If you cannot take a battleship to the stage, take the stage to the battleship

Sabaton partnering with the Military museums of the US for a tour, where they exclusively play sets from the decks of Battleships and Carriers, would be mega

If sabaton had fun writing about the battleships, they should write for the unsung heroes of Taffy 3, the tin can sailors that gave a savage beating to the japanese center force

I'll always have a place for Bismarck, but there's something about Dreadnaught that's absolutely awesome. Love them both

Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg, who was a gun coordinator at Bismarck, wrote a book about the ship and their first and last sailing, rescue and being a POW afterwards. If you're proficient in german reading, get it, it's a stunning piece of history!

The fact the nagato only sank over a day after the second atomic bomb was detonated underwater is really a testament to how strong battleships were getting

All navies of the world : "WE MUST BUILD BIGGER AND BIGGER BATTLESHIPZ!" Poland, single handedly charging the Bismark with the ORP Piorun light destroyer : "Trzy salwy na cześć Polski! I AM A POLE!" ^^'

When it comes to battleship, the thing about them is that they are quite unique. Its hard to find a battleship which has more than 4 copies, and even those are a bit different. When it comes to tanks and planes, well, even the mighty Tiger had about 1400 brothers. When it comes to Bismarck, there was just one similar ships, and even that has visible differences. Hood was entirely unique... Its not just one of many, its THE ship, the one you see on other historical photos, in some cases even THE one you can visit today...

If you visit Oslo, you might encounter roadworks where the holes are covered by steel-plates. Those steel-plates are from the Tirpitz.

The battleship can be the stage. There's a lot of room on those decks.

Bismark had a sistership. Tirpitz It was stationed outside the Norwegian town of Alta late in ww2. Ended up "upside-down" outside the town of Tromsoe. Sadly werry forgotten in history.

Kaiser Willy: I've done it! I have built an armada that can match the British! Alfred von Tirpitz: And you'll let me use it against them to break the blockade Kaiser: Alfred von Tirpitz: And you'll let me use it against them to break the blockade

Say what you want about Sabaton. They never fail to entertain and speaking as someone who has spent most of my life studying history in general and WW2. These guys care about the accuracy of the facts the present. Which can not be said for many channels here on KZfaq. From a guy who loves history and your music. Thanks guys for making my life a bit brighter and interesting. Every time you release a track or video. On the history behind the songs. Scotland loves you. If I had the power I would make you all honorary Scotsman. Just to say thank you for your work.

My favourite battleship remains HMS Warspite, she has such a impressive career and truly was a beast all the way to the end, definitely worth a song!

Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel! Great stuff guys! Bismarck is my favorite song.

I absolutely adore bismarck and dreadnought, but I really think you guys should do a song about Taffy 3!

In Germany sparkling wine is taxed via the Schaumweinsteuer, introduced in 1902 to finance the Imperial Navy. It's still in effect today, although no Dreadnaughts remain, sadly.

we need a song about the USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Okay so Sabaton needs to perform on a battle ship and hand out sailor hats 😌

I was an infantryman back in the day, but "Dreadnaught" is still a total banger! 🍺😎

A naval album could be interesting, Pacific theatre comes to mind. Also, performance on one of old battleships would be cool. A song about the Navajo Codetalkers would be awesome😇

A battleship does not come to a stage, a battleship IS the stage. = Go concert on Texas

As a Navy veteran, these songs bring me a lot of pride and happiness! But I will point out that Sabaton lacks songs about naval battles, at least to the extent of land and air battles. We sailors need to get some more credit! Keep doing what you're doing! Love you guys!

Now that they're not regular things, it's always so fun to wake up and have my phone tell me "New Sabaton History". :)

Can I point out that an acapella Sabaton sea shanty would be kinda EPIC? Indu could lend his dulcet tones to mix. Please and thank you. 😁

Only discovered this channel when i went to see the movie. Met Par and Joakim. Absolutely love what they do and have done. I've learnt more about history through Sabatons music than i ever did in school. Love that you find all the small battles and unknown historical figures and bring them to life. Been binge watching these video's all week

Please do an album on the Pacific theater with so many stories many of them naval. Pearl Harbor, The Navajo Windtalkers, the Japanese battleship Yamato etc maybe even a new re-armed version of Midway.

