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SgtSnake Reviews The Great War
Seeing how Yesterday was the 1 Year Anniversary of Sabaton releasing their smash album "The Great War" and there are so many great hard hitting songs (and I did this when it first dropped but it got deleted on my phone when I was typing) I thought we should all go over it together.
The album "The Great War" is a concept album by the Swedish Power Metal Band "Sabaton" and is their 9th Studio Album and the album after "The Last Stand". It is the first album to feature new rhythm guitarist Tommy Johansonn backing up Chris Rorland. The album has 11 songs all about The First World War that cover Battles, People, Fronts, and Topics typical of World War One.
1: The Future of Warfare
"Standing in the Line of Fire. 32 Will Lead the Way. Coming Over Trench and Wire. Going through the Endless Grey"
Arguably the darkest song on the album "The Future of Warfare" is about the new decisive weapon of the British and French. The Tank. With slower harder crunchier guitar and supporting bass and drums the song truly encapsulates the dark foreboding landscape of No Mans' Land and its shell craters. The slower music also gives a perfect back drop for the slow large metal boxes that tanks started out as and how they almost slithered on the ground immune to the bullets of Rifles and Machine Guns. One can almost perfectly picture in their head a large Mark IV just crawling in the mud, dipping into a crater, just to crawl its way out. An unsuspecting start to an album but along the lines of their previous album "The Last Stand" that also started with the slower darker "Sparta". 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qJi7HURFA
2: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
"Far from Home, A Man with a Mission. In the Heat of the Glistening Sun. In the Heart of Ancient Tradition, this One's Journey has only Begun."
Starting off with a drum roll that will immediately perk up the ears of anyone who has heard "The White Death" on their album "Coat of Arms" the song starts off must faster and sets a much more respective pass for the songs to come. 7PoW is about a much more forgotten front of the First World War, the Arabian Revolt in the Ottoman Empire but familiar to those who played Battlefield 1. About 1:30 in the song slows down noticeably depicting the conflicted feelings of T.E. Lawrence after getting word of the Sykes-Picot Agreement which saw The UK and France divide up the area promised to the Arabian People into what is now modern day Iraq and Syria. The song's faster past sets a perfect image of horses galloping through the dessert as the under dog rebels fight the might of an Empire. In the Official Music Video, Lawrence is played by the ever great Indy Neidell who bares a very striking resemblance to both Lawrence and Peter O'Toole. 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaW76aDKObk
3: 82nd All the Way
"In the Draft of 1917, a Man from Tennessee. Overseas to the Trenches He went, From the Land of the Free."
Starting with a guitar intro that I can't tell how many times I've started singing only to accidentally transfer into "No Bullets Fly" and Vise Versa, 82nd All the Way is the story of Sergeant Alvin York and his deeds on the 8th of October 1918 where he captured 137 German Soldiers during the Argonne Offensive (same offensive of "The Lost Battalion" and "Devil Dogs") at Hill 223 which got him promoted from Private to Sergeant and by the end of the war was the most decorated US servicemen before being beaten for that title by Audie Murphy of "To Hell and Back". Starting out relatively slow after the initial intro the song quickly speeds up again and features great guitar work by both Tommy and Chris while in the background Par's bass-line can be easily heard more easily than normal songs. York later had his deeds turned into the amazing film "Sergeant York" starting the almighty Gary Cooper. Back in November when I saw Sabaton in New York City before they played "82nd All the Way" I started a "Ser-geant York" chant that got the whole theater chanting. 4.5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfCUxFE7XA
4: The Attack of the Dead Men
"Turmoil at the Front, Wilhelm's Forces on the Hunt. There's a Thunder in the East, its an Attack of the Deceased."
I mean what HASN'T been said about this true head banger of a song. Starting off with a slow unsuspecting dark foreboding synthesized sound that sounds like it came straight from "Metro: 2033" the Attack of the Dead Men is about the infamous indecent that occurred on 6th August, 1915 during the 3rd Battle of Osowiec Fortress in then The Russian Empire and modern day Poland. The song is formed from a deep throbbing bass-line that is paired by the heavy crunchy Guitar that takes away nothing from the bass. During the slower parts before the chorus you can simply see in your mind the 100 Russians slowly crawling back up, bloody, beaten, and should already be dead as Hydrochloric Acid dissolves the men's bodies from inside. This song truly is a both headphones, full volume, don't care about your hearing, BANGER! ∞/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFdwoyNT24
5: Devil Dogs
"Kill! Fight! Die! That's what a Soldier should do. Top of Their Game, Earning Their Name, They were The Devil Dogs."
