Sabaton performed across Sweden, and after two years of waiting for the label to release Metalizer, Sabaton decided to record another album. Metalizer is counted as their second album despite being the fourth album released. The album was recorded 2002 but had a five year delay before release in 2007.
The band decided to sign up for an Italian label who internationally released the promo CD Fist for Fight-including cover artwork by the legendary Ken Kelly (Manowar)-with the intention to promote forthcoming releases.Ī year after the first recordings were made Sabaton returned with a debut album Metalizer, again working with Peter Tägtgren. After the first songs were recorded in Peter Tägtgren's studio, The Abyss, Sabaton were contacted by a couple of record labels. As well as extensively touring internationally, the band have a festival in their home town of Falun, Sabaton Open Air in August and an annual cruise, 'Sabaton Cruise', in November. In April 2012, four members left the band and formed another, whilst vocalist Joakim Brodén and bassist Pär Sundström continued with new members.
Lyrical content drawn from World War I, World War II and other conflicts is prevalent and includes songs about battles and leaders on all sides of said conflicts. This is heard in the albums Primo Victoria, Attero Dominatus, Coat of Arms, Carolus Rex and Heroes in which all of the songs contain these motifs, except final tracks which are tribute songs for influential heavy metal bands.
The band's main lyrical themes are based on war and historical battles. 2021 saw the release of "Christmas Truce," the lead single from their WWI-themed sequel to The Great War, The War to End All Wars, which appeared in early 2022.Sabaton are a heavy metal band from Falun, Sweden formed in 1999. That same year the group also started the online video channel Sabaton History, which charted the band's career and celebrated their 20th anniversary, while the stand-alone single "Bismarck" - recounting the sinking of the German battleship of the same name - was also issued. Inspired by the horrors of the war and the armies that fought, the resulting album, The Great War, was issued in mid-2019. On Novemthe group entered the Black Lounge Studios with producer Jonas Kjellgren to start recording, with the specific start date being the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Preceded by the rousing single the "Last Battalion," the conceptual Last Stand, the band's eighth studio album, dropped in August 2016.Īfter a number of live dates throughout 2017, the group put touring on hold in 2018 to start recording their ninth album.
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The following year's Carolus Rex hit number one in Sweden and Poland, but it was the last for that lineup 2014's Heroes featured new guitarists Chris Rörland and Thobbe Englund, plus new drummer Hannes van Dahl, alongside stalwarts Brodén and Sundström. The band became increasingly successful across Europe, as witnessed on 2011's live album, World War Live: Battle of the Baltic Sea, featuring a dozen tracks and ten different countries. It also opened the floodgates for a slew of popular singles and battle metal LPs to follow, including 2006's Attero Dominatus, 2008's The Art of War, and 2010's Coat of Arms, all of them bursting at the seams with historic and mythical chronicles of battle set to anthemic power metal. Tired of waiting, the members of Sabaton (now including new drummer Daniel Mullback), once again took matters into their own hands, and financed the recording of another album, Primo Victoria, which was officially released in 2005 by the Black Lodge label.
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Originally founded in 1999 and comprised of Joakim Brodén (vocals and keyboards), Rickard Sundén (guitar), Oskar Montelius (guitar), Daniel Myhr (keyboards, beginning in 2006), Pär Sundström (bass), and Richard Larsson (drums), the enterprising group quickly produced two demo tapes that were later released in a limited-edition as Fist for Fight in 2002.īut after inking a deal with Italian label Underground Symphony, Sabaton saw their first would-be official album, Metalizer, inexplicably kept out of the marketplace for a full two years (it, too, belatedly reached the public in 2007). Since debuting in 2005 with the World War II-themed Primo Victoria, the band has amassed a loyal army of European followers - they have their own annual festival and cruise - and released a slew of acclaimed albums, including the platinum-selling Carolus Rex (2012) and Heroes (2014), and 2019's and 2022's World War I concept LPs The Great War and The War to End All Wars.
Sonically triumphant and lyrically war-obsessed, Sweden's Sabaton have been a major force in the power metal field since the mid-2000s.