Sabaton — Berserker (Official Music Video)
One man, one bridge, one axe. Sabaton retell the legend of the lone berserker of Stamford Bridge, 1066, as an animated epic framed by live-action scenes with actor Eric Roberts as the storyteller. New single from the Legends deluxe edition, out 5 March, and half a million views in two days say the warhorse still runs.
The setup is simple enough to carve in stone. One Norseman on a bridge, an axe, and an entire army that has to cross. The legend of Stamford Bridge, 1066: the berserker who held the crossing alone while his routed countrymen fled, until someone floated under the bridge and ended it from below.
Sabaton tell it the way the story deserves: as a tale being told. The video opens and closes in live action, actor Eric Roberts spinning the legend in a present-day room, and everything in between is animation. A mountain of a man, bare-chested and bearded, filling the bridge while stylised armies break against him. It premiered Monday and sat at half a million views within two days.
“Berserker breathes Scandinavian influences, so the Viking theme came naturally,” says bassist Pär Sundström, and for once the marketing line is just true. A Swedish band that built a career on military history finally planting its flag on the most Scandinavian battlefield story there is.
The single is the spearpoint for Legends (Deluxe), out 5 March 2027 on Better Noise Music, expanding last year’s Legends, their eleventh album. First time Sabaton headline this site, by the way. The festival pages have been expecting them for years.
Listen to this: Legends