Between the several battlegrounds of WWI, there was no scene as hostile as the feared alpine front that involved a series of battles at the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy. High above in the alps, men would fight in the most extreme conditions to protect the borders. Today, these fights are infamously known as the so-called “White War”, where many soldiers froze to death or were buried by dangerous avalanches. Their dead bodies remain under the snow until today.
Today, Swedish metal war chroniclers SABATON open the history books again to present their new single “Soldier Of Heaven“, giving that overlooked chapter of WWI a voice, a tune and an impressive music video featuring both breathtaking special effects and the fatal beauty of this battlefield.
Bassist Pär Sundström states about the song: “We already released the Christmas Truce and here comes another song which shows the diversity of the new album. In the early listening sessions of the new album this one was noted among most people as a top song and we know that this will be a powerful sing-a-long anthem on future concerts. So study the lyrics, get your ass to a show and make sure you kill corona in the process!”
Following the unique signature style of SABATON, “Soldier Of Heaven” once again is a catchy headbang anthem that persistently sticks into your head. The song is now available to stream on all digital music platforms.
“Soldier Of Heaven” foreshadows the tenth masterpiece of SABATON, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4th, 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records. Once again, SABATON will dive deep into the atrocities, miracles and happenings around WWI and take the listener to an emotional and exciting ride of 11 tracks.
SABATON is a five-piece heavy metal band from Falun, Sweden. Since the band’s formation in 1999, SABATON has achieved quadruple Platinum sales and performed colossal concerts in over fifty countries. The band’s ninth studio album, “The Great War”, released on July 19, 2019, is a musically rich concept album capturing the sinister atmosphere of World War I – thus continuing the band’s trademark style of telling unforgettable stories from merciless battlefields all over the planet. Sabaton, signed to the world’s biggest heavy metal label, Nuclear Blast Records, played “The Great Tour” at major European festivals, and throughout North America, and Eastern Europe in support of The Great War. SABATON has put the “COVID downtime” to good use, writing, recording, and releasing a variety of stand-alone singles and music videos. The band played its first post-pandemic date on July 9, performing in front of 40,000 fans when they headlined the Exit Festival in Serbia. As you might guess… There’s no end in sight for this unstoppable war machine anytime soon!
On December 24th, in the tragic year of 1914, in the middle of a cold night: After 6 months in the muddy trenches, the war still hasn’t come to an end and on Christmas Eve, the soldiers were missing home even more than on any other day and started quietly singing Carols. Although an official truce was declined from the governments, an eerie silence haunted the empty battlefields on the morning of December 25th. That was when the British and German soldiers slowly crawled out of their trenches to wish each other a merry Christmas, take photographs, play games and even exchanged a few gifts.
In this animated story video, SABATON depict this one-of-a-kind event during the First World War that should later be known as “Christmas Truce”. The brand new video was unveiled during the band’s ongoing Christmas Advent Calendar on their social media channels and website.
“This is the story of the Christmas Truce & this is why we wrote our latest single”, bassist Pär Sundström comments. “We now give you a different way of experiencing our music and the history behind it!”
The new video was produced by Yarnhub who also created the animated story videos of
A new edit of Christmas Truce has also been released on Friday and is now available on all streaming platforms. You can listen to it here: https://music.sabaton.net/ChristmasTruce
“Christmas Truce” foreshadows the tenth masterpiece of SABATON, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4th, 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records. Once again, SABATON will dive deep into the atrocities, miracles and happenings around WWI and take the listener to an emotional and exciting ride of 11 tracks.
After evoking memories of their glorious live shows in Wacken and Prague with their DVD” The Great Show/The 20th Anniversary Show” almost two weeks ago, SABATON unleash another beast hailing their impressive concerts: From today on, “The Great Show”, the Swedish metal heroes’ triumphant Arena performance in Prague, is available on all DSPs, at this location.
Physical editions of SABATON‘s limited-edition, live-in-concert, double DVD/Blu-Ray, “The Great Show,” “The 20th Anniversary Show,” plus “The Great Show Stage Collector’s Edition” box set are in stores and available online: https://sabat.one/TheGreatShow
“The Great Show” with a run-time of about 90-minutes, was shot at the band’s sold-out O2 Arena performance in Prague in early 2020 and reunited SABATON with Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rockers Apocalyptica. Both discs’ setlists feature SABATON fan-favorites including ‘Ghost Division,’ ‘Bismarck,’ ‘To Hell and Back,’ ‘Primo Victoria,’ ‘Carolus Rex,’ ‘Great War,’ and ‘Fields Of Verdun’. The set was performed on a stage setting forged as a World War 1 battlefield, with barbed-wire strung across the stage, piles of sandbag barricades, a two-ton military tank complete with a battery of rocket launchers and flame jets that doubles as a drum riser, and a keyboard built into the body of The Red Baron’s iconic blood-red tri-plane.
