On Music 3 - Sabaton!
Ok, since the last two were in english, I may as well make my On Music series in English. Also this third episode is not simply me posting a link to a youtube video with music I find fitting at the moment.
No, no, no, this is completely different.
I am going to tell y'all about my favorite band, the Heavy/Power Metal band Sabaton, and their latest record, The Art of War. Also I will post THREE likns to youtube videos!
So let me start out with the band, they are as I said a band playing Power Metal, similar to Hammerfall and Manowar. Instead of the insanely rapid music connected with other power metal bands like Dragonforce and high pitch vocals, Sabaton Focuses on the word Power. The music is like a war machine orchestra given distorted guitars and basses with a deep vocal singer. Their music also differs themselves from the common power metal by not being about mythology or fantasy, but about historical (and present, in the song Panzer Battallion) war.
The band is Swedish, with its roots in the central Swedish city Falun (known for its red paint that covers the Swedish landscape, it's copper mine, being called 'Hell on Earth' during the 18th century and its name's resemblance to Falun-Gong), but tours all over Europe (and had concerts recently in Israel and the USA). It's latest single Cliffs of Gallipoli (guess about which battle) reached the #1 spot on the Swedish single charts. It consists of a six man band of a singer, two guitarists (and supporting vocals), one bassist, one drummer and one keyboardist.
I was recently able to see the band live at a gig in Stockholm with some five-six hundred others. Gotta say it was hell of an experience which nearly blew my mind (and eardrums, I've got a beeping noise in them for a few days, but it seems to be passing, luckily). I was nervous when I got there, since I wasn't going with any friends and this being my first time going to a real concert. However, as the band started playing with the singer jumping and running around the stage all that was forgotten and I was able to feel that music that I love not only from a record but in real life.
Anyway, going on to their latest record, the Art of War. God I love it... Got two, no three... maybe four clear favorites. Every time I listen to it I find a new song to like and none of them are mediocre... The record is quite interstingly made, the music style is the same, but somehow better... more bombastic and powerful. Also instead of just taking different battles and wars it is made with a thought going through. That thought is the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu's book Art of War, while some songs are focused on extracts and applications of the book, some are about forces and battles where these lessons are shown, for good or worse, and exellence in battle. The first real song on the record, Ghost Division, is about Erwin Rommel's 7. Panzer-Division which during the Fall Gelb invasion of France made extraordinary advances, cutting deep into enemy territory, throwing the enemy and allied commanders into confusion, showing the importance of one of Sun Tzu's key subjects, mobility and speed.
Currently my top three are: Ghost Divison(about Erwin Rommel's 7. Panzer-Division in France), The Price of a Mile (about the WWI trench wars and the Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres) and 40-1 (about the Battle of Wizna where 720 Polish soldiers held 42,200 Germans at bay for three days).
No, no, no, this is completely different.
I am going to tell y'all about my favorite band, the Heavy/Power Metal band Sabaton, and their latest record, The Art of War. Also I will post THREE likns to youtube videos!
So let me start out with the band, they are as I said a band playing Power Metal, similar to Hammerfall and Manowar. Instead of the insanely rapid music connected with other power metal bands like Dragonforce and high pitch vocals, Sabaton Focuses on the word Power. The music is like a war machine orchestra given distorted guitars and basses with a deep vocal singer. Their music also differs themselves from the common power metal by not being about mythology or fantasy, but about historical (and present, in the song Panzer Battallion) war.
The band is Swedish, with its roots in the central Swedish city Falun (known for its red paint that covers the Swedish landscape, it's copper mine, being called 'Hell on Earth' during the 18th century and its name's resemblance to Falun-Gong), but tours all over Europe (and had concerts recently in Israel and the USA). It's latest single Cliffs of Gallipoli (guess about which battle) reached the #1 spot on the Swedish single charts. It consists of a six man band of a singer, two guitarists (and supporting vocals), one bassist, one drummer and one keyboardist.
I was recently able to see the band live at a gig in Stockholm with some five-six hundred others. Gotta say it was hell of an experience which nearly blew my mind (and eardrums, I've got a beeping noise in them for a few days, but it seems to be passing, luckily). I was nervous when I got there, since I wasn't going with any friends and this being my first time going to a real concert. However, as the band started playing with the singer jumping and running around the stage all that was forgotten and I was able to feel that music that I love not only from a record but in real life.
Anyway, going on to their latest record, the Art of War. God I love it... Got two, no three... maybe four clear favorites. Every time I listen to it I find a new song to like and none of them are mediocre... The record is quite interstingly made, the music style is the same, but somehow better... more bombastic and powerful. Also instead of just taking different battles and wars it is made with a thought going through. That thought is the ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu's book Art of War, while some songs are focused on extracts and applications of the book, some are about forces and battles where these lessons are shown, for good or worse, and exellence in battle. The first real song on the record, Ghost Division, is about Erwin Rommel's 7. Panzer-Division which during the Fall Gelb invasion of France made extraordinary advances, cutting deep into enemy territory, throwing the enemy and allied commanders into confusion, showing the importance of one of Sun Tzu's key subjects, mobility and speed.
Currently my top three are: Ghost Divison(about Erwin Rommel's 7. Panzer-Division in France), The Price of a Mile (about the WWI trench wars and the Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Ypres) and 40-1 (about the Battle of Wizna where 720 Polish soldiers held 42,200 Germans at bay for three days).
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