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. America Won World War II: Averted in the songs.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.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.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. Always Chaotic Evil: Sabaton really hates the Nazis, being the only group the band consistently paints as unambiguously villainous.An all-female regiment of teenage girls who fly biplanes against the Nazis ? Less than 800 Polish infantry holding off a Nazi tank invasion force numbering 40,000 strong, for three days? Nazi forces attempting to besiege a castle being successfully held off by a motley assortment of American GIs, French POWs, Austrian resistance fighters, and deserting Wehrmacht troops? 7000 Germans being forced into retreat by a numerically inferior Russian bayonet charge even after the Russians had suffered a gas attack so devastating that they were literally coughing up bloody flesh and pieces of their own organs as they charged? All real. Aluminum Christmas Trees: Arguably, one of the coolest (and most commendable) things about the band is how good they are at bringing attention to obscure, forgotten, or lesser-known parts of history that might come across like something out of an exaggerated Hollywood war movie.Only boys who lost their lives in the sand "Mighty Polish Tank" is all about how much the singer loves tanks and Poland, while "A Very Polish Christmas" is a joke of a song about Polish Santa giving Hitler a gift of a boxing glove that punches Hitler in the face. Affectionate Parody: They've got one in "Sabadu", which is comprised of members of other power metal bands (like Alestorm) turning things all the way up for the sake of a joke.The Great War has a track about the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. 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 )."Steel Commanders" has the band hop in a possessed tank and go to town during a World of Tanks match.Ace Custom: In the World of Tanks video for "Primo Victoria", Sabaton drives a post-WWII Centurion tank with the logo of the band on it while blasting an assortment of hilariously outclassed Wehrmacht tanks.It got to the point that entire platoons were being sent out just to kill one soldier. The song is about the aptly-named sniper who took down hundreds of Russian soldiers all by himself, armed with nothing but iron sights. AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: "Then the Winged HusSARS arrived!" Justified: the word is actually accented on the first syllable when spoken, but the song's beat puts the emphasis on the second.Sabaton and their songs provide examples of: "Livgardet" / "The Royal Guard", "Defence of Moscow" * An English cover of the same song from Radio Tapok, "Steel Commanders" feat.Singles: "Fields of Verdun", "The Red Baron", "Great War", "82nd All the Way".Singles: "The Lost Battalion", "Blood of Bannockburn", "Shiroyama".Singles: "To Hell and Back", "Resist and Bite", "Night Witches".Singles: "Carolus Rex", "The Lion From the North", "A Lifetime of War".Singles: "Coat of Arms", "Screaming Eagles".Singles: "Cliffs of Gallipoli", "Ghost Division".Thobbe Englund - guitars, backing vocals (2012-2016).
Rikard Sundén - guitars, backing vocals (1999-2012).