@@danielmccormick3611 No dude, it's creepy ad overly obsessive. Every damn reaction video people are losing their minds. "omg floor at the end, omg omg omg". who cares.
Floor Jansen is the lady who performs the vocals in the end credits. Keeping in mind this is an actual story that happened it was during the beginnings of WW1 to think after that day they went back to shooting each other again
Actually, one German unit ended up having to retreat from their section in the line, after the German infantry refused to shoot the men they had made friends with the day before.
Yes he plays the piano and was hired as the keyboardist, they asked him to sing till they found a singer...."those lazy bastards never did find a singer" per his quote (LOL)!!!! Great song about a great event that was made possible by the soldiers themselves who were stuck in the snow and frozen mud longing to be home for the Holidays. They found their humanity for a little while in the middle of the insanity, most of them never survived as many were transferred by the generals to make sure they wouldn't survive as punishment for this and it never happened again. A Christmas song...YES but also a remembrance for all those lost to war (11/11 just pasted) and a cry to never forget these people, often never cited in the history book with the "important people" in those dusty pages. Here you experience the same event they did as only Sabaton can do. I recall fallen buddies from firefights and hope they have found the peace that seems to elude us all. The Valkyrie Goddess, Floor singing the Aria during the end credit was chilling, the Valkyrie claiming the fallen from No Mans Land and bringing them home to rest!!! Great reaction and congrats everything is perfect just like the reaction.
Your positivity is contagious. LOVE IT!!! So good start for the weekend to come! ....Thank you for continue reacting to Sabaton! ...And by the way Your new studio looks awsome!..Just as yourselves! ...By the way Joakim (the singer) started up as a keyboardist in Sabaton (or actually before they took their new name Sabaton) Best Christmas wishes from Dalarna , Sweden (Sabatonland) (Ooops! You missed that the wonderful end solo was sung by the drummer Hannes Van Dahls wife...a slightly skilled lady called Floor Jansen (Nightwish) ;-)
Things to know about ANY Sabaton Video: Every second of the Video has it´s purpose and if you don´t pay attention until the last second you might miss some treats ;-)
This was a Great reaction but........the ending vocals from Floor should not have been fading, it belongs to the song. Anyway a great reaction. Kind regards from the Netherlands❤❤
That cross still stands at the exact place it was erected in 1914 at the side of a nowadays field, not the original anymore, but a replica. The location is in the middle of what used to be the no man's land during the first battle of Ypres, it is located near Commines-Warneton (Belgium) not far from the French border, not one day passes without fresh flowers, or even footballs being placed at the base of the cross, remembrance counts! Lest we forget
I have learned that it was the german side who started to sing Stille Nacht - and soon the brits joined in, after a while the met at no man land the germans brought beers and the brits whisky , the the germans took up a football and soon the game a was on , the result of the many competitions can still be seen to this day as the notes still exist, thanks for a nice reaction
Bit silly to fade out the outro...watch it again and watch till the end - in the credits you will see who you missed! They make these videos that length for a reason!!
YES! you folks are an amazing up and coming channel. i am glad to see you did this. They spent years making this song as they wanted to make sure they covered the 1914 truce properly.
Missed the fact that Floor was singing the outro. Love this song because it captures the Brotherhood of Arms that us veterans feel perfectly. Love that you guys felt that connection.
Congratulations on being back! The vid looks fantastic, huge improvement on your old equipment. I love this song! This is the best Sabaton song in my opinion , and the message is appropriate for now. If soldiers in the midst of one of the bloodiest, most brutal wars in history could set aside their differences why can't we? Also it was nice of Hannes' wife to pitch in for closing credit vocals too. What's her name? Oh yeah Floor. She's in this obscure band Nightwish... Great Reaction!
As someone from the UK many of us are aware of this happening but only on the first Christmas. There is an incredible song with animation by Sabaton based on a very emotional event in WW 2 called NO BULLETS FLY.
On parts of the frontline there was pockets of peace in 1915 too, but it wasn't as spread as in 1914. Remember, everyone thought that the war would be over by Christmas 1914. They politicians had told them so.
