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Sabaton (Music)

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Sabaton (Music)	comment	Genres:Traditional Heavy Metal, Horrible History Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic MetalInfluences:Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Manowar, Metallica, Twisted SisterRelated Acts:After Forever, ReVamp, Nightwish (guest appearances by Floor Jansen)Apocalyptica (crossover)Civil War (SundÃ©n, Montelius, Mullback, MÃ¿hr, Englund)Evergrey (Van Dahl)Majestica (Johansson)Radio Tapok (crossover)Sabaton is a Swedish Power Metal band founded in 1999. Most of their songs touch on themes of war, often being about famous historical battles, especially from World War II.Initially formed as a Traditional Heavy Metal group with frontman Joakim BrodÃ©n also playing keyboards, their first productions were a pair of EPs later released as Fist for Fight and their intended debut album Metalizer. However, these albums were sent into Development Hell by their label, Underground Symphony. In 2005, they jumped ship to Black Lodge Records and released the World War II-based Concept Album Primo Victoria, which had BrodÃ©n give up keyboard duties to Daniel MÃ¿hr. Such war songs, composed by BrodÃ©n, bassist PÃ¤r SundstrÃ¶m, or both, have comprised the lion's share of their output ever since. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records.The band underwent a major lineup change after the release of Carolus Rex in 2012, with MÃ¿hr, guitarists Rikard SundÃ©n and Oskar Montelius, and drummer Daniel Mullback leaving due to the group's grueling touring schedule; they subsequently joined up with Astral Doors vocalist Nils Patrik Johannson to form Civil War. In their place, Joakim and PÃ¤r hired guitarists Chris RÃ¶rland and Thobbe Englund and drummer Robban BÃ¤ck; however the latter only stayed a year before being replaced by former Evergrey drummer Hannes Van Dahl. Englund left the band after recording The Last Stand in 2017 and was replaced by Tommy "ReinXeed" Johansson, only to return in 2024 when Tommy left to focus full-time on his own band Majestica.In 2019, Sabaton collaborated with Indy "Time Ghost" Neidell to create the Sabaton History channel on YouTube, going into detail on the history behind the songs and the process of writing them.In 2020 they began a collaboration with American web animation studio Yarnhub to create story videos for some of their songs. This culminated in 2023 with their co-production of The War to End All Wars â€“ The Movie, an Animated Musical using their 2021 album The War to End All Wars as the soundtrack.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_11d206ef	type	Subliminal Seduction
Sabaton (Music) / int_11d206ef	comment	Subliminal Seduction: Parodied in "7734" with numerology and backwards lyrics so obvious a child could get them. For one, 7734 itself - type it on a calculator and hold the calculator upside down, you get "hELL". Then there's this: "the last two united and two became one" (3+4=7, so 777) "one hundred eleven / they perished in flame" (777-111=666), and also the line "Do Glatem Live", which backwards is "Evil Metal God."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Sabaton (Music) / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Although the band usually abstains from judging who was right or wrong in any given conflict, "In the Name of God" plainly describes terrorists as evil cowards.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Sabaton (Music) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, the two surviving final members of MotÃ¶rhead, appear in the video for "1916" carrying a portrait of the late Lemmy Kilmeister.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Sabaton (Music) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Attero Dominatus, compared to albums before and after. The title track is about the Soviet sack of Berlin, and it also has songs about terrorism, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the rise of Nazi Germany, and trench warfare in World War I. This is capped off with track five, "We Burn", a song about the Srebrenica massacre sung by the perpetrators. "Inmate 4859" is noticeably darker than the rest of the album Heroes. Even "Far From the Fame", which is also a very sad song, still has the normal "Sabaton sound", while "Inmate 4859" feels much more downbeat and is actually quite chilling.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_15800db3	type	All Are Equal in Death
Sabaton (Music) / int_15800db3	comment	All Are Equal in Death: "A Lifetime of War" "Cliffs of Gallipoli" has a similar theme.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
Sabaton (Music) / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: "Resist and Bite", which is about the Chasseurs Ardennais during World War II.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Sabaton (Music) / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Besides the lyrical shift from Heavy Mithril to Horrible History Metal with Primo Victoria, the earlier albums are musically more Traditional Heavy Metal but shift to Power Metal roughly at The Art of War.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_18cb78a2	type	You Are Already Dead
Sabaton (Music) / int_18cb78a2	comment	You Are Already Dead: "Attack of the Dead Men," about a charge on Osoweic. The soldiers charging were hit with a poison gas attack, giving them a short time to live. Even so, they charged, in a case of trying to take someone with them.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sabaton (Music) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Aside from Metalizer, every song that shares a title with their albums has one. Multiple other songs too.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Sabaton (Music) / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: King Charles XII is painted this way in some of the later songs in Carolus Rex. Also mentioned in the Sun Tzu quote in "Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Sabaton (Music) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Inverted by "Inmate 4859", which deliberately avoids saying Witold Pilecki's name. "Far from the Fame": "Far, far away from the fame / But we still remember your name / (shouted) Karel JanouÅ¡ek!" Played with in "The Red Baron": "Soldier of 3 Armies":
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Sabaton (Music) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Actor Peter Stormare and Polish general Waldemar Skrzypczak took part in making the video for "Uprising" respectively playing a commander of the German occupying forces and one of the Warsaw Uprising's leaders. Floor Jansen was a choir member on The Last Stand. She also provided backing vocals on The Great War as well as singing on the soundtrack version of several songs, most notably "The Future of Warfare". Former guitarist Thobbe Englund co-wrote "Fields of Verdun" and played guitar on it, including leading the solo. He played a couple of songs at the start of the Wacken Open Air 2019 concert, including "Fields of Verdun", then returned in the second hour of the show with now-Civil War members Rikard SundÃ©n, Daniel Mullback, and Daniel MÃ¿hr. Cellist Tina Guo, who also appeared with the band at Wacken 2019, has a guest musician spot in "Steel Commanders" and appears in the music video.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Sabaton (Music) / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The general theme of "Long Live the King" and "Ruina Imperii" about the fall of the Swedish Empire. "Shiroyama" combines this with Last Stand to cover the fall of the samurai and the end of Japanese feudalism. The trio of songs about the end of Nazi Germany allude to this: "Attero Dominatus", "Hearts of Iron", and "The Last Battle". "Panzerkampf" has this as a Badass Boast on the part of the Soviets.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Sabaton (Music) / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: "Nuclear Attack", "Night Witches", and "Firestorm", the last of which even drops the trope name: "Into the Fire" has this: Also invoked in "82nd All The Way": Then they drop this ad verbatim via counterpoint on the last chorus of "Winged Hussars"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: More like "Antagonist Song", as the album doesn't paint them as villains: Carolus Rex is mostly told from the perspective of the Swedish Empire and its kings, with a notable exception in "Poltava", whose bridges are sung from the perspective of the Russian troops and their Tsar gloating about how they trounced the Swedish Troops at Poltava. "Carolus Rex," the title song from the same album, comes this close to being a Villain Protagonist Song, with lines like "Make them bow to my will!" and "Question me and die!" "Shadows" is also one for the Ringwraiths. "Birds of War" is definitely not about good guys. "We Burn" is sung from the viewpoint of the perpetrators of the Yugoslavian genocide, and in first person to boot. Overlaps with "The Villain Sucks" Song, as the singer's Card-Carrying Villain attitude drives home how vile their actions were. "Panzer Battalion" is sung from the perspective of American soldiers invading Iraq, although considering the song focuses more on them curb-stomping Saddam Hussein's forces instead of them being the aggressors, it's closer to Evil Versus Evil.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
Sabaton (Music) / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: A great deal of scorn is reserved towards Ephialtes of Trachia (the man who betrayed the Spartans to the Persians) in "Sparta".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1e8681db	type	Noble Bird of Prey
Sabaton (Music) / int_1e8681db	comment	Noble Bird of Prey: The eagle is frequently used to symbolize Nazi Germany (for example, â€œThe wings of the eagle's been brokenâ€� from â€œAttero Dominatusâ€� and â€œThe boar against the eagleâ€� from â€œResist and Biteâ€�). The backing lyrics in the final chorus of â€œInmate 4859â€� contain the phrase â€œWhite eagleâ€�, referring to the white eagle of Poland.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
Sabaton (Music) / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Carolus Rex: "The Lion From The North", which is entirely about King Gustavus II Adolphus, the man who kicked basically all of Europe's ass for a few years. The title track is about King Charles XII of Sweden and his role in The Great Northern War. "Poltava" is about Tsar Peter the Great of Russia breaking the Carolean army at Poltava and turning the tide of the Great Northern War. "Sparta" is about King Leonidas leading the Spartans at Thermopylae. "Race to the Sea" mentions the fact that King Albert I of Belgium took personal command of the Belgian army against the wishes of his commanders, and led the army in holding a sliver of Belgian territory against the Germans for the entire war.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Sabaton (Music) / int_1eed8e76	comment	The Juggernaut: "Ghost Division"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1eedb914	type	Avengers Assemble
Sabaton (Music) / int_1eedb914	comment	Avengers Assemble: "Blood of Bannockburn" is a nation-wide version, talking about all the clans of Scotland assembling to fight the English in Bannockburn.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_1f050d03	type	Squad Nickname
Sabaton (Music) / int_1f050d03	comment	Inverted by "Night Witches", which portrays a Soviet bomber regiment nicknamed the "Night Witches" as actually having supernatural powers ("From the depths of Hell in silence/Cast their spells, explosive violence")
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Sabaton (Music) / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Sabaton (Music) / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: "Wehrmacht" explores whether or not they were "crazy madmen on a leash or young men who lost their way." The speaker seems to come to the conclusion that it was a little of both.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_20917b55	type	Milking the Giant Cow
Sabaton (Music) / int_20917b55	comment	Milking the Giant Cow: Joakim BrodÃ©n is an utter master of this in live performances and music videos, "Uprising", for example.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2100e8c2	type	Power Ballad
Sabaton (Music) / int_2100e8c2	comment	Power Ballad: "The Ballad of Bull", which is remarkably slow and barely features guitars in it.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
Sabaton (Music) / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: The Swiss Guard for the Pope, as depicted in the song The Last Stand on the eponymous album. "The Carolean's Prayer" also has shades of this:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Sabaton (Music) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The video for "The Unkillable Soldier" in a nutshell, which depicts Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart being repeatedly shot (and once blown up with a grenade) and always coming back for more. It almost comes off like a Monty Python sketch.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
Sabaton (Music) / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: The band is very proud, frequently to the point of comedy, of their Swedish heritage. One of the bonus tracks on the Updated Re-release of The Art of War is the band and audience singing the Swedish national anthem at the Sweden Rock Festival.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Sabaton (Music) / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The refrain of "Counterstrike" compares the Israeli performance in the Six Day War to the creation myth in the Book of Genesis: "Six days of fire / One day of rest" The bridge of "The Carolean's Prayer" quotes the first half of the Lord's Prayer in Swedish (it's left untranslated in the English version).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Sabaton (Music) / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: Their cover of "Camouflage" is about a pair of Marines, title drops this trope in the lyrics, and the eponymous Camouflage takes it seriously enough that he plays Mysterious Protector to the song's protagonist despite having died the night before. "Devil Dogs" is about the Marines during the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. It's the battle in which the Marines earned their nickname, as the German army compared them to "hounds of Hell."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Sabaton (Music) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The video for "The Unkillable Soldier", which consciously leans on Rule of Funny as a deliberately slapsticky interpretation of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart's military service. Among other things, Sir Adrian didn't enlist out of patriotic fervor when World War One starting (he was a professional soldier whose career started more than a decade before the war), he actually lost his eye putting down a native uprising in Somaliland (he used the injury as an excuse to return to Britain so he could be reassigned to the Western Front, World War I having broken out shortly after he was sent to Africa), the Hospital Hottie's uniform is completely inaccurate to what British Army nurses wore at the time, and the Tommygun wouldn't be introduced until after the war ended. According to Joakim in the associated Sabaton History video, the director wanted the band members, who were playing German soldiers, to all wear Stahlhelms for historical accuracy, and the band pointed out that very little else that was going on was historically accurate and went helmetless.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Sabaton (Music) / int_2719ab04	comment	Joakim is a Special Guest on "Pasadena 1994" by Nanowar of Steel, a Sabaton parody song about the '94 FIFA World Cup.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Sabaton (Music) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The English and Swedish versions of Carolus Rex take very different lyrical tones. The English version is a pretty standard badass-praising Sabaton album, but the Swedish version has much more of a War Is Hell atmosphere and often calls out the Swedes themselves for various atrocities, such as executing Russian prisoners at Fraustadt in "Killing Ground"/"Ett Slag FÃ¤rgat RÃ¶tt".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2a2d4b3d	type	Bilingual Rhyme
Sabaton (Music) / int_2a2d4b3d	comment	Bilingual Rhyme: The chorus of "Hearts of Iron" contains the couplet "Nicht ein Schlacht, ein Rettungsaktionnote "It's not a battle, it's a rescue operation" / Holding their ground 'til the final platoon". The second verse of "The Red Baron" rhymes "red squadron leader" with "Rote Kampfflieger"—literally "the red fighter pilot", the German-language title of Manfred von Richthofen's memoir.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: With the way the band refers to the main characters in their songs, one can be forgiven for fearing them after listening to their songs: The Night Witches seem to be incredibly feared, if the chorus part from their eponymous song is to be considered: "Bismarck" definitely paints the titular Battleship (and by extension, the entire Kriegsmarine) in this light: "White Death" will definitely leave you terrified of facing the deadliest sniper who lived. A unstoppable hunter who makes the Predator look like an amature.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
Sabaton (Music) / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: Subverted in "The Caroleans' Prayer". The bridge is The Lord's Prayer in Swedish, but it's triumphant instead of resigned.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
Sabaton (Music) / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: The point of "The Price of a Mile", about the inconclusive Passchendaele campaign where half a million men died to for no meaningful gains. (For his part, British General Douglas Haig argued that the point was purely to inflict casualties on the German army and wear them down.)
