The arena is called "Scandinavium" and is more or less a hockey arena for the team "Frölunda" and seats during hockey games 12044 persons.

The translated captions are a bit off. The line "because of the war, destroy a man" is supposed to be "because the war can, destroy a man". I gets a whole other context when you see the correct translation. All of s sudden it turns from killing someone to having PTSD.

LOL, I just realized I left the Bismark logo up there from my last video

If I'm not misstaken, all the official live recordings from "The Great Tour" (2019-2020) are from the perspective of the band. I've heard that the Gothenburg concert had about 14,000 in the audience, but it looks more with the lights. The "lighters" were partly cellphones and partly glowsticks (I think it was).

Just to add on to the soldiers' experiences throughout history. Often enough, war was the only time they actually got away from home, most people rarely traveled more than 20 miles from the place they were born and they probably didn't understand the language of whatever place they were sent to. I live in northern Bavaria and it's mind-boggling to think how many different armies have fought on this soil. Germanic tribes against another, them against the Romans, the Franks against the pagan tribes, various German nations against another, the British, French, even Sweden occupied the region in the 30 years war, and of course the US as well in WW2. It's even crazier if you look at the cradles of civilization e.g. Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Indus River Valley, China, and how disputed these places have been over the millennia!

Joakim just kneeling to the crowd as they sing is just such a show of respect for their fans, Sabaton are just awesome in every way

at scandinavium arena gothenburg sweden. around 11k people in the crowd. if it were in poland the crowed never could sing in swedish xD the carolus rex album´s are in both English and Swedish. the songs have the some tunes but the lyrics can be close our like in a lifetime of war and en livstid i krig. its totaly diffrent.

Carolus Rex is the name of the albums, both the English and Swedish, but also one of the tracks on those albums.

Awesome reaction! The Carolus Rex album is the only Sabaton album released in both Swedish and English, since it covers Swedish history, namely the rise and fall of the Swedish empire. Most of the songs are the same in both languages, just translated. But with some of the songs, the two aren't merely translations but two different versions. En livstid i krig follows a Swedish soldier as he is sent out into war and A lifetime of war gives the listener an outside perspective of the 30 years war. Both songs cover the same war but from two completely different perspectives. So the English version is absolutely worth a look I would say. Other songs from the album that has different perspectives between the two versions are: 1648 Ett slag färgat rött/Killing Ground The song Runa Imperii is on both album but both versions are in Swedish. I hope this information helps you out if you want to dive deeper into the Carolus Rex album. :)

Another detail of this song is that the soldiers rarely chose that life themselves. The land owners could pick a young man from their area and send him so that they themselves could get a tax cut.

The sad part about the Carolus Rex album is that the Swedish versions are so much better than the English ones.

I was at this show (sitting somewhere in the middle of the platform to the left from this view of the stage) and it was an awesome show. Sadly this was just before covid started canceling shows (had for once planed around 5 shows and 1 festival) Just before the start of this clip Jocke told everyone to hold up their phones since no one carries a lighter around anymore.

From the early 1600s to the early 1700s Sweden was always in a state of war with no peace nearly a hundred years of constant war. That is where the song come from not just the thirty years war.

I was at this concert, somewhere in the middle fairly close to stage. Almost 2 years on the day now (14th of feburary 2020) so it was just before covid. It hits really hard, "Went to war for Sweden, was baptízed in blood. Out there death awaits, not heroism. On the fields where kinsmen fall, no songs are heard. Challanging our fates, once again." is such a fantastic line about the horrors that is war. I love Sabatons songs that are about heroism too, but this is the other side of that coin. For every Alvin York and the Chasseurs Ardennais there are countless others story that just ended when they died far from home and was forgotten. Sweden has not been to war for 200 years, but that hardly matters, it's such an emotional song. People where singing their hearts out and many cried. Probably my absolute favourite live concert experience ever.

This was beautiful, this vid always gets me. Thank you.

The coroleans prayer is a great song for you to react to.. It's about the swedish coroleans= the swedish army.

Good to see you react to this one, its a classic at this point. Hope you get better soon.

That was a lot of fun! Would love to be part of more such lives :) Love from Poland!

My songs favorite sabaton a lifetime of war and 1916 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟👏👏👏👏👏

Scandinavium Arena in Gothenbourg is one of Swedens biggest arenas . (Not THE biggest though). It takes a maximum of 14 000 plus at restaurants 2400 for music events. At icehockey games (and other sports events) it takes 12 000....f.y.i :-)

I was there! With my son! Sabaton rules! Thanx for sharing your reaction on this song!

Friday night, watching your video. Love it! Skål! Keep it up, u got my subscription

Carolus Rex album is a masterpiece all through... Both the english one and the swedish.

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YES do Carolus Rex. The whole thing.

During the 30 years war, soldiers actually often had their families with them during the campaigns.

I was there. Scandinavium is the main hockey/indoor arena of the town. It was around 14000 (sold out).

Good job! Sorry, I missed the Live.... next time! Swedes were peace keepers in the Congo 1961-1964. They left some good jets there, SAAB J.29 Tunnan's, rendered inoperable, because they were too expensive to take home (and obsolescent)😢

I was there its proberly one of the best concert i have ever been to last time i was in the same arena was when ZZ top were there. The arena named Scandinavium is hockey arena that proberly can take around 14-15 k ppl during a consert but it feels like 50k 12044 ppl when they play hockey

First off sorry I missed this one from you! But apparently it was meant to be. Watched a podcast from jocko willink today with a Marine Vietnam vet. And its kind of amazing the parallels 400 years later

Sabaton 🤘🤘🤘🤘

The babyface guy Tommy is also the leadsinger in his own band Majestica (former Reinxeed).