Joakim did Keyboard and Vocals for the first two albums (Primo Victoria & Metalizer. From the third album (Attero Dominus, 2006) they had a dedicated Keyboard player (Daniel Myhr) to free up Joakim for vocals (and crowd interaction). Then in 2012 (after Carolus Rex, 6th album) two thirds of the band left Sabaton to form the band Civil War, this included Daniel Myhr. Only Joakim and Pär Sundström (Bass) was left, and while they recruited two Guitarist and a Drummer they never replaced the Keyboard player (IE 5 instead of 6 total). Instead Joakim went back to doing the Keyboard in the studio, I assume they use the studio keyboard track for Live performances given that except for The Red Baron there's no keyboard on the scene.
The first music video I saw that mention the christmas truce 1914 was Paul McCartney's "Pipes of peace". Then there's Garth Brooks Belleau Woods too. And you missed that the operatic singing over the credits was Floor.
The new setup is great. This video brings tears to my eyes every time, thinking about the men seeing the absolute horrors and someone says.. it's Christmas... let us all come together at least for a moment. I'm sure others will or have mentioned it, but Hannes's wife did some singing at the end ;).
OMG you turned the volume down on Floor, how could you!!! lol Great Reaction, for more on this topic there is a decent movie (2005) "Joyeux Noel" (Merry Christmas) shows the German, French & British (well a Scottish unit) , sadly when word of these events got out many units were punished and relocated to other sections of the line were the fighting was more savage. and then they made sure on holidays they would launch attacks and such. but the war took a turn and got more deadly esp once GAS started to be used in 1915 some soldier tried to repeat the event of 1914 but were shot .
Sabaton said it best: "It's out! Our first song about peace!" Love this song and the video is mindblowing indeed. Thanx for doing this. On another note, Feuerschwanz is releasing a new video tomorrow (Monday, 6 dec at 5pm) The teaser looks epic, so please jump on that. It's a cover of Manowar's "Warriors of the world" with some epic guests
Welcome back you two! So glad to see you all again! Sabaton has certainly created a Christmas Classic here in their usual epic and brilliant fashion. This one is very special though… I agree. Imagine this one live with a crowd of thousands singing along “Today we’re all brothers. Tonight we’re all friends. A moment of peace in a war that never ends Today we're all brothers… We drink and unite. Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white.” 🎄🤘🏻🙂
Right after they erected the wooden cross, you can hear some faint artillery salvos in the distance. Those are the salvos that were used to disperse the soldiers and end the truce, at the orders of their own respective generals. Some where punished. The lucky ones only got relocated, assigned to other companies or on the Eastern Front. Still, this truce is what makes me refer to World War One as "the last war of the gentlemen". As you've seen from No Bullets Fly, chivalry persisted in isolated cases (Franz Stigler, or Walther Wenck from the song 'Hearts of Iron'), but never before or after was there an entire frontline deciding to have such a ceasefire.
First: the video looks and sounds great. Second: Watch it again and enjoy the beautiful outro vocals. Third: I believe the reason Sabaton puts so much into their videos/songs is they are relating true events about real people who deserve to have it done right. Pär carving '2021' into the memorial cross after illuminating 'Lest We Forget' says volumes without having to say volumes. Love your reactions and this is a great welcome back!
I thought the carving of 2021 was meant as sort of a "we still remember" moment. But Elizabeth's (Charismatic Voice) idea was it was that is was Sabaton's Christmas wish for the world this year. I really like that idea.
@@jessicakoster2543 yo , sin embargo creo que tiene que ver con el recuerdo de que, realmente, parece que la lección que nos enseñaron aún funciona : tenemos más en común que diferente y aún seguimos unidos ( Europa), habiendo aprendido esa lección....
They blew up the piano but left the cross untouched lol. lol. I'm assuming you know that Hannes is Sabaton's drummer eh? What you may NOT know is the female voice you hear singing the a capella aria at the end is Nightwish Frontwoman Floor Jansen-Hannes' wife. Her name is included in the credits.
II'm certainly not an emotional guy, but this song gets me. Perhaps that is the most important message, that christmas time have. Friendship and humanity for all man kind. This Video is, in my opinion, one of the best, so far. I've heard it 3 times in a row. Great, great, great!
Good reaction. Everything looks and sounds good. 4k is not necessary. This song is great and based on real happenings during worldwar 1. There where several Christmas truces during this war. Nice you are back with this great reactions. Thank you for this reaction.
