@@pagadianbro2890 Joakim always punches his leg during the performances. And he’s constantly wearing his sunglasses on. But in this video he doesn’t do neither. So it’s a true Christmas Truce for his leg
I'm French and I witnessed the truth of this war in the memorial of these events when I was in highschool, saw the original letters of these soldiers and have read them... I have cried so many tears after that and I couldn't stop thinking about how we are capable of the worse in our human History, but this Light of Humanity that happened a long time ago, it just made me cry a lot more, even when I came back home, I couldn't stop thinking that we are fools to kill each other for so ridiculous reasons... And Sabaton, you revived in me that part of my memory, of what I felt in these trenches, and I cannot stop crying now... That is a phenomenal music and video guys, and as a worshiper of God, today I pray for all of us to believe in peace, to believe in what we have so much in common, I don't care if you are gay or straight, a believer or an atheist, of the color of your skin, of your gender of no gender, to me you are human, just a little part of the World, and I wish you peace, love and health, to be with the one you love in a comfortable home, free from hate, poorness and war... Let's be human for God's sake! I'm writing and cannot stop crying!! Guys, you are amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Much respect and love from a French lady Muslim metalhead... 🤘❤🤘❤🤘❤🤘
In case you didn't notice during the credits, the actual ending credit vocals were done by none other than Floor Jansen. ;) Also, as far as their music videos are concerned, I'd definitely say that this one and Bismark would fight for first place, but I really enjoy the Livgardet and Steel Commanders music videos too. The piano melody is literally the same as the song "Carol of the Bells", so it's very Christmas-y.
Hi there, thanks for your great reaction , my Scottish great grandad (royal field artillery)was on the western front when this happened and wrote to my great granny and told her how surreal it was. There were small pockets of xmas truces in the following years but not on the same scale as in 1914. Some soldiers even exchanged addresses and wrote to each other or their families after the war. Sadly my great grandad was killed in April 1918 in Ypres, Belgium. ( where this cross memorial was placed in 1999) My Irish great grandad (royal inniskilling fusiliers ) was killed in the trenches 3 months after this xmas truce 😥 There are no winners in war except death 😥😥
(stolen from another user) The cross at the end of the song is also a memorial that exists. It's located near Ypres, in Flanders. It was made in 1999. the actual cross reads: 1914 The Khaki Chums Christmas Truce 1999 85 Years Lest We Forget
This song brought a tear to my eye. As a historian, I have study how brutal man has been to one another. However, there are moments that show the light of humanity. And the first time I listened to it, I knew with all my heart that it was the heavenly vocals of Floor Jansen!
37yr german here, 14yrs Sabaton fan, crying over this cuz folks here still don't learn own history, even that wasn't even told in most school not even when I was young. We're so doomed to repeat the mistakes cuz we don't understand the past. Never did, still not now, the world laughts about us, again. A f*cking nothing did we learned here...
Yeah. The longer this war lasted the more faceless the enemy became and attrocities on both sides were accepted as necessary. Over hundreds of years wars after wars in Europe ended in the dead of 70 to 80 million people, but at least we have now the longest time of peace we have ever had. I hope it stands this way! The next war will be the last one, it will erase all humanity in us and the "peace" afterwards will not be enjoyable, for no-one.
@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl war still continues, they change the words. Ethnic cleansing, police action, border dispute,etc. No longer is it a battle of men but they wish to war on concepts & erase words & reality itself.
Hi Guys, nice reaction. I think the fact that you didn't realize it was Floor and fell in love with the end credit vocal part and just how much it adds to this already fantastic song, adds to an unbiased reaction. Let's hope fighting parties all over the world get to hear this and take the message to heart and celebrate life instead of fighting other peoples battles.
The reason why this was a really good song was not just the piano, nor how they made this video. It's the story. Nothing in modern history has had a moment like this. 2 army's that stopped to just have what could of been there last christmas.
Yeah, I hope the song contain the Floor Jansen part. It is beautiful. Btw, this happened in the beginning of the Great War. There were no steel helmets then. The germans came up with their Stahlhelmet in february 1916, and the british Brodie helmet was patented in 1915.
I preordered the album through Bandcamp and downloaded this single. It does not - Does Not - have FLoor's vocals. But I had the AUDACITY to edit my own version and put her vocals in.
It is hard for me to say that this song is my all time favorite Sabaton song, because I dont have heard all Sabaton song, but of all songs I have heard, this is my favorite song from Sabaton 👌
Im 55 now.. Iv lost more then 16 brothers in my life and i have my unkels in the 90s... that made out off ww2 alive... I think i nead to have a talk with the old boys on kamera...... Mayby its a lerning to send...... Great reaction boys ;). Love from Norway.