Immediately anyone who has heard "Smoking Snakes" is going to has a familiarity with this song. Noted for being the only Sabaton song marked as "Explicit" do to the infamous phrase "Come on you Sons of Bitches! Do You want to Life Forever?" shouted by First Sergeant Dan Daly to get his men of the 73rd Machine Gun Company to move forward. As the song is almost a near perfect rehashing of "Smoking Snakes" but with higher pitched rhythm guitar and some chance is pace now and then the song doesn't have much to talk about in therms of the music. It is said the Marines of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) got the name Devil Dogs do to their ferocious fighting however it was not the first time the term was used being used to describe German AA Fire as well and Artillery. However it seems to be the one that has stuck around to this day despite the fact that more modern sources seem to claim this is only myth. The Battle of Belleau Wood was one of the most bloody battles for American Forces in the First World War and is the source of General Pershing's infamous quote of "The Deadliest Weapon in the World is a Marine and His Rifle". 4.7/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphuv7tTNKs
6: The Red Baron
"Man and Machine and Nothing There in between. A Flying Circus and a Man from Prussia. The Sky and a Plane this Man Commands His Domain, The Western Front and all the way to Russia."
The Man. The Myth. The Legend. Unless you have been living under a rock since April 1916 everyone has heard at least once in their life the name "The Red Baron" named for his plane's distinct crimson paint job and his aristocracy roots. Shown normally flying the famous Fokker Dr.I Triplane this is often a bit of a misdeed to him as yes he flew the Dr.I his fame and glory came earlier when he flew the Albatross D.VII painted too in the crimson red paint. Starting with an odd choice of an intro with a Hammond Organ that I always picture with the nose of the Dr.I as the engine sputters and starts up the song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of flying which hasn't been done truly in my opinion since "No Bullets Fly" on "Heroes" and "Aces in Exile" on "Coat of Arms". Though a much faster paced than other songs on the album this fits perfectly and mainly heard are the drums and Chris's guitar work with Tommy coming in between some sets of lyrics. I often say the true skill of Sabaton can be shown in this song by their way of being able to slide in "Rote Kampfflieger" into a English song as make it fit 100% naturally. The song also points out the little known fact of Manfred's brief time in the cavalry before becoming a pilot. Once his skill was shown his brothers quickly joined him in the sky and they went on the be commanders for the German Luftwaffe in WWII while sadly Manfred did not survive the war. However with his legend being so wide spread the Entente buried him with Full Military Honors. 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXzgXBRM_k
7:Great War
"Where Dead Men lie, I'm Paralyzed My Brother's Eyes are Gone. And He shall buried here, "Nameless" marks His Grave. Mother home get a Telegram and shed a Tear of Grief, Mud and Blood in Foreign Land trying to Understand."
