Some facts and explained references about the song: - The videoclip's feast part was shot in the living room of the bassist. - Right before Odin enters, there is a Hebrew part that is interesting on multiple levels. 1) It is a bent version of a quote from the Bible. Originally it's "Shema Israel, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Ehad", which roughly translates to "Hear Israel, the Lord is your God, the Lord is one". 2) It is obviously bent to fit the Norse theme of the song. 3) The exact same thing is written above it in Hebrew, correctly. It makes sense, since the bassist speaks Hebrew. 4) The bassist speaks 7 other languages and has a PhD in Astrophysics. 5) - At the ending there is a line "falegn-amen". Falegname means Carpenter in Italian. - Systembolaget: the only place you can buy alcohol in Sweden in order to fight alcoholism. - Permafrost: a layer of ice that is stuck to the floor. - Amon Amarth & Hammerfall: two Swedish bands. Amon Amarth is death metal, Hammerfall is power metal. - Slayer of the giants: the giants attack the humans and Thor protects us. - For the plunder and the rape (...) for the chopping of the heads: what vikings did. - For Normandy, Britannia, Greenland, Scandinavia: places where the vikings were. - For Nicaragua & Azerbaidjan we don't sing at all: the vikings were in Europe, so they didn't know where Nicaragua (Central America) or Azerbaidjan (Transcaucasia) were. - Shema Yggdrasil: it's a reference to the Torah, where the original is Shema Israel (listen, Israel). Yggdrasil is the mythical tree that connects all the worlds in the Nordic mythology. - Odin eloheinu: "Odin, our god" in Jewish. - I'm a gentle god: a reference to the extreme Swedish politeness nowadays compared to their viking past. - Master of IKEA: IKEA is the most known Swedish company, and even has the same colors as the flag of Sweden. - Gloria patri furnituribus in nomine IKEA: a slight reference to Powerwolf, a German power metal band that usually sings in Latin and uses church organs in their background mixed with metal. It also makes sense, because they're Italians and Latin was what Romans spoke. - Beddinge and Kivik: a clic clac sofa bed and a modular sofa. - The pencils and the meatballs: things you can find in any IKEA. - Knopparp: Swedish for doorknob. - Ora pro nobis: Latin for "pray for us". - Besta TV: a sideboard. - Knisa grey: an armchair. - Sasha Grey: a pornstar. - The movie in the background: it's Trading Places (1983), starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy, and it's considered as a Christmas comedy. Nerding out to Nanowar references since 2017.

"Systembolaget" is the Swedish alcohol monopoly. State owned.

They’re from Italy and yes, lasagne is traditional Christmas dinner.

Btw, Odin in this video is portrayed and voiced by the amazing Angus McFife from the band Gloryhammer!

The multilingual puns in this are amazing.

Angus Mc Fife, prince of the land of Fife, noble and true with a heart of steel. Thomas Winkler is along with DIO, one of the best singers i have ever heard. You can hear the incredible vocal range of this man in songs like Hootsforce and Amulet of Justice

I had the pleasure to chat with nanowar in dusseldorf after the concert, they are nice and funny and gattopanceri (the bass player) speaks 10 languages. A great pleasure to remember one of their concerts in Turin 12 13 years ago and they said "but in those years we sucked, now we have improved and we suck less". And at the concert we Italians were in the minority and the German audience even knew the songs in Italian!

Nanowar of Steel is a comedy heavy metal band from Rome, Italy

Love it! Try with Nanowar - Norweigan Reggaeton

nanowar of steel norwegian reggaeton it will blow your mind

Hoping for more of them like "Uranus" and "Norwegian Reggaeton"

I just noticed the movie on the TV at the end is Trading Places. Dan Aykroyd was in Blues Brothers, so I little easter egg me thinks. 😂

FINALLY!.....just saw them Live 2 Evenings here in Germany....amazing Live Singers for sure !!! ITALY COMEDY METAL 4EVER ! GOSPEL METAL is the NEW THING !

Well, I first listened to this amazing piece a few years back and every time I am in IKEA it plays non stop in my head! IKEA should be paying them! They did random meet ups with fans in some IKEA stores at some point! They are hilarious!

The guitars in this are just absolute fire

The book that is held up has on its front the tools necessary to assembly Ikea furniture :).

Cracking Xmas song, these guys are a blast through and through.

Nanowar of Steel - Norweggian Reggaeton next, please! And "Odin" in this video is Tomas Winkler a.k.a. Angus McFife (ex. Gloryhammer). You definitely want to check out Gloryhammer. It is also a parody band, like Nanowar, - but in a different vein. They [used to] tell the AD&D-esque epic story of the kingdom of Fife and its prince Angus McFife and his feud against the evil sorcerer Zargothrax as it unfolded throughout centuries and dimensions. A good place to start would be The Unicorn Invasion Of Dundee, which is the opening song from Gloryhammer`s debut album Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Your smiles are a delight! Nanowar is definitely brilliant!!! Hope you'll react to more songs from them!! Well done Sir!!!

