I kinda like power metal. But sabaton just feels.... I dunno. Lots of power metal is escapist. Just music about shit that's not real. Heroism in a vacuum. glory without stakes.
You can just put your headphones on and let it fuel you to do physical shit. To focus on your hands and your muscles. Get work done.
But sabaton... it feels like it's making real events into something not real. Tear away all that real shit until only something glorious remains. And that doesn't feel right at all. And the more you think about it, the more not right at all it seems.
Eh Sabaton is about as political as a hollywood WWII movie. Empty valorization of the "good guys being heroes" without really looking at the broader context.
To their credit they are pretty explicitly anti-fascist and occasionally vaguely gesture towards an anti-war stance.
How do you go from Black Sabbath to fucking Sabaton.
"Politicians hide themselves away; they only started the war. Why should they go out to and fight; they leave that all to the poor."
vs.
"Dying for bourgeoisie ideology is heroic"
I dislike power metal in general but Sabaton is power metal for Redditors who learn history from Wikipedia summaries
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I kinda like power metal. But sabaton just feels.... I dunno. Lots of power metal is escapist. Just music about shit that's not real. Heroism in a vacuum. glory without stakes.
You can just put your headphones on and let it fuel you to do physical shit. To focus on your hands and your muscles. Get work done.
But sabaton... it feels like it's making real events into something not real. Tear away all that real shit until only something glorious remains. And that doesn't feel right at all. And the more you think about it, the more not right at all it seems.
Eh Sabaton is about as political as a hollywood WWII movie. Empty valorization of the "good guys being heroes" without really looking at the broader context.
To their credit they are pretty explicitly anti-fascist and occasionally vaguely gesture towards an anti-war stance.