Here we are, the Core of the Album, the namesake and base plate. The song is slower than others and has a deep hard hitting bass-line that encapsulates the endless marching of feet through mud filled trenches. Notably speeding up for the guitar solo in the middle it quickly reverts to its darker slower tempo after. The song can be easily used to describe most of the Western Front its specifically about The Battle of Passchendaele aka The Third Battle of Ypres which has already been covered by Sabaton in "The Price of a Mile" on "The Art of War" back in 2008 and is even referenced in the song with the line "And Feet by Feet We Pay the Price of a Mile here, as Men are Falling we see Heroes Rise." With very prominent drum work the guitars and bass mix together into a single harmony only separating out once in a while to be heard more individually through out the song. 4.3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbG39-T4H0
8: Ghost in the Trenches
"Move Between the Lines. A Soldier Breaking the Confines"
Truly a new and unique song for the album the pace is noticeably on the faster side compared to the others. With drums setting a good rhythm and Tommy's guitar well and heard. With the subject of Francis Pegamagabow the most successful sniper of The First World War with 378 confirmed kill and and the capture of 300 Germans through his military career which he volunteered for in August 1914 with the Canadian Expeditionary Force when the war broke out. He is an interesting character not just for his deeds during the war but also because of his background, born and raised First Nation he moved between places and families as his father and mother grew sick and when he enlisted he was assigned to the First Canadian Infantry Battalion First Canadian Division and was among the first Canadians to see action in the war. Seeing action in some of the most famous battle on The Western Front, such as Ypres, Passchendaele, Somme, and Scarpes Francis quickly gained recognition as an excellent sniper and scout. After 4 bloody years of war he returned home and left the military in 1919 as one of Canada's most decorated soldiers and went on to be an amazing leader for the People of Canada's First Nations before passing away in 1952 with his final rank of Company Sergeant Major. Back to the song, with long drawn out chords in many places and broken up lyrics this sets an odd pace but puts and image in the listeners head of a lone man sneaking around the scarred fields of No Mans' Land as He than sets ups for a perfect shot to be executed flawlessly. 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbkEFIVXLNw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pegahmagabow (because this guy is too epic not to include his Wikipedia)
9: Fields of Verdun
"On ne passe pas"
The first song released to the public from the album and the single longest battle in recorded human history. For 303 days in 1916 the French and German Armies fought a brutal, vicious, bloody battle on the East Bank of the Meuse River that changed little in the overall course of the war costing roughly over 714,00 to 1,250,000 lives over the 9 Months, 6 Weeks, and 3 Days of shelling, blood, and death. Hard Guitar and Heavy Lyrics mixed with fast drums and a dark overtone give the song a immediately unique signature of death and destruction. The song is as dark as the unlit hallways of the forts that were shelled and as viscous as the battle itself with no escape from the carnage. Easily one of the key songs of the album it perfectly encapsulates the feeling of dread and darkness of the battle as shells endlessly fall and you hold what little ground you have in the dark fort that may collapse at any moment. And through it all at the end of the day it remained true. They Did Not Pass. 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8G-LwWNn0
10: The End of The War to End All Wars
"Death, Hard to Ignore, One Million Lost Five Months into the War. Pain, Fell One by One, Three Years Remain it had only Begun."
Starting with an unsuspecting piano it quickly transfers into a hard, fast, and brutal mix of guitar and drums as the choir comes in it gives no real image in the brain of the listener expect for the individual set of images that the lyrics talk of at the moment in the song. I'm not sure if it is but I wouldn't be surprised if this was a deliberate move to show the unremarkable impact one soldier has on a war as the images and song doesn't have the power to instill a music video in itself in the listeners head, just a theory and most likely unintentional. But finally, after 4 brutal years of war, all caused by a single bullet and the wrong turn of a driver on the way to a hospital, a deck of cards fell that wouldn't be cleaned up even until today as we still live with the aftermath of the carnage, Sykes-Picot, Nations forming their own identity, the fall of 4 mighty empires, the rise of two nations that would be deadlocked for 70 years, the rise of a mighty war machine that would make the world fear for the future. all because of one man, on a street, who decided to take action, Gavrilo Princip. Truly the words of Makarov from "Modern Warfare" hold true. "All it takes is the Will of a Single Man". 4.6/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnnbjC7Fok
11: In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow, Between the Crosses Row on Row."
No Guitar. No Drums. No Joachim. No Bass. Just Chorus reciting a Poem. No words can describe the emotion this song brings me, just the image of a endless field of poppies that grow between endless rows of white marble crosses, reading names of fallen men from all over the world. The song is a sung rendition of a poem by the same name and recites it word for word.
"In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow
Between the Crosses Row on Row
That Mark Our Place and in the Sky
The Larks still Bravely Singing Fly
Scare Heard Amid the Guns Below
We are the Dead Short Days Ago
We Lived Felt Dawn Saw Sunset Glow
Loved and were Loved and now We Lie
In Flanders Fields, In Flanders Fields
Take Up Our Quarrel with the Foe
To You from Failing Hands We Throw
The Torch be Yours to Hold it High
If Ye Break Faith with Us who Die
We shall sot Sleep though Poppies Grow
In Flanders Fields"
An instrumental rendition was played before Sabaton came out on stage and i stopped cheering and talking with my friends, took off my helmet placed it at my side and saluted while singing to the tune. As I stood looking at the screen of poppies blowing on stage my friend turned to me and ask a simple question "Are you crying?" to which I responded "And if I am?" Grown Man Lying in the Fetal Position Bawling His Eyes Out/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgZnhtTwmM
The album "The Great War" is a concept album by the Swedish Power Metal Band "Sabaton" and is their 9th Studio Album and the album after "The Last Stand". It is the first album to feature new rhythm guitarist Tommy Johansonn backing up Chris Rorland. The album has 11 songs all about The First World War that cover Battles, People, Fronts, and Topics typical of World War One.
