My Life As A Historian: Sabaton History Talks "Livgardet"

It may be on an irregular schedule now, but Sabaton History is not dead. Today they're on a song requested by the Swedish Army for the 500th anniversary of modern Sweden.

And yes, you do have a separate music video for it.

As Pär notes in the video, this is not a usual Sabaton song in that it is a commissioned request by an arm of the Swedish state acting as a patron. They usually create their work entirely in-house with, at most, some fan suggestions for topics. Yes, that didn't work out, but what came about is a perfectly good song to add to any setlist focusing on the other songs about Sweden that they've got- again, as noted in the video.

It may surprise people to see that (a) Sweden has a military--you'd be surprised at how many think it doesn't, especially given its government and self-inflicted immigration-related violence--and (b) that it maintains continuity with past incarnations of itself specifically because it is a cultural institution in its own right. Whatever else may be wrong with Sweden today, it does right by maintaining continuity with the past in as many ways as possible; that is key to maintaining a separate and distinct national identity.

Good on Sabaton for this. I look forward to the next album and a new US tour. As for Time Ghost, they're still active; the new WW2 video is here and from there you can find the rest of their work.