What an AMAZING 🌟CHRISTMAS🌟 Song by SABATON. The lyrics and the MUSIC inspire You. And the Video UNBELIEVABLE. It's also a piece of History. You can learn a lot. It's very.....EMOTIONAL 😢 And at the end the Voice of FLOOR JANSEN, makes it extra Beautiful... 💫 This a Gift for Christmas. ☃️🎄🕊️ We are all..... We are all..... We are all..... We are all..... FRIENDS🤝🤝 For Me The 🌟CHRISTMAS SONG🌟 of the Year 2021...💫 A little PEACE 🕊 and LOVE ❤️ for Everyone 🌹 WARS are TERRIBLE... Let's all think a little bit about 🌟 CHRISTMAS TRUCE 🌟 during the 🌟 CHRISTMAS 🌟 Season, This is so often FORGOTTEN!!!! Thank You this was AMAZING. Love and Peace 🕊 🇳🇱🙋🏼♀️
Good thing you got your early X-mas present from us fans/subs. I didn't have any part on that, but i wanna thank those who were. Songs and Thongs continues. 😉
Thanks guys! Congratulations from Colorado on the gear and your re-launch! Great pick for your inaugural release! This MV is phenomenal and Sabaton delivered again. Missed you guys and so happy to have you back on the air. Much love!
"24. December 1914: Late on Christmas Eve, the British Expeditionary Force heard the German troops singing Christmas carols in the trenches opposite and saw lanterns and small Christmas trees along the trenches. Messages were shouted to each other between the trenches. The next day, British and German soldiers met and exchanged gifts, took photos and some even played soccer. It was a rare but magical moment of peace and harmony in the midst of one of the most gruesome events of the 20th century. "
3:03 There were alot that actually were. Lots of of kids actually lied about their age to make them older so they could enlist. They think around 250,000 kids, some as young as 14 lied to join the army.
👍👍👍to that video WOW!!!! They just keep getting better and better, so happy for you guys getting this great equipment ( Camera in 4k) NICE!!! Love you guys I'm an early subscriber and just love your reactions, keep on rockin 🤟
In 1914, the first year of World War I, at the front of the war the Germans, French en Brits celebrated Christmas together. They stopped the war for a day. The soldiers at the front wanted to stop the war, but the generals wanted it to continue. That is what this song is about.
Now you have to apologize to the valkerie queen.😁😁 You didnt even noticed it was floor. 🤣🤣🤣 i dont know if sorry gonna help you get back to walhalla. 🤭🤭
I love when the second member of the band climbs out of the trench you can faintly hear someone yell "What are you doing?" Tiny little details that may not be consciously acknowledged that add up immensely.
That cross represents one that's actually in Belgium at the site of one of the battlefields from WW1. The wording on the actual cross is very similar to the one in this video.
Since I didn't see anyone bring up the history on this (and I don't know if you watched sabaton's history episode on the song) Sadly, it was an truce made by the soldiers, not any commanders or generals. It was first invoked by the pope asking just for the 1 day, everyone respect the birth of Christ and not fight. He was essentially told to fuck off, sadly. However, throughout the Western Front there were many truces by soldiers as it was normal (especially for collecting the dead) and it was a holiday for both sides, so many spots along the front stopped due to that, singing songs, playing soccer, etc, though some areas continued fighting. (Which was shown in the video as the troops could hear explosions and gunfire causing them to look around at that point in the song) The longest truce during the christmas truce lasted 5 days while the shortest was just for Christmas eve, and in many areas, the soldiers on both sides refused to fire on the other side afterward, the people they now considered friends (and brothers) and were either executed, moved elsewhere or court-martialed. Very, very few of them survived until the end of WW1. And while media (in Britain) tried to make this known (the christmas truce), it was quickly stopped by the government. And the generals ensured that no such truce happened again, by ordering artillery to continue on holidays, nonstop.
Good song writing is being able to connect with folks and they are able to have reactions which completely gloss over epic lines like "We carried the war on our shoulders. For our nations, is that why we bury our friends?" That line completely floors me (pun intended) and has stuck with me in my journey through this song.
Agreed 100% with what you said at the end and how you interpreted the song. It's not a whole lot to ask for just one day a year where we all say fuck it and just show some humanity to one another. It would be great if we could do that year round, but baby steps, I guess.
