The captain of the boat is the real son of the Bismarck survivor portrayed in the video.

Sabaton was awarded the Swedish Skeptics Association's "Enlightener of the Year Award" for going above and beyond what is expected to educate people because of their music and videos. First Rock Band ever to receive that award and its pretty fitting. I don't know another band that makes history seem so cool.

Two historical notes: 1) some of the lyrics are the (translated) quotes from Otto von Bismarck, the German leader for whom the ship was named. 2) inside the compass that the older man was checking at the end are the longitude & latitude coordinates of where the Bismarck went down. These guys pay real attention to the history behind their songs.

The stuff with the Bismarck was made with collaboration from Wargaming, the same company that does World of Tanks and World of Warships. Actually, in the Warships, you can play as the Bismarck too. Edit: Some historical stuff for the ship…it only ever fought in two battles because after the first, they straight up went “We need to sink this sonuvabitch” and then went and did it. There was a cat aboard the Bismarck who would later come to be known as “Unsinkable Sam” after he was picked up by one of the ships that fought the Bismarck called the Cossack. That ship later sank, but Sam ended up on another one called the Ark Royal which also sank. Finally, he was transferred to an office in Gibraltar and then lived the rest of his days in a sailor’s house in the UK

More Sabaton, more Sabaton, more historical epic metal!! 🤘🏻

Sabaton is a great band, you can count on actually learning something listening to these guys. My favorite song is En Livstid I Krig live in Sweeden 🖤🇸🇪

The name painted on the boat the band went out on is 'Primo Victoria'. That is the name of the first Sabaton album released, the title track is about D-Day at Normandy.

React to their 40:1 live at Woodstock. Absolutely mental. Brilliant song in front of half a million

"Iron and Blood" was a quote from Otto von Bismarck after the ship was named.

Never knew what the Bismark was until this song...never heard about it in history class. Prob one of my fav songs from Sabaton.

That solo... damn! Tommy can always make my eyes water. Great song, Great reaction: Keep it up guys 🤘

@Rykerroad: Hey guys. To give you the year the Bismarck was sunk, it was 1940. The quote at the end was, "This video is dedicated to all those who fought to the bitter end, in the Battle of the Atlantic." To put it mildly, the first battle that Bismarck fought in, he (Admiral Karl Döenitz referred to Bismarck as "he," rather than the traditional "she," among other German naval officers) sank the HMS Hood, the flagship of the British Royal Navy. In the second engagement for Bismarck, a warning from German naval engineers came back to haunt him: As they warned, he was hit in his steering linkages, which forced the rudder to turn only one way. Bismarck attempted to reach Lothlorien, France, and was, I think, 4 days away from getting back to port, when the original two ships that were tracking Bismarck, plus 16 other British Royal Navy ships, opened fire and engaged Bismark. One of those ships carried 20 Swordfish bi-plane torpedo bombers, and yes, was one of the first aircraft carriers. Another flaw of Bismarck was that his anti-air guns, his AA defenses, were limited on how high they could elevate to shoot down enemy planes. Additionally, one other flaw was that when his main 15" cannons fired, he ended up knocking out his own radar system from the recoil of those guns. It's one difference between German ships and US ships, despite US ships like USS Missouri having at least three more main guns, at 16", versus Bismarck's 15" guns. The largest naval cannon size was 18", by the way, on the Imperial Japanese battleship Yamato and her sister ship. But when Bismarck was engaged for the final time, one British Royal Navy captain fired 4500 shells at him, over the course of 3 hours -- and even then, Bismarck was damaged, but not sinking. There is now evidence that what actually sank Bismarck was his own crew, to scuttle the boat and prevent things like the Enigma cryptography code machine from falling into Allied hands. Lastly, the gentleman in the video was, I believe, the grandson (I've been told it could be the survivor's son, but given the age of the man in the video, and the year of the sinking, I'm more inclined to believe that the man is the grandson of the survivor) of the last survivor of the sinking of Bismarck, who died some time before this video was made. It was that survivor who had the compass in his hand at the end of the video, which since 1940, had contained the coordinates of Bismarck when he sank.

As a WWII buff, I cried when you asked “did it sink?” LOL. But when Bismarck emerges from the fog…THAT was badass.

82nd All the Way is another fantastic song by Sabaton

Glad we have sabaton around to keep history alive.