Watch the band perform “Swedish Pagans”, live in Prague, here:
Filmed during SABATON’s 2019-2020 “The Great Tour” world trek, the two-hour “20th Anniversary Show” captures the band’s extraordinary headline set in front of 75,000 fans at the 2019 Wacken Open Air Festival, performed on both of the festival’s Main Stages simultaneously. Joining the SABATON line-up of vocalist Joakim Brodén, bassist Pär Sundström, guitarists Chris Rörland and Tommy Johansson, drummer Hannes Van Dahl, the Wacken performance also features several guest performers: former SABATON band members Thobbe Englund and Rikard Sundén on guitars, keyboardist Daniel Mÿhr, and drummer Daniel Mulback, the 20-voice Great War Choir, and acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso cellist Tina Guo.
Both “The 20th Anniversary Show” and “The Great Show” discs capture the musically and visually electrifying in-concert experience that is a SABATON show, and are a must for anyone who is a fan of passionate, cinematic heavy rock’n’roll.
Multi-Platinum Swedish metal band SABATON today announces the limited-edition, live-in-concert, double-DVD/Blu-Ray, “The Great Show,” and “The 20th Anniversary Show,”both set for release on November 19 (Nuclear Blast). Both titles were filmed during the band’s 2019-2020 “The Great Tour“ world trek, and both feature special guest performers. Track listings are below; pre-orders begin today and can be placed here: https://sabat.one/TheGreatShow
“The 20th Anniversary Show” (watch trailer) is comprised of SABATON’s jaw-dropping, two-hour headline concert filmed in front of 75,000 fans at Germany’s Wacken Open Air Festival – coincidentally, celebrating its 30th anniversary – on August 1, 2019. “The Great Show”, with a running time of about 90-minutes, was recorded at SABATON’s sold-out performance at the O2 Arena in Prague on January 26, 2020. With two varied setlists chosen from the band’s extensive catalog, “The Great Show” and the “20th Anniversary Show”, limited to 9000 copies each, will be available as individual purchases or bundled together as “The Great Show Stage Collector’s Edition” box set (limited to 5000 copies), that includes a building bricks version of the Sabaton stage so fans can build their own stages.
For the greater part of the Wacken concert, SABATON commandeered the festival’s two main stages, the side-by-side-and-connected Faster and Harder Stages, becoming the first artist in Wacken’s 30-year history to utilize both stages simultaneously in this way. Vocalist Joakim Brodén, guitarists Chris Rörland and Tommy Johansson, drummer Hannes Van Dahl, and the 20-voice Great War Choir, fitted out in a variety of military uniforms, performed on the Faster Stage. At the same time on the Harder Stage, bassist Pär Sundström welcomed back previous Sabaton members Thobbe Englund and Rikard Sundén/guitars, Daniel Mÿhr/keyboards, and Daniel Mulback/drums – all nine musicians, plus the choir, giving an intense and impassioned en masse performance. SABATON was also joined by the internationally acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso cellist Tina Guo for the encore. Prague’s “The Great Show” reunited SABATON with Finland’s multi-Platinum cello-rockers, Apocalyptica, who provided a fiery orchestral backing to several of Sabaton’s songs.
In support of SABATON’s most recent chart-topping album, The Great War,“The Great Tour” saw the band setting the barre sky-high for live rock’n’roll stage production. Both sets of discs effectively capture the visually electrifying in-concert experience that is a Sabaton show. Sabaton’s cinematic songs transport fans onto the battlefield, encountering the horrors of war as well as acts of heroism and bravery, based on historical fact and told as if through the eyes and minds of soldiers in the line of fire. For “The Great Tour,” and as seen on both of these DVD/Blu-Ray sets, SABATON’s live stage production was forged as a battlefield, with barbed-wire stretched across the front of the stage, stacks of sandbag barricades, mic stands fashioned after the period’s rifles and trench guns, a two-ton military tank complete with a battery of rocket launchers and flame jets that doubles as a drum riser, a keyboard built into the body of The Red Baron’s iconic blood-red tri-plane, and Brodén armed with a giant bazooka.
