History Trivia / Sabaton

** "Saboteurs" on ''Coat of Arms'' likewise reuses the melody from an unproduced song from their HeavyMithril period (you can hear a very low-quality snippet of the original demo on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv3q6NHG-x4 Sabaton History video for the song]]).

** Their song "A Secret" from The Art Of War begins with another excerpt from ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}'', but a short time later plays a computerized voice speaking in English that an illegal download has been detected and that spyware is to be activated. This happens on all versions of the album, which makes it particularly funny when it happens on a Compact Disc being played in a Walkman.
--->"Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving to the victory which is decided in a single day." Several silent seconds later: "Illegal download detected, executing spyware protocol 666" It's pronounced as "six hundred Sixty-Six"

* ThrowItIn: Joakim completely forgot to write the lyrics for one of the songs on ''Primo Victoria'' before they went to record the album, and improvised "Metal Machine" from a stack of rock magazines in the recording studio's bathroom in about 30 minutes.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Sabaton did a co-headlining tour with labelmate Music/ReVamp in 2014, and drummer Hannes Van Dahl fell in love with vocalist Floor Jansen (also frontwoman of Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}). They're now married with a daughter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl9INVeS0VY According to him]], it was quite a MeetCute:

** Sabaton were also impressed with Russian [=YouTuber=] [[https://www.youtube.com/c/RADIOTAPOK Radio Tapok]] for having made Russian-language covers of their songs, to the point that they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw helped him with the video for his cover of "The Attack of the Dead Men"]]. [[https://youtu.be/PncH7gQ2lak And then brought him on-stage to sing his cover in Moscow!]] And then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjXanLjpTU covered]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0jQBLbhLU one of his songs]], which [[HeavyMeta was itself]] an {{homage}} to Sabaton!

** The former members of Rockbitch [[https://www.facebook.com/CovenCentral/posts/1602519126520636 found out]] that Sabaton had name-dropped them in "Metal Crüe" and thought it was incredibly sweet.

** Joakim said in the ''WebVideo/SabatonHistory'' episode for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmX3s8Cj60Q "Metal Machine"]] that he realized when they were setting up to record ''Primo Victoria'' that he'd completely forgotten to write lyrics for one of the songs, and ended up locking himself in the studio bathroom for half an hour while he frantically composed a SongOfSongTitles from a heavy metal music magazine that had been left there.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Joakim says that he sometimes comes up with a melody but doesn't have any idea what to use for lyrics until inspiration strikes way later. This was the case with "Primo Victoria" (he was inspired to make the lyrics about D-Day after seeing ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'') and "To Hell and Back" (he had an idea for a Western soundtrack-inspired tune--which everybody else in the band thought was nuts--but didn't know what to use it for until he discovered Audie Murphy's poetry). "The Red Baron" is in the same category: Jocke played a snippet of Bach on his Hammond B3 and used it as the lead-in to a song with a shuffle beat, which only became about von Richthofen later.

** Joakim and Pär have said in interviews that they probably wouldn't have written "Panzer Battalion" nowadays because, since then, they've decided not to try to write songs about present or recent conflicts in order to allow for passions to cool and professional historians to study the events. Since ''Primo Victoria'', the most recently-set song they've published is "Hill 3234", about a 1988 battle from the UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan.

** Any time Sabaton and Music/{{Nightwish}} appear together: Sabaton drummer Hannes Van Dahl is married to Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen. Floor also did some of the choir recording on ''The Last Stand'' and provided vocals on the Soundtrack Edition of ''The Great War''.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Sabaton did a co-headlining tour with labelmate Music/ReVamp in 2014, and drummer Hannes Van Dahl fell in love with vocalist Floor Jansen (also frontwoman of Music/{{Nightwish}}). They're now married with a daughter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl9INVeS0VY According to him]], it was quite a MeetCute:

** The band celebrated their 20th anniversary with a two-hour headlining gig at Wacken 2019, with former members [[Music/CivilWar Daniel Mÿhr, Daniel Mullback, Rikard Sundén]], and Thobbe Englund joining the current band on a second stage a third of the way into the concert.

* FanNickname:
** "Ultimate Metal Parents" for drummer Hannes van Dahl and his partner Floor Jansen of Music/{{Nightwish}}, after they announced she was pregnant with their first child in 2016.
** The term [[https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sabaton%20Effect "Sabaton Effect"]] has gotten an entry on Website/UrbanDictionary, defined as feeling PatrioticFervor for countries one is not actually connected to, as a result of exposure to pop culture about their history.

** Tommy did an impressive Marco Hietala impression on Minniva's cover of Nightwish's [[https://youtu.be/MFHBc_MQ_m4 "Bye Bye Beautiful"]]. Tommy is also the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the band Majestica.

** Sabaton discovered a Russian [=YouTube=] channel doing Russian-language covers of their songs, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw helped them do one of "The Attack of the Dead Men"]]. [[https://youtu.be/PncH7gQ2lak And then brought him on-stage to sing his cover in Moscow!]] And then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjXanLjpTU covered]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0jQBLbhLU one of his songs]], which [[HeavyMeta was itself]] an {{homage}} to Sabaton!

** Sabaton discovered a Russian [=YouTube=] channel doing Russian-language covers of their songs, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRow6G5wQIw helped them do one of "The Attack of the Dead Men"]]. [[https://youtu.be/PncH7gQ2lak And then brought him on-stage to sing his cover in Moscow!]]

** The band has said they've tried to write a song about Pearl Harbor many times but can't manage to put together one that sounds right. Similarly, some topics such as the Harlem Hellfighters ended up being dropped from ''The Great War'' due to songwriting difficulties.

* PromotedFanboy: Tommy Johansson was a longtime fan of the band before he became their guitarist in 2017 (replacing Thobbe Englund).

** Hannes and Chris did the cover art for ''Music/{{Northward}}'', Floor Jansen's HardRock side project with Jørn Viggo Lofstad of Music/PagansMind.
** Tommy did an impressive Marco Hietala impression on Creator/{{Minniva}}'s cover of Nightwish's [[https://youtu.be/MFHBc_MQ_m4 "Bye Bye Beautiful"]]. Tommy is also the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the band Majestica.

* RecursiveAdaptation: [[https://youtu.be/TXGTo8K9nR0 "Defence of Moscow"]] is a CoverVersion of an original track by cover artist Music/RadioTapok, who made his name covering Western metal songs in Russian and wrote the song in {{homage}} to Sabaton's music.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: "Hearts of Iron" from ''Heroes'' shares its name with the ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'' FourX game series by Creator/ParadoxInteractive. The song was actually written as part of a promotion deal: some Sabaton fans at PDX approached them after a concert in Stockholm about doing a tie-in for ''[=HoI IV=]'', then in development. Sabaton ultimately licensed several songs as soundtrack DLC for both ''[=HoI IV=]'' and ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis IV''.

** The former members of Music/{{Rockbitch}} [[https://www.facebook.com/CovenCentral/posts/1602519126520636 found out]] that Sabaton had name-dropped them in "Metal Crüe" and thought it was incredibly sweet.

** Tommy did an impressive Marco Hietala impression on Creator/{{Minniva}}'s cover of Nightwish's [[https://youtu.be/MFHBc_MQ_m4 "Bye Bye Beautiful"]].

* FanNickname: "Ultimate Metal Parents" for drummer Hannes van Dahl and his partner Floor Jansen of Music/{{Nightwish}}, after they announced she was pregnant with their first child in 2016.