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2c5bfae3	type	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting
Sabaton (Music) / int_2c5bfae3	comment	My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Carolus Rex, their first #1 hit in their home country, is a warts-and-all retelling of the rise and fall of Sweden's 17th century empire, from Gustavus Adolphus to Carolus Rex. In particular, the title track paints Charles XII as practically a madman, utterly convinced of his own God-given rightness, and the following song "Ett slag fÃ¤rgat rÃ¶tt" (translation here) harshly criticizes his army for murdering hundreds of Russian prisoners of war after the Battle of Fraustadt.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
Sabaton (Music) / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: If you hear the early albums, Joakim has a much harsher and unpolished (in his own words, a bit amateurish) voice, different from his current more deep, thundering voice. Compare "7734" from Metalizer and Heroes. It's still noticeable even with Joakim's more polished voice from the more recent albums.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
Sabaton (Music) / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Played for Laughs by "A Secret" which contains a part that says that it has detected an illegal download and is executing spyware protocol 666. Note that 666 is spelled out at "Six hundred sixty-six."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
Sabaton (Music) / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: "Attero Dominatus" uses four words in Latin. "Attero Dominatus" is supposed to mean "Destroy Tyranny", while "denique interimo" means "finally crushed" (but the grammar is a bit off). "Uprising" has one sentence in Polish - "Warszawo, walcz!" which means "Warsaw, fight!" (commanding the city to fight - which it did.) They constantly use German throughout most WW2 themed songs, although mostly basic terms everyone knows like "Panzer" (using the entire word "Panzerkampfwagen" in "Screaming Eagles"), and proper nouns like "Wehrmacht" (there is a whole track entitled "Wehrmacht" on the Coat of Arms album. No prizes for guessing what it's about). In "The Rise of Evil", which themes Hitler's uprising to power and the development of Nazi Germany, they use words like 'Anschluss' (the annexation of Austria), and 'Lebensraum' (the initial, official motivation for the war). There is also a cover song of Warlock's "FÃ¼r Immer", which apart from a part of the chorus that's in English and Spanish, is entirely in German. "Gott Mit Uns": It's German for "God With Us", and was used a lot in the Thirty Years War, including as something of a battle cry by the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus. Even in the English version, this line stays in its original language. Carolus Rex in general has a lot of this, with song titles like "Gott Mit Uns" and Ruina Imperii and whole lines in some songs being in Old Swedish. Plus, there is a Swedish version of the whole album. "Ruina Imperii" is the only song on the album that doesn't have an English version, not counting bonus tracks. The "chanting" in "The Carolean's Prayer" is the Lord's Prayer in Swedish (and is left untranslated in the English version). Bonus point for "Ruina Imperii" is titled in Latin/Russian. On the "Sabaton Cruise" album, Joakim first welcomes the crowd to the cruise in Swedish, then welcomes them in English. However, he then adds "and if you want to understand me the rest of the show, I suggest you learn some fucking Swedish." For the rest of the show, while the songs use English lyrics, all of Joakim's banter between songs is in Swedish. "Resist and Bite" features "Gloria fortis miles" which means "Glory to the brave soldier" and "Adversor et admorsus" which means "Resist and Bite". In "Smoking Snakes", there's one line sung in Portuguese: "Cobras fumantes eterna Ã© sua vitÃ³ria!" ("Smoking Snakes, eternal is your victory!"). In fact, throughout the song, they're always refered as "Cobras Fumantes" (Portuguese for Smoking Snakes). "Hearts of Iron" has a line that goes Nicht ein Schlacht, ein Rettungsaktion, meaning "It's not a battle, it's a rescue operation''. And they covered Rammstein's "Feuer Frei" in German. "Talvisota": Finnish for Winter War. While "Livgardet" is sung entirely in Swedish, its English version "The Royal Guard" only has the bridge carried over from the original. Inverted with "Hill 3234", which refers to the Afghan mujahideen by one possible English translation of the term: "those who fight".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Sabaton (Music) / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: "Hellfighters", about the US Army 369th Infantry Regiment—also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, a regiment of mostly black and Latino volunteers from New York City. It's easily the darkest and most brutal track on The War to End All Wars.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Sabaton (Music) / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: The unnamed British Army nurse in the video for "The Unkillable Soldier" who treats Sir Adrian every time he's injured with her shirt unbuttoned enough to show her dÃ©colletage.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Sabaton (Music) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Coat of Arms: "Uprising" is a song about the Warsaw Uprising, praising Polish resistance. "Coat Of Arms" paints the whole Greek nation as this. Considering how tough the Greeks resisted the Axis in real life - such as utterly humiliating the Italians and later furiously resisting the German occupation - this isn't far off. "Saboteurs" is about the Norwegian resistance fighters sent to destroy the Telemark heavy-water plant. "Inmate 4859" is about Witold Pilecki, soldier of Polish Armia Krajowa resistance, prisoner (No. 4859) in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp, leader and hero of resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. And then shot for treason by the pro-Soviet postwar government of Poland.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_34f6774c	type	Concept Album
Sabaton (Music) / int_34f6774c	comment	Due to its nature as a Concept Album based on the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire, this was bound to happen. Starting from Poltava onwards, it gets abundantly clear that the story of the Swedish Empire will end in ruin rather than glory, with Long Live The King and Ruina Imperii fully hammering in the end of Sweden's time as a military great power.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Sabaton (Music) / int_3517000d	comment	The man-or monster-responsible for the weaponization of chlorine gas, Fritz Haber, gets his own song, "Father." While the music video depicts him as a cackling Mad Scientist exulting in his achievement of isolating chlorine, the song itself points out he jointly invented the Haber-Bosch Process with Carl Bosch, which allowed the production of ammonia for use in fertilizer, and thus is also responisible for a huge population boom. It also subtly alludes to the production and use of Zyklon-B in the Holocaust in its final verse, which wouldn't have been possible without Haber's work-Haber being the man who invented it, for use as a farming pesticide.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Sabaton (Music) / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: The Sabaton History episode about "The Last Stand" opens with an extended joke about the "Last Stand is about the Crusades" meme.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
Sabaton (Music) / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: The video for "To Hell and Back" shows the Shell-Shocked Veteran (strongly implied to be Audie Murphy himself) sticking the barrel of a pistol in his mouth at one point.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_39441318	type	Horny Vikings
Sabaton (Music) / int_39441318	comment	Horny Vikings: "Swedish Pagans". Their cover of "Twilight of the Thunder God" might count too.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Sabaton (Music) / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: Several Songs from The Great War reference the use of poison gas during the war. In particular "The Attack of the Dead Men" tells the story of Russian soldiers who were thought to have been killed by the poison, charging through a wave of gas at the Germans. "Father" is all about the inventor (father) of chemical warfare, Fritz Haber.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Sabaton (Music) / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Bold defensive actions make for one of the band's favorite topics. "40:1", the story of the Battle of Wizima in 1939, where 400-700 entrenched Polish troops held off a German army roughly forty times their numbers for three days (by which point they had run out of ammunition and German sappers had started to make progress in breaching their bunkers). The song compares them to King Leonidas's Last Stand at Thermopylae. "Coat of Arms" from the album of same name again makes a Thermopylae comparison, this time to the Greco-Italian War where the Greeks repeatedly trashed Mussolini's army until the Wehrmacht intervened. Heroes: "Resist and Bite", about the Chasseurs Ardennais who defended the Belgium border from the German blitzkrieg. Quoth the song: "Hearts of Iron" combines this with Last Stand. It's about the German 12th and 9th Armies, who against the Soviets, created a corridor across the Elbe to protect fleeing refugees and soldiers to escape and surrender to the West rather than face certain death. The Last Stand "Sparta" is about the Battle of Thermopylae (the real one this time). "The Last Stand" is about the Swiss Guards' defense of St. Peters and Pope Clement VII during the sack of Rome in 1527. Most of them died but they succeeded in holding off the attackers long enough for Clement to escape to safety. The Great War: "The Attack of the Dead Men" is about the suicidal Russian defense at Osowiec Fortress in 1915, when approximately a hundred Russian soldiers dying of poison gas countercharged onrushing Germans and scared them into turning tail. "Fields of Verdun" is about the titanic French defensive effort at Verdun, repeating General Philippe PÃ©tain's famous slightly misquoted order, "They shall not pass!" in the bridge (not coincidentally, the first snippet of the song to be revealed, in a Sabaton History video). The French managed to hold out for 303 days, making it the longest sustained single battle in history. The War to End All Wars: "Race to the Sea" is about the 1914 Last Stand of the Belgian Army at Yser, including King Albert I himself, which saw a mostly-Belgian force hang on tooth and nail to a sliver of coastal Belgium against the German Army with very little support from their French and British allies. They continued to be a thorn in the Germans' side for the rest of the war. "The Valley of Death" is about the Third Battle of Doiran, the third in a series of major Bulgarian defensive victories against the Entente armiesnote the British fought in all three battles, with the first also involving France and Italy and the third involving Greece near Lake Dojran on the Macedonian front.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3c502b7c	type	Desert Warfare
Sabaton (Music) / int_3c502b7c	comment	Desert Warfare: "Reign of Terror" and "Panzer Battalion" on Primo Victoria are about the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 American-British invasion of Iraq, respectively. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is about Lawrence of Arabia fighting with the Arab Revolt in the deserts of the middle east, raiding Ottoman trains and advancing towards Damascus.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Sabaton (Music) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Some of their songs, notably "Reign of Terror" and "Wolfpack", describe one side of a battle completely wiping the floor with the other. "Killing Ground" is this for the Swedes towards the Russians. The next song on the album, "Poltava", reverses their positions. "Shiroyama" is about the bravery of the last samurai in the face of this. The Satsuma samurai were outnumbered 60:1 and armed with swords against Imperial gunsnote not necessarily by choice - the samurai had guns and had previously employed both artillery and muzzle-loading rifles during the rebellion, but by Shiroyama, they had little to no ammo to actually use their guns—the fact that they even survived until dawn is impressive.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Sabaton (Music) / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: "A Light in the Black". The lyrics of "Long Live The King" acknowledge the mystery surrounding the death of King Charles XII, and that he had enemies among his own forces as well as the opposing armies. "Far From The Fame" is about celebrating its subject, Czechoslovakian pilot Karel JanouÅ¡ek despite his deeds not being well known outside his homeland.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Sabaton (Music) / int_3ea462d7	comment	On the live version of the "Sabaton Cruise," since it's near Sweden, Joakim speaks almost entirely in Swedish for the duration of the show. One of the few things he says in English is, "For those of you who don't speak Swedish, welcome to the Sabaton Cruise, and if you want to know what I'm saying in the future, you'd better fucking learn Swedish."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Sabaton (Music) / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: "White Death", which is about the famous Finnish sniper Simo HÃ¤yhÃ¤. "A Ghost in the Trenches," about the Canadian World War I sniper Francis Pegahmagabow, a man so unflappable he would sneak into German trenches and cut pieces off sleeping soldiers' uniforms.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Sabaton (Music) / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: "Inmate 4859"'s last verse calls out the Warsaw Pact government of Poland for its execution of Witold Pilecki (the eponymous inmate) in 1948 (due to his loyalty to the London-based Government in Exile). "Far from the Fame" does the same for Air Marshal Karel JanouÅ¡ek and Czechoslovakia (imprisoned for several years but not executed).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_42502bbe	type	Updated Re-release
Sabaton (Music) / int_42502bbe	comment	Updated Re Release: Primo Victoria: Re-Armed, Attero Dominatus: Re-Armed, Metalizer: Re-Armed, The Art of War: Re-Armed. Yes, their first FOUR albums were re-released with cleaner vocals and music. In another case, "7734" from their 2007 album Metalizer is a bonus track on Heroes. It is viewed by many fans as thousands of times better than the original version.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_43175028	type	Compressed Hair
Sabaton (Music) / int_43175028	comment	Compressed Hair: Yarnhub's story video for "Lady of the Dark" (later reused in The War to End All Wars â€“ The Movie) depicts an Austro-Hungarian soldier pulling Milunka SaviÄ‡'s hat off while fighting with her and being astonished when her long, feminine hair falls free (having not realized she was a woman), which freezes him long enough for her to land a Megaton Punch on his jaw.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_43c4002a	type	Call-and-Response Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_43c4002a	comment	Call-and-Response Song: The refrain of "Midway": The verses of "Night Witches": The chorus of "Far from the Fame": The denouements of "Last Dying Breath"... ... and "Winged Hussars":
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Sabaton (Music) / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Sabaton (Music) / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: A running theme in Sabaton songs. "Hearts of Iron", for example, has Germans deciding to ignore their orders to save civilians.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Sabaton (Music) / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: A majority of their songs about World War II are about lionizing the heroes of various nations. The Last Stand glorifies various forces that faced Last Stands. "Fields of Verdun" has a touch of this, reflecting how French national pride, not just strategic concerns, became tied to holding Verdun.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_45a559cf	type	Wardrobe Malfunction
Sabaton (Music) / int_45a559cf	comment	Wardrobe Malfunction: Joakim's pants will shred at the crotch area at some point in the show, the question isn't if, it's when. At this point it's practically a Running Gag. Jocke isn't the only one. One time when Thobbe Englund was shredding at a festival, his pants decided to join in. And that's how we learned that unlike Jocke, Thobbe tended to go commando.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Sabaton (Music) / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: "Smoking Snakes" retells the story of three Brazilian heroes, Arlindo LÃºcio da Silva, Geraldo Baeta da Cruz and Geraldo Rodrigues de Souza, who fought to their last against the German troops. The Wehrmacht was so impressed it buried them with full honors and wrote in their graves Drei brasilianische Helden (Three Brazilian Heroes).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Sabaton (Music) / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: "A Ghost in the Trenches", about Francis Pegahmagabow who was a soldier from the indigenous First Nations of Canada and the most effective sniper of the first World War, invokes this trope, saying that Pegahmagabow called upon the power of spirits to aid him on the battlefield.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_47ae290f	type	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen
Sabaton (Music) / int_47ae290f	comment	Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: "No Bullets Fly", which is about the Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident, in which a heavily damaged B-17 stumbled upon an enemy. However, the enemy in question (Franz Stigler) saw that the plane was too damaged to fight, and promptly not only didn't fire but led the bomber to safety. Quote the chorus:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Sabaton (Music) / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Sabaton really hates the Nazis, being the only group the band consistently paints as unambiguously villainous. They go out of their way not to present the Wehrmacht (at least the Heer (Army), the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and the Luftwaffe (Air Force) ) this way, however, showing them and the German people in more of a tragic light.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_48ab4d58	type	The Short War
Sabaton (Music) / int_48ab4d58	comment	The refrain of "Counterstrike" compares the Israeli performance in the Six Day War to the creation myth in the Book of Genesis: "Six days of fire / One day of rest"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
Sabaton (Music) / int_49f8c18f	comment	The video of "Steel Commanders" likens the tank to the knights of the medieval battlefield and features a dizzying array of tanks up to the 1950s, from a British Mark I complete with a wheeled trailer for steering assistance up to Sabaton's Ace Custom Centurion from World of Tanks dueling a Red Army IS-2 and KV-1 over the bridge and last chorus. (Studio Wargaming did the CGI for the video, as they had for "Primo Victoria" and "Bismarck".)