You guys have to check out some other songs from sabaton. "the red baron", "the attack of the dead men", "screaming eagle", resist and bite", "stormtrooper", "the price of a mile", "the last battle" and so much more are great songs of this amazing band. 🤘🏻

There is no greater feeling for me than to watch them live. I always have to take a break for a few weeks after I've seen them live, because I'm dissapointed at how much power in these songs is lost if it isn't played in a full concert hall with the entire hall roaring along, its such a great feeling, just saw them live like two weeks ago, and I can't wait to watch them live again soon.

Yes! Finally y’all react to Sabaton! Super happy!

If you ever get the chance to see sabaton in concert it is worth the money they put one an amazing show

Context for the Bismarck : during WW2 because America was shipping supplies to England to keep them in the war Gemrany creates the Bismarck. Which was this HUGE BATTLESHIP that was supposed to go out into the atlantic ocean and shoot ships sending supplies but the british Royal Navy destroyed it before that happened

iron and blood is a famous speech by Bismark, one of the the swordfish planes managed to damage the rudder (pilot though he missed), just a list of history facts made into lyrics and visuals. I bet you can say roughly number of sailors abd displacement (weight) of the Bismark even two weeks or years from now.

Great reaction! I love Sabaton. :D BTW their singer Joakim Broden did a song/video with Nanowar of Steel lately called "Pasadena 1994" and I think you might like that one, too. :D

Great reaction guys. I absolutely love Sabaton. My personal favourites are No Bullets Fly, Night Witches and Soldier of Heaven but they've recorded so many awesome songs, including this one 🤘❤

Sabaton attack of the dead, and Night Witches always get me going

History Fact: Before the Ship sank, the Bismarcks' Hulls were glowing red from all the shelling and kinetic energy involved... that's thick Armor and quite a Beast when you think about it Greetings from Germany🤘

At the beginning of the video you hear on the radio that HMS Hood had sunk. Bismarck during it's very first engagement destroyed HMS Hood in the first few minutes of battle. Out of 1418 crew and officers aboard the Hood only 3 survived the sinking. Out of Bismarck's own crew of a little over 2000 only about 200 survived the sinking and even less than that was ever pulled from the water. Had Bismarck made it out to the Atlantic it's likely Britin would have been starved out long before the US joined the war.

Never seen someone headbang in so much confusion and awe before.

Can you guys react to no bullets fly. The animated has a sweet tid bit at the end of it about people involved with the story behind the song and it's done by students getting to learn animation. Hits feels quite a bit

4 mins ago?! Ayyye Video is awesome, thank you!

It's a classic song made in the 60's written and sung by Johnny Horton called Sink the Bismark. It's a folklore song. But offers a bit more history about the ship.

Quick background. The Bismarck was made to be WW2 Germany’s ultimate naval weapon/ship. It was intended to be superior to the allied(mostly British) navy and used to control the Atlantic

The words you couldn't read said - Battle of the Atlantic - that's where the Biskmark and the Kriegsmarine (Kreegs - marine), which was the German "War Navy", majorly functioned. Of course, they had ships and subs in other bodies of water, but the Battle of the Atlantic was a huge part of the European Theater of WW2; as US and other ships carrying supplies and aid would take that route, and of course you had the Allied Navy patrolling fighting the war on the water with German ships and U-Boats. I'm a huge history nerd. My degrees are in history with a focus on WW2 and Europe. Lol! The Bismark was the biggest and baddest of its day. Notice they called it a He. All ships are referred to as She. Bismark was called the king of the ocean for his size and firepower, and for what was advanced technology and engineering, and was definitely the largest battleship made at that time. It was sank, as you saw, by the British Navy in the North Atlantic, off the coast of France, in 1941. The video mentions the Battleship Hood. The Bismark entered into a fight with the Prince of Wales and the Hood near Iceland. The Hood exploded and sank, leaving only 3 of her 1,421 crewmen alive. Near the end of May (26th if memory serves), Bismark was wounded by British aircraft. The next day (27 May 1941), 3 British warships set out after Bismark, and heavily damaged the ship. The German command, after losing steering, listing hard to port, and without any working guns left, gave orders to scuttle the ship. It quickly sank. Out of Bismark's 2,221 crewman, only 115 survived. That's the cliffs notes of the sinking of the Bismark during the Battle of the Atlantic. I absolutely cannot wait for yall to finally do No Bullets Fly the Animated Story Video. It's longer, just over 10 minutes I believe, but TOTALLY worth it and you get the full story and aftermath with it. I PROMISE it's worth the little bit longer video guys, if y'all have the time to toss it in there! Another great one! So much more Sabaton to explore! Side note - their drummer is Hannes Van Dahl. He is married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish. They have a daughter, Freja, and Floor is currently pregnant with their second child. So glad y'all finally got to this one! I really think if they incorporated this into history classes, kids would be more excited to learn their history! Catch yall on the next!!!