1: The Future of Warfare
"Standing in the Line of Fire. 32 Will Lead the Way. Coming Over Trench and Wire. Going through the Endless Grey"
Arguably the darkest song on the album "The Future of Warfare" is about the new decisive weapon of the British and French. The Tank. With slower harder crunchier guitar and supporting bass and drums the song truly encapsulates the dark foreboding landscape of No Mans' Land and its shell craters. The slower music also gives a perfect back drop for the slow large metal boxes that tanks started out as and how they almost slithered on the ground immune to the bullets of Rifles and Machine Guns. One can almost perfectly picture in their head a large Mark IV just crawling in the mud, dipping into a crater, just to crawl its way out. An unsuspecting start to an album but along the lines of their previous album "The Last Stand" that also started with the slower darker "Sparta". 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8qJi7HURFA
2: Seven Pillars of Wisdom
"Far from Home, A Man with a Mission. In the Heat of the Glistening Sun. In the Heart of Ancient Tradition, this One's Journey has only Begun."
Starting off with a drum roll that will immediately perk up the ears of anyone who has heard "The White Death" on their album "Coat of Arms" the song starts off must faster and sets a much more respective pass for the songs to come. 7PoW is about a much more forgotten front of the First World War, the Arabian Revolt in the Ottoman Empire but familiar to those who played Battlefield 1. About 1:30 in the song slows down noticeably depicting the conflicted feelings of T.E. Lawrence after getting word of the Sykes-Picot Agreement which saw The UK and France divide up the area promised to the Arabian People into what is now modern day Iraq and Syria. The song's faster past sets a perfect image of horses galloping through the dessert as the under dog rebels fight the might of an Empire. In the Official Music Video, Lawrence is played by the ever great Indy Neidell who bares a very striking resemblance to both Lawrence and Peter O'Toole. 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaW76aDKObk
3: 82nd All the Way
"In the Draft of 1917, a Man from Tennessee. Overseas to the Trenches He went, From the Land of the Free."
Starting with a guitar intro that I can't tell how many times I've started singing only to accidentally transfer into "No Bullets Fly" and Vise Versa, 82nd All the Way is the story of Sergeant Alvin York and his deeds on the 8th of October 1918 where he captured 137 German Soldiers during the Argonne Offensive (same offensive of "The Lost Battalion" and "Devil Dogs") at Hill 223 which got him promoted from Private to Sergeant and by the end of the war was the most decorated US servicemen before being beaten for that title by Audie Murphy of "To Hell and Back". Starting out relatively slow after the initial intro the song quickly speeds up again and features great guitar work by both Tommy and Chris while in the background Par's bass-line can be easily heard more easily than normal songs. York later had his deeds turned into the amazing film "Sergeant York" starting the almighty Gary Cooper. Back in November when I saw Sabaton in New York City before they played "82nd All the Way" I started a "Ser-geant York" chant that got the whole theater chanting. 4.5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgfCUxFE7XA
4: The Attack of the Dead Men
"Turmoil at the Front, Wilhelm's Forces on the Hunt. There's a Thunder in the East, its an Attack of the Deceased."
I mean what HASN'T been said about this true head banger of a song. Starting off with a slow unsuspecting dark foreboding synthesized sound that sounds like it came straight from "Metro: 2033" the Attack of the Dead Men is about the infamous indecent that occurred on 6th August, 1915 during the 3rd Battle of Osowiec Fortress in then The Russian Empire and modern day Poland. The song is formed from a deep throbbing bass-line that is paired by the heavy crunchy Guitar that takes away nothing from the bass. During the slower parts before the chorus you can simply see in your mind the 100 Russians slowly crawling back up, bloody, beaten, and should already be dead as Hydrochloric Acid dissolves the men's bodies from inside. This song truly is a both headphones, full volume, don't care about your hearing, BANGER! ∞/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFdwoyNT24
5: Devil Dogs
"Kill! Fight! Die! That's what a Soldier should do. Top of Their Game, Earning Their Name, They were The Devil Dogs."