I have been looking forward to a song about the Truces ever since The Great War. Super happy we got this one before 2022. And Sabaton are having more of them. This sounds like a lot like Christmas. So this can pass.
The music at the end of the ‘Good the bad and the ugly’ is called ‘The Ecstasy of Gold’ by Ernio Morricone. Fun fact-Metallica use the same music at the beginning of all their shows.
I'm glad that you got the Spaghetti Western vibe from the end too. It adds a serious finality to what is already an event of historical significance. Speaking of which, you guys should react to Ecstasy of Gold if you don't know it (not the Metallica one!) It truly is epic.
This song basically reminded me of Savatage\Trans Siberian Orchestra song.. TSO\Savatage uses a lot of piano and orchestral eo classical elements and thus they have 3 holiday rock opera albums.
The outro definitely had Morricone vibes. If someone had shown me only that part before I knew the video and told me it's an epic metal cover of an old Italo western soundtrack I wouldn't have doubted them. If just for the fun if for nothing else - Morricone, "The Wild Horde", to the part where the choir starts around 1min06. That passage and this outro played at the same time is an experience (especially if you play around with the playback speed of the Horde). I'm btw not saying there's some copying going on, not at all. If anything, I'm impressed how they caught the atmosphere of those old scores so well and managed to merge it with the overall style of the actual song to create one flawless experience.
*2 guys, same wish. Like P. I also wish that at least on the album this PHENOMENAL outro will be part of "Christmas Truce". In the audio version of "Christmas Truce" there's sadly no Floor-enhanced outro to hear. It's an outro-music á la Morricone. Let's hope for the album's version... 🤔 Greetings & Stay safe.* 🎵🌟🔥🔥🔥🤘😈🤘🔥🔥🔥🌟🎵💿🔊✅😁😎👍
What I think makes this song more powerful is that all the French, British and Germans that took part in the truce had to get transferred out because they refused to fight each other afterwards.
Very good Frenchie!! Let's add some Camembert, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cognac to the mix. This was a pretty emotional song. Thanks for this reaction. Some Trans-Siberian Orchestra vibes. The movie Joyeux Noel(2005) France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania Production. Never forget!
The ad you were referring was for a British grocery store, Sainssbury's. It was done in conjunction with the Royal British Legion for the 100th anniversary of the event. Britain has a tradition of doing tear jerking ads for Christmas. You can see it here: ruclips.net/video/NWF2JBb1bvM/видео.html
@@APREACTS a ton better video quality than you would normally get from youtube. Most of the time they encode 1080p to only h.264, some into VP9, but AV1 is still really rare. Your channel size and a good portion of luck got you to this. Since reactions are the webcam covering the very most of the video, the quality difference is not that visible because of easier to compress that anyway, but you would notice a massive difference on hard to compress stuff like high motion, vegetation or game videos. But however - its awesome that youtube did it for you.
Best video? I'm gonna go a step further and say it's their best song. The Last Stand has been my favorite song since I became a Sabaton fan. This song has dethroned it.
@@APREACTS To that I can only say: What kind of father are you? ;) No, but The good, the bad and the ugly isn't "a western", it's The good, the bad and the ugly. As you undoubtedly know. You should somehow force him to see it. He will thank you. :)
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Joakims Leg: Praise the truce! In this video we are all friends!
Bro can you please give me context, because I do not know.😅
The sunglasses: finally a day OFF
@@pagadianbro2890 Joakim always punches his leg during the performances. And he’s constantly wearing his sunglasses on. But in this video he doesn’t do neither. So it’s a true Christmas Truce for his leg
This comment made my day
@@pagadianbro2890 What Darth Shel wrote.
I'm French and I witnessed the truth of this war in the memorial of these events when I was in highschool, saw the original letters of these soldiers and have read them...
I have cried so many tears after that and I couldn't stop thinking about how we are capable of the worse in our human History, but this Light of Humanity that happened a long time ago, it just made me cry a lot more, even when I came back home, I couldn't stop thinking that we are fools to kill each other for so ridiculous reasons...
And Sabaton, you revived in me that part of my memory, of what I felt in these trenches, and I cannot stop crying now...
That is a phenomenal music and video guys, and as a worshiper of God, today I pray for all of us to believe in peace, to believe in what we have so much in common, I don't care if you are gay or straight, a believer or an atheist, of the color of your skin, of your gender of no gender, to me you are human, just a little part of the World, and I wish you peace, love and health, to be with the one you love in a comfortable home, free from hate, poorness and war...