Sabaton is so cool with their music style, i dont know many bands that "talk" about this theme.

Sabaton has an official history channel where they talk about the stories that inspire their songs. Sabaton History

if you haven't already listened to them : SABATON - Carolus Rex , SABATON - The Lion From The North , SABATON - The Unkillable Soldier ,SABATON - The Final Solution

My german fellas. Love them Video number 14 asking for Bury Tomorrow - Life (Paradise denied) Dani the Vocalist is one of a kind. His range in voice from low's to screams is incredible

This is one of my favorite songs

For more Sabaton. Check out their song ghost division. THE LIVE VERSION

Fun fact, Robert Ballard the guy who found the Titanic, also found the Bismarck… And ironically they were both lost on their maiden voyage

If you are interested in a different song about the Bismarck, Johnny Horton sang Sink the Bismarck. Very old song though but Johnny Horton had a similar niche as Sabaton, doing a lot of history based songs.

there is a small town in northern Germany named Laboe, there is a Naval memorial with "endless" walls of names of fallen Sailors of the warld wars. The DC Vietnam Memorial was based on this....

Remember y’all being at 1.5k when I joined, shit went crazy fast! Congrats!!

Sabaton is best live! Saw them last August finally, it was a really fun concert. They have a lot of official videos from their Great Tour. If you watch the Night Witches from that tour, there is a nice little surprise at the end ;) Maybe "82nd All The Way" would interest you, it's about some events in the U.S. :) There is a nice cover of that one by Amaranthe. They also performed it on stage together. If you want to see a huuuuuge crowd and a great concert opener, watch Ghost Division from Woodstock, Poland.

Their guitarist Tommy Johansson, is in a power metal band called Majestica. I recommend their song Ghost of Marley. Tommy sings in it and he has a great voice IMO.

Bro that melody gives me chills

Great Reaction! Still one of my favorite songs by them 🤘😃

Late to the party, and I know it, but a couple of Sabaton songs I want to see you guys react to, Attack of the Dead Men, Shiroyama, Battle of Bannockburn. All three have very unique styles for Sabaton.

Sabaton is amazing to put a careot up infront of you to look into stuff. I learned more about history with sabaton than 13 years in school....

Hell yeah

You MUST react to their latest song 1916.....or if you want cinematic videos look at Fields of Verdun OR/AND Steel Commanders

I have a strong feeling they did the band playing on the boat was done in the Baltic because it is so calm The Atlantic even when it is calm has much more swell. I took a hydrofoil in Norway and on the way to Bergen in what seemed a quite calm sea we were dropping several feet and it wasn't easy to stand up never mind play instruments. LOL The Bismarck was a huge battleship and was a major target for the British along with her sister ship the Tirpitz The Bismarck lasted EIGHT days in open sea as the British targeted them The British lost HMS Hood but the aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal crippled the ship and it couldn't make back to safety so they scuttled it in the Atlantic. It is a famous story in British naval history and there is a film "Sink the Bismarck" from 1960 about the events told from the British point of view.

You should look at the animated No bullets fly with Sabaton.

Great song, amazing reaction,hope Eric's okay, bc of the coughing fits... But cannot get out of my head, I just know some idjit has shot himself from armadillo ricochet...

Fun fact about this Ship. KMS Bismarck Is That, The Armor Is SO Effective that most of the shell that Tries to Penetrate IT DIDN'T Even Have a LARGE dent. Only a few. Even the Torpedoes that tries to sunk it doesn't have any effect. The reason why It sunk because the captain of Bismarck actually annouce it to be scuttle it. Because the Recent Air Raid that happen (The Scene where HMS Destroyerco- I mean HMS Ark Royal) Damage the rutter which make it hard to impossible to stir, and now going on a circle. Bearly close to the Luftwaffe Range of Support. Only Allied Ship that Bismarck Is A Submarine U-74, And also U-556 but Only mentioned

LETS GO i love sabaton i really hope to see yall react to them more in the future and id highly reccomend watching their no bullets fly music/story video its honestly me favorite song by them with one of if not my favorite acts of humanity in ww2 great reaction much love guys

I know it's a bit outside of both of your musical genres but Johnny Horton did a song called Sink the Bismarck that give s apretty good history of the ship and it's historical significance

I've seen _a lot_ of reactions to this, and you guys are one of only two reactions that have picked up on what was being said with the whole watch thing.

