I, Emperor is a track from Sabaton’s latest album, Legends, which was released on 17th October 2025. The tracks on the album are all about legendary figures from history and include: Napoleon Bonaparte (this track), The Knights Templar, Ghengis Khan, Vlad The Impaler, Julius Caesar and more.
Having heard this track quite a few times, I, Emperor has really grown on me and it focuses on what was really important to Napoleon – power! This video is intriguing in that it adds a twist to history, namely what would have happened if Napoleon had won at Waterloo.
Sabaton are a power metal band from Sweden, founded in 1999 and their songs mostly focus on history and war. They have a lot of great videos on YouTube and if you enjoy watching this one, don’t miss some of their others.
I, Emperor Alternative Video
This is an alternative video for I Emperor that you might enjoy. It features footage from the 2023 film Napoleon with audio from the Sabaton song. It works really well, what do you think and which video do you prefer?
About My Musical Journey
I thought my musical journey had ended years ago as I really don’t (or didn’t) like modern music (pop, hip hop, rap etc) and there is nothing that I like on mainstream radio. My love since my teenage years has been Classic Rock and Prog Rock, although I had added to that some World Music, Latin and New Country through living in the USA and working in Central/South America in the 1990’s.
Nothing really changed until Covid hit in 2019 and I ended up working from home. While working (Analyst/Programmer) I would listen to YouTube to help me focus and once YouTube started suggesting new artists to me, I soon went down a lot of rabbit holes on a musical discovery journey that is still ongoing.
I am now a huge fan of a number of bands in genres that I didn’t know existed, including Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Nordic/Viking, Japanese Metal, European Pagan Folk and more.
In this suite of posts I am hoping to help enlighten more people who are only aware of the artists that they hear on mainstream radio, as there are so many other amazing artists out there that they have never heard of.
I have some live videos from concerts that I have been to on my YouTube Channel. You are invited to take a look and if you like what you see, please do subscribe to my channel.
If you would like to leave me a comment to let me know what you think of Sabaton or to suggest an artist that I might like, I would appreciate that.