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
Sabaton (Music) / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: "The Hammer Has Fallen"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4ad4b2b	type	Guardian Angel
Sabaton (Music) / int_4ad4b2b	comment	Guardian Angel: At the end of "Camouflage", the eponymous character is revealed to be this, in a manner. He was Dead All Along, and wanted "to save a young Marine caught in a barrage" as his final wish.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Sabaton (Music) / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The video for "Livgardet" credit the band members as follows (bolded for emphasis):
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4d63c998	type	Changing Chorus
Sabaton (Music) / int_4d63c998	comment	Changing Chorus: Each of the choruses in "Aces in Exile" discusses a different foreign fighter squadron that fought with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain, changing the second and third lines of four. The last chorus of "Inmate 4859" changes the lines "Who knows his name?" to "We know his name", and "Who hides behind 4859" to "He hides behind 4859", as a way of symbolizing the post-Soviet rehabilitation of protagonist Witold Pilecki as a hero of Nazi-occupied Poland. "To Hell and Back": "Versailles" has three choruses, the first optimistic about the end of the war, the second reprising the chorus of "Sarajevo", suggesting that nothing's really changed despite four years of war, and the last pessimistic that there will will be another war:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Sabaton (Music) / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: 90% of their songs are about war and conflict, after all. The album cover for Heroes shows an American soldier punching a Nazi soldier in the face so hard that the latter is sent flying.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Sabaton (Music) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: "Bismarck": The Bismarck is sunk and out of the two characters the music video focuses on, one dies in the sinking and the other is captured by the British. "Uprising": The Warsaw Uprising is crushed and Warsaw is burned by the Nazis. "Prisoner 4859": Pilecki's report exposing the Holocaust is ignored and he is hanged after the war. Due to its nature as a Concept Album based on the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire, this was bound to happen. Starting from Poltava onwards, it gets abundantly clear that the story of the Swedish Empire will end in ruin rather than glory, with Long Live The King and Ruina Imperii fully hammering in the end of Sweden's time as a military great power.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4e6c80ca	type	Holy Pipe Organ
Sabaton (Music) / int_4e6c80ca	comment	Holy Pipe Organ: The intro to "The Carolean's Prayer" features this before it breaks into guitar. The intro to "Livgardet" has an organ-and-choir intro.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Sabaton (Music) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Their cover of "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway includes one. A young Private First Class in the Marine Corps is fighting in the Vietnam War in 1965, but runs into a big Marine only known as "Camouflage". The two fight back to the PFC's headquarters, and when the PFC tells his fellow Marines what happened, a soldier gulps. He's led into a green tent, where he's told "You may be telling the truth, boy, but this here is Camouflage. And he's been right there since he passed away last night". Camouflage was Dead All Along, and "said his only wish was to save a young Marine caught in a barrage" before he died, which his spirit did in guiding the young Marine to safety.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Sabaton (Music) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Combined with Later-Installment Weirdness by way of Executive Meddling is the reason Metalizer sounds so off compared to the rest. Originally recorded as their debut album, Underground Symphony decided to shelf it until the rights were released to Black Lodge 3 years later. After some minor remastering, it was released in 2007, 5 years after it was recorded. "Birds of War" seems to be an entirely typical Power Metal fantasy song about evil forces descending from the sky, with none of the historical lyrics that made Sabaton famous. Furthermore, Joakin BrodÃ©n sounds much deeper and more gravelly in this song. Much of their earlier work is typical Rock Me, Asmodeus! heavy metal, but it's quickly dropped for Horrible History Metal. Several of Primo Victoria and Attero Dominatus songs are about Cold War and post Cold War-era conflicts, up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the War on Terror (respectively "Panzer Battalion" and "In the Name of God"). In later albums, the most recent topics are World War II battles.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_4fba8b43	type	Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
Sabaton (Music) / int_4fba8b43	comment	The band crosses over with Indy Neidell of TimeGhost in the Patreon-exclusive Sabaton History version of The Great War album. Each track features an introduction by Indy explaining the history behind the music. Indy also plays Lawrence Of Arabia in the video for "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart in "The Unkillable Soldier".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5033694a	type	Revolving Door Band
Sabaton (Music) / int_5033694a	comment	Revolving Door Band: They've been one since 2/3 of the band left after Carolus Rex, having changed drummers in 2013note Robban BÃ¤ck stayed for less than a year and is only recorded on Swedish Empire Live. and swapping guitarist Thobbe Englund for Tommy Johansson in 2017.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Sabaton (Music) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: In the music video for "Uprising," there's a Nazi poster saying "100 Poles for 1 German." In other words, the Nazis will respond with extreme and indiscriminate violence to the deaths of any of their own.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Sabaton (Music) / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Saddam Hussein in "Reign of Terror":
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Sabaton (Music) / int_52ad5a5c	type	Death by Music Video
Sabaton (Music) / int_52ad5a5c	comment	Death by Music Video: The video for "Primo Victoria" features one version of the band performing the song on a stage, while another version battles an assortment of German panzers in an Ace Custom Swedish Army Centurion tank. The performing version is run over by a Panzer IV that bursts through the wall behind them at the end of the second chorus, and is then blown up by the infuriated tank-driving version.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Sabaton (Music) / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The War to End All Wars begins with "Sarajevo", about the outbreak of World War I, and ends with "Versailles", which is about its end, and is a Triumphant Reprise of "Sarajevo", celebrating the war's endnote Though since hindsight is 20/20, the narrator says that war will return "sooner than we think" and the final chorus teases World War II.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_54689fb6	type	Eagle Squadron
Sabaton (Music) / int_54689fb6	comment	Eagle Squadron: "Aces in Exile" deals with the Battle of Britain, but doesn't mention the Trope Namer, instead focusing on the Polish 303 Squadron, the Czech 310 Squadron, and the Canadian 401 Squadron). Lauri TÃ¶rni left Finland to go to Germany and then the US to continue fighting the Russians, as recorded in "Soldier of 3 Armies".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Sabaton (Music) / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Multiple examples. "Talvisota", literally the Winter War; fought during one of the century's coldest winters, use of snow camouflage by Finnish ski troops, resulted in defeat of superior numbers of Soviet troops unprepared for winter conditions. "Ruina Imperii", covering the Carolean Death March and the fall of the Swedish empire. "White Death": the Finnish sniper Simo HÃ¤yhÃ¤ in the Winter War. Inverted in "Christmas Truce", where snowfall signifies the beginning of Christmas and the (temporary) end of the fighting. "Soldier of Heaven" is about the Alpine front in WWI (that is, Italy v. Austria-Hungary), and more specifically about "White Friday", an incident on 13 December 1916 when thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed in avalanches—many of which were deliberately set off by artillery fire.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Sabaton (Music) / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: The Holy Roman Empire and Russia all throughout Carolus Rex.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_55d38296	type	Weird Historical War
Sabaton (Music) / int_55d38296	comment	Weird Historical War: Evoked by "The Attack of the Dead Men", about an incident during the first World War where a group of Russians counter-attacked through poison gas without gas masks. The song plays it up a bit more as if they were really undead soldiers.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Sabaton (Music) / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: The lyric video for "The Lost Battalion" inexplicably depicts scenes from a World War II battlefield for a song describing events from the previous war. "82nd All the Way" mistakenly says Alvin York was part of the 338th Infantry Regiment. He was part of the 328th. The band is aware of the mistake but it was too late to fix it on any version of the album; however, they sing the correct unit number during live performances. Then Amaranthe went and repeated the error in their cover of the song. A borderline case: The guitar solo of "Defence of Moscow" incorporates a passage of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union, which was written around 1943 (albeit based on a tune originally composed in 1938 as the anthem of the Communist Party) and officially adopted in 1944. The song is about the campaign to defend Moscow in fall and winter 1941. Partial example for the video of "Soldiers of Heaven", which shows a dogfight between a biplane and a red triplane flying over the band, then a pair of World War II Luftwaffe fighter planes doing the same. The latter is probably meant to represent the fact that many of the soldiers who died on White Friday still lie where they were buried by the avalanches and "saw" WWII fought over much of the same ground (though little fighting took place on the Italian-Austrian border in that war), but the former is just an anachronistic Call-Back to The Great War: the Red Baron spent his piloting career in France and Belgium and never served in the Italian Alps.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5697c648	type	Dumb and Drummer
Sabaton (Music) / int_5697c648	comment	Dumb and Drummer: The credits for "Livgardet" credit the band members each as "Leading Actor"—except for Hannes, who is credited as "Extra".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Sabaton (Music) / int_5989e3b6	comment	"The Last Battle" is about the Battle of Castle Itter, where a combination of troops from the United States, Germany, an SS Defector, and several prisoners of war stood against the Waffen SS until a larger American force relieved them.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_59f4d283	type	Ominous Music Box Tune
Sabaton (Music) / int_59f4d283	comment	Ominous Music Box Tune: "Inmate 4859" starts off with one.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Sabaton (Music) / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: The last verse of "Screaming Eagles" recounts General MacAuliffe's famous Screw Your Ultimatum! response to a German surrender demand as the 101st Airborne held Bastogne against all comers: "NUTS!" (He had reason to be confident: the Americans actually locally outnumbered the Germans, who were also so low on fuel by winter 1944 that part of the operational plan for Wacht am Rhein hinged on capturing Allied supplies.) The pre-choruses of "Poltava" all consist of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia taunting Carolus Rex during the Battle of Poltava.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Sabaton (Music) / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	The other Central Theme of The Last Stand, with most of the legendary last stands also being a case of this. "Winged Hussars", "Rorke's Drift", "Hill 3234", and "The Last Battle" are particular examples where the defenders won.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Sabaton (Music) / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Subverted by "Versailles", which reprises "Sarajevo". "Versailles" begins hopeful that the treaty will bring lasting peace before about 2/3 of the way through, the chorus is replaced with that of "Sarajevo" before finally asking if a war can end all war and if this war will only bring another. Spoiler alert: It did. The keyboard sting at the end is also a Call-Back to "Rise of Evil", the next song chronologically.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Sabaton (Music) / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: "Aces in Exile" (about the RAF's Polish 303 Squadron, the Czech 310 Squadron and the Canadian 401 Squadron) and "Night Witches" (about the Night Witches, a squadron of Soviet bomber pilots). The Great War has a track about the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5df06b20	type	Religion Rant Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_5df06b20	comment	Religion Rant Song: Subverted with "Burn Your Crosses". If you hear it without context, you would think it's just a rant on the evils of Christianity. But Joakim BrodÃ©n has emphatically stated the song is, like all other Sabaton songs, a narrative: It's about a man about to be executed by the Spanish Inquisition who decides to go out in a blaze of glory, and the song is his speech. Downplayed with "In the Name of God", which is a "Villain Sucks" Song about religiously motivated terrorism.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_5fe1360d	type	Audience Participation Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_5fe1360d	comment	Audience Participation Song: Joakim always thrusts his mic out to the audience several times during the chorus of "Ghost Division". The live versions of "Uprising" and "Carolus Rex" often insert an extra beat between the bridge and closing chorus to let the audience shout out respectively "War-saw!" and "I was chosen by heaven!" (the latter is also done in Follow The Cipher's Cover Version). The audience also usually sings the closing "Warszawo, walcz!" on "Uprising". On the Heroes live album from the Sabaton Cruise, Joakim invites the Swedish-speaking members of the audience to sing the first half of the first verse of "En livstid i krig" all by themselves, to rebut claims he's heard that the Swedish crowds are lame. This has become a tradition for the band when they play gigs in Sweden. He also attempted this during the Denver, Colorado show in 2021,note They had been touring as the opener for Judas Priest, but Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner suffered a ruptured aorta onstage in Kentucky, forcing the rest of the tour to be cancelled. PÃ¤r then found the band a venue for a solo show in the next city, Denver. but not enough of the audience knew the words for the Swedish version.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Sabaton (Music) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: "The Attack of the Dead Men", which is about the gas attack on the Osowiec Fortress by German forces on August 6 1915, is portrayed as one where the dead Russians rise to attack the Germans. This is not far from the truth. note The surviving Russian soldiers at the fortress, which numbered between 60 and 110, were coughing up blood and lung tissue and bleeding from their eyes and noses as they charged the Germans. The 7000 Germans fled as what appeared to literally be dead men started attacking them.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_607df6c	type	Recruiters Always Lie