Nice reaction guys...🇸🇪

If you want a magical experience, you should watch the live version of "En livstid i krig". But no matter what song you listen to from Sabaton, it's gonna be great!

Bismarck was the largest German Battleship ever constructed. Shes best known for the sinking of the pride of the British navy at the time, HMS Hood. Hood only lasted 15 minutes in the battle of Denmark strait before she was hit by one of Bismarck's salvos ripping the hood in 2 after her magazines detonated. Theres a big controversy over whether Bismarck met her end at the hands of the British navy after her rudder was jammed because of a hit from a torpedo and she withstood over 400 direct hits from multiple British shells and torpedoes but alot also say that she was still pretty much afloat afterwards and orders were given by the German soldiers to scuttle the battleship

Terror of the seas and the terror of the knees

The Bismarck was a class of ships. The sister ship was the Tirpitz which also sank.

Bismarck was one of the largest warships at the time, though in size, what outmatched by the Yamato who also had 9 410mm cannons. However the Bismarck was feared on a whole other level due to it one shotting the HMS Hood, the pride and joy of the Royal Navy.

listen to their newly realeased song "1916"

What about their new relese , "1916" a cover /tribute of Motorhead , about ww1 , Battle of Somme. Greetings from nwAse Sweden

Great reaction.

You guys should check out Brothers of metal - yggdrasil. And Fozzy - Judas. And the rap colab version of Fallen Soldiers - The Marine Rapper

Jey do you know that The Haspend from Floor Jansen the Drummer by Sabaton is

Nice reaction! You have too see En livstid i krig, live Gothenburg. With CC!!

King George V was firing, Rodney was firing, Dorsetshire launched torpedos and yet the Bismarck was afloat. In the end it was the crew that scuttled him to keep him away from the Brits. First battle scene is Bismarck damaging Prince of Wales, then the Swordfish plane damaging Bismarck's rudder and final battle scene is Bismarck and Rodney exchanging fire and Dorsetshires torpedos.

Sabaton has their own history channel!

In that Situation Bismarck fought 4 British Battleship HMS KING GEORGE V HMS RODNEY HMS DORSETSHIRE and HMS NORFOLK

Would love to see Y’all react to Sabaton’s More in depth history videos.

DUUUUDEEE, you guys gotta go through The Last Stand and The Great War albums, they fricking ROCK!!!

Sabaton is BAD to the ASS... They are a great band to see live if you get the chance.

If you wish to know more about the Battle of the Atlantic, I must recommend the 1960 movie "Sink the Bismarck" It is free here on YT. It was one of my inspirations to enlist in the US Navy in 1984. I like to refer to Sabaton as "Valor Metal"

The Bismark was an interesting episode of the war, and a lesson of hubris. They thought that it would help tip the scales of naval supremacy in their favour. They had the biggest and baddest ship, after all. The problem was that it was immediately decided that the ship was too dangerous to be afloat. It wasn't just another warship, it had to be taken down. And it was. Spectacularly.

You should check out To Hell and Back as well as 82nd All the Way.

IJN Battleship Yamato would like a word about being king of the seas...

sadly the loss of life in this battle was horrible out of 1400 men on the HMS Hood only 3 survived out of 2200 on Bismark only 113 survived plus 100 lost on HMS Prince of Whales and 30 on HMS Sheffield amazingly none of the old Biplanes were shot down

The Prive of A Mile next

Really need to react to sabaton attack of the dead men

If you want to learn more stuff: Sabaton has the Sabaton History channel on KZfaq.

more than 50 ships were needed to hunt down the Bismarck and 2 or 3 aircraft carriers, and in the end we Germans blew up the ship ourselves.

Hello from Russia. eternal memory to the sailors of the cruiser Hood!!!.

the torpado hit the rudder and it only could go in cirlces and was easy bate then what they showed is realy a film about the bismark one hit doomed is like goliad against david