Let's be human for God's sake!
I'm writing and cannot stop crying!!
Guys, you are amazing!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Much respect and love from a French lady Muslim metalhead...
🤘❤🤘❤🤘❤🤘
In case you didn't notice during the credits, the actual ending credit vocals were done by none other than Floor Jansen. ;)
Also, as far as their music videos are concerned, I'd definitely say that this one and Bismark would fight for first place, but I really enjoy the Livgardet and Steel Commanders music videos too.
The piano melody is literally the same as the song "Carol of the Bells", so it's very Christmas-y.
I didn't notice that was Floor. WOW!!!
@@APREACTS Haha, well now you know and I do hope that part is included on the album!
So do we.
@@APREACTS you probably already know, but in case u don’t, floor is the wife of the sabaton drummer hannas 💕
@@dandyprime5338 it is included. that's not an outro, that's the soundtrack version of the song
Hi there, thanks for your great reaction , my Scottish great grandad (royal field artillery)was on the western front when this happened and wrote to my great granny and told her how surreal it was.
There were small pockets of xmas truces in the following years but not on the same scale as in 1914.
Some soldiers even exchanged addresses and wrote to each other or their families after the war.
Sadly my great grandad was killed in April 1918 in Ypres, Belgium. ( where this cross memorial was placed in 1999)
My Irish great grandad (royal inniskilling fusiliers ) was killed in the trenches 3 months after this xmas truce 😥
There are no winners in war except death 😥😥
& bankers
(stolen from another user)
The cross at the end of the song is also a memorial that exists. It's located near Ypres, in Flanders. It was made in 1999.
the actual cross reads:
1914
The Khaki Chums
Christmas Truce
1999
85 Years
Lest
We
Forget
“That ending was phenomenal!”
That was Floor Jansen!
It added something special to the song. A great video.
LEST WE FORGET
This song brought a tear to my eye. As a historian, I have study how brutal man has been to one another. However, there are moments that show the light of humanity. And the first time I listened to it, I knew with all my heart that it was the heavenly vocals of Floor Jansen!
You must have missed it, as the end credits vocals is Floor.
@@6038am I saw it at the end of the credits. I meant that as soon as the first note was sung in the credits I knew it was her.
@@robertgarcia6561 me too Robert. I knew it also. She has such a unique voice
37yr german here, 14yrs Sabaton fan, crying over this cuz folks here still don't learn own history, even that wasn't even told in most school not even when I was young.
We're so doomed to repeat the mistakes cuz we don't understand the past. Never did, still not now, the world laughts about us, again.
A f*cking nothing did we learned here...
This is s problem of humanity
Chris, Ohne Vergangenheit gibt es keine Zukunft! Ich werde auch nicht vergessen!
Lest we forget
A new tune for the holidays. A powerful and beautiful song.
Could you imagine how things be like if WW1 ended on the Christmas Truce?
Yeah. The longer this war lasted the more faceless the enemy became and attrocities on both sides were accepted as necessary. Over hundreds of years wars after wars in Europe ended in the dead of 70 to 80 million people, but at least we have now the longest time of peace we have ever had. I hope it stands this way! The next war will be the last one, it will erase all humanity in us and the "peace" afterwards will not be enjoyable, for no-one.
@@teardrop-in-a-fishbowl war still continues, they change the words. Ethnic cleansing, police action, border dispute,etc. No longer is it a battle of men but they wish to war on concepts & erase words & reality itself.
One of Sabaton's best songs and videos as well!I listened to this song about five times now and each time I cried...
This video was GLORIOUS!!
One of their best if not their best video ever.
The new Christmas carol for years to come!
Of cause you love the ending.... It is Floor Jansen - Queen of metal!
The Ariagodess...
I've listened to this about 6-7 times now.. i cry every time.. its so beautiful!
Who's chopping onions in here? Phew... Well, no more Mariah Carey at Christmas 😃
Did you guys noticed that it was Floor that sang the credits vocals😉?
Hi Guys, nice reaction. I think the fact that you didn't realize it was Floor and fell in love with the end credit vocal part and just how much it adds to this already fantastic song, adds to an unbiased reaction. Let's hope fighting parties all over the world get to hear this and take the message to heart and celebrate life instead of fighting other peoples battles.
Well said on all fronts.
@@APREACTS fronts. I see what you did there.😉
😉
The End is none other than The Valkyrie Goddess herself
The reason why this was a really good song was not just the piano, nor how they made this video. It's the story. Nothing in modern history has had a moment like this. 2 army's that stopped to just have what could of been there last christmas.