One can have a lot of fun googling all the references. For some, however, make sure you don't google them on your office systems.

This song always make me smile!!!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 a masterpiece

Powermetal and Gospel! An unlikely couple, sure. But a powerfull one!

OMG best delivery of the line "I didn't know I needed this..." EVER!!!

"Like the great gospel numbers, like In Blues Brothers." I like you.

When I see a Nanowar reaction, I must watch.

This is what you hallucinate when you drink a mix of expired eggnog with alcohol. So glad i'm not the only one who noticed the same cliffs that were used for the MCU Thor Ragnarok's Odin scene too.

Systembolaget is what the liquor stores að called in Sweden, at least when i was there about 10 years ago

The best part of this is that Nanowar of Steel is banned from IKEA afternoon doing an impromptu IKEA tour that... We'll say the company wasn't in on it, lmao

A Manowar reaction (The real Manowar) would be cool to see. Speacially one of the early songs

Oh yeah, I can definitely go with raising vibrational frequency....you nailed it, lol

Nanowar of steel come from Italy and I am very proud of them

Waiting. Just waiting. For you know what.

They changed the hebrew prayer from Adonai to Odinai and Israel with Yggdrasil (the Tree of life in the norse mythology) and That's brilliant! ( shema israel adonai elohenu adonai ehad more or less "Liste Israel God is our Lord, God is one ....to Listen Yggdrasil Odin is our Lord Odin is One) And for non italian speaking the "Falegn-Amen" joke, "falegname" is the italian word for Carpenter. wait just a little and they will come in the comment section :) i Suggest also "Uranus", "Norvegian Reggeaton" in english, "Polenta Taragnarock" in italian with captions and "Der fluch des kapt'n iglo" in German ( and the italian version of the same song "La maledizione di capitan findus")

The cliff is in Ostia, the coastal city close to Roma where all Romans go during the summer

Best x-mas song EVER!

Nanowar are from Italy, but the song is sang as if the main character is from Sweden. It's opera.

SION inside the hollow Howard Jones and Jared Dines new band. Absolutely incredible clean vocals from Howard!! You’ll love it.

Great italian fun Band with great musicians. Although it´s only a hobby for them. they all work full time in normal jobs. The Name "nanowar of steel" is a multi-reference to the well known Metal-Band "Manowar" (obviously) and the name change of another italian Metal band (Former "Rhapsody") to "Rhapsody of fire". They do all kind of stuff. and they mix music-styles like no one else. check out "norwegian reggeaton" or "Barbie, milf princess of the Twilight" also great is the Song "uranus" - one of their latest songs is Called "polenta Taragnarok" it´s in collaboration with an very popular italian tv-cook and it´s about the north italian Dish "Polenta Taragna". Most of their songs are sung in english with Swedish or Norwegian phrases. Sometimes a little bit of spanish. Polenta Taragnarock is the first song i heard from them all in italian. and in my opinion one of their best songs ever. This is a band you never know you needed in your life until you finally discovered them xD The guy singing odin in this video Angus McFife is also the leadsinger of the british fun-Power-metal Band "Gloryhammer" you definetley should also check out some of their songs. I´d recommend the songs "gloryhammer" and "hootsforce" they are hillarious. Have fun discovering more of them ;-)

One of the motifs in the "let us pray" segment is the old song "Amen" from the Sidney Poitier film "Lilies of the Field."

VALHALLELUJA!!!

nice

So actually I subscribed to your channel about a year ago. This band Nanowar of Steel is from Italy, this is their style, just making things hilarious but in an entertaining vibe. "Norwegian Reggaeton" or "And then I noticed that she was a Gargoyle" are my suggestion songs to react to from this band. Hilarious again with many references 👌. I have tons of suggestions actually, in different genres, mostly metal and blues rock but also some soul or mixing genres bands. But I guess you have plenty of suggestions so I don't even know if you would ever get to do all of them 😅 And I have like 20 or more 😅. But I like your reaction videos, I started following you when you reacted to Unleash The Archers who are one of my favourite bands 👌👌👌

as a side note here, both Amon Amarth (Melodic death metal with a heavy influence of the Viking era) and Hammerfall (Power/heavy metal) are Swedish metal bands.

Another great show 👍 Have you ever reacted to "Heilung"? I suggest "In Majdjan".

from Italy

Lots of people seem to be suggesting Norwegian Reggaeton but I doubt that Ken will catch the sarcasm with the numerous references from the European metal scene. I would rather recommend Vegan Velociraptor

the guitarists fingers were moving and he was playing the right notes in that, idk what you saw or not. Replay :)

Another great one from Nanowar is Norwegian Reggaeton.

