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After that we started to discuss if we could do something together and the idea of ‘Night Witches’ was born. When Yarn Hub asked if they could feature our singer Joakim in a small cameo I said yes instantly and thought it added such a nice touch to the episode about T.E Lawrence. “I first came into contact with Yarn Hub when a fan recommended a video that was connected to one of our songs and I was impressed by the emotions Yarn Hub delivers in their videos. SABATON - Night Witches (Animated Music Video) Joakim: (.) It's still (.) a part of our live set, very popular with the fans and us as well, I think we have some of the coolest (.) pyro and video stuff going on, so I actually really enjoy playing that because I get off, we all guess go off stage as the live intro for that song starts and I sing the intro off stage and I just keep get running in on the first "boom" of the verse. Played on almost every concert since it's premiere.The live version features extendend intro and outro, absent from the studio version of the song.This sound brought the enemies thoughts to the broomsticks of witches, and they called them “Nachthexen”. Their nickname “Night Witches” comes from the characteristic sound of their bomb planes that was all that could be heard during their nightly raids since they set their engines to idle and would glide through the night to their target. The story of the Russian female pilots of the 588th bomber regiment. The story itself is fantastic, no matter if it would have been men or women, the fact that it is women it's (.) extra nice bonus I think." Historic fact (.) It's the only time I actually thought it worked. (.) And we did something different there also with the chorus being half beat compared to the rest of the song and which is something I really hate.

We have a tradition of doing something surprising for the first song, and I think that massive opening was a perfect way to start off the album. That's been in our what do you call it, "Secret Sabaton Archive" and we thought it was a perfect way to open the album as well. Joakim: "(.) When we started research for Heroes, this was one of the first that came up for us. Joakim: No, it was actually me knowing we were gonna work with Peter (laugh)! You know, I had the intro and this idea that we were gonna start the album with a distorted radio and then going into a big boom! Peter did have an influence on our music as far as the production is concerned because he has this sound you know?" Is it due to Peter Tägtgren’s work with Pain?

"(.) Night Witches has some kind of industrial sound. I already had the song Smoking Snakes which I thought was going to be the album opener until I had Night Witches, then I knew that was the one." Joakim: "When I had the song Night Witches, the first one, I knew this was probably the album opener.

There's all female Sabaton fanclub that has taken its name from the song - Sabaton Witches Division.

Along with the video, the band released the song-themed merchandise collection.

Official animated video for the song premiered on the 8th October 2020.

Joakim admitted that when he was doing a PR for the Heroes album, during one of the interviews he got a little bit carried away while talking about the "Night Witches", he talked about it for 8 minutes because he was so excited about it, and the unexperienced interviewer's reaction was "what about the next song?".

The story was one of the first topics that the band had for the Heroes album.

Joakim wanted the album to start with a distorted radio sound "going into a big boom", hence why the song starts the way it does.

Smoking Snakes was considered to be the album's opening song, until Joakim wrote Night Witches.