Yeah, I hope the song contain the Floor Jansen part. It is beautiful. Btw, this happened in the beginning of the Great War. There were no steel helmets then. The germans came up with their Stahlhelmet in february 1916, and the british Brodie helmet was patented in 1915.
The album version does not have Floor
Imagine the guy who stepped out of trenches onto the battlefield saying truce that takes some serious amount of courage
A fine line between courage and insanity
@@APREACTS & hope & despair
I preordered the album through Bandcamp and downloaded this single. It does not - Does Not - have FLoor's vocals. But I had the AUDACITY to edit my own version and put her vocals in.
I see what you did there
It is hard for me to say that this song is my all time favorite Sabaton song, because I dont have heard all Sabaton song, but of all songs I have heard, this is my favorite song from Sabaton 👌
Come on guys, this is the one. Thhis hits you right in the HEART !
I had watched as well-yesterday😁Sooo gooood🤘🏻🤘🏻love the piano😍 and the last part by Floor❣️
Yet another Sabaton song with an important message brings a tear to my eye..absolutly great song guys!
Which choir?? That was no choir at the end.. that was Floor Jansen. It is in the credits.
I missed that in the credits.
@@APREACTS I was surprised that you guys couldn't hear it was Floor.
Sounds like a normal choir to me, but then, i dont listen to whatever band floor is in
@@earendilthemariner5546 That would be Nightwish. Floor is incredibly versatile- everything from metal growls to opera.
@@earendilthemariner5546 Floor is Sabaton drummer's husband :o)
Im 55 now.. Iv lost more then 16 brothers in my life and i have my unkels in the 90s... that made out off ww2 alive... I think i nead to have a talk with the old boys on kamera...... Mayby its a lerning to send...... Great reaction boys ;). Love from Norway.
The outro on repeat and Christmas is just fine.....
Thank-you, guys, This amazing band... You can really feel their collective heart, and it is huge. Bless them all. Bless us all.
I always enjoy the breakdown of the song from u2, one of few i dont end early
Thank you!!!
It's not about the hate of the enemy. It's about the love for your kind.
What a amazing song....wow....
I have been looking forward to a song about the Truces ever since The Great War. Super happy we got this one before 2022. And Sabaton are having more of them.
This sounds like a lot like Christmas. So this can pass.
The music at the end of the ‘Good the bad and the ugly’ is called ‘The Ecstasy of Gold’ by Ernio Morricone. Fun fact-Metallica use the same music at the beginning of all their shows.
Yes, that is the one. I hope Metallica is paying royalties and not using someone else’s copyright material
@@APREACTS yes they use it with permission. Lars and James are huge fans of the movie.
I was being sarcastic considering their Napster lawsuit
@@APREACTS I see what ya did there🤟🏼
They have an live and acoustic version of this
Sabaton - Christmas Truce / musikhjälpen 2021
Love y'all's relationship
I believe the drummer Hannes got his missus to sing the closing part !! LOL.
Looks like it
I definitely agree with Antonio! 😃 This is their best video.
This should be the final song on the album. It would be a fitting end. Just like Flanders field.
Omg really , you recognized floor, on the end, it was also written that she die the last vocalpart.
Baguette, croissant, escargot... Dammit, I'm just missing béret and champagne to complete my cliché bingo card! :p
Great video, as always.
We went for the corners, you are going for the full on bingo. lol
I think that this is the best video from Sabaton, because it was made by themselves, not by collaboration like Bismarck and Steel Commanders
This is very cool christmassong!
Hahahaha “ I am a metal encyclopaedia with a lot of common knowledge “ !! You are the man
I like the fact that you don’t even laugh the slightest
😎😎
love u guys
I think the ad is released by Sainsbury’s with the Royal British Legion
I'm glad that you got the Spaghetti Western vibe from the end too. It adds a serious finality to what is already an event of historical significance. Speaking of which, you guys should react to Ecstasy of Gold if you don't know it (not the Metallica one!) It truly is epic.
like i said in other vids, this is the most pirate song without being a pirate song. it's crazy. it screams freedom.
This song basically reminded me of Savatage\Trans Siberian Orchestra song.. TSO\Savatage uses a lot of piano and orchestral
eo classical elements and thus they have 3 holiday rock opera albums.
The outro definitely had Morricone vibes. If someone had shown me only that part before I knew the video and told me it's an epic metal cover of an old Italo western soundtrack I wouldn't have doubted them.
