In September 2008 it was announced that Sabaton would be performing at the 2009 ProgPowerUSA X festival in Atlanta GA USA. The album contains the singles " Cliffs of Gallipoli" and " Ghost Division". The decision to base the album upon Sun Tzu's book came from the idea that in the 2000 years since the book was written, the human race has achieved many things but apart from weapon advancements, war and tactics have remained basically the same. In March 2007, Sabaton released Metalizer as a double disc together with Fist for Fight, along with the previously unreleased song " Birds of War".Īs a follow up to Metalizer, in May 2008, Sabaton released its fourth album The Art of War an album inspired by the influential book by Sun Tzu. Their third album Attero Dominatus continued the war theme of Primo Victoria with songs like " Back in Control" (which focuses on the British retaking of the Falkland Islands during the Falklands War), " Attero Dominatus" (about the Battle of Berlin which brought about the end of World War II in Europe) and " Angels Calling" (about trench warfare during World War I), and was released in Europe on 28 July 2006. In early 2005, they recruited Daniel Myhr to relieve Joakim Brodén, who played keyboards in addition to singing, of his keyboard duties. They eventually signed with Black Lodge, the metal division of Sound Pollution. The band returned for a second album titled Primo Victoria and found themselves in negotiations with several international record labels. Metalizer was supposed to be distributed by Underground Symphony as the band's debut album, but after two years of waiting, during which the band held various performances across Sweden, the album was abandoned. The band decided to sign up for Italian label Underground Symphony, under which internationally released the promo CD Fist for Fight -actually a compilation consisting of material from two demotapes recorded between 19- with the intention to promote forthcoming releases. After the first songs were recorded in Peter Tägtgren's studio, The Abyss, Sabaton was contacted by a couple of record labels.
Lyrical content drawn from World War I, World War II and other historical conflicts is prevalent and lyrics often recite stories of heroic deeds by men, women, and armies. Their latest album, The Great War, was released on 19 July 2019, with the songs all being based on World War I. The armor and battle theme is heard in the albums Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus, The Art of War, Coat of Arms, Carolus Rex, Heroes, The Last Stand, and The Great War in which most of the songs contain these motifs.
The band's main lyrical themes are based on war, historical battles, and acts of heroism-the name is a reference to a sabaton, knight's foot armor. SABATON are a hard working band and are a serious role model for aspiring musicians and young bands.Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band from Falun. We have not seen a band who has such a clear vision where they want to go and it is rare that bands can translate their visions into real action. It was a great pleasure to tour with them in USA and we followed their career with respect over the years. It is the tour we have been looking forward to do for all these years!“Īdded ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann: „Accepting a tour with SABATON is the result of a very cool relationship we have with the band. If it is the best album of us, time will tell… But what we can tell for sure is that THE LAST TOUR will be the biggest and best tour of SABATON ever. Says SABATON's bass player Pär Sundström: „We have just finished our new album, which is titled THE LAST STAND and we know we have done a great album, which all fans of SABATON can appreciate for many years. Very special guests are none other than heavy metal legends ACCEPT. THE LAST TOUR is the biggest tour of SABATON yet and scheduled to kick off January 7th at König Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON have announced the first dates for their massive European tour 2017. Tickets will be available on May 31st at 10:00 am.
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