Sabaton - Primo Victoria [HQ] with Lyrics
The Lyrics, the meaning of the song and other details are mentioned below.
Artist: Sabaton
Album: Primo Victoria
Released: 2005
Genres: Power Metal, Heavy Metal
Details -
Primo Victoria (Latin, "Foremost, Victory") is the debut studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton.
The band had previously recorded the full length album Metalizer with Italian label Underground Symphony, but due to conflicts its release was delayed until 2007. Primo Victoria instead became Sabaton's debut album, recorded in 2004 in Abyss Studios, and released the following year with their new label, Black Lodge Records.
In 2010 the album was re-released on German label Nuclear Blast, with six additional bonus tracks, under the name Primo Victoria Re-Armed. The re-release reached 43rd place in the Swedish album charts.
Meaning -
It was during the writing of Primo Victoria that Sabaton arrived at their since then ever-present use of song lyrics themed on war history.
According to singer Joakim Brodén, he and bass player Pär Sundström had written the music for the title track, but were missing lyrics. Because they felt the song had a "big sound", they wanted a big subject, and chose the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II.
Having to do some research on the historic events, they decided they liked the meaning that the subject added to the song, and decided to give the whole album a war history theme.
Lyrics -
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the nazi lines
Primo victoria
We've been training for years
Now we're ready to strike
As the great operation begins
We're the first wave on the shore
We're the first ones to fall
Yet soldiers have fallen before
In the dawn they will pay
With their lives as the price
History's written today
In this burning inferno
Know that nothing remains
As our forces advance on the beach
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory is ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the nazi lines
Primo victoria
On the 6th of june
On the shores of western europe 1944
D-day upon us
We've been here before
Used to this kind of war
Crossfire grind through the sand
Our orders were easy
It's kill or be killed
Blood on both sides will be spilled
In the dawn they will pay
With their lives as the price
History's written today
Now that we are at war
With the axis again
This time we know what will come
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory is ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the nazi lines
Primo victoria
On the 6th of june
On the shores of western europe 1944
They're fighting for
D-day upon us
6th of june 1944
Allies are turning the war
Normandy state of anarchy
Overlord
Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory is ours their forces will fall
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the nazi lines
Primo victoria
On the 6th of june
On the shores of western europe 1944
They're fighting for
D-day upon us
Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the nazi lines
Primo victoria
On the 6th of june
On the shores of western europe 1944
They're fighting for
D-day upon us