Hope your not beaten up to bad for talking over Floor Jansen singing during the closing credits. I will give you a pass because I’ve heard that Floor singing is not on the album version. Still love it and will definitely buy the Album but in my humble & old Metal head/rock opinion Floors singing out the ending gave the song a perfect ending of hope & beauty! Rock On Stay Safe! Oh video and sound was good on my end don’t need 5 HD. Happy Holidays! Stay Safe Rock On 🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Though at times peace does breakout, the undeniable truth is War is a condition that Man will never recover from. When the absence of war goes on to long the lessons are forgotten and the condition raises it's destructive head again. Knowing this, it's a sobering fact that we should be prepared for war at all times but forever pray for peace.
3:47 According to an interview Joakim was originally hired to play keyboard - and then asked if he could sing until they found an "actual" lead singer - which in the end they never bothered looking for.
Great reaction, by the way. It's True story. the story behind this music, actually, its about one day that hapened in the world war one, have been mortal enemies armies, that stopping fight to celebrate christmas and then danced theirselves, chanted holy night, drinked wine e played football.
The soldiers of the Christmas truce found out, that they actually had more in common with the poor bastard in the other trench, than with their own generals! In the Christmas of 1915, the generals couldn't have that! So there was no repeat of the 1914 Christmas truce on this large scale, as the artillery kept firing ... Some DID come out of their trenches, but was mostly instantly killed by the enemy soldiers. No moment of peace in a war that'll never end ... Until 11 o'clock, 11th of November, 1918 ... War to end all wars, indeed ...
You shouldn't have talked over Floor and the end credits. Other than that, a great reaction to what was my favourite Christmas song of all time, until I heard Dan Vasc's Angels We Have Heard On High, released on Thursday, December 16this year. Please do a reaction to that.
Sabaton: we need a majestic / soprano vocalist to sing the outro credits ?
Hannes: I know someone.
@@groefrau6324 im happy that i could make you laugh 😃 have a wonderful day.....craig from NYC
Yeah!!! Like let me find the moment a baby sister and somebody who feed the pets
The obsession with floor is insane.
@@iamReddington as it should be
@@danielmccormick3611 No dude, it's creepy ad overly obsessive. Every damn reaction video people are losing their minds. "omg floor at the end, omg omg omg". who cares.
Floor Jansen is the lady who performs the vocals in the end credits.
Keeping in mind this is an actual story that happened it was during the beginnings of WW1 to think after that day they went back to shooting each other again
Actually, one German unit ended up having to retreat from their section in the line, after the German infantry refused to shoot the men they had made friends with the day before.
On some parts of the very long front the truce lasted until noon on the 25th, on others it held well into January.
Floorgasm 🥰🥰
Full body chills when the piano starts and when Floor sings the outro.
Yes he plays the piano and was hired as the keyboardist, they asked him to sing till they found a singer...."those lazy bastards never did find a singer" per his quote (LOL)!!!! Great song about a great event that was made possible by the soldiers themselves who were stuck in the snow and frozen mud longing to be home for the Holidays. They found their humanity for a little while in the middle of the insanity, most of them never survived as many were transferred by the generals to make sure they wouldn't survive as punishment for this and it never happened again. A Christmas song...YES but also a remembrance for all those lost to war (11/11 just pasted) and a cry to never forget these people, often never cited in the history book with the "important people" in those dusty pages. Here you experience the same event they did as only Sabaton can do. I recall fallen buddies from firefights and hope they have found the peace that seems to elude us all. The Valkyrie Goddess, Floor singing the Aria during the end credit was chilling, the Valkyrie claiming the fallen from No Mans Land and bringing them home to rest!!! Great reaction and congrats everything is perfect just like the reaction.
Your positivity is contagious. LOVE IT!!! So good start for the weekend to come! ....Thank you for continue reacting to Sabaton! ...And by the way Your new studio looks awsome!..Just as yourselves! ...By the way Joakim (the singer) started up as a keyboardist in Sabaton (or actually before they took their new name Sabaton) Best Christmas wishes from Dalarna , Sweden (Sabatonland) (Ooops! You missed that the wonderful end solo was sung by the drummer Hannes Van Dahls wife...a slightly skilled lady called Floor Jansen (Nightwish) ;-)
Things to know about ANY Sabaton Video: Every second of the Video has it´s purpose and if you don´t pay attention until the last second you might miss some treats ;-)
Nice for you to feature this wonderful Sabaton production. Sorry you missed the lilting outro sung by our Queen Floor Jansen.
great song to start off again. Such a good Story telling again.
how can you dare talking over Floor Jansens Outro Vocals? xD
This was a Great reaction but........the ending vocals from Floor should not have been fading, it belongs to the song.