To heck with bringing a battleship to the stage. Use a battleship AS the stage! See if they'll let you host a smaller concert on the USS New Jersey or USS Missouri. Sabaton on top of the rear turret, the crowd on the deck below. The levels of epic would cause a singularity.

Don't forget World of Warships/World of Warships Legends, War Thunder... just a thought. Both Dreadnought and Bismarck are the best songs when it comes to warships. And it's amazing that Virbis Unitus, the Pan-European battleship in World of Warships to be given a recognition. I do wonder if the Yamato class battleships will receive the same detailed recognition in the Sabaton History channel?

Battleships are also a great influence in Sci-Fi and high space fiction. Even Star Wars was influenced by the Battleship.

“Carriers don’t have the big guns”. By no means traditional carriers Ise and hyuga would like to chat

Indy Neidell's voice is oddly perfect, i enjoy putting on the "Stalingrad Map Special" for an hour while cleaning lol

Bismarck and Dreadnought is one of my favorite songs, and was waiting a Sabaton History video about it. Thank you Sabaton

I toured the USS Alabama in '77, in awe of the size and how solid it felt. Spent the day and still did not see everything.

The last proper battleships to see service were the Iowa's in the 90's. Those two (Iowa, and Missouri I believe) served in desert storm. The Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial has recently found a document that shown how certain people were that she'd be reactivated again, not that this will happen as a Submarine has taken the name.

Now that's METAL. Best place for a good old history lesson 🤘

We really need to have songs dedicated to the Yamato Classes, and Iowa Classes. I mean, KMS Bismarck and HMS Dreadnought, and dreadnoughts in general, both have their own songs

New sabaton history and a job interview. Now if it would quit raining today would be perfect!

You'll have to film a video for Dreadnought on the deck of the Battleship Texas once it gets out of drydock.

Idea: Sabaton should rent an Aircraft-Carrier and do a World (Port) Tour! Or "flood" some Arenas up to 60 cm/2 feet and play from the deck of a Type VII U-Boat lookalike in the middle of thet lake while the crowd can use all the stands and go "surfing"!

I think its a damn shame that a ship as historically significant and badass as the "Grand old lady" Warspite doesnt have a song dedicated to her yet. I might be a bit biased as a northern norwegian, but there was never a finer ship than her.

Oh I'd love to have one of those hats!

7:12 I will never not picture Christopher Walken when Joakim sings 'unrivalled firepower' in Dreadnought. Unintentional though it may be, it will always be one of my favorite "growls" from any song, in any genre, ever. Hell, whenever I read that phrase now, I also hear it. And sadly for those around me, sometimes I apparently sing it. Sincere apologies to those at the library that one time. 🤫😎

USS New Jersey, My favorite Battleship. Sunk an Island back in the Korean War.

As a Navy veteran, i appreciate how they bring to light the risks and courage to face them on the sea. A lot of people dont have a clue what its like to deploy on a warship.

Let's goo all the songs! I've been watching these for so long!

its so nice that you from sabaton and sabaton history care so much about your songs thank you so much ✌✌

always a happy day when I see a new episode. was even more surprised to hear on the radio that Sabaton would be playing as guest at a Judas Priest show next year near where I call home, Mobile, AL US. also kind of fitting that this episode is about battleships as there happens to be one set up as a museum a stone's throw from the venue, the U.S.S. Alabama, which I recommend touring time permitting. for now i will say keep up the excellent work you fine folks are doing with the episodes, to the band keep making excellent music and stay safe in your travels and touring.

I get as excited seeing a new Sabaton History vid now, than I did about new episodes of Recess as a kid 🤘made my day!!

How to get a ship on stage? Remember how the Romans did it in the Colosseum in ancient Rome! ^^

Outstanding great work👍👍

Finally! I listen to this song everyday at work.

I hope sabaton will write a song about the war winner, the global power house. The air craft carrier. They get outshined by battleships, despite being the most important asset any country can own. Because he who rules the sea, rules the world. And he who has carriers, owns the seas.

Love your "Little Sailor Boy" outfit!

History lessons is best treasure.

if you cant take the battleship to sabaton, take sabaton to the battleship! hold a concert on a battleship!