"They're from Sweden or something?" Oh my sweet summer child... MAMMA MIA!

Haha Systembolaget 😂 Its where you have to go in sweden if you wanna buy beverage stronger than 3,5% with alcohol. In sweden regular stores arent allowed to sell alcoholic drinks with more than 3,5%. If you buy beer in sweden with 3,5% alkohol its called folköl wich means folkbeer.

nanowar are from italy! now you have to listen "la polenta taragnarock" and "uranus"

you have to listen to their song "Uranus" IT's another masterpiece of them!

You need to react to a Japanese chanel called the first take. Its where artists sing in one take. Lisa singing Gurenge is spine chillingly good. But a real fun one is Masayuki Suzuki singing Daddy Daddy Doo will make you smile. Trust me they are both epic!!!!

5:11 I think that's somwhere near Anzio, Italy

i thought of the blues bros too

Am I the only one who thought this was Ryan Stiles for the first 2 seconds of looking of the thumbnail lmao

And they are from Italy ( typical xmas dinner )

Great reaction! While we're in the Christmas spirit, you should react to Sabaton's Christmas Truce! It came out a few weeks ago and is about the Christmas Truce in the trenches of WW1 in 1914

How dare you say that Odin is working for Ikea. He's the MASTER of Ikea 😂😂😂

POWERWOLF POWERWOLF

Aaah Italy: pizza, pasta e Nanowar ✨🇮🇹

Do MANOWAR please. Eric Adams is a fantastic vocalist

I love your video reactions! Please @KenLavigne react to Poets of the fall💙 Temple of thought acoustic! Marko's voice is amazing, I'm sure you're going to like it! Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮

Systembolaget is the government run Liquor distribution shop in Sweden. It's a chain so, pretty synonymous with booze.

In 2020 they did an unauthorized tour of ikea stores.

If you're looking for another good beatboxing video to check out, "Insane" by Remix is one not to be missed. Hope you had a great holiday btw

You'll like their song "Norweigan Reggaton"!!

nanowar of steel is a tribute name for two metal bands: Manowar and Rhapsody of Fire

Please react to Helvegen live version by wardruna featuring aurora!

Nanowar of Steel - Norweggian Reggaeton next, please! With CC

This song is realy funny ! I know a video its parody from a Queen song, its Bohamiam Rapsody, " Mama just kill a mouse " this is cats and very funny ! Greatings from germany ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

Nanowar is actually from Italy

Systembolaget iirc is the Norwegian LCBO

You should listen to Uranus.. :D

As a vocal couch you should give some tips and tricks to improve? It says Vocal Couch in the title so I would like to hear your opinions

Nanowar is an italian metal band. You can try "Norwegian reggaeton" if you want some more fun^^

Do Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds Bartender at Radio City Music Hall. You’ll thank me later :)

Try "Jinjer - Pisces" you will be perplexed :D

The guys in the band are all noted professionals in real life. Astrophysicist, etc. This is not their day job.

They are from Italy

שמע יגדרשאל 🤘

If you like songs that are also ads for Ikea, you should check out _IKEA_ by Jonathan Coulton. Though my fave track of his is _I Feel Fantastic._

you should check out FEUERSCHWANZ - Warriors Of The World United

Do "Norwegian Reggaeton" next!!! Or "And Then I Noticed That She Was A Gargoyle"

All hail Italy! Capisch?

Take a look to Pasadena 1994 by NanowaR of Steel with SabatoN

tbh...Ikea rules the world. ;)

Systembolaget is swedish alcoholshop.

Systembolaget is where you buy alcohol over 3.5 % in sweden.

Your videos are just so fun to watch! Especially as a metal fan. Maybe you could react to the live version of 'End of Heartache' bei Killswitch Engage. You really seem to like Howard Jones' voice the last time. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8hkgLiEq5PSZ2g.html

I call the genre "vikeaing metal"

isnt sasha grey our all loved twitch streamer and youtube star ? i mean she makes amazing cooking videos and travel videos sasha grey is great

They are ITALIAN damn it.

If you like this you should really check out their song named Norwegian Reggaeton, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJaJi8mWs96uemQ.html

This is actually *not* the most relentlessly-silly song I've heard, but its on the list.

You dont pause when Angus McFife is singing! that's a crime!!!!!!

finally a reaction that at least stops not ech 3 seconds - but still none stoppings would be much better especially in reactions to these kind of videos

they're from Italy, nothing related to any of the Nordics countries :D

Dude, you're a vocal coach and keep pausing the video in the most vocal-critical places.

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