This week’s Metal Tuesday is Sabaton’s “Primo Victoria.”

Like much of Sabaton’s work, the song is about a battle, particularly, the Allies’ invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, which happened 70 years ago this week.

When I saw the band a few of years ago in Orlando, they introduced it by saying how grateful they were that the Americans came to help liberate Europe from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. Needless to say, the crowd was responded very enthusiastically.

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 shore
We’re the first ones to fall
Yet soldiers has fallen before

In the dawn they will pay
With their lives as the price
History’s written today
In this burning inferno
Until nothing remains
As our forces advance on the beach

Aiming for heaven though serving in hell
Victory’s 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 6:th 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 6:th of June
On the shores of Western Europe
1944
D-day upon us

6:th 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 6:th of June
On the shores of Western Europe
1944
D-day upon us

Through the gates of hell
As we make our way to heaven
Through the Nazi lines
Primo Victoria