I was going to suggest visiting the BB-35 Texas since she's in drydock, but you guys did that. The next time you're in Texas, if possible go to Corpus Christi and visit the CV-16 Lexington aircraft carrier. I've been there once and if I remember right, they still have a spot on the lower deck where a Zero crashed into her.

I'm so glad my home state of North Carolina bought our namesake battleship and converted it into a museum! It's amazing! If you're ever in this area of the east coast, you have to check it out.

I was at your show in philadelphia last october. I was hoping you had a chance while on tour to cross the river and see the uss new jersey in port

In 1988 I was in the USA Marines I got lucky I was stationed on the great battleship BB63 USS MISSOURI. Marines we know every inch of the ship. One war game our battleship battle group had to defend Hawaii against a large Navy & Marines amphibious battle group. I was on the bridge. I can still feel when our ship going over 35 knots, firing harpoons and tomahawk missiles & torpedoes. (Pretend) The 16 in & 5 in turrets were manned. We were rolling threw the enemy swinging the huge 16 in from ship to ship mock firing at enemy battle group.She still had more speed to give. I wished we had cameras and video cameras like now. It still would not give the feeling inside of us.

Sabaton should work with one of the several US museum battleships and do a concert on her forward decks. All the Iowas are still around, USS Massachusetts, and Alabama, as well as USS North Carolina are all available and eventually USS Texas when they are done maintaining her. They can use the top of one of the main turrets as part of the stage and the superfiring turret behind it as a drum riser.

Bismarck will always have a place in my heart, somehow it appeared in my youtube recommendations when it was new (probably because I was watching war thunder mixed with historical content) and it was my first time hearing Sabaton and I fell in love and now I listen to all their songs and almost died of happiness when they did a collab with my favorite youtube presenter who I had watched for years and years over at the great war. There's just something so heavy metal and so badass about Bismarck and Dreadnought that makes them stand out as some of my favorite Sabaton songs, which is odd because navy and naval history was something I had never really seen the "cool factor" in before.

This is the song that first stood out to me and made start listening to Sabaton so I'm so happy to see it being covered

As soon as I saw the thumbnail of this video, I could already hear the music from Bismarck in my head lol 😂

Watching this episode and listening Midway, Dreadnought, and Bismarck made me wishing to make a time machine and go back to those naval battles

I loved Bismark. I have the song cover as a wallpaper. I love that Sabaton does songs about war. Keep up the great work guys. Can't wait for the next battleship song.

The unholy trinity Bismarck, admiral graffe spee, and the Triptitz

You guys rock! Hope you guys are gonna create more Naval songs in the future!

We all think of battleships as these huge, hulking beasts and obvious to the world. The notion of Revenge sneaking up on a beach sounds ridiculous until you look at Massachusetts in her final resting place. She just appears out of nowhere Wildcard BB song: Washington's stand against the IJN at Guadalcanal. With South Dakota lost and powerless, her hull lit with the punishment of the Kongo class, and Enterprise still licking her wounds after Santa Cruz, Washington strode into Ironbottom Sound, sniped Ayanami, and sent the Imperial Navy fleeing for their lives. Alone in the dark.

was there ever the possibility to get sabaton history as a dvd? would absolutely love it❤

Aircraft carriers are impressive but nothing conveys raw power more than the heart stopping sound of a battleships main guns fireing

I would have liked to witness a big-ass naval battle sometime, like standing in the coast of Spain and watching Trafalgar, or on the Nile Delta. A spectacle of its own I think would be an actual battleship battle, like HMS Hood vs Bismarck engaging in a long-range duel.

I literally can't watch anything else when a new Sabaton History comes out. This, then life.

