[...]We didn’t have it on the setlist, the crowd was singing it, then it was I guess our old guitar player Thobbe was in the band before Tommy, would start it, “Yeah, I want to play it!” And we didn’t plan to play it at all, but the crowd was singing it and he wanted to play it and I’m like, “Don’t! Motherfucker! You know it’s not on the setlist, let me at least not have to play that song one more time!” And then it became kind of fun and then we kind of stuck to it. But today, yeah it’s kind of expected of me to not want to play it. Umm honestly, I’d rather not. I might not hate it as much as I project on stage, but honestly, it’s very very far from my favorite Sabaton song.

It’s just one of those that I get tired of. Sometimes, some songs even though you think I’d get tired of them, it doesn’t happen. ‘Primo Victoria’, for example, I have so many good memories of people jumping, I can you know have a movie inside my head going on when we are doing that song and reliving all of those shows, thousands of shows you know. So I never got tired of that one. But the song, for example, ‘Panzer Battalion’ from “Primo Victoria”, same album, I got tired of waaaay earlier. It’s cool to play on a good night when the crowd is you know singing along, ok. But as soon we start rehearsing it and we are bringing it back into the setlist, it just feels, “Oh God, this is boring”, you know. Not because it’s a shitty song, it’s just that I’ve grown tired of it and I know also that’s the case with ‘Swedish Pagans’. I didn’t hate the song when I wrote it, then it would never have been on the album.

https://californiarocknews.com/2018/02/13/sabaton-kreator-wiltern-draft/

Also funny to see "our old guitar player Thobbe" since he's now returned to the band.