sabaton lady of the dark animated story video

Wall of text, sorry. On May 24, 1941 the "Bismarck" and the "Prinz Eugen" destroyed the then Pride of the British Navy HMS "Hood", which, although old, was a formidable Battlecruiser. Armor piercing shells from his (the Bismarck was referred to as "he") eight 38 cm / 15 inch guns hit a propellant store inside the Hood, the explosion of which broke her back, sinking her in two pieces. Badass sidenote, the Hood fired one last salvo when the bow was almost vertical. As revenge for her destruction and to take the dangerous (and now damaged) Bismarck out of the fight for the Atlantic, Churchill ordered a chase with every ship available, for example light cruisers Manchester, Birmingham, Arethusa and battleships Rodney, Revenge, and Ramillies. In total, six battleships and battlecruisers, two carriers, 13 cruisers and 21 destroyers were in pursuit. Bismarck was located on the 25th and 26th and peppered with shells and torpedoes. His rudder was damaged on the 26th by an obsolete "Swordfish" biplane torpedo and left him circling. Admiral Lütjens on the bridge famously messaged command with the words "Ships unmaneuvrable. We will fight to the last shell. Long live the F*hrer". On the 27th the British fleet descended on Bismarck and shelled her relentlessly for hours. 2,800 shells were fired from the closest four ships, of which 400 hit, devastating his superstructure, but not actually sinking him. At some point they were firing "point blank" at about 2,700 m / 3000 yd. Over those 3 days, 5 torpedoes also hit him, though it is unclear if the last two caused the ship to sink or the scuttling charges set in the engine room by the Bismarck crew themselves. Of the 2200 men on board, only 114 survived. After the sinking, Admiral John Tovey said, "The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible odds worthy of the old days of the Imperial German Navy, and she went down with her colours flying."

Are you flipping the video left-to-right as well? That's screwing me up! My favorite Sabaton song, along with Christmas Truce and The Last Stand. The video was done in cooperation with Wargaming and World of Warships, so that explains the ships and other assets. There's a 'making of' video somewhere, possibly on Sabaton History or World of Warships channel. The end part you can't read "The Battle of the Atlantic"

Don’t worry Kyle I have pretty bad thalassaphobia as well. Your not alone

BEST SONG EVER

It took over 1500 shells and 400 torps to take the bastard down

That purple or whatever it is lighting that bounces off Kyle's face.......it looks like he has a massive birthmark or is a burn victim lol😊

There was an episode of 'Deadliest Warrior' some years ago where they pitted the Nazis against the Viet Cong (making it clear that they weren't promoting either) where a guy 'representing' the Nazis made a interesting statement: "Never has a better soldier fought for a worse cause."

Yeah. She sits at the bottom of the Atlantic in about 4,000 - 6,000 meters of water

here just a bit more information The "Bismarck" , and his sister ship "Tirpitz", were the 2 largest battleships ever built in Europe (250 meters long, 36 meters wide, and displacing more than 50.000 tones) and they were the pride of the kriegsmarine (Germany's militari navy) during Ww2. The "Bismarck" set sail in May 1941 to reach the Atlantic and destroy merchant convoys, but he was intercepted by the British and during a brief fight, destroyed the former flagship of the British fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, the worldwide famous battlecruiser "Hood", by penetrating her armor and detonating her aft main ammunition magazine and killing all 1400 members of her crew except for 3 men, and heavily damaged the battleship "Prince of Wales". This enraged the prime minister Winston Churcil who ordered all his ships in the Atlantic to abandon their operations and destroy the Bismarck. In total more than 40 ships participated to the hunt, making it the biggest naval hunt in history. Meanwhile Bismarck, who had received a hit during the first battle, was leaking fuel and was trying to reach the French port of Saint Nazaire, in occupied France, for repair. After 3 days of playing cat and mouse with the British, Bismarck was attacked by airplanes launched from the aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" and hit by a torpedo in the stern, which jammed his rudders during evasive manuvers, meaning that he was forced to sail in circles, just a few miles away from reaching air cover. In the end battleships "King George V" and "Rodney", along side the heavy cruisers "Norfolk" and "Dorsedshire" fought the already doomed battleship and, during the following 90 minutes completely destroyed it. However, despite having all his guns destroyed, and having received more than 400 hits (out of the 2800 shells that the British had fired at it) his armor was still mostly intact and the ship was still afloat. So the british launched another 4 torpedoes and he disappeared beneath the waves. After inspection of the wreck however it had been discovered that the torpedoes did no significant damage thanks to the battleship's excellent armor, and that Bismarck had been scuttled by his crew (although it should be noted that many historians believe that it would have eventually sunk due to the damage received). Of the 2200 men that served on it, only 114 survived. Copy, props to @willghezzi Small funfact, the 105mm Air defense on the Bismarck was too fast to hit the slow airplanes, was too modern on those days.

Bismarck was sunk in revenge for the sinking of the British Royal Navy ship HMS Hood. Hood was protecting the Atlantic convoys.

Drummer of Sabaton is married to Floor Jansen of Nightwish. Neat fact.

LETS GOOOOO SABATON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan Caraveo run,real right now, perfect world