On representing the character of the nation, the three España-class battleships (1912) really represent the Spanish character: though of small size, they packed quite a punch (8 305mm main guns with a weight of around 16500 tons) with a very ingenious design that allowed for maximum efficiency for weapon emplacement. They were designed to punch above their weight, but ultimately never did, and their history is also a great metaphor for Spain: the first of them was scuttled in the 1920s during an accident, and the other two suffered similar fates during the Spanish Civil War (in which they fought in opposite sides) ultimately due to the lack of resources. Their turrets were placed on the shores of the ports of Cádiz and Cartagena, defending their country even after being sunk. And, now that I'm thinking about modern Spanish naval history, I have to mention an anecdote which gave a very famous motto (in Spain), namely "rather honor without warships than warships without honor" (Mejor honra sin barcos que barcos sin honra). This sentence is atributed by Méndez Núñez, captain of the first Spanish ironclad (Numancia), during the Spanish-South American war, though it comes from the mishmash of two sentences (similar to that famous Yamamoto quote of "waking a giant" after Pearl Harbour): originally, when the fleet was sent to the South Pacific the dispatch from the Spanish Ministry of the Navy read that "they should rather die gloriously on enemy waters than return Spain with neither honor nor shame", to which Méndez Núñez replied (as a kind of "take that") by ending the dispatch in which he anounced the arrival of the Spanish fleet with a phrasing that translates to "better to have honor without a Navy than to have a Navy without honor". The second was a response after the decisive naval engagement of El Callao, which was kind of like Jutland: though it was tactically indecisive, since Spain already held the initiative, it was a strategic victory for Spain. The US threatened to enter the war on the side of Chile and Bolivia, to which Méndez Núñez replied with a letter basically daring the US to do so that contained the sentence "the Queen, the Government and I would rather have honor without warships than warships without honor".

Best naval Stageriser idea: -Get a big tank on stage (the water filled sort) -have a nutshell type rowboat float on top -insert Hannes and his drums -hope he does not get seasick

I hope to hear another song about Battleships! The entire Pacific front has so many great stories about these MIGHTY machines!

More than anything else, battleships demonstrate how military obsession with a weapon can override sanity and actual strategic value if they cling to it even after it’s become outdated.

I said holy battleship when I first saw the USS North Carolina. I LOVE the song Bismark.

Instead of bringing the battleship to the stage, bring the stage to a battleship.

You guys could place Hannes on a Turret from a Battleship/Cruiser or from a heavy Cruiser

Battleship songs for research: Battle of the North Cape Battle of Surigao Strait Stage idea for a battleship prop: Commission a full-size Iowa-Class turret and use it as stage elevation like you're currently doing with the tank and casemates. For the future of Sabaton History when it comes to battleships: HMS Hood was designed as an Admiral-Class Battlecruiser, originally supposed to be a class of 4 not a a one-off as it would become. IJN Nagato was not a one-off battleship as could be implied in this video as she had a sister ship in the IJN Mutsu. IJN Nagato was not the first battleship to be made in Japan as that prize goes to the IJN Hiei the second of the Kongo-Class Battlecruisers. The Kongos were built on British design as Kongo herself was the last ship to be made in Britain for the Japanese, so to be more transparent the first Japanese DESIGNED and built battleship was IJN Fuso, lead ship of the Fuso-Class Battleships with a second ship made a year and a half later named IJN Yamashiro. Battleships were rarely made as a lone ship and were most often built in two's to four's. Bismarck was one of two, Tirpitz being the second. Texas was two of two, New York being the first. West Virginia was three of three, Colorado and Maryland being number one and two respectively. Iowa IS one of four, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin being number two, three and four and still around today. Iowa in Norfolk, VA. New Jersey in Camden, NJ. Missouri in Honolulu, HI. Wisconsin in Los Angeles, CA.

Instead of bringing a battleship to the stage. The battleship SHOULD BE THE STAGE.

When I was in Rotc we got to go to Norfolk naval base in Virginia and we got to get on the Uss Enterprise CVN 65 aircraft carrier before it got decommissioned and scraped and the movie top gun I believe they said shot a small part on the deck its on the opening scene of the movie thank u guys for all the history info really enjoy it and all ur songs!

I have Sabaton and World of Warships to thank for the fact that I know about all the battleships mentioned in this video. I have a special liking for one not mentioned, the Scharnhorst, at least in its in-game form. However, it didn't survive the war, being sunk in 1943. I was interested to learn that the Nagato actually survived the war and that it took two underwater atomic bombs to sink it.