Immediately anyone who has heard "Smoking Snakes" is going to has a familiarity with this song. Noted for being the only Sabaton song marked as "Explicit" do to the infamous phrase "Come on you Sons of Bitches! Do You want to Life Forever?" shouted by First Sergeant Dan Daly to get his men of the 73rd Machine Gun Company to move forward. As the song is almost a near perfect rehashing of "Smoking Snakes" but with higher pitched rhythm guitar and some chance is pace now and then the song doesn't have much to talk about in therms of the music. It is said the Marines of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) got the name Devil Dogs do to their ferocious fighting however it was not the first time the term was used being used to describe German AA Fire as well and Artillery. However it seems to be the one that has stuck around to this day despite the fact that more modern sources seem to claim this is only myth. The Battle of Belleau Wood was one of the most bloody battles for American Forces in the First World War and is the source of General Pershing's infamous quote of "The Deadliest Weapon in the World is a Marine and His Rifle". 4.7/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sphuv7tTNKs
6: The Red Baron
"Man and Machine and Nothing There in between. A Flying Circus and a Man from Prussia. The Sky and a Plane this Man Commands His Domain, The Western Front and all the way to Russia."
The Man. The Myth. The Legend. Unless you have been living under a rock since April 1916 everyone has heard at least once in their life the name "The Red Baron" named for his plane's distinct crimson paint job and his aristocracy roots. Shown normally flying the famous Fokker Dr.I Triplane this is often a bit of a misdeed to him as yes he flew the Dr.I his fame and glory came earlier when he flew the Albatross D.VII painted too in the crimson red paint. Starting with an odd choice of an intro with a Hammond Organ that I always picture with the nose of the Dr.I as the engine sputters and starts up the song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of flying which hasn't been done truly in my opinion since "No Bullets Fly" on "Heroes" and "Aces in Exile" on "Coat of Arms". Though a much faster paced than other songs on the album this fits perfectly and mainly heard are the drums and Chris's guitar work with Tommy coming in between some sets of lyrics. I often say the true skill of Sabaton can be shown in this song by their way of being able to slide in "Rote Kampfflieger" into a English song as make it fit 100% naturally. The song also points out the little known fact of Manfred's brief time in the cavalry before becoming a pilot. Once his skill was shown his brothers quickly joined him in the sky and they went on the be commanders for the German Luftwaffe in WWII while sadly Manfred did not survive the war. However with his legend being so wide spread the Entente buried him with Full Military Honors. 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXzgXBRM_k
7:Great War
"Where Dead Men lie, I'm Paralyzed My Brother's Eyes are Gone. And He shall buried here, "Nameless" marks His Grave. Mother home get a Telegram and shed a Tear of Grief, Mud and Blood in Foreign Land trying to Understand."
Here we are, the Core of the Album, the namesake and base plate. The song is slower than others and has a deep hard hitting bass-line that encapsulates the endless marching of feet through mud filled trenches. Notably speeding up for the guitar solo in the middle it quickly reverts to its darker slower tempo after. The song can be easily used to describe most of the Western Front its specifically about The Battle of Passchendaele aka The Third Battle of Ypres which has already been covered by Sabaton in "The Price of a Mile" on "The Art of War" back in 2008 and is even referenced in the song with the line "And Feet by Feet We Pay the Price of a Mile here, as Men are Falling we see Heroes Rise." With very prominent drum work the guitars and bass mix together into a single harmony only separating out once in a while to be heard more individually through out the song. 4.3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbG39-T4H0
8: Ghost in the Trenches
"Move Between the Lines. A Soldier Breaking the Confines"
Truly a new and unique song for the album the pace is noticeably on the faster side compared to the others. With drums setting a good rhythm and Tommy's guitar well and heard. With the subject of Francis Pegamagabow the most successful sniper of The First World War with 378 confirmed kill and and the capture of 300 Germans through his military career which he volunteered for in August 1914 with the Canadian Expeditionary Force when the war broke out. He is an interesting character not just for his deeds during the war but also because of his background, born and raised First Nation he moved between places and families as his father and mother grew sick and when he enlisted he was assigned to the First Canadian Infantry Battalion First Canadian Division and was