481. Defence of Moscow - Sabaton/Tommy Johansson - Guitar Solo Cover

Описание: I know playing a song celebrating Russia isn't a good idea these days, but that doesn't make it any less cool a guitar solo.

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Stolen from sabaton.fandom.com/wiki:
The song is a cover of Radio Tapok's "Battle of Moscow" ("Битва за Москву"), which was a song recorded in Sabaton's style. The band worked with the artist before on The Attack of the Dead Men (single). Tommy Johansson re-arranged the original song to make it sound even more Sabaton. Tommy thought that it would be cool to pay tribute to Tapok and Russia so he included the Russian national anthem in the guitar solo. The guitar solo in the song features the full melody from the Russian national anthem, but it's arranged differently. The video for the song premiered 9th May 2021 (Russian Victory Day), and it was exclusively available only on VK.com for the day in Russia. Worldwide, YouTube premiere of the video was on 10th May 2021, 15:30 CET.

Pär: "May 9 is celebrated as V-Day in Russia, the day to commemorate the victory over the Nazis in WW2. This year we participate in the memory of this event by releasing a song dedicated to the brave men who fought in the battle of Moscow.

This track was originally written in Russian by our friend Radio Tapok. It’s a very strong song and we thought it made sense that Sabaton should give it a try to make a honourable cover of this song.

We love to surprise everyone, and this is a great surprise."

Folknrock.com: (...) has this particular subject ever come up as a potential song before?

Pär: "Yeah, it has. For the ‘Coat of Arms’ We were basically in the entirety of World War II. And we were discussing this one as part of that somewhat, touching near this specific event, but we didn’t do the ‘Defense of Moscow’. It was a bit surprising when I met with Radio Tapok and he played the song to me, and he said he tried to write a song like how we do them.

And I told him that it sounded great, I like the song, and he did a great job. But he had no idea what was going through my head when I heard it, I was thinking, “I think Sabaton should do this song’. So sometime later, I told him about it, and he was like, well, I feel honored."

The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union. The battle ended with Soviet Union's victory, which put an end to German invasion and began the Soviet counter-offensive.

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