Sabaton (Music) / int_607df6c	comment	Recruiters Always Lie: In "In The Army Now" (Cover Version of a song by Status Quo), the recruiter says that Army doesn't do much except stay in bed, and that the recruit will be a hero to the neighborhood. Nothing like it happens: he's thrust into a war and nobody really cares about him.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_634d6df8	type	Badass Native
Sabaton (Music) / int_634d6df8	comment	Badass Native: "A Ghost in the Trenches" is about the most effective sniper of World War I, Francis Pegahmagabow, who was a member of the indigenous First Nations and fought in the Canadian military.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
Sabaton (Music) / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: Despite its title, "Panzer Battalion" isn't another song about World War Two German tanks, but about Gulf War-era US tanks.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_659468c1	type	Christmas Songs
Sabaton (Music) / int_659468c1	comment	Christmas Songs: Christmas Truce is, as the name implies, about the Christmas Truce of 1914 during the first world war. Notably for a band so well know for their songs related to historical battles and soldiers, it's not about An Ass-Kicking Christmas and instead focuses on the single moment during the war where the horror of the trenches was set aside and replaced by genuine friendship and bonding between the two sides during the joy of christmas... while still being as Hot-Blooded and badass as any other Sabaton song.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Sabaton (Music) / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: "The Unkillable Soldier" features a living example in Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, who served in the Boer War, First World War, the Polish-Soviet War, and the Second World War. Over the course of his career he was shot in the face, stomach, ankle, leg and hip, and was also shot in the head multiple times, blinding him in the left eye. He also survived two plane crashes, cut off two of his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them, and when he was captured in World War II, escaped from the Castello di Vincigliata POW camp by tunneling under the walls. No matter the injury or setback, he always immediately returned to the front lines. No foe could bring him down, and he died peacefully in his sleep in 1963 at the ripe old age of 83.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_67784113	type	Non-Appearing Title
Sabaton (Music) / int_67784113	comment	Non-Appearing Title: "Long Live the King", "The Carolean's Prayer", "In The Name Of God", "Metal Ripper", "Hill 3234", "Carolus Rex", "Panzerkampf", "The Last Battle", â€œThe Lost Battalionâ€�, â€œUnion (Slopes of St. Benedict)â€�, "The Last Stand", "Hearts of Iron", "The Attack of the Dead Men", "A Ghost in the Trenches". Partial credit to "Smoking Snakes", whose title appears in the prechorus in Portuguese as "Cobras fumantes", but not in English.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_6788e74a	type	Lead Bassist
Sabaton (Music) / int_6788e74a	comment	Lead Bassist: PÃ¤r SundstrÃ¶m, one of the two remaining founding members of the band, is the other recognizable member alongside Joakim: while he doesn't often talk to the audience during concerts, they trade off appearing in promotional videos, including Sabaton History episodes. He's also the band's manager, and Joakim has expressed incredulity at how hard he works at it; for his part, PÃ¤r says he enjoys the work.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_67a70f33	type	Creepy Circus Music
Sabaton (Music) / int_67a70f33	comment	The intro to "The Red Baron", especially prominent in the soundtrack version, features Bach's Fugue in G minor ("The Little Fugue", BWV 578) that's almost Germanic Creepy Circus Music for the titular German Ace Pilot meant to evoke the nickname of his unit Jagdgeschwader 1, "Richthofen's Flying Circus" because of the colorful planes and even more colorful, accomplished pilots that comprised it.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_690f4c53	type	Everything's Better with Samurai
Sabaton (Music) / int_690f4c53	comment	Everything's Better with Samurai: "Shiroyama" in The Last Stand tells of the last battle of the samurai in the Satsuma Rebellion, and it is all the more awesome for it.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Sabaton (Music) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: A sabaton is an armoured shoe, as a part of knightly armor, which is appropriate for a band that sings about military history.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Sabaton (Music) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: "The War to end All Wars" begins with "Sarajevo", which describes the outbreak of World War I. The final track, "Versailles" begins as a Triumphant Reprise of "Sarajevo" describing the end of the war, before switching to the original chorus from "Sarajevo", suggesting that another war will follow. To add an extra chill factor to those words, the album was released just as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was beginning.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Sabaton (Music) / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Joakim's mirrored glasses, armored jacket and camouflage pants. The glasses, in specific, are often given away in shows.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7160b097	type	Dawn of an Era
Sabaton (Music) / int_7160b097	comment	Dawn of an Era: "Lion From The North" is about the beginnings of the Swedish Empire under Gustavus II Adolphus. It's very hopeful and energetic. "The Future of Warfare" is about the rise of Tank warfare. "Shiroyama" heavily implies both this and EndOfAnEra with it's opening line
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Sabaton (Music) / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Sabaton (Music) / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: Most of the heroes from the same-titled album suffered pretty terrible fates in spite of their heroism. Karel JanouÅ¡ek ("Far From the Fame") was imprisoned, and Witold Pilecki ("Inmate 4859") executed, by their countries' respective Warsaw Pact regimes. A theme of the album is also that despite their heroism, their tales are mostly forgotten. The song "Hearts of Iron" from the same album covers the protection of civilians from the Red Army by the German 9th and 12th Armies. This did not end well for the 9th and 12th. However, it went much better for the 250,000 people they saved. Audie Murphy (â€œTo Hell And Backâ€�) suffered from severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder after being a war hero in World War II.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_74d4ad25	type	Baritone of Strength
Sabaton (Music) / int_74d4ad25	comment	Baritone of Strength: Joakim is a rare example of a power metal vocalist fitting this trope. Even compared to other baritones in the genre, such as Hansi KÃ¼rsch and Matt Barlow, Joakim's voice is uncommonly deep, just skimming the edge of bass at times. He also customarily performs in a vest with steel plates in the shape of his pecs and six-pack, showing off his muscles.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_74ee1c2d	type	Out-of-Genre Experience
Sabaton (Music) / int_74ee1c2d	comment	Out-of-Genre Experience: "The Ballad of Bull" is a straight-up Power Ballad. "Inmate 4859" has a much grimmer and downbeat sound than most Sabaton songs. "In Flanders Fields" is a musical rendition of a famous poem written by John McCrae, a Canadian veteran of World War I and physician who died just before the end of the war. It's not a metal song, rather more like something you would play at a memorial service.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7506ec90	type	Fashionable Asymmetry
Sabaton (Music) / int_7506ec90	comment	Fashionable Asymmetry: Only one of Joakim's arms is tattooed, and he often wears a small band on one of his wrists.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_754004a9	type	Hell on Earth
Sabaton (Music) / int_754004a9	comment	"Endless Nights" is about Satan waking up and unleashing Hell on Earth.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Sabaton (Music) / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Joakim BrodÃ©n will often call a young fan up on stage during concerts and give them his iconic sunglasses.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7621a56b	type	Poison Is Evil
Sabaton (Music) / int_7621a56b	comment	Poison Is Evil: Chemical warfare is rightly depicted as being completely and universally evil in Sabaton's albums. In particular the narration for "Attack of the Dead Men" on The Great War: History Edition refers to chlorine gas as "the ultimate weapon of cruelty, a highly effective delivery method for a slow and painful death." The man-or monster-responsible for the weaponization of chlorine gas, Fritz Haber, gets his own song, "Father." While the music video depicts him as a cackling Mad Scientist exulting in his achievement of isolating chlorine, the song itself points out he jointly invented the Haber-Bosch Process with Carl Bosch, which allowed the production of ammonia for use in fertilizer, and thus is also responisible for a huge population boom. It also subtly alludes to the production and use of Zyklon-B in the Holocaust in its final verse, which wouldn't have been possible without Haber's work-Haber being the man who invented it, for use as a farming pesticide.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_76e48a97	type	Icarus Allusion
Sabaton (Music) / int_76e48a97	comment	Icarus Allusion: With "The Red Baron" the chorus says he's flying too fast and too high and the song keeps building, urging ever higher and also mentions Richthofen embracing his fame as The Red Baron.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_76ecc890	type	Brave Scot
Sabaton (Music) / int_76ecc890	comment	Brave Scot: "Blood of Bannockburn" focuses on how the Scots defeated the English at Bannockburn.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_78629e9c	type	Badass Pacifist
Sabaton (Music) / int_78629e9c	comment	Badass Pacifist: The Lady of the Dark. Milunka SaviÄ‡, aka "The Lady of the Dark", was a Serbian woman who disguised herself as a man in order to take her brother's place in the army in 1912. She singlehandedly captured 23 Bulgarian soldiers, amongst them the Bulgarian officer Minkov, without firing a single shot.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: The song "Carolus Rex" is this for the titular king.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_796efe19	type	Cavalry of the Dead
Sabaton (Music) / int_796efe19	comment	Cavalry of the Dead: "The Attack of the Dead Men" plays up the historical attack by Russians through Deadly Gas as if they really were fighting on in undeath to counter-attack the Germans.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Sabaton (Music) / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Both played straight and subverted. In the beginning of "Rorke's Drift" the song summarizes how the Zulus destroyed the British forces at the legendary Battle of Isandlwana, but the song in general is about "laser" (The British Empire) holding "rock" (The Zulu) against all odds at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, where about 141 British soldiers held off around five-thousand Zulus. And won. Defied in "Shiroyama".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Sabaton (Music) / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The viewpoint character of "Great War" ends the song about to make a suicidal charge towards the enemy trench, fully expecting to die in the attempt. The music video for "The Royal Guard" has Sabaton, portraying the Swedish royal guard at the skirmish at Bender, defeat the Ottomans in a bloody battle only to see an even bigger Ottoman force marching towards them. Unconcerned, Joakim resolves to fight on and the video ends with the five of them baring steel and charging towards the Ottomans. Historically the skirmish ended with the Swedes being defeated, although not before inflicting heavy casualties on the Ottomans.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Sabaton (Music) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Referenced in the bridge of "To Hell and Back" and shown in full extent in the song's music video, which focuses on a PTSD-ridden war vet (implied to be Audie Murphy himself) clashing with the memories of the horror of war. Truth in Television, as Audie Murphy had severe PTSD and helped to raise awareness for the disease.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7a35bf79	type	Historical Biography Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_7a35bf79	comment	Historical Biography Song: Very numerous in their catalogue: Carolus Rex is about the lives of Swedish rulers Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII (the eponymous Carolus Rex). It primarily focuses on Charles' absolutism, participation in The Great Northern War, and his death on campaign. Heroes is full of biographical songs, including Audie Murphy ("To Hell and Back"), Witold Pilecki ("Inmate 4859"), Bull Allen ("The Ballad of Bull"), Lauri TÃ¶rni ("Soldier of Three Armies"), and Karel Janou?ek ("Far from the Fame"). The Great War has numerous songs dedicated to prominent soldiers of World War One and the roles they played during the war, including T. E. Lawrence ("Seven Pillars of Wisdom"), Alvin York ("82nd All the Way"), Red Baron Manfred von Richtofen ("The Red Baron"), and Francis Pegahmagabow ("A Ghost in the Trenches"). The War to End All Wars has more songs about World War One figures, including Franz Ferdinand of Austria ("Sarajevo"), Adrian Carton de Wiart ("The Unkillable Soldier"), Albert I of Belgium ("Race to the Sea"), and Milunka Savi? ("Lady of the Dark"). "White Death" (on Coat of Arms) is about Simo HÃ¤yhÃ¤, the deadliest sniper in recorded military history, who killed over 500 Soviet soldiers during the Winter War. "The White Death" was the nickname given to him by the Soviet forces.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7acca961	type	Song of Song Titles
Sabaton (Music) / int_7acca961	comment	Song of Song Titles: "Metal Machine" is so full of Shout-Outs to other bands' lyrics that it'd probably be quicker to watch this video showing what and where they are in the song than to read a full list of them. "Metal Crue" does the same thing with the names of metal bands, while "Metal Ripper" uses song titles. Heroes features "Man Of War", fittingly for a giant tribute to Manowar, has lyrics entirely composed by names of Manowar songs.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Sabaton (Music) / int_7b21ef92	comment	Combined with Later-Installment Weirdness by way of Executive Meddling is the reason Metalizer sounds so off compared to the rest. Originally recorded as their debut album, Underground Symphony decided to shelf it until the rights were released to Black Lodge 3 years later. After some minor remastering, it was released in 2007, 5 years after it was recorded.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Sabaton (Music) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: In the final chorus of Versailes from The War to End All Wars, after first claiming that the Great War and the peace that would follow would end all war, the lyrics explicitly wonder "Can A War Really End All War?". This is also the point where the song begins to reprise tones from the earlier song Rise of Evil, making the answer clear: It can't and it won't.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Sabaton (Music) / int_7d89315b	comment	"In The Name of God" is one big "The Reason You Suck" Speech to terrorists. Or religious fanatics in general.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Sabaton (Music) / int_7e07f634	comment	invoked Paranoia Fuel: How the Night Witches are portrayed in their eponymous song. The only signs of their presence are a whisper on the wind and the destruction caused by their bombs.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Sabaton (Music) / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: "Long Live the King" mentions the mystery of the death of King Charles XII at the Siege of Fredriksten: conspiracy theories about his death suggest he was either assassinated under cover of the war, or fragged by his own men (though the most likely explanation is that he was hit by a random musket ball or bit of grapeshot from the Norwegian fortress he was attacking).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Sabaton (Music) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Joakim BrodÃ©n is a Metal vocalist, after all.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
