how they sounded and what they looked like and what they were called (band and members) waswhen my dad took me to the living room one day and sat me down in front of the TV and put on this music video. It was "I wish I had an angel" by Nightwish and I was just hooked. I would routinely go to him and ask dad to put on the music video on the TV again and I'd just sit and watch it on repeat. At around the same time I also started listening more to Hammerfall, and my dad gave me more albums like Gamma Ray's No world order, Elements by Stratovarius, some Helloween, Manowar, Rainbow, Priest and Accept stuff, and I also saw "We're not gonna take it" by Twisted Sister.
Then one day he came into my room with his iPod and asked me to listen to something. He put the iPod on this speaker/digital wake-up clock thing I owned at the time and put on.... the album The Art of War, and I loooooved it. You really had me at Ghost Division XP That was when I was 10-13 years old I believe, and since then my metal trifecta has been Sabaton, Nightwish and Hammerfall. In later years I've also become a big fan of Raubtier and Amaranthe in particular.
@Daniel Arch
I think the opposite, I think they've only gotten better
My Metal Journey started rather recently. It started with you guys actually, you guys lead to me falling in love with metal and it lead me to take up the older stuff loved by my parents. Thank you for it.
My metal journey started out early, I was around 5-6 years old when TV introduced me to Kiss and Guns n' Roses. However my household was not metal friendly at all, so it wasn't until I was 12 when I found Iron Maiden through school. And from there it started to accelerate, and fast. While I am a lover of all classic 80s and 90s heavy metal such as Judas Priest and Candlemass, I became a huge fan of symphonic / goth metal in 2005/2006 with bands such as Nightwish and Within Temptation.
I think it was 2008 or 2009 when I first found Sabaton via RUclips. I had been watching Nightwish and got a "because you liked" video of Primo Victoria. Absolutely loved the sound and instantly became a fan.
Still keep discovering bands to this day, both old and new and I just can't have enough. Metal is my life and blood 💜🤘
Oh man, finding sabaton because of related videos to nightwish is how I found them too! i miss when related videos were actually related. I found so many amazing bands that way.
@@wildwoodspiderling3068 Huh, thats really cool! ^_^ Thats what I use Spotify for these days, have found sooo many bands that way!
@@ladymaeve yeah, im getting there with Spotify, the algorithm is still kinda confused by me but as i use it more it's getting a little better. Still tries to give me bands i already know and dont really like, but there have been some gems as well
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thanks
Thanks Soldier
My metal journey actually started with Sabaton. My older brother went to a german metalfestival and came back with Last Stand album. He just said: Listen to it. Maybe you like it. Oh yesss i did. With 13 years old i listened to just that album on repeat for one or even two months. Then i listened to their other albums and discovered other bands like alstorm, arch enemy, gloryhammer, powerwolf, blind gurdian and feuerschwanz, just to name a few. But sabaton will always be special to me, because it was my very first metal band
Aight so my metal journey, here we go
Alright so my mom and dad were, and still are, big linkin park fans and breaking benjamin fans, they never really got out of the gothic music faze and neither have I, and I loved listening to linkin park and breaking Benjamin. And it was like this until I started watching a bit of youtube. And I found this RUclipsr that makes so music called DAGames and he made some video game music and made some about my favorite video games at the time, however at the time it was more pop than rock and metal. Then I started getting into the music that he was making about either video games I didn't care about or no video games at all. And these songs were more rock and metal, and I started listening to more of that. Then I started getting into history, specifically military history, because of one of if not the greatest history teacher. And it mainly stayed that way until my eight grade year, where I was watching one of dagames videos and parts of primo victoria started playing. I went searching for primo victoria without any idea of the topic, any idea of the name, all I heard was him saying that he loved sabaton. So all I knew was the name and i didn't find primo Victoria first, I found the lost battalion first, and then i fell in love with sabaton. And here i is now, learning about military history and heavy metal on the history channel for sabaton. I say my life be good.
My Metal Journey: I can't remember how old I was at the time, but my dad got multiple metal albums for Christmas. It was all of the same band, Iron Maiden. I listened to them solely for years. One day, a game I was playing started a promotion in conjunction with a metal band. The game was World of Tanks. I didn't pay much attention to the promotion at the time, but later looked up the band, Sabaton, on RUclips and here I am a massive fan. While I have heard songs from other famous metal icons and enjoy said songs, Iron Maiden and Sabaton are the only two bands I listen too on a regular basis. Fear of the Dark live is my favorite metal song.
They have a phobia, a fear of my farts.
@Troy EGA Iron Maiden, Fear of the dark
Growing up in the South in the early 80’s I didn’t have any real access to heavy metal until MTV, through cable, came to our to our town. Then I saw the video to Judas Priest’s “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” and my musical world changed forever. I have been a metalhead ever since!
I had tickets for Priest/Sabaton here in SLC and it was canceled 😡
Are you really surprised about this? Or Angry?
The_Shuffle Both ? Utah is filled with freedom loving Americans who don’t buy into this hoax, SLC is full of leftist scum that think they have a right to dictate your life. I don’t blame the band, I blame my shitty governor and my even shittier senator(Romney).
Victory or Valhalla , it's the fear mongering (and lying) main stream media and all the left, from the WHO to the CDC that turned a cold virus into "the apocalypse!" It was always about the election(defeat orange man bad) not the virus. I was going to see them in Los Angeles(birthday) and am sooooo pissed. Was so looking forward to seeing Sabaton live on a large stage. Followed by the band I have never missed a show to since 81. Thanks 2020😕. You think you got it bad? We've got Newsome, and Feinstein and Kamala Harris. #Trump2020
@Victory or Valhalla I know how you feel: my mom had gotten tickets to see Sabaton and Judas Priest in Fox Theater, Detroit, as a late birthday gift, but it got cancelled. Very unfortunate.
Jpriest13 🤘🏻