Anyway a great reaction.
Kind regards from the Netherlands❤❤
That cross still stands at the exact place it was erected in 1914 at the side of a nowadays field, not the original anymore, but a replica. The location is in the middle of what used to be the no man's land during the first battle of Ypres, it is located near Commines-Warneton (Belgium) not far from the French border, not one day passes without fresh flowers, or even footballs being placed at the base of the cross, remembrance counts! Lest we forget
I have learned that it was the german side who started to sing Stille Nacht - and soon the brits joined in, after a while the met at no man land the germans brought beers and the brits whisky , the the germans took up a football and soon the game a was on , the result of the many competitions can still be seen to this day as the notes still exist, thanks for a nice reaction
Turning the volume down on Floor is i believe illegal in 87 countries. ;-)
We noticed yes. This is entirely our bad 🙈 Kinda hanged ourselves by doing that!
Lol
I think it's one of those sins that is a go straight to hell with no skip.
I'm just kidding 😂
@@adp6632Yes, not even a UNO reverse card will help! 😅
Facts!
Floor!
Sabaton did the Arjan Lucassen trick: put Floor at the end of a song, as she is the icing on the cake🤓
Can you imagine an arena full of people singing the chorus along with the band?
I wanna be there for that!
Check out the live from poland
Bit silly to fade out the outro...watch it again and watch till the end - in the credits you will see who you missed! They make these videos that length for a reason!!
YES! you folks are an amazing up and coming channel. i am glad to see you did this. They spent years making this song as they wanted to make sure they covered the 1914 truce properly.
Missed the fact that Floor was singing the outro. Love this song because it captures the Brotherhood of Arms that us veterans feel perfectly. Love that you guys felt that connection.
Congratulations on being back! The vid looks fantastic, huge improvement on your old equipment. I love this song! This is the best Sabaton song in my opinion , and the message is appropriate for now. If soldiers in the midst of one of the bloodiest, most brutal wars in history could set aside their differences why can't we? Also it was nice of Hannes' wife to pitch in for closing credit vocals too. What's her name? Oh yeah Floor. She's in this obscure band Nightwish... Great Reaction!
As someone from the UK many of us are aware of this happening but only on the first Christmas. There is an incredible song with animation by Sabaton based on a very emotional event in WW 2 called NO BULLETS FLY.
On parts of the frontline there was pockets of peace in 1915 too, but it wasn't as spread as in 1914. Remember, everyone thought that the war would be over by Christmas 1914. They politicians had told them so.
@@darkiee69 perhaps if the politicians and the generals were on the front line it might have ended by Xmas.
Joakim did Keyboard and Vocals for the first two albums (Primo Victoria & Metalizer. From the third album (Attero Dominus, 2006) they had a dedicated Keyboard player (Daniel Myhr) to free up Joakim for vocals (and crowd interaction).
Then in 2012 (after Carolus Rex, 6th album) two thirds of the band left Sabaton to form the band Civil War, this included Daniel Myhr.
Only Joakim and Pär Sundström (Bass) was left, and while they recruited two Guitarist and a Drummer they never replaced the Keyboard player (IE 5 instead of 6 total).
Instead Joakim went back to doing the Keyboard in the studio, I assume they use the studio keyboard track for Live performances given that except for The Red Baron there's no keyboard on the scene.
The first music video I saw that mention the christmas truce 1914 was Paul McCartney's "Pipes of peace". Then there's Garth Brooks Belleau Woods too.
And you missed that the operatic singing over the credits was Floor.
The new setup is great. This video brings tears to my eyes every time, thinking about the men seeing the absolute horrors and someone says.. it's Christmas... let us all come together at least for a moment. I'm sure others will or have mentioned it, but Hannes's wife did some singing at the end ;).
OMG, you out at Floors outro over the credits. Mmh😪
The soldier surrendering in the beginning is Floor's husband....Plus Floor sang the outro
OMG you turned the volume down on Floor, how could you!!! lol Great Reaction, for more on this topic there is a decent movie (2005) "Joyeux Noel" (Merry Christmas) shows the German, French & British (well a Scottish unit) , sadly when word of these events got out many units were punished and relocated to other sections of the line were the fighting was more savage. and then they made sure on holidays they would launch attacks and such. but the war took a turn and got more deadly esp once GAS started to be used in 1915 some soldier tried to repeat the event of 1914 but were shot .