Sabaton (Music) / int_83ea0763	comment	Rouge Angles of Satin: The band's first language is, of course, Swedish. They have a habit of getting singular and plural forms mixed up in their lyrics, and consistently write "led" (past tense of "to lead") in place of "lead" (the metal that bullets are made from). C.f. the lyric video for "The Attack of the Dead Men".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Sabaton (Music) / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: The subject of "Father," Fritz Haber, is the inventor of both chemical fertilizer and chemical weaponry. While the song abhors him for his "Dark Creation," it also points out his genius was used for good and Mankind can't judge him by any normal means.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_85ce84a7	type	Power Metal
Sabaton (Music) / int_85ce84a7	comment	"Birds of War" seems to be an entirely typical Power Metal fantasy song about evil forces descending from the sky, with none of the historical lyrics that made Sabaton famous. Furthermore, Joakin BrodÃ©n sounds much deeper and more gravelly in this song.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Sabaton (Music) / int_86b21114	comment	"Panzerkampf" has this as a Badass Boast on the part of the Soviets.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Sabaton (Music) / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: One of the final and most epic parts of "Long Live the King".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_87ae7730	type	Dramatic Choir Number
Sabaton (Music) / int_87ae7730	comment	Dramatic Choir Number: The band commonly uses choirs in its songs, especially for emphasis on the chorus. Early on, before they had the resources to hire a professional choir, the band members often recorded a three-part harmony for particular songs, starting with "Primo Victoria". For the European portion of the Great Tour, Sabaton had a 21-member male choir onstage with them, dressed as World War I soldiers of all armies in the conflict. The page picture is from their headlining show at Wacken Open Air 2019, during the chorus of "The Price of a Mile": by the end of that concert, with the addition of several former band members on the right-hand stage, a total of 28 people were singing the choruses. Several parts of "Livgardet" use a multi-part male-fronted choir for extra dramatics.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Sabaton (Music) / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: "The Carolean's Prayer" paints the soldiers under Charles XII as this, which is Truth in Television and the whole album has the Swedes being total badasses and winning except when they're outnumbered, which is still factual.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Sabaton (Music) / int_898ff050	comment	"Carolus Rex," the title song from the same album, comes this close to being a Villain Protagonist Song, with lines like "Make them bow to my will!" and "Question me and die!"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Sabaton (Music) / int_8a9eb844	comment	More like "Antagonist Song", as the album doesn't paint them as villains: Carolus Rex is mostly told from the perspective of the Swedish Empire and its kings, with a notable exception in "Poltava", whose bridges are sung from the perspective of the Russian troops and their Tsar gloating about how they trounced the Swedish Troops at Poltava.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Sabaton (Music) / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: "Attack of the Dead Men" covers an incredible battle in WWI where Russian forces, after suffering extreme gas attacks from the Germans with no way to protect themselves, charged back at the Germans. By the time they charged, the gas had taken the toll on them to the point their skin was melting off due the effects of the gas and they were spitting blood as well as parts of their lungs. The surprise and the terror of this sight of what appeared to be the undead charging headfirst against them made the Germans flee in a disorganized panic (some falling in their own traps). After the battle, most of the remaining soldiers did indeed perish from their ghastly wounds.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Sabaton (Music) / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: "Union (Slopes of St. Benedict)" is more about this than the Battle of Monte Cassino. "The Carolean's Prayer" paints the entire army of Charles XII as this.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8dff7e48	type	Stealth Expert
Sabaton (Music) / int_8dff7e48	comment	Stealth Expert: "A Ghost in the Trenches" is about Francis Pegahmagabow, the most accomplished sniper of World War I. It describes him as a ghost roaming the battlefield making his way freely from trench to trench without being detected—which is an understatement: the real Pegahmagabow would sometimes even sneak into German trenches and cut off pieces of sleeping soldiers' uniforms as souvenirs.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_8eb94d2a	type	Oppressed Minority Veteran
Sabaton (Music) / int_8eb94d2a	comment	Oppressed Minority Veteran: Heroes: "Inmate 4859" and "Far from the Fame" are both about World War II war heroes from Eastern Europe who became victims of their countries' new Soviet-imposed governments after the war's end, respectively Witold Pilecki (Polish, was shot as a traitor due to his loyalty to the Western-backed Government in Exile) and Karel JanouÅ¡ek (Czechoslovakian, imprisoned for several years following the pro-Soviet coup). "A Ghost in the Trenches" from The Great War is about Francis Pegahmagabow, a man from the Canadian First Nations who enlisted to serve in World War I despite not even being legally a Canadian citizen. As the Sabaton History video for the song describes, Pegahmagabow became the most successful sniper of the war, earning the Military Medal twice, and became an activist for indigenous peoples' rights after the war.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9002083e	type	Character Exaggeration
Sabaton (Music) / int_9002083e	comment	Character Exaggeration: Charles XII believed in the Divine Right of Kings, which held that a monarch's power came directly from God. The song "Carolus Rex" portrays him as a megalomaniac who stops just short in believing he is a god.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Sabaton (Music) / int_90c018ac	comment	"Fields of Verdun" has a touch of this, reflecting how French national pride, not just strategic concerns, became tied to holding Verdun.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_91a2039b	type	I Am the Noun
Sabaton (Music) / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: "We Burn":
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Sabaton (Music) / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
Sabaton (Music) / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: Played straight by "Wehrmacht", "Birds of War", and "Rise of Evil". The intro to "The Red Baron", especially prominent in the soundtrack version, features Bach's Fugue in G minor ("The Little Fugue", BWV 578) that's almost Germanic Creepy Circus Music for the titular German Ace Pilot meant to evoke the nickname of his unit Jagdgeschwader 1, "Richthofen's Flying Circus" because of the colorful planes and even more colorful, accomplished pilots that comprised it.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_920ca805	type	Night of the Living Mooks
Sabaton (Music) / int_920ca805	comment	Night of the Living Mooks: Invoked in "Attack of the Dead Men", which is about a battle in WW1 where the Germans used poison gas against a Russian position, and said enemy decided to fix bayonets and take them along. The Germans fled, thinking their enemy were vengeful revenants instead of Not Quite Dead.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_92d6af50	type	Truck Driver's Gear Change
Sabaton (Music) / int_92d6af50	comment	Truck Driver's Gear Change: Appears on the final choruses of â€œAttero Dominatusâ€�, â€œThe Last Standâ€�, â€œTo Hell And Backâ€�, "A Ghost In The Trenches", "The Unkillable Soldier", and "Soldier of Heaven".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_98aad75f	type	Inspirational Martyr
Sabaton (Music) / int_98aad75f	comment	The opening track, "Sparta", is about the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans led other Greek soldiers in a successful holding action against a vastly larger Persian army. They all died, but they achieved their objective.note Militarily, the battle was a defeat for Greece, but the lopsided number of casualties and the bravery of the Spartans inspired the Greek alliance to resist with all its might, leading to Athens and other parties defeating the Persians in subsequent battles.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Sabaton (Music) / int_99298c71	comment	The Art of War: "40:1" is about the Battle of Wizna during the Nazi invasion of Poland, during which 700 entrenched Polish soldiers and six artillery guns held off a German army numbering 40,000 for three days before being overrun (they ran out of ammo, and German engineers were finally starting to crack their bunkers). The Polish captain jumped on a grenade rather than surrender.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Sabaton (Music) / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: In "Camouflage", the eponymous character has bullets pass right through him. It's because he's a Ghost Marine.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9c5ed17	type	Singing Voice Dissonance
Sabaton (Music) / int_9c5ed17	comment	Singing Voice Dissonance: Joakim has a speaking voice which is pretty much the posterchild for "Swedish", with a slight Dalecarlian accent. Interview in English Interview in Swedish. His singing voice, on the other hand...
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Sabaton (Music) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Reveal of "Camouflage" is hinted at when the narrator notes earlier in the song that bullets seem to miss Camouflage as if he wasn't there. That's because he isn't; Camouflage was Dead All Along.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9d731243	type	Fanvid
Sabaton (Music) / int_9d731243	comment	Fanvid: Sabaton has a veritable cottage industry of YouTubers making music videos of their songs from various film, TV, and video game clips. It started as early as 2008 when a Polish fan made a video for the song "40:1" that went viral. It singlehandedly netted the band a borderline fanatical Polish fandom, and after it was taken down for copyright infringement, Sabaton re-uploaded it to their own channel. It even led to Polish filmmaker Jacek Raginis, a descendant of the Polish Army captain from the song, contacting the band with an offer to film an official video (he also later filmed the video for "Uprising").invoked
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Sabaton (Music) / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: "Versailles" starts out hopeful that this treaty will be the end of the war to end all wars before switching to the chorus of "Sarajevo" and then finally ending with
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Sabaton (Music) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: "White Death" about Simo HÃ¤yhÃ¤. Also ''The first soldier" about French soldier Albert Roche.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Sabaton (Music) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: In live shows, before performing "Smoking Snakes", they will shout "A Cobra Vai Fumar!" ("The Snake will Smoke!", battle cry of the actual Smoking Snakes).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a0cf200f	type	Digital Piracy Is Evil
Sabaton (Music) / int_a0cf200f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Evil: Spoofed in "A Secret" from The Art of War, which always plays no matter how the album was acquired, its format, or where it is being played.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Sabaton (Music) / int_a188ac4b	comment	Primo Victoria: Re-Armed, Attero Dominatus: Re-Armed, Metalizer: Re-Armed, The Art of War: Re-Armed. Yes, their first FOUR albums were re-released with cleaner vocals and music.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Sabaton (Music) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	"Great War" is from the perspective of a "mushroom" (kept in the dark and fed bullshit) who lost his brother to a bullet accross the eyes, and can't find the glory he's been promised in sitting in a filthy trench, and just wants to give up and go home.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
Sabaton (Music) / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: The chorus of "The Lion from the North" is in Latin, in keeping with its subject King Gustaf II Adolf being more commonly known by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Sabaton (Music) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The album Carolus Rex goes through this at two points. The first, when after the triumphant and blood-pumping "Gott Mit Uns" we go into the Tear Jerker ballad "A Lifetime of War". The second when after the hopeful tone of "The Carolean's Prayer", the triumphal Motive Rant "Carolus Rex", and the fast blood-pumper "Killing Ground", we get the fast-paced yet noticeably down-turn "Poltava", followed by "Long Live the King" and "Ruina Imperii" - mournful cries about the death of Swedish glory. Heroes has another example with the rather abrupt switch from the blood-pumping "Smoking Snakes" to the operatic, grim tale of Witold Pilecki in "Inmate 4859". This happens again when "Inmate 4859" is then followed by the badass, energetic "To Hell And Back". The Last Stand has the relatively low key but fast paced song Last Dying Breath be immediately followed by Blood of Bannockburn, which is by far the most high key songs Sabaton has ever done, which is then followed by the much more slow-paced and low key song The Lost Batallion. Within one song, "Versailles" begins by combining a sad-but-hopeful tune over the spoken history with a celebratory and triumphant melody linked with the sung lyrics, as the War to End All Wars comes to an end. Midway through, it shifts to a very creepy Dark Reprise of the latter tune, as the singer wonders whether they've really ended the war at all.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Sabaton (Music) / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Jocke isn't the only one. One time when Thobbe Englund was shredding at a festival, his pants decided to join in. And that's how we learned that unlike Jocke, Thobbe tended to go commando.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Sabaton (Music) / int_a6cda066	comment	"Sparta" is about the Battle of Thermopylae (the real one this time).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
Sabaton (Music) / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: Averted in the songs. In addition to recognizing the importance of the Eastern Front, the band sings about many lesser-known events that didn't involve any of the major Allied powers. On the other hand, in concerts in the United States, Joakim will usually make at least one comment to the audience along the lines of "if it weren't for you Americans, we'd all be speaking German" (usually before playing "Primo Victoria").