If just for the fun if for nothing else - Morricone, "The Wild Horde", to the part where the choir starts around 1min06. That passage and this outro played at the same time is an experience (especially if you play around with the playback speed of the Horde). I'm btw not saying there's some copying going on, not at all. If anything, I'm impressed how they caught the atmosphere of those old scores so well and managed to merge it with the overall style of the actual song to create one flawless experience.
*2 guys, same wish. Like P. I also wish that at least on the album this PHENOMENAL outro will be part of "Christmas Truce". In the audio version of "Christmas Truce" there's sadly no Floor-enhanced outro to hear. It's an outro-music á la Morricone. Let's hope for the album's version... 🤔 Greetings & Stay safe.* 🎵🌟🔥🔥🔥🤘😈🤘🔥🔥🔥🌟🎵💿🔊✅😁😎👍
Floor Jansen in the end
Hannes .....COME ON!!! Think Floor Floor Floor!
Did you notice Antti Martikainen in the credits? Check his own music, too, Carmina Gloria being the latest album.
You guys need to watch the movie called "Joyeux Noel" from 2005 so you have a better context of this video, greetings
My go to xmas movie
What I think makes this song more powerful is that all the French, British and Germans that took part in the truce had to get transferred out because they refused to fight each other afterwards.
Great song 🤙🏼
Great vid
This is such a good song
The cross still stands in no man’s land to commemorate the truce on Christmas Day …. Not sure when it was erected but it still stands
It’s better cause it shows no matter what side you stand there is still a flicker of light within all.
Very good Frenchie!! Let's add some Camembert, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cognac to the mix. This was a pretty emotional song. Thanks for this reaction. Some Trans-Siberian Orchestra vibes. The movie Joyeux Noel(2005) France,
Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania Production. Never forget!
The ad you were referring was for a British grocery store, Sainssbury's. It was done in conjunction with the Royal British Legion for the 100th anniversary of the event. Britain has a tradition of doing tear jerking ads for Christmas. You can see it here: ruclips.net/video/NWF2JBb1bvM/видео.html
You är Lost is THE home alone soundtrack 😆
nice moonspell shirt
Good song, epic video.
holy shit your video was encoded into AV1 Codec by youtube. Thats rare.
I don't even know what that means.
@@APREACTS a ton better video quality than you would normally get from youtube.
Most of the time they encode 1080p to only h.264, some into VP9, but AV1 is still really rare. Your channel size and a good portion of luck got you to this.
Since reactions are the webcam covering the very most of the video, the quality difference is not that visible because of easier to compress that anyway, but you would notice a massive difference on hard to compress stuff like high motion, vegetation or game videos.
But however - its awesome that youtube did it for you.
I am impressed. WOW. Somebody must like us.
This video is superproduction
With permission I can recommend Sabaton song Far from the fame (Masters of rock 2012) 🇨🇿
As soon as I saw the single come out on Bandcamp, it was an automatic purchase...
He is a real grwon boy now
He is
Well, the son can rock that type of mustache if the father can't...
If you understand German, then you should listen to *Saltatio Mortis - Als die Waffen schwiegen*
It's about that night in Belgium in WW1 too
Best video? I'm gonna go a step further and say it's their best song. The Last Stand has been my favorite song since I became a Sabaton fan. This song has dethroned it.
Id say something but i be a brother and drink to the holy night
Next reaction "DeadSquad - Curse of The Black Plague" 👍🏻
He hasn't seen The good the bad and the ugly? What kind of father are you? :O
He is not into westerns
@@APREACTS To that I can only say: What kind of father are you? ;)
No, but The good, the bad and the ugly isn't "a western", it's The good, the bad and the ugly. As you undoubtedly know. You should somehow force him to see it. He will thank you. :)
Bester Song seit Bismark !
ADAM COLE…
BOOM!
We have a click member in the house.
@@APREACTS To be honest, I am more of a Hangman fan... :)
goddamn onion ninjas 😢
Great video and song , but dont forget video for Uprising .
Are you guys Portuguese? Can see a Benfica cap in the back.
Yes we are
It's sounds like a drinking song to me.
Wassailing?😀🎄
This is actually a Ukrainian folk song, not Russian, translated to English of course.
Dumb question... what is a Spaghetti western?
FLOOR , the best voice in the world and you don t hear it?????
I agree, this is the best song they've done since the last album. The video on the other hand is a bit meh.
красивая музыка, а все остальное бредятина...
Song is too weak for my liking.
Beast in Black album review coming?
Been up for days now
@@APREACTS Oh snap glossed over that. Nice.