Sabaton's Pär Sundström Interview with Meltdown

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00:00so you just mentioned how you guys you guys do a lot of this stuff yourself i mean you're even

00:06a pyrotechnic guy aren't you uh well i'm no longer because my license expired and i haven't been using

00:13doing it for a long time but yes i started because i realized very early it was very expensive to

00:18rent a company to do it so i learned myself i got the license and i built all the stuff myself and

00:22then i built the bombs myself and then i shoot the bombs myself while playing on the stage and

00:27yeah it was um um it was a lot cheaper a lot more dangerous and very stressful and and uh i have

00:36to say that it's super stressful to sit there um uh before the the show and still being stressed about

00:42playing so shaking a little bit just because i'm nervous before playing and then i'm there packing

00:47this uh you know gunpowder into this things and uh shaking a little bit and uh uh yeah well i still

00:56see you have all your fingers so that's a good sign yeah i still have everything so i didn't lost

01:01anything but uh but but at some point it was really uh uh because you know you always tend to go

01:09crazier and crazier and it was at a time when we meet this like leading pyrotechnical company in

01:16sweden who were there with a different artist and they're like what the hell are you doing and i'm like

01:20well you're too expensive we're just doing it ourselves and they're like but it doesn't look

01:24really like safe what you're doing and i'm like yeah yeah but but it's a lot cheaper and and we

01:30can't afford you guys and when we were shooting they came afterwards and they said you guys you know

01:35that uh sort of your your your stuff it's not valid i mean they are they don't have the right

01:40right you can't shoot them they they are simply dangerous and nobody has uh approved them they

01:46are not ce certified and these kind of things and i'm like yeah they're not it's true and they said

01:51yeah and you're shooting way cooler stuff than we can ever do so it's kind of unfair competition

01:55between the two of us so we ask of you kindly to stop and start working with us and it was at some

02:01point when it was like okay i get your point it looks way cooler when we are shooting because we

02:05shoot much louder bigger bumps than anybody else but at the same time i think it's time to to do that

02:11and it was in a good time when we actually could afford to make the transition to to pay for the

02:16proper people to do it