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Sabaton (Music) / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines "Screaming Eagles" from the Coat of Arms album is about the 101st Airborne and 10th Armored Divisions' defence of besieged Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. "The Lost Battalion" from The Last Stand is about the "Lost Battalion", nine companies of the United States 77th Division, roughly 554 men, isolated by German forces during World War I after an American attack in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a86b13a9	type	Drums of War
Sabaton (Music) / int_a86b13a9	comment	Drums of War: Inverted by the song "Fields of Verdun" which compares the opening artillery barrage of the battle to a drum roll.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_a8f3f520	type	Death Is Dramatic
Sabaton (Music) / int_a8f3f520	comment	Death Is Dramatic: One of their few non-history based songs, "The Hammer Has Fallen", is told from the perspective of a man Dying Alone.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ab2f3f27	type	Heavy Meta
Sabaton (Music) / int_ab2f3f27	comment	Heavy Meta: "Metal Crue" has lyrics composed almost entirely of metal band names. "Metal Machine" has lyrics almost entirely composed of the titles of other metal songs "Metal Ripper" borrows many lyrics from other metal songs. "Men of War" is a tribute to Manowar, with lyrics composed mainly of that band's song titles. "7734" is an abridged retelling of the rise and decline of the metal genre, and also pokes fun at the stereotype of hidden Satanic messages in metal songs.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_abad2931	type	Horrible History Metal
Sabaton (Music) / int_abad2931	comment	Horrible History Metal: They live by this trope. Most of their songs are about historical events. Most of the content in their songs tends to be very accurate, even about the obscure stories.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Sabaton (Music) / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: "Nuclear Attack", about the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ac928039	type	Four-Star Badass
Sabaton (Music) / int_ac928039	comment	Four-Star Badass: "Far from the Fame" is about Karel JanouÅ¡ek, who was made Air Marshall.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_adf1dcc2	type	Promoted Fanboy
Sabaton (Music) / int_adf1dcc2	comment	The single Defense of Moscow is a particularly notable example, since the original was written and produced by Russian Promoted Fanboyinvoked Radio Tapok, who made several covers of Sabaton songs in Russian, and wrote the song specifically to match Sabaton's style.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ae50ca8f	type	Stage Names
Sabaton (Music) / int_ae50ca8f	comment	Stage Names: Drummer Hannes's legal last name is really just "Dahl". The "Van", which is capitalized, is meant to make it sound like "vandal".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b368e2f4	type	Holiday Ceasefire
Sabaton (Music) / int_b368e2f4	comment	Holiday Ceasefire: Their song "Christmas Truce" is dedicated to the real-life Christmas Truce of World War I.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
Sabaton (Music) / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: This pretty much sums up the depiction of the Nazis in Sabaton's songs. Starting from "Rise Of Evil" to "The Final Solution" to "Hearts of Iron", the soldiers of the Third Reich are ultimately shown as men attempting to bring back their country to glory despite committing atrocities all for a delusional vision that brought Germany to flames in the end. The above is pretty much put in song form in "Wehrmacht".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Sabaton (Music) / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: "White Death". The song is about the aptly-named sniper who took down hundreds of Russian soldiers all by himself, armed with nothing but iron sights. It got to the point that entire platoons were being sent out just to kill one soldier.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b5f7b739	type	Evil Overlooker
Sabaton (Music) / int_b5f7b739	comment	Evil Overlooker: Father's Lyrics Video has Fritz Haber brewing up either a batch of chemical fertilizer or chlorine while a battle rages on below, while clouds of Deadly Gas roil.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b67be25d	type	Firearms Are Revolutionary
Sabaton (Music) / int_b67be25d	comment	Firearms Are Revolutionary: Shiroyama depicts the Last Stand of the samurai and the end of Japanese feudalism, as the old warrior class finds itself outmatched by modern armies equipped with guns. In the song itself, 500 Satsuma samurai are outnumbered sixty to one and armed with swords against Imperial guns — the fact that they even survive until dawn is impressive. This romanticizes the real battle somewhat: firearms had in fact been present in Japan since the mid-1500s (at one point during the Warring States period there were more gunsmiths in Japan than in the whole of Europe) and all of the Satsumans had them, but the Gatling guns and greater numbers of the Imperial Japanese Army simply outgunned Saigo's samurai.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b7248073	type	My Country, Right or Wrong
Sabaton (Music) / int_b7248073	comment	My Country, Right or Wrong: The conclusion of "Father" regarding Fritz Haber, who both earned a Nobel Prize for feeding billions through the invention of chemical fertilizer, and reviled for his role in Germany's World War I chemical weapons program.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Sabaton (Music) / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: There is a distinct difference in tone between the Swedish and English versions of "Carolus Rex". The English version is a pretty positive badass-praising album in regular Sabaton-style. The Swedish version is a far more solemn affair, focusing more on the effects of the war on soldiers, civilians and countries, and doesn't shy away from depicting atrocities on either side. For comparison: The bridge from Killing Ground
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Sabaton (Music) / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: "Light in the Black", which details the newly formed United Nations and their peacekeeping forces in the wake of WWII. The chorus details the valient efforts of said peacekeepers to maintain stability and safeguard innocent people during future conflicts, whilst also touching upon the massive impact the war has had on the world and the anxiety about what will follow such a massive conflict, noting that the Peacekeepers have many veterins of the war in their ranks and none know what conflicts the future will hold.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Sabaton (Music) / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: "Soldier of 3 Armies" states Lauri TÃ¶rni is "addicted to the war game!" Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, true to history, writes in his memoirs of World War 1, "Frankly I enjoyed the war," at the end of "The Unkillable Soldier."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b806516f	type	Chest of Medals
Sabaton (Music) / int_b806516f	comment	Chest of Medals: In Yarnhub's story video for "Lady of the Dark", a mysterious old woman sits down in the front row of a gathering of Yugoslav war veterans. When one of the other attendees asks her what she's doing there, she unbuttons her jacket to reveal a row of medals across her chest, because, of course, she's Milunka SaviÄ‡, the subject of the song.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Sabaton (Music) / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: Joakim caused one of these. His mother is Czech and he has dual citizenship in the Czech Republic, and in 2015 he entered their national singing competition ÄŒeskÃ½ SlavÃk and finished in 5th place. The next year they added a rule that entrants had to primarily perform in the Czech Republic and booted him.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ba0d9b95	type	Doves Mean Peace
Sabaton (Music) / int_ba0d9b95	comment	Doves Mean Peace: Subverted in the lyric video for "Versailles", where the primary image is a dove carrying an olive branch, or more specifically a blood-soaked olive branch. As the chorus changes to that of "Sarajevo", the background catches fire and the image changes to one of a dove with red eyes, and as it enters the third, it comes back to the first dove with the bloody olive branch. Whatever "peace" these doves bring is clearly temporary and bloody.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
Sabaton (Music) / int_ba6cf869	comment	The Swedes are this in the Swedish version of "1648".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Sabaton (Music) / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: "Bismarck" is a standalone single about the only open-ocean voyage of the Kriegsmarine battleship Bismarck, which was viewed as such a threat to Allied shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic that half the Royal Navy was sent to hunt himnote As noted in the song and the associated Sabaton History video, the Bismarck was always referred to with masculine pronouns, rather than feminine as is more common in English (and German, for that matter). This was due to one of the first official orders issued by her captain, Ernst Lindemann, who is also a character in the music video down.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
Sabaton (Music) / int_bb53d08	comment	The album Carolus Rex goes through this at two points. The first, when after the triumphant and blood-pumping "Gott Mit Uns" we go into the Tear Jerker ballad "A Lifetime of War". The second when after the hopeful tone of "The Carolean's Prayer", the triumphal Motive Rant "Carolus Rex", and the fast blood-pumper "Killing Ground", we get the fast-paced yet noticeably down-turn "Poltava", followed by "Long Live the King" and "Ruina Imperii" - mournful cries about the death of Swedish glory.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Sabaton (Music) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In "Devil Dogs", right before the guitar solo, Joakim shouts "Come on, you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?!" This phrase is attributed to American Marine Sergeant Daniel Daly, supposedly used to spur his men on during the Battle of Belleau Wood. The phrase is quoted word-for-word in the song.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Sabaton (Music) / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: "The Attack of the Dead Men" depicts one for the soldiers in question. After the Germans deployed Deadly Gas against them, the remaining defenders of Osowiec Fortres elected to mount a countercharge against the seven thousand strong German forces as they succumbed to their wounds, managing to repel the charge before the majority perished from their injuries.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bc4a290	type	Patriot in Exile
Sabaton (Music) / int_bc4a290	comment	Patriot in Exile: The songs "Aces in Exile" and "Far from the Fame" both describe fighter pilots from Eastern Europe escaping to the UK after their countries were overrun by Nazi Germany, and fighting with the Royal Air Force against the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. "Aces in Exile"'s first two choruses name-drop the Polish-crewed 303 Squadron and Czechoslovak-crewed 310 Squadron, while "Far from the Fame" is specifically about Czechoslovak Air Force Marshal Karel Janousek, who led the RAF-supplied Free Czechoslovak Air Force during the war. Janousek was later imprisoned by the postwar Soviet-aligned government.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
Sabaton (Music) / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: The subjects of many of their songs including Charles XII and Alvin York.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_be102b6a	type	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung
Sabaton (Music) / int_be102b6a	comment	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung: In the band's cover of Amon Amarth's "Twilight of the Thunder God".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bf3db3	type	Instrumental Weapon
Sabaton (Music) / int_bf3db3	comment	Instrumental Weapon: In "The Lost Battalion", what sounds like drums is actually artillery fire set to the beat. Pistol gunfire and the sound of a bayonet piercing flesh are also used to add to the music's rhythm. In the official music video for "Bismarck", the sound of the eponymous battleship's guns firing (taken from World of Warships, which the video was produced in collaboration with) punctuate the first two choruses, but the third, coming after "his guns have gone silent at last", has no cannonfire. The official music video for "Field of Verdun" uses rifle, cannon, and machine gun fire to musical effect.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_bf64a255	type	Rock Me, Asmodeus!
Sabaton (Music) / int_bf64a255	comment	Much of their earlier work is typical Rock Me, Asmodeus! heavy metal, but it's quickly dropped for Horrible History Metal.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c091ce5f	type	Samurai
Sabaton (Music) / int_c091ce5f	comment	The first three singles released were "The Lost Battalion", "Blood of Bannockburn" and "Shiroyama". "The Lost Battalion" is about the eponymous battalion fighting for a week with no reinforcements in World War I; "Blood of Bannockburn" is about the Battle of Bannockburn, where the Scots managed to hold off (and win) against the numerically superior English forces; "Shiroyama" is about the Battle of Shiroyama, where 350-500 samurai were outnumbered 60 to 1 against the Imperial Japanese army.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Sabaton (Music) / int_c1105f41	comment	"Fields of Verdun" is about the pure hell that was the French defensive effort at the eponymous fortress, a battle lasting 303 days.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: "In The Name of God" is one big "The Reason You Suck" Speech to terrorists. Or religious fanatics in general. "We Burn", regarding the Yugoslavian genocide, although it's written in first person from the villain`s side. "Reign of Terror" is about Saddam Hussein and his regime. The English version of "A Lifetime of War" is about how both sides of the Thirty Years War only used the lives of their soldiers for their own gain. "Rise of Evil" and "The Final Solution" is about Adolf Hitler's rise to power and his following genocide campaign against Jews or anyone who opposed the Nazi regime.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Sabaton (Music) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": At the end of 40:1, representing the loss of the Polish army after three days of fighting.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Sabaton (Music) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: One of the French soldiers in the trench in the "Fields of Verdun" video is shot between the eyes while firing over the lip of the trench.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Sabaton (Music) / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Like most Swedes, Joakim speaks English quite well (barring the odd singular/plural mismatch in the lyrics), and can also sing in German. The concert on the deluxe version of Heroes has an amusing segment between songs where he starts teaching bits of Polish to the Swedish members of the audience and vice versanote Specifically, how to say "Another beer, please". In Polish it's "Jeszcze jedno piwo proszÄ™", in colloquial Swedish it's "En Ã¶l till tack".), and another bit where he actually forgets to switch back from English to Swedish when giving a lottery prize to a Swede. On the live version of the "Sabaton Cruise," since it's near Sweden, Joakim speaks almost entirely in Swedish for the duration of the show. One of the few things he says in English is, "For those of you who don't speak Swedish, welcome to the Sabaton Cruise, and if you want to know what I'm saying in the future, you'd better fucking learn Swedish."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c4b8e2ae	type	One-Woman Wail
Sabaton (Music) / int_c4b8e2ae	comment	One-Woman Wail: The soundtrack version of "The End of the War to End All Wars" breaks into this at one part.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c59bf35a	type	Ballad of X
Sabaton (Music) / int_c59bf35a	comment	Ballad of X: "The Ballad of Bull" is about Leslie "Bull" Allen, an Australian soldier who saved a dozen of his fellow Australians by carrying them to safety after they were wounded.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Sabaton (Music) / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Hero: Five of them in "Birds of War."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sabaton (Music) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Sparta" has quite a few to 300, including the Spartan's "OOH AAH!" chant. "The Last Battle" has "From the home of the brave, from the land of the free", a reference to the final line of the American national anthem. It's paired with "From the foot of the Alps to the shores of the sea", a very rough paraphrase of a line from the (no longer used) first stanza of the German anthemnote "From the Meuse to the Memel, From the Adige to the Belt". "Firestorm" has a small reference to another metal band: "Screaming Eagles" has one to a famous movie about Operation Market Garden: Bismarck sees the titular ship described as "made to rule the waves", alluding to "Rule Britannia." The background melody of "Christmas Truce" is based on "The Carol of the Bells". The chanting in the bridge section of Stormtroopers is very similar to the chanting in Balls to the Wall by Accept.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Sabaton (Music) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Subverted with "Burn Your Crosses". If you hear it without context, you would think it's just a rant on the evils of Christianity. But Joakim BrodÃ©n has emphatically stated the song is, like all other Sabaton songs, a narrative: It's about a man about to be executed by the Spanish Inquisition who decides to go out in a blaze of glory, and the song is his speech.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Sabaton (Music) / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Played for Drama in "Christmas Truce" with the line "and the snow fell, voices sang to me from... no man's land." Given the image and reputation of the Western Front of World War I, it's pretty clear that they were evoking War Is Hell with that line.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Sabaton (Music) / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: The band has a mad, passionate love affair with German panzers in particular, including "Ghost Division" and "Panzerkampf" from The Art of War, the latter of which covers the Battle of Kursk, one of the biggest armor confrontations in history. "Panzer Battalion" sounds like another one but is actually about the 2003 invasion of Iraq, focusing on American M1 Abrams tanks. The song "The Future of Warfare" from the "Great War" album is about the first appearance of tanks on the battlefield. The video of "Steel Commanders" likens the tank to the knights of the medieval battlefield and features a dizzying array of tanks up to the 1950s, from a British Mark I complete with a wheeled trailer for steering assistance up to Sabaton's Ace Custom Centurion from World of Tanks dueling a Red Army IS-2 and KV-1 over the bridge and last chorus. (Studio Wargaming did the CGI for the video, as they had for "Primo Victoria" and "Bismarck".)