Sabaton said it best: "It's out! Our first song about peace!" Love this song and the video is mindblowing indeed. Thanx for doing this.
On another note, Feuerschwanz is releasing a new video tomorrow (Monday, 6 dec at 5pm) The teaser looks epic, so please jump on that. It's a cover of Manowar's "Warriors of the world" with some epic guests
Welcome back guys! Looking good! Great reaction! Sabatons ballads really hits you in the heart!
Welcome back you two! So glad to see you all again!
Sabaton has certainly created a Christmas Classic here in their usual epic and brilliant fashion.
This one is very special though… I agree. Imagine this one live with a crowd of thousands singing along
“Today we’re all brothers. Tonight we’re all friends. A moment of peace in a war that never ends
Today we're all brothers…
We drink and unite.
Now Christmas has arrived and the snow turns the ground white.”
🎄🤘🏻🙂
Right after they erected the wooden cross, you can hear some faint artillery salvos in the distance. Those are the salvos that were used to disperse the soldiers and end the truce, at the orders of their own respective generals. Some where punished. The lucky ones only got relocated, assigned to other companies or on the Eastern Front. Still, this truce is what makes me refer to World War One as "the last war of the gentlemen". As you've seen from No Bullets Fly, chivalry persisted in isolated cases (Franz Stigler, or Walther Wenck from the song 'Hearts of Iron'), but never before or after was there an entire frontline deciding to have such a ceasefire.
They have an live and acoustic version of this
Sabaton - Christmas Truce / musikhjälpen 2021
First: the video looks and sounds great. Second: Watch it again and enjoy the beautiful outro vocals. Third: I believe the reason Sabaton puts so much into their videos/songs is they are relating true events about real people who deserve to have it done right. Pär carving '2021' into the memorial cross after illuminating 'Lest We Forget' says volumes without having to say volumes. Love your reactions and this is a great welcome back!
I thought the carving of 2021 was meant as sort of a "we still remember" moment.
But Elizabeth's (Charismatic Voice) idea was it was that is was Sabaton's Christmas wish for the world this year.
I really like that idea.
@@jessicakoster2543 yo , sin embargo creo que tiene que ver con el recuerdo de que, realmente, parece que la lección que nos enseñaron aún funciona : tenemos más en común que diferente y aún seguimos unidos ( Europa), habiendo aprendido esa lección....
ty floor jansen for this little piece of great music at the end
Very clear both visually and sound wise. We missed you to! Great Job as always stay Safe Rock On!🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
They blew up the piano but left the cross untouched lol. lol. I'm assuming you know that Hannes is Sabaton's drummer eh? What you may NOT know is the female voice you hear singing the a capella aria at the end is Nightwish Frontwoman Floor Jansen-Hannes' wife. Her name is included in the credits.
Had me in tears too, its one of those that hits you hard. Merry Christmas
Be patient - and enjoy Floor Jansens vocals over the credits !
Have to finish your sentence. Damn you sabaton. You did it again lol. I've heard this song 30 or 40 times. Still get goosebumps everytime
Ending credit vocals by Floor Jansen
Nice reaction, did you notice Floor Jansen in the end credits? Awesome 😎
floor jansens voice is so majesctic at the end credits
Welcome back Friends!, with a little easter egg, Floor is listed on the credits.
I started to watch your reactions on Sabaton only a few weeks ago and some of them teared me up👍I'm gonna buy some Sabaton cd and vinyls now🤘
Glad to have you guys back. The new equipment sounds great and looks great! You guys are awesome!👍🤘
II'm certainly not an emotional guy, but this song gets me. Perhaps that is the most important message, that christmas time have. Friendship and humanity for all man kind. This Video is, in my opinion, one of the best, so far. I've heard it 3 times in a row. Great, great, great!
Good reaction. Everything looks and sounds good. 4k is not necessary. This song is great and based on real happenings during worldwar 1. There where several Christmas truces during this war. Nice you are back with this great reactions. Thank you for this reaction.
Welcome back. Great to have more songs, now we need more thongs ;)
What an AMAZING
🌟CHRISTMAS🌟
Song by SABATON.
The lyrics and the MUSIC
inspire You.
And the Video
UNBELIEVABLE.
It's also a piece of History.
You can learn a lot.