Love your reaction! Glad to find your channel. Welcome down the rabbit hole 😊

Great reaction! Appreciate a lot that delve into the history. On one thing I have to disagree though - I think the 30 Years war was in reality nothing about religion. It was just an excuse. It was the different powers fighting for dominance. If you look at the multiple coalitions formed, you see a lot of allies with different religious beliefs.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance takes place during the early 15th century. Where a civil war was raging as the nobles were dissatisfied with their ruler Wenceslaus IV/Václav IV, who was an inferior ruler compared to his father, Charles IV, who had also been Holy Roman Emperor. At the request of the Czech nobles who were against their king, Sigismund, king of Hungary, brought his soldiers into the kingdom and wrecked havoc and captured Wenceslaus. The two kings were half-brothers and Sigismund had a claim on the Czech throne as well.

Sabaton didnt have a pro-crew filming during the grand tour. The concerts were streamed on youtube only.

love that you are into sabaton now, great. In numbers of people you should look into the world record, it's kind of history, the first big band to perform in the soviet union, Metallica, Enter Sandman, we are talking millions here. About Sweden, there are americans that moved to Sweden I follow on youtube. They might give some insight to you. A tip is Stephan Thyron.

My favorite song by SABATON. ( Svenska.) Den texten betyder mycket för mej. Samt att den väcker en del minnen. Med hälsningar från Västergötland i 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪. Arenan tar 12044 personer. Men när dom har sådanna här tillställningar å folk står på golvet så får det plats lite fler. Just här är det ca 14000 personer.

Hi again nice reaction once again. So i actually had atleast 2 relatives who fought in this war. And its actually not in the middle ages its in 1700s and again here there was a reformation in how the swedish military worked. So a family or group of ppl would recive a land lot from the crown. And for that land lot u would have to have to have a couple or plenty of men depending of how much land u recived which would be professional soldiers. And so yes they would be farmers or craftsmen like my family but also train to fight under tutorledge of officers a couple of months a year. My familys land lot named after our surname Åbyggeby it translates Å builders village (our surname is Åberg which is a reffernce to the nature around the lot. english translation would be rivermountain) can be found neighboring the village (ockelbo) that our prince Daniel is from. Later on my family would establish a watermill on the lot to supply the i guess village with about 10-15 houses with electricity and produce iron gates that still to this day can be found around the area at churches and so on. In sweden there is quite easy to find most of your familys history as long as you take the time to find it which means visiting a lot of churches. Greetings from sweden :)

I've uploaded a version with proper English subtitles embedded into the video, because the subtitles in the official one are terrible. You can find it here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLp2p7ily7rFj30.html Here is a version that also includes a brief intro with a historic backstory to the song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdykrbSTsszLioE.html

its a song for the nameless ones died in the 30 years war, esp. the swedish Soldiers. thats why they performe it in swedish.....i rally appreciate youre talking about it, not like all the failed students all along... saying ooooh, nice music......

Well we used out phones in Stockholm so I am sure they used phone in Gothenburg too.

One thing about Sweden during this time was it's allottment system, which basically meant all it's soldiers were professionals. Every couple of farms had to group together and supply one soldier to the government, but was free to pick whom. Which usually meant a second or third son etc, who wouldn't inherit the farm. They were to supply and equip him, so the government basically got professional lifetime soldiers out of this. It later got even more entrenched, which families taking names like "battle", "strife" etc and having had generations of being soldiers. Sweden fought a lot of wars during this time, and repeatedly punched way above its "weightclass" due to the professionalism of it's army, when most other nations used farmers and mercenaries...

This works for a lot of wars. But it is about the 30 years war.

Check out Swedish Pagans at Wacken 2019

Great reaction again! I can send you some Dutch Gin (jenever) , sorry not Swedish 😁

12044 seated in a hockey game

If you want to research an interesting thing about swedish history was/is it iron (metal) produktion, check out iron production during at 1700 i think Sweden was the biggest iron producer in the world.

You need to watch 82nd All the Way and Lost battalion.. ^^

check out THE WINGED HUSSARS about the saving of VIENNA from the turks in the 15th or 16th century

Well sabaton have historically youtube channel about every track and they have researched everything..you should check that out..you got all the info they couldn't put in a song obviously..saw some vets doing a reaction on this particular song..and they strongly feel the same..they had served a country in war and nobody cares about them..kind of sad..cheers from Sweden

Buddy, it is a live performance. Of course it is one shot.

Have you checked out their song 82nd All The Way?

About a single Swedish soldier's perspective during the 30-year war

14000 in Scandinavium

Scandinavia was Lutheran, not Calvinist.

You HAVE to make a reaction to: The red Baron The last stand Hearts of Iron And Specifically Long Live The King Ruina Imperii

9:10 kinda cracked me up

Carolus XII snatched the royal crown from the abbotts hands during his corination, and put it on his head. Pure epic. After all, god had put him on that throne.

scandinavians are or where luherans

Mackmyra :)

Gothenburg is a town in Sweden, not Polen

Just liek cthe sweidsh army durting the 30 years war, it was small but affective because the soldeirs believed in what they were fighting for (protestantism)

Civilians died because men were at war and not cultivating the land, there was famine and therefore weak people got sick with diseases and died. Men died in the war. Awful time. My country Finland was part of Sweden in those days and many farms had to provide a rider and a horse for the light cavalry. They were called Hakkapeliitta, they still live in folklore in Central Europe, they were truly feared.

'they didn't care who was your lord' FALSE claim, a fact! A just ruler might have been accepted after the fact, but that's whole difference from your claim.