You could try to make the Battleship New Jersey in the United States a stage and then the audience could be either on the ship as well or on the dock watching you play from a stage setup on the Battleship NJ. The Battleship Nj is a museum now in NJ that has it's own relatively large KZfaq channel that you could try to contact to setup a show like that.

You guys do know that the age of the battleship didn’t end in WWII right? It ended in 1991 with the USS Missouri and the USS Wisconsin.

Can we have a video about the Battle of Trinidad, November 1914? Cunard liner RMS Carmania, serving as an armed merchant cruiser, engaged the Hamburg-America liner Cap Trafalgar. While both ships severely damaged themselves in the fight, Carmania claimed the win. What makes this fight memorable is Carmania was disguised as Cap Trafalgar, and vice versa. On the topic of merchants at war, *When will we get a video about Old Reliable Olympic* ?

"You sunk my battleship!"

Just when I'm about to write an essay about Battleships (Dreadnoughts specifically), this video comes out. Sabaton never dissapoints 🤘

Bring Sabaton to the Battleship and play a show on the Battleship New Jersey!

Imagine a Sabaton concert on USS Iowa

The Iowa class battleships are my favorite. I volunteer on board Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia. Id love to visit the other 3.

You know, I still haven't seen an episode about "Camouflage."

A Sabaton show at USS North Carolina, would be awesome!

If you remember Cher did a video on the Mighty Mo!!! As well as having the sailors from the Missouri in the video. Should do one of yhe Arizona and the heroes of that ship during the Pearl Harbor attack.

I would love to see a Sabaton concert on the USS Alabama which is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama.

The stage built as a battleship... And the crowd in lifeboats then...? Floating around...? 😁

Got to disagree about the sentiment "Hood was just a battlecruiser, she wasn't comparable to Bismarck". On the contrary. Apart from Bismarck being newer, they were relatively comparable and the graphics often shown how Bismarck sank Hood have a way too high angle for the shells, requiring as the naval historian Drachinifel likes to say high angle mortars. In truth, the British had an advantage over the Germans, considering it was 1 battleship and 1 heavy cruiser vs 1 equally post treaty battleship and a ship that's arguably more a fast battleship than a battlecruiser (I once more refer to Drachinifel, he made a good video about that topic), alongside 2 heavy cruisers (Norfolk and Suffolk) in pursuit with the possibility of reinforcements. And Hood's sinking was also a pretty lucky shot, since it most likely landed in the water a few meters away from Hood's hull and penetrating under water in the weaker torpedo protection, ending up in an engine room, rolling aft towards a 4.5 inch magazine and exploding. In truth, Hood's main design flaw allowing for this was it's bow wave, which formed a depression there, reducing the amount of water a shell had to travel through, enabling this. I once more refer to Drachinifel about this. Because actual, the "no one disagrees about them being battlecruisers" in the same group of "roughly similar capital ships", the QEs, Rs, Admirals (Hood and the 3 not completed others) and Renown and Repulse. All had the same turret design, the Renowns 3 of them, the others 4 (so 6 vs 8 barrels) were too weak to fight Bismarck and Tirpitz. Hood had the speed, the armament and the armour to fight another battleship, especially if supported by a 2nd battleship like Prince of Wales, the Renowns were mostly useful for fighting cruisers and scouting for the main battle line. In the 1920s the US Navy even concluded that Hood was superior to all their battleships excluding the Colorados and that's only because they had 16 inch guns. And even then with the caveat that because of her superior speed Hood could choose whether to engage or not. The simple truth is, what doomed Hood was delayed maintenance since she was needed in the early months of the war, King George V and PoW were pretty much just entering service when Hood was sunk, PoW famously still had yard workers on board to prepare some stuff to fight and awful luck, something Bismarck later also showed with the torpedo hit from Ark Royal to her rudder. And the battlecruiser designation is basically just "This capital ship is faster than 25 knots." Which in a world where even "fast" battleships like the QEs made only 23 was fast. Even the KGVs and Vanguard were originally designated as battlecruisers because of this, before the more sane heads concluded that they were truly battleships

Dreadnought was the first sabaton song i listened too and I fell in love with the music. At the time I was playing world of warships and was infatuated with battleships

I think Sabaton needs to do a song about the Iowas- as they were the last battleships. I'd have a mock up of a 16-inch turret