It's very.....EMOTIONAL 😢
And at the end the Voice of
FLOOR JANSEN, makes it extra Beautiful... 💫
This a Gift for Christmas.
☃️🎄🕊️
We are all.....
We are all.....
We are all.....
We are all.....
FRIENDS🤝🤝
For Me The
🌟CHRISTMAS SONG🌟
of the Year 2021...💫
A little PEACE 🕊 and
LOVE ❤️ for Everyone 🌹
WARS are TERRIBLE...
Let's all think a little bit about
🌟 CHRISTMAS TRUCE 🌟
during the
🌟 CHRISTMAS 🌟 Season,
This is so often FORGOTTEN!!!! Thank You this was AMAZING.
Love and Peace 🕊 🇳🇱🙋🏼♀️
Nice reaction, but turning down the volume on Floor Jansen? How could you?
I recommend "No Bullets Fly Animated Story Video" by Sabaton. Another wholesome story.
Good thing you got your early X-mas present from us fans/subs. I didn't have any part on that, but i wanna thank those who were. Songs and Thongs continues. 😉
Een super song die van SABATON. Net soos al hulle ander. Great reaksie!
This event during the war can be seen in a movie called: Joyeux Noel from 2005.
Highly recommended
The cross at the end is actually located in Ypres, Belgium and was erected in 1999 on the site of the actual truce.
First thing I noticed was the crystal clarity from your new system. Good to have you back❤️🤘🎸🇦🇺
Thanks guys!
Congratulations from Colorado on the gear and your re-launch!
Great pick for your inaugural release!
This MV is phenomenal and Sabaton delivered again.
Missed you guys and so happy to have you back on the air.
Much love!
Thanks so much Joseph. Great to be back 🤘🏻
"24. December 1914: Late on Christmas Eve, the British Expeditionary Force heard the German troops singing Christmas carols in the trenches opposite and saw lanterns and small Christmas trees along the trenches. Messages were shouted to each other between the trenches. The next day, British and German soldiers met and exchanged gifts, took photos and some even played soccer. It was a rare but magical moment of peace and harmony in the midst of one of the most gruesome events of the 20th century. "
3:03 There were alot that actually were. Lots of of kids actually lied about their age to make them older so they could enlist. They think around 250,000 kids, some as young as 14 lied to join the army.
I've watched this video about 50 times already and you two got me so hyped up for it again
Awesome! This song is really amazing!
👍👍👍to that video WOW!!!! They just keep getting better and better, so happy for you guys getting this great equipment ( Camera in 4k) NICE!!! Love you guys I'm an early subscriber and just love your reactions, keep on rockin 🤟
Glad to have you guys back, missed your reviews!
Only xmas song i will be lissening to this year. Welcome back guys. We missed you ❤
Look up Garth Brooks song Belleau woods too.
I think this song very well might be the best Christmas song of all time ever now
Now if only they would play this song instead of that one song that we are cursed with.
And yeah....I cried too.
The singer is Floor Jansen of Night Wish
true story! happend here in belgium.
glad U guys are up and running
I just love Your reactions, and You where not the only one with tears in Your eyes))
In 1914, the first year of World War I, at the front of the war the Germans, French en Brits celebrated Christmas together. They stopped the war for a day. The soldiers at the front wanted to stop the war, but the generals wanted it to continue. That is what this song is about.
Woohoo we are back and back with SABATON fucking heel yeah
Remember to check out Christmas Truce Musikhjälpen 2021, acoustic version.
Great reaction, good to see you guys back🤟🇸🇪
Now you have to apologize to the valkerie queen.😁😁 You didnt even noticed it was floor. 🤣🤣🤣 i dont know if sorry gonna help you get back to walhalla. 🤭🤭
I love when the second member of the band climbs out of the trench you can faintly hear someone yell "What are you doing?" Tiny little details that may not be consciously acknowledged that add up immensely.
Welcome back; you were missed 💖💖💖💖
That cross represents one that's actually in Belgium at the site of one of the battlefields from WW1. The wording on the actual cross is very similar to the one in this video.
Another masterpiece by SABATON.
Cheers from Sweden.
Just so you know, this song is based on the real life event of 1914 WW1 Christmas Truce
Since I didn't see anyone bring up the history on this (and I don't know if you watched sabaton's history episode on the song)
Sadly, it was an truce made by the soldiers, not any commanders or generals.