among the first Canadians to see action in the war. Seeing action in some of the most famous battle on The Western Front, such as Ypres, Passchendaele, Somme, and Scarpes Francis quickly gained recognition as an excellent sniper and scout. After 4 bloody years of war he returned home and left the military in 1919 as one of Canada's most decorated soldiers and went on to be an amazing leader for the People of Canada's First Nations before passing away in 1952 with his final rank of Company Sergeant Major. Back to the song, with long drawn out chords in many places and broken up lyrics this sets an odd pace but puts and image in the listeners head of a lone man sneaking around the scarred fields of No Mans' Land as He than sets ups for a perfect shot to be executed flawlessly. 4/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbkEFIVXLNw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pegahmagabow (because this guy is too epic not to include his Wikipedia)
9: Fields of Verdun
"On ne passe pas"
The first song released to the public from the album and the single longest battle in recorded human history. For 303 days in 1916 the French and German Armies fought a brutal, vicious, bloody battle on the East Bank of the Meuse River that changed little in the overall course of the war costing roughly over 714,00 to 1,250,000 lives over the 9 Months, 6 Weeks, and 3 Days of shelling, blood, and death. Hard Guitar and Heavy Lyrics mixed with fast drums and a dark overtone give the song a immediately unique signature of death and destruction. The song is as dark as the unlit hallways of the forts that were shelled and as viscous as the battle itself with no escape from the carnage. Easily one of the key songs of the album it perfectly encapsulates the feeling of dread and darkness of the battle as shells endlessly fall and you hold what little ground you have in the dark fort that may collapse at any moment. And through it all at the end of the day it remained true. They Did Not Pass. 5/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8G-LwWNn0
10: The End of The War to End All Wars
"Death, Hard to Ignore, One Million Lost Five Months into the War. Pain, Fell One by One, Three Years Remain it had only Begun."
Starting with an unsuspecting piano it quickly transfers into a hard, fast, and brutal mix of guitar and drums as the choir comes in it gives no real image in the brain of the listener expect for the individual set of images that the lyrics talk of at the moment in the song. I'm not sure if it is but I wouldn't be surprised if this was a deliberate move to show the unremarkable impact one soldier has on a war as the images and song doesn't have the power to instill a music video in itself in the listeners head, just a theory and most likely unintentional. But finally, after 4 brutal years of war, all caused by a single bullet and the wrong turn of a driver on the way to a hospital, a deck of cards fell that wouldn't be cleaned up even until today as we still live with the aftermath of the carnage, Sykes-Picot, Nations forming their own identity, the fall of 4 mighty empires, the rise of two nations that would be deadlocked for 70 years, the rise of a mighty war machine that would make the world fear for the future. all because of one man, on a street, who decided to take action, Gavrilo Princip. Truly the words of Makarov from "Modern Warfare" hold true. "All it takes is the Will of a Single Man". 4.6/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXnnbjC7Fok
11: In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow, Between the Crosses Row on Row."
No Guitar. No Drums. No Joachim. No Bass. Just Chorus reciting a Poem. No words can describe the emotion this song brings me, just the image of a endless field of poppies that grow between endless rows of white marble crosses, reading names of fallen men from all over the world. The song is a sung rendition of a poem by the same name and recites it word for word.
"In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow
Between the Crosses Row on Row
That Mark Our Place and in the Sky
The Larks still Bravely Singing Fly
Scare Heard Amid the Guns Below
We are the Dead Short Days Ago
We Lived Felt Dawn Saw Sunset Glow
Loved and were Loved and now We Lie
In Flanders Fields, In Flanders Fields
Take Up Our Quarrel with the Foe
To You from Failing Hands We Throw
The Torch be Yours to Hold it High
If Ye Break Faith with Us who Die
We shall sot Sleep though Poppies Grow
In Flanders Fields"
An instrumental rendition was played before Sabaton came out on stage and i stopped cheering and talking with my friends, took off my helmet placed it at my side and saluted while singing to the tune. As I stood looking at the screen of poppies blowing on stage my friend turned to me and ask a simple question "Are you crying?" to which I responded "And if I am?" Grown Man Lying in the Fetal Position Bawling His Eyes Out/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgZnhtTwmM
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