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Sabaton (Music) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: "Aces in Exile" depicts this by the Polish and Czech pilots.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
Sabaton (Music) / int_cfa546f4	comment	Mother Russia Makes You Strong: "Panzerkampf", "Night Witches," "Hill 3234" and "The Attack of the Dead Men."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
Sabaton (Music) / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: They included a cover on Metalizer and as bonus tracks on the Updated Rereleases of Primo Victoria and Attero Dominatus and on every album since Carolus Rex. Primo Victoria: "The Beast" by Twisted Sister Attero Dominatus: "FÃ¼r immer" by Warlock and "LÃ¥nga bollar pÃ¥ Bengt" by Svenne Rubins Metalizer: "Jawbreaker" by Judas Priest Carolus Rex: "Twilight of the Thunder God" by Amon Amarth, "In the Army Now" by Bolland And Bolland and Status Quo, and "Feuer Frei!" by Rammstein Heroes: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica, "En hjÃ¤ltes vÃ¤g" by Raubtier, and "Out of Control" by Battle Beast The Last Stand: "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway, "All Guns Blazing" by Judas Priest, "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" by Iron Maiden, and "Burn in Hell" by Twisted Sister The single Defense of Moscow is a particularly notable example, since the original was written and produced by Russian Promoted Fanboyinvoked Radio Tapok, who made several covers of Sabaton songs in Russian, and wrote the song specifically to match Sabaton's style. In 2023, the band released "1916", a cover of a song by MotÃ¶rhead about two World War I soldiers who die in the trenches. The song's music video also features members of MotÃ¶rhead carrying a portrait of deceased frontman Lemmy Kilmister.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d0db85d0	type	Lyrics/Video Mismatch
Sabaton (Music) / int_d0db85d0	comment	Lyrics/Video Mismatch: "The Lost Battalion" is about an event during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in World War I. The lyric video mistakenly depicts a World War II battlefield (the Panzer IV that's occasionally visible is a bit of a giveaway). The song "Primo Victoria" is about Operation Overlord. The video (made years later in a cross-promotion with World of Tanks) has the band driving around in a postwar British-designed Ace Custom Centurion tank and blowing up an assortment of hapless Panzers.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d389d581	type	Calculator Spelling
Sabaton (Music) / int_d389d581	comment	Calculator Spelling: The title of their Heavy Meta song "7734" spells "hell" in calculator spelling. This, along with various other instances of numerology in the lyrics, is meant as a parody of those who equate metal to Satanism.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Sabaton (Music) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: "Uprising" calls out the Allies for twice abandoning the Poles to the Nazis. First, Britain and France failed to counterattack when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939. Then in 1944, the Warsaw Uprising was timed for the Red Army to be within striking distance and the Resistance hoped to link up, but Stalin ordered his forces to turn aside, apparently hoping the Poles and Germans would wear each other out and make his own postwar occupation of Poland easier. "Ett Slag FÃ¤rgat RÃ¶tt" (the Swedish version of "Killing Ground") calls out the Caroleans for slaughtering Russian prisoners-of-war at Fraustadt. (The English version alludes to it in the chorus, but the Swedish lyrics devote the entire bridge stanza to it.)
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d3f33049	type	Blasphemous Boast
Sabaton (Music) / int_d3f33049	comment	Blasphemous Boast: Charles XII in "Carolus Rex". Lines such as "Crowned by God, not by the church, as my power is divine!" and "My will be done!" come to mind.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d5661a8c	type	The Dreaded Dreadnought
Sabaton (Music) / int_d5661a8c	comment	The Dreaded Dreadnought: "Dreadnought" is about the class of battleships which, upon the completion of namesake HMS Dreadnought, immediately rendered obsolete all other warships afloat and sparked a naval arms race between Germany and the UK that contributed to the outbreak of WW1. The song portrays them as unstoppable steel titans intimidating their foes.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d6fce880	type	To the Tune of...
Sabaton (Music) / int_d6fce880	comment	To the Tune of...: The melody of "Livgardet" is based on an old Scandinavian hymn, "HÃ¤rlig Ã¤r Jorden", and much of the song is sung by a men's choir.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
Sabaton (Music) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: "Night Witches" is about the all-female Russian 588th Night Bomber Regiment, which kicked a lot of ass and raised a lot of hell for the Germans.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Sabaton (Music) / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: A literal example is provided by the Winged Hussar cavalry in "Winged Hussars".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dae0cfd5	type	Something Else Also Rises
Sabaton (Music) / int_dae0cfd5	comment	Something Else Also Rises: The refrain of "Metal Machine" (otherwise a Song of Song Titles celebrating metal) has Joakim variously remarking "Come hold/touch/suck my metal machine". Inverted with "The Rise of Evil". The song is ostensibly about the rise of Nazi Germany, but BrodÃ©n has been known to introduce it at concerts by saying it's about his penis. (This can be heard in Swedish on a bonus track of the Primo Victoria reissue.)
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Sabaton (Music) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: "Lady of the Dark" is about Milunka SaviÄ‡, a Serbian woman who dressed as a man to take the place of her brother when he was conscripted for the First Balkan War. After ten deployments, she was discovered when she was wounded, but she had been such a good soldier that they didn't want to punish her, instead allowing her to serve openly in the infantry when she refused to be transferred to nursing. She went on to serve in World War I in the Serbian and later Yugoslav armies, becoming the most decorated female soldier in the recorded history of warfare, including becoming the sole female recipient of the Croix de Guerre with gold palm. And then was practically forgotten as soon as the war was over. The animated music video for the song shows her pulling off action movie-like feats, such as single-handedly capturing an enemy machine gun nest by running across the battlefield and beating up the soldiers inside in hand-to-hand combat then pointing their own machine gun at them until they surrender.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Sabaton (Music) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: "Stormtroopers" is about the German StoÃŸtruppen shock troops who fiercely and furiously battled the Entente in the final German offensive of 1918 using newly developed infiltration "Hutier" tactics. Stormtroopers prioritized speed, eschewing rifles for bundles of grenades and submachineguns, to bypass enemy strongpoints and disrupt their rear areas while concentrating overwhelming force to singular points of attack. These new techniques, alongside innovative artillery deployments and a temporary advantage in manpower brought by the Russians bowing out of the war, allowed a breakthrough in the long stagnant, infamous stalemate of the Western Front making tremendous territorial gains.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_db7efdaf	type	Adolf Hitlarious
Sabaton (Music) / int_db7efdaf	comment	Adolf Hitlarious: Sabaton usually takes Hitler and the Nazis dead seriously. The exception is in Yarnhub's story video for "Christmas Truce", which features a certain German soldier with a toothbrush mustache first trying to tattle on the truce to the generals before getting hit in the head with a stray football/soccer ball, then grumpily observing the proceedings from the sidelines.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dba1f5b5	type	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Sabaton (Music) / int_dba1f5b5	comment	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: "Dreadnought", describing the battle of Jutland:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Sabaton (Music) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "The Final Solution". An awesome metal song... about the horrors of the Holocaust, specifically Auschwitz. The band stopped playing that song live until their 2017 tour because they found it unsettling to see the audience cheer and headbang along. "The Price of a Mile", also a catchy, badass, upbeat song about the soldiers dying pointless deaths at Passchendaele. "Nuclear Attack" just like the two above, a catchy and more upbeat song about the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "We Burn" — catchy, badass song about the Srebrenica massacre. According to the Sabaton History episode, Oskar Montelius wrote the solo without actually knowing what the song was about. "Long Live The King" is a glorious, epic ballad about the death of the Swedish Empire and the titular King Charles XII, as his soldiers do everything to bring his body back to Sweden. "In The Army Now" is a badass ballad about a poor sod who gets suckered into joining the military, and it is nothing like what he expected. Zig-zagged by "To Hell And Back": On the one hand, it's a badass, uplifting song that describes the horrors in WW2 faced by Audie Murphy and even describes his struggles with PTSD in the bridge ("And all along the shore/Where cannons still roar/They're haunting my dreams/They're still there when I sleep"). On the other hand, the badass, uplifting tone fits perfectly with how the lyrics describe Murphy's triumphs and eventual recovery ("He charged and attacked/He went to Hell and back!"). So whether or not the lyrics fit the music depends on what part of the song you're looking at. "Killing Ground" is a blood-pumping song about the Caroleans slaughtering surrendering enemy soldiers at the battle of Fraustadt. Taken even further by the Swedish version "Ett Slag FÃ¤rgat RÃ¶tt" (literally "A Battle Painted Red"), which is much more explicit about the Swedish war crimes while being exactly as energetic as the English version. "Attero Dominatus" is a song about the Soviet sack of Berlin. Despite this, it's a catchy song with a big sing-along chorus. "Fields of Verdun" is an awesome, badass, high-energy song about the Battle of Verdun, which lasted 303 days and claimed upwards of 300,000 lives and at least 400,000 other casualties. "The Great War" as well. It might just be Sabaton's most triumphant and energetic song to date, complete with an angelic choir boasting the greatness of the War to End All War. The lyrics tell the story of a man lying in a trench next to his own brother's rotting corpse, questioning just what exactly he's even fighting for. In the end he decides it's just not his place to question and joins the charge forward, in which it's implied that he dies.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
Sabaton (Music) / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: In the form of a Heavy Meta Shout-Out. It's easy to miss, but the first verse of "Metal CrÃ¼e" includes the line "Watch the rock bitch go down, vixen spread". Rockbitch was a relatively obscure British all-female Hard Rock band in the '90s known for playing nude and performing unsimulated sex rituals on each other during concerts.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Sabaton (Music) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: "Carolus Rex" (the song) stops just short in talking about King Charles XII's belief in the divine right of kings, portraying him as a borderline megalomaniac convinced his power comes directly from God.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dc4a43ea	type	Screw Your Ultimatum!
Sabaton (Music) / int_dc4a43ea	comment	Screw Your Ultimatum!: The third verse (and opening splash of the music video) of "Screaming Eagles" recounts how the commander of the 101st Airborne, defending Bastogne at the Battle of the Bulge, responded to a German surrender demand as follows: "NUTS!"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dc89ddb7	type	Epic Ship-on-Ship Action
Sabaton (Music) / int_dc89ddb7	comment	Epic Ship-on-Ship Action: The music video for "Bismarck" depicts both of Bismarck's battles - the Battle of Denmark Straits and the Last Battle of the Bismarck.note Despite being one of the most famous naval battles in modern history, there is no commonly agreed-upon name for Bismarck's final battle. "Dreadnought" from The War to End All Wars is about the navies of World War I, and the lyrics on the bridge allude in particular to the Battle of Jutland, the largest clash of dreadnought-type battleships ever.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
Sabaton (Music) / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: Most of the original six-piece band left to form the Horrible History Metal band Civil War in 2012 due to burnout from Sabaton's intense touring schedule (to give you an idea, for the Heroes tour they did 150 shows on several continents in six months, and even Joakim admitted it was "fucking hard"). They're still friends, though Joakim admits things were tense for a little while.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Sabaton (Music) / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: "Father" questions this in the second verse, bringing up the fact that Fritz Haber's invention of the process to manufacture ammonia for chemical fertilizer has fed billions, but he also indirectly killed tens of thousands in his role in the German chemical weapons program.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
Sabaton (Music) / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: An interesting variation happens in Heroes. Their second album's title track, "Attero Dominatus", is about the fall of Berlin, told from the perspective of the advancing Red Army. Heroes contains the song "Hearts of Iron" which is about the same event, but from the perspective of the German troops trying to protect civilians.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
Sabaton (Music) / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: King Charles XII of Sweden, as per real life.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ddc4f035	type	Heroic Second Wind
Sabaton (Music) / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: In the "Steel Commanders" video, Sabaton's Stridsvagn K Heavy tank takes a glancing hit to the turret from an M103 and the band are knocked unconscious. They then wake up and promptly blow away the M103 at point-blank range and follow up by winning a gun duel with the FV4005 behind it.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Sabaton (Music) / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: "Hail to the King".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
Sabaton (Music) / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Bagpipes not only feature in the instrumentals of "Blood of Bannockburn", a part of the main chorus is about how bagpipes are awesome.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e115dd80	type	Long-Runner Line-up
Sabaton (Music) / int_e115dd80	comment	Long-Runner Line-up: The 2000s line-up would be a solid type 4, having lasted from 2001 (when they changed drummers to Daniel Mullback) to 2012, except they added a dedicated keyboardist (Daniel Myhr) in 2005.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e144beb6	type	Everything Is an Instrument
Sabaton (Music) / int_e144beb6	comment	Everything Is an Instrument: "The Lost Battalion" uses the sound of a machine gun, a 9mm pistol, and a bayonet as proxies for a kick drum, a snare drum, and a hi-hat respectively.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e15138cf	type	Mysterious Protector
Sabaton (Music) / int_e15138cf	comment	Their cover of "Camouflage" is about a pair of Marines, title drops this trope in the lyrics, and the eponymous Camouflage takes it seriously enough that he plays Mysterious Protector to the song's protagonist despite having died the night before.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e18675e6	type	Word Salad Lyrics
Sabaton (Music) / int_e18675e6	comment	Word Salad Lyrics: The demo version of "The Art of War" included on the reissued version of the album is pretty much a three-minute string of nonsense phrases that fit the beat. The first stanza is approximately:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Sabaton (Music) / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Frequently, as many nations and/or armed forces have animals as their symbols. Most reoccurring, their songs often refer to Nazi Germany and its armed forces as "The Eagle," which was one of their symbols. Other examples include the Swedish Empire's Eagle and Lion, the Chasseurs Ardennais boar, and the Brazilian Expeditionary Forces' smoking snake, the "Screaming Eagles" (the unit nickname of the 101st Airborne Division), and the "Devil Dogs" (a nickname for the US Marines earned in World War I).
