I am having a listen to Sabaton. Oooo, yeah. I hear what you’re saying here. It was the same thing I felt when I was thinking when listening to Gogol Bordello. Well, I meant actually the vocals - the pitch. They sing at a pitch lower than I think most American songs tend to hit. Ah, okay I am seeing now in this lyrics video what you’re talking about. You mean dark as in subject matter, and how it seems to be highlighting some kind of battle (Thirty Years War?) ho-kay do-kay I get you now. I am embarrassed to say but I honestly know so little about European history. I don’t know if we ever touched anything like that growing up. I only even learned a bit about the Thirty Years War recently when looking up facts about a painting I saw. I will say that something we did touch upon in school was the spread of the Normans. Which I thought was more a general expansion yet again but can see it was actually a series of conquests on account of how things were expressed. Hmm.

Thank you my fellow human for poking my brain awake and getting it to bubble and churn.

I always thought perhaps in Europe things spread more by migration than colonization but I suppose it makes sense. When you actually sit and think about that too. You’ve just made me aware of how little I know as a whole, and I’ve got the itch to fill the gap. I will say