It was first invoked by the pope asking just for the 1 day, everyone respect the birth of Christ and not fight. He was essentially told to fuck off, sadly.
However, throughout the Western Front there were many truces by soldiers as it was normal (especially for collecting the dead) and it was a holiday for both sides, so many spots along the front stopped due to that, singing songs, playing soccer, etc, though some areas continued fighting. (Which was shown in the video as the troops could hear explosions and gunfire causing them to look around at that point in the song)
The longest truce during the christmas truce lasted 5 days while the shortest was just for Christmas eve, and in many areas, the soldiers on both sides refused to fire on the other side afterward, the people they now considered friends (and brothers) and were either executed, moved elsewhere or court-martialed. Very, very few of them survived until the end of WW1.
And while media (in Britain) tried to make this known (the christmas truce), it was quickly stopped by the government.
And the generals ensured that no such truce happened again, by ordering artillery to continue on holidays, nonstop.
Briliant clip, but this really happened during WW 1. Something to let sink into the brain , won´t you think?
Damn , Sabaton , what you done to me !🥲
The song is great. Your comment at the end is even better !!!!!!!!!
Good song writing is being able to connect with folks and they are able to have reactions which completely gloss over epic lines like "We carried the war on our shoulders. For our nations, is that why we bury our friends?" That line completely floors me (pun intended) and has stuck with me in my journey through this song.
It's wonderful! Love the quality!
As a veteran myself the song hits deep and with floor singing the last part made me cry
Agreed 100% with what you said at the end and how you interpreted the song. It's not a whole lot to ask for just one day a year where we all say fuck it and just show some humanity to one another. It would be great if we could do that year round, but baby steps, I guess.
Agora tem mais validade a perfeita canção do Sabaton...
Joakim started in Sabaton playing synth, but somehow somebody found out that he acrually could sing....and the rest are history as we say 😊
Hope your not beaten up to bad for talking over Floor Jansen singing during the closing credits. I will give you a pass because I’ve heard that Floor singing is not on the album version. Still love it and will definitely buy the Album but in my humble & old Metal head/rock opinion Floors singing out the ending gave the song a perfect ending of hope & beauty! Rock On Stay Safe! Oh video and sound was good on my end don’t need 5 HD. Happy Holidays! Stay Safe Rock On 🙏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Go Sabaton, Go Floor!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though at times peace does breakout, the undeniable truth is War is a condition that Man will never recover from. When the absence of war goes on to long the lessons are forgotten and the condition raises it's destructive head again. Knowing this, it's a sobering fact that we should be prepared for war at all times but forever pray for peace.
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
(At the very start) Charlene: "I've got chills"
Me: "Trust me, they'll be multiplying"
Hannes and Floor in 1 Musik Video !!!! Super !! Hannes is Floor s Men :-)
3:47 According to an interview Joakim was originally hired to play keyboard - and then asked if he could sing until they found an "actual" lead singer - which in the end they never bothered looking for.
Welcome back nice and here in the UK.
Great reaction, by the way. It's True story. the story behind this music, actually, its about one day that hapened in the world war one, have been mortal enemies armies, that stopping fight to celebrate christmas and then danced theirselves, chanted holy night, drinked wine e played football.
I love how you teared up, man. Me did the same. Great reaction!
The soldiers of the Christmas truce found out, that they actually had more in common with the poor bastard in the other trench, than with their own generals!
In the Christmas of 1915, the generals couldn't have that! So there was no repeat of the 1914 Christmas truce on this large scale, as the artillery kept firing ... Some DID come out of their trenches, but was mostly instantly killed by the enemy soldiers. No moment of peace in a war that'll never end ... Until 11 o'clock, 11th of November, 1918 ... War to end all wars, indeed ...
Fang here im checking out your other content since your my 2nd favorite reactors now Liliac rules them all love you guys!
Let's of love from Naboomspruite limpopo guy's! And welcome back! 🤟😁
Your closing arguments are one of the many reasons why I love you two so much! Keep up the wonderful work. Much love from the US!
You shouldn't have talked over Floor and the end credits. Other than that, a great reaction to what was my favourite Christmas song of all time, until I heard Dan Vasc's Angels We Have Heard On High, released on Thursday, December 16this year. Please do a reaction to that.
Couldn't have picked a more epic story/video/song to have returned with. Great stuff!
Enjoy!
Fang4life! RO&RH! 🤘😎🤘