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Sabaton (Music) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The line "Death from above, what they now say" in "82nd All the Way". The 82nd Division was redesignated the 82nd Airborne Division in 1942, and switched its motto from "All the Way" to "Death from Above". The outro of "Versailles" foreshadows the coming of World War II:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e5f8ceac	type	Army of The Ages
Sabaton (Music) / int_e5f8ceac	comment	Army of The Ages: The cover of The Last Stand◊ shows a battle containing ancient Spartans, The Polish Winged Hussar cavalry, Samurai, and soldiers from both world wars fighting side-by-side in Castle Itter, a WWII battleground.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e6dea5bf	type	Self-Backing Vocalist
Sabaton (Music) / int_e6dea5bf	comment	Self-Backing Vocalist: Part of Sabaton's signature sound is a three-part harmony, which the band initially made by recording themselves singing the melody, a high tenor harmony, and a baritone harmony (nowadays they have the resources to hire a professional choir). "Primo Victoria" was their first song to use this technique.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Sabaton (Music) / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: The "spirit" of the knight in the "Steel Commanders" video managed to give the band this while inside their tank. Broden even sported a pair of Glowing Eyes of Doom behind his shades in the process.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Sabaton (Music) / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: "Hearts of Iron" shows a more sympathetic side of Nazi Germany: The civilians and Punch-Clock Villain soldiers present, trying to flee from the horrors of war, while other Wehrmacht soldiers hold open the escape corridor and coordinate the evacuation of Berlin.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e8b3ee16	type	Ghostapo
Sabaton (Music) / int_e8b3ee16	comment	Ghostapo: While "Ghost Division" is named after the actual nickname of the 7th Panzer Division, the lyrics of the song give the division a supernatural edge by portraying them as a division of both live and Cavalry of the Dead, fed by the fear the Nazis generate. Inverted by "Night Witches", which portrays a Soviet bomber regiment nicknamed the "Night Witches" as actually having supernatural powers ("From the depths of Hell in silence/Cast their spells, explosive violence") Inverted again by "The Attack of the Dead Men", which gives a similar portrayal to a counterattack by the surviving members of a Russian unit that was hit by a German gas attack during the battle for Osowiec Fortress:
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Sabaton (Music) / int_e993a60f	type	Defensive Feint Trap
Sabaton (Music) / int_e993a60f	comment	Defensive Feint Trap: The song "The Art of War" describes this tactic.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Sabaton (Music) / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: "Inmate 4859", a Polish soldierreal name Witold Pilecki who infiltrated Auschwitz to command an uprising from within and tell the world of the horrors going on there.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_eb2ede7b	type	Everyone Is Satan in Hell
Sabaton (Music) / int_eb2ede7b	comment	Everyone Is Satan in Hell: invoked Parodied with "7734", which has "hidden Satanic messages" so obvious a child could spot them. The title of the song is "HELL" in calculator spelling, and the second verse contains a bunch of numerology jokes: "the last two united and two became one" (3+4=7, so 777) "one hundred eleven / they perished in flame" (777-111=666). And also the line "Do Glatem Live", which backwards is "Evil Metal God."
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Sabaton (Music) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Sabaton (Music) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Joakim guest-sang in van Canto's cover of Sabaton's "Primo Victoria". The band crosses over with Indy Neidell of TimeGhost in the Patreon-exclusive Sabaton History version of The Great War album. Each track features an introduction by Indy explaining the history behind the music. Indy also plays Lawrence Of Arabia in the video for "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" and Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart in "The Unkillable Soldier". The band also guest-starred in the video for Radio Tapok's cover of "Attack of the Dead Men", and Joakim actually sang a few lines towards the end of the song. Radio Tapok later joined Sabaton on stage during the March 2020 concert in Moscow for their live performance of "Attack of the Dead Men". The video for "Bismarck" was produced in collaboration with Wargaming in a promotion for World of Warships. Joakim Broden also joined forces with the power-metal band Grailknights on their song "Pumping Iron Power". Apocalyptica collaborated with the band for a re-recording of "Angels Calling" to promote the 2020 European tour, and Joakim returned the favor by doing vocals on their song "Live or Die". Amaranthe, also opening on that tour, covered "82nd All the Way" and got to perform it live with Sabaton in Oslo, Norway. Joakim is a Special Guest on "Pasadena 1994" by Nanowar of Steel, a Sabaton parody song about the '94 FIFA World Cup.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Sabaton (Music) / int_eb81c601	comment	"Winged Hussars" is a subversion of this. The Siege of Vienna looked to be like this for the Austrian defenders against the Ottomans... THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED! Ditto "Hill 3234" and "Rorke's Drift", both of which were cases where the underdogs won.note Although "underdog" is a bit questionable with "Hill 3234": the Soviet paratroopers had artillery and air support helping them.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_eb904ee0	type	ArtisticLicenseAnatomy
Sabaton (Music) / int_eb904ee0	comment	Artistic License â€“ Anatomy: On the cover art of Heroes, the American soldier basically has to dislocate his arm to Shoryuken the Nazi soldier in that manner.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Sabaton (Music) / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: "Into the Fire" makes reference to this in a narrative about the general unpleasantness of jungle warfare in Vietnam.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ef32c393	type	Epic Tank-on-Tank Action
Sabaton (Music) / int_ef32c393	comment	Epic Tank-on-Tank Action: The subject of "Panzerkampf" is the Battle of Prokhorovka, part of the larger Battle of Kursk and one of the largest tank battles in history. The video for "Primo Victoria" (made for a cross-promotion with World of Tanks) has the band driving a postwar British-made Centurion tank and blasting an assortment of hilariously outclassed German tanks. The video for "Defence of Moscow" features tank battles between Panzer IIIs and T-34s interspersed in between infantry clashes and shots of the band. "Steel Commanders" is about tank warfare through history, from World War I to the present day, and features the band aboard a Stridsvagn K Heavy tank, joining a free-for-all and getting into a gunnery duel with a variety of other tanksNote Notably, an M103 Heavy Tank, a Panhard EBR 105 Wheeled Light Tank, and an FV 4005 Tank Destroyer over the bridge and last chorus.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ef3b4c2f	type	Glorious Mother Russia
Sabaton (Music) / int_ef3b4c2f	comment	Glorious Mother Russia: "Panzerkampf", "Night Witches", and "Hill 3234" are all about the strength of the Red Army of Russia. "Defence of Moscow", in spades. Hell, they even used their cover of the Soviet National Anthem for the bridge solo.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f06cb15	type	Technicolor Toxin
Sabaton (Music) / int_f06cb15	comment	Technicolor Toxin: "Father"'s music video has green poison gas (implied to be chlorine, which really is a shade of green) in both Fritz Haber's laborotory and on the battlefield scenes. However, real chlorine is charteruse, while the stuff Haber produced is flourescent green and faintly glowing, like cartoon toxic waste.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Sabaton (Music) / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: The video for the "1916" Cover Version depicts a huge crowd of metalheads, including the band and the surviving members of original artist MotÃ¶rhead, walking the streets of Birmingham, England singing the song.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Sabaton (Music) / int_f1d6144a	comment	"To Hell and Back" combines War Is Hell with War Is Glorious.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
Sabaton (Music) / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: "The Last Stand" is about the Sack of Rome in 1527, when the Holy Roman Imperial Army, angry due to not having been paid by the Empire for their service, mutinied and led a siege on Rome itself, joined by various gangs of bandits and other deserters. The song doesn't focus much on them, however, instead focusing on the 189 members of the Swiss Guard who fought to save the Pope by escorting him along a secret passage to the Castel Sant'Angelo, and especially the 147 who formed the rear guard and gave their lives in service to the Pope.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f390cc4d	type	Ennio Morricone Pastiche
Sabaton (Music) / int_f390cc4d	comment	Ennio Morricone Pastiche: The whistles from â€œTo Hell And Backâ€�. This is especially clear in the intro and the bridge.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Sabaton (Music) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Within one song, "Versailles" begins by combining a sad-but-hopeful tune over the spoken history with a celebratory and triumphant melody linked with the sung lyrics, as the War to End All Wars comes to an end. Midway through, it shifts to a very creepy Dark Reprise of the latter tune, as the singer wonders whether they've really ended the war at all.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f54f6719	type	Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards
Sabaton (Music) / int_f54f6719	comment	Cadre of Foreign Bodyguards: "The Last Stand" is essentially the origin story of the Swiss Guard. At the time, they were just mercenaries hired by the Pope. Ever since, they've been the Pope's bodyguards.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f5fe65a3	type	Heavy Mithril
Sabaton (Music) / int_f5fe65a3	comment	Heavy Mithril: "Shadows" is about Nazgul. "Birds of War" is about five paladins fallen to darkness and scourging a world they once protected. "Endless Nights" is about Satan waking up and unleashing Hell on Earth.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Sabaton (Music) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The final chorus of â€œTo Hell And Backâ€� has Audie Murphy finally triumphing over his PTSD.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Sabaton (Music) / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: "The Hammer has Fallen"
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f770e79d	type	Punished for Sympathy
Sabaton (Music) / int_f770e79d	comment	Punished for Sympathy: "No Bullets Fly" comments that Luftwaffe pilot Franz Stigler "risked his life two times that day / To save an unknown enemy". Stigler faced a possible death sentence for helping the B-17 to safetynote Inadvertently, mind: the song leaves out that his intention was to convince the crew to either surrender or land in neutral Sweden, the latter of which would keep them safe but out of the war. Problem was, the Americans didn't understand his attempts to signal to them., and so left it out of his official report.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Sabaton (Music) / int_f7cee9b	comment	"Race to the Sea" is about the 1914 Last Stand of the Belgian Army at Yser, including King Albert I himself, which saw a mostly-Belgian force hang on tooth and nail to a sliver of coastal Belgium against the German Army with very little support from their French and British allies. They continued to be a thorn in the Germans' side for the rest of the war.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f8b511e7	type	Harsh Vocals
Sabaton (Music) / int_f8b511e7	comment	Harsh Vocals: Joakim BrodÃ©n's singing voice is notably deeper-pitched and gruffer than many Power Metal vocalists, but he can't actually growl. When they covered Amon Amarth's "Twilight of the Thunder God", he sang the verses in his usual voice, while producer Peter TÃ¤gtgren growled the bridge.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f8ffd45	type	Pictorial Letter Substitution
Sabaton (Music) / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: Sabaton's logo includes a piece of plate armor as part of the S, a reference to the name of the band referring to the boot on a suit of plate.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
Sabaton (Music) / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: In "Race to the Sea", Belgium has been mostly occupied by Germany, but the Belgian victory at the Yser allows them to hold a sliver of land and continue participating in the Great War.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f9e257ff	type	American Eagle
Sabaton (Music) / int_f9e257ff	comment	American Eagle: "Screaming Eagles" is about the US Army 101st Airborne Division holding the line at Bastogne against the German Army during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Sabaton (Music) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Joakim's pants will shred at the crotch area at some point in the show, the question isn't if, it's when. At this point it's practically a Running Gag.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Sabaton (Music) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: "Panzerkampf" is about the Soviets managing to turn the tide in the Eastern front to their favor against the Nazis and "Attero Dominatus" is about them finally taking the enemy in Berlin that caused them so much harm.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Sabaton (Music) / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: "A Lifetime of War" is about the Thirty Years' War, which for some people lasted their entire lives. The Sabaton History videos for the song (covering both English and Swedish versions) go a step further, pointing out that Sweden was continuously at war with various countries for the full century covered by the Carolus Rex album.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_fd4a9c9d	type	Trrrilling Rrrs
Sabaton (Music) / int_fd4a9c9d	comment	Trrrilling Rrrs: Joakim's preferred accent since 2006.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
Sabaton (Music) / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Gondor Calls for Aid: "Aces in Exile" is about the air forces of various nations who fought in the Battle of Britain.
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Sabaton (Music) / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: The US Marines in "Devil Dogs".
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Sabaton (Music) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Sabaton (Music) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Besides the accuracy (and sheer obscurity) of their songs (such as "Far from the Fame"'s Karel JanouÅ¡ek, who didn't have an English Wikipedia page before the single came out), there's a particular example in "To Hell and Back": The song's chorus and a whole verse are lifted almost entirely from one of Murphy's poems.
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	A Father to His Men / int_7f20564b
Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Action Girl / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Aluminum Christmas Trees / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Approval of God / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Taking You with Me / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	War Is Glorious / int_7f20564b
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Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	Weird Historical War / int_7f20564b
Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	What Have I Become? / int_7f20564b
Sabaton (Music)	hasFeature	What the Hell, Hero? / int_7f20564b
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