#sabaton history

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[cledanio]

Not a TF2 but still amazing art i made yesterday. I was inspired by the poem 'In Flanders fields' and same named song by Sabaton and was so shocked by its historical background and all the horror of WW1.

I tried to recreate the contrast of the 'romantic' side of war and cold dread, cold as soil where millions of soldiers lie..

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Some stills from Sabaton History 116.

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73-year-old openly gay lead singer of one of the first two heavy metal bands in history, Rob Halford, rides his motorcycle onto the stage in a personalized battle jacket to perform "Hell Bent for Leather". He has a riding crop between his teeth, a proud symbol of his queerness, biker history, and membership to the BDSM community.

Judas Priest has been touring for over 50 years and, alongside Black Sabbath, INVENTED Heavy Metal in the late 60s and throughout the 70s and 80s to now. In fact, their most recent album came out in 2024! Invincible Shield.

They're my dad's second favorite band and my all-time favorite. I've seen them three times and I'm honestly hoping he retires soon to enjoy his life, husband, and many cats.

Anyway, here's to the Metal God.

[steellegacy]

This pair of authentic German gothic sabatons are from 1490

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Готические сабатоны, Германия, 1490 год

#Gothic #Sabatons #доспехи #medieval_armor #armsandarmor #Готика #Сабатоны

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

ok i'm actually so fucking tired of how people view Sabaton.

Sabaton, as a band, has their songs focused around the stories (and often heroism) of individual soldiers and sometimes major battles or events. They take a "there's heroes everywhere" approach to this, where deaths are deaths, regardless which side they're on. Is this a perfect approach? No, and it's given them a shitty fanbase.

Sabaton isn't pro-fascist, and it isn't even pro-war. Joakim could literally go on the mic and scream "War is hell, there is no glamour to it, but some soldiers have managed to make the best out of a horrible situation" and their fans would still think they're the cool edgy pro-war band they want them to be. I know this because of the song "Great War", one of their biggest hits, literally says that.

[phandomtaleweaver]

I made stickers based on Sabaton songs bc history is cool and I’m obsessed with it. I have three rn, but I plan to make more (link at the bottom if you want to buy one)

(The last battle)

(Price of a mile)

(Night witches)

they’re available here:

[skdjrhaejdhst-cat]

Teacher: what day did D-Day start?

Me: *puts hand up* 6th of June 1944

Teacher: why'd you say it like that

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SABATON - The Great War (Full Album)

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1916 Pt. 2 – Child soldiers of WW1 - Sabaton History 121 [Official]

[yuri-is-online]

In the ask that mentioned the funny wartime stories, they forgot to mention the one about the Finnish soldier.

At some point during the 2nd World War, a Finnish soldier was the sole survivor of his group after being cornered on a supply run, so he ingested an entire bottle of meth crystals they were carrying and proceeded to escape capture from the Germans. He traveled around wearing skis, and at some point, his clothes tore off, so he was traveling around in the snowy wilderness buck naked for over a week. The German soldiers couldn't sleep at night because they could still hear his crazed yells in the distance. He survived off wild birds and foraged berries until one day he found his way back to a Finnish camp where they discovered his heartbeat was over 200 pumps per minute.

Oh yeah meth man! I know all about him, there's a gif that circulates on tumblr every once and a while here about him that's pretty funny. There are lots of funny things that happened in even the darkest parts of history, and world war ii has a lot of them.

I got a bit confused when I saw the first part of your ask in my notifications because I thought this was going be about Simo Häyhä and got a bit excited because it was a great excuse to link one of my favorite Sabaton songs... so I am going to go ahead and do it anyway:

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Love living in a household where the word Bismarck not only falls regularly but you also have to specify if you mean

1. The Fish

2. The Guy

3. The Ship

4. The song by Swedish metal band Sabaton

(1 and 4 being the most common)

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