Track listing for “The 20th Anniversary Show” (Wacken) Ghost Division Winged Hussars Resist and Bite Fields of Verdun (with Thobbe Englund) Shiroyama (with Thobbe Englund) The Red Baron The Price of a Mile Bismarck The Lion From The North Carolus Rex 40:1 The Last Stand The Lost Battalion Drum Battle (Hannes Van Dahl vs. Daniel Mullback) Far From The Flame Panzerkampf Night Witches The Art of War 82nd All The Way Great War Attero Dominatus
Encore: Primo Victoria Swedish Pagans (with Tina Guo) To Hell And Back (with Tina Guo)
Track listing for “The Great Show” (Prague) Ghost Division Great War The Attack Of The Dead Men Seven Pillars of Wisdom The Los Battalion The Red Baron The Last Stand Far from the Flame Night Witches Angels Calling (with Apocalyptica) The Price Of A Mile (with Apocalyptica) The Lion From The North (with Apocalyptica) Carolus Rex (with Apocalyptica)
Encore: Primo Victoria Bismarck Swedish Pagans To Hell And Back
SABATON is a five-piece heavy metal band from Falun, Sweden. Since the band’s formation in 1999, SABATON has achieved quadruple Platinum sales and performed colossal concerts in over fifty countries. The band’s ninth studio album, “The Great War”, released on July 19, 2019, is a musically rich concept album capturing the sinister atmosphere of World War I – thus continuing the band’s trademark style of telling unforgettable stories from merciless battlefields all over the planet. Sabaton, signed to the world’s biggest heavy metal label, Nuclear Blast Records, played “The Great Tour” at major European festivals, and throughout North America, and Eastern Europe in support of The Great War. SABATON has put the “COVID downtime” to good use, writing, recording, and releasing a variety of stand-alone singles and music videos. The band played its first post-pandemic date on July 9, performing in front of 40,000 fans when they headlined the Exit Festival in Serbia. In January/February 2022, they will headline a 29-date tour of Sweden, followed by the launch of the massive “The Tour To End All Tours” on March 4 in Norway. As you might guess… There’s no end in sight for this unstoppable war machine anytime soon!
Check out the European tour itinerary here:
The Tour To End All Tours w/ THE HU, LORDI presented by Cobra Agency 04.03.2022 Norway Oslo Spektrum 05.03.2022 Sweden Stockholm Avicii Arena 06.03.2022 Denmark Copenhagen Royal Arena 08.03.2022 Germany Hamburg Barclays Arena 09.03.2022 Luxembourg Esch zur Alzette Rockhal 11.03.2022 Germany Berlin Mercedes Benz Arena 12.03.2022 Czech Republic Prague O2 Arena 13.03.2022 Hungary Budapest Arena 15.03.2022 Italy Milan Lorenzini District 16.03.2022 Switzerland Geneva Arena 18.03.2022 UK London Wembley Arena 19.03.2022 UK Leeds First Direct Arena 20.03.2022 UK Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 22.03.2022 UK Glasgow Hydro 24.03.2022 Belgium Antwerp Sportpaleis 25.03.2022 Netherlands Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 26.03.2022 Germany Leipzig Quarterback Immo.Arena 28.03.2022 France Paris La Seine Musicale 30.03.2022 Austria Vienna Stadthalle 31.03.2022 Germany Munich Olympiahalle 01.04.2022 Germany Cologne Lanxess Arena 02.04.2022 Germany Hannover ZAG Arena 04.04.2022 Poland Krakow Tauron Arena 06.04.2022 Estonia Tallinn Saku Arena 08.04.2022 Finland Kuopio Kuopio Hall 09.04.2022 Finland Helsinki Hartwall Arena
December 24th, 1914: Late On Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing Christmas carols and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches.
The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man’s land and exchanged gifts, took pictures and some even played football. It was a rare but magic moment of peace and harmony in the midst of one of the most atrocious events in the 20th century.
Today, Swedish metal heroes SABATON release a song about this outstanding event that is known today as “Christmas Truce”.
SABATON mastermind and bassplayer Pär Sundström on “Christmas Truce”: “Christmas Truce was our highest priority when we decided to write songs about World War One. Not only was it the most requested topic from our fans, but it was, for us, the most emotional story from the war. This song took us years to create since we wanted the music to reflect the mood honestly and it was a big challenge, but we feel we managed to write a song that captures the spirit of this day, over a century ago.”
“Christmas Truce” foreshadows the tenth masterpiece of SABATON, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4th, 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records. Once again, SABATON will dive deep into the atrocities, miracles and happenings around WWI and take the listener to an emotional and exciting ride of 11 tracks.
The tracklist of the album reads as follows: 1. Sarajevo 2. Stormtroopers 3. Dreadnought 4. The Unkillable Soldier 5. Soldier Of Heaven 6. Hellfighters 7. Race to the Sea 8. Lady Of The Dark 9. The Valley Of Death 10. Christmas Truce 11. Versailles
The Tour To End All Tours w/ THE HU, LORDI presented by Cobra Agency 04.03.2022 Norway Oslo Spektrum 05.03.2022 Sweden Stockholm Avicii Arena 06.03.2022 Denmark Copenhagen Royal Arena 08.03.2022 Germany Hamburg Barclays Arena 09.03.2022 Luxembourg Esch zur Alzette Rockhal 11.03.2022 Germany Berlin Mercedes Benz Arena 12.03.2022 Czech Republic Prague O2 Arena 13.03.2022 Hungary Budapest Arena 15.03.2022 Italy Milan Lorenzini District 16.03.2022 Switzerland Geneva Arena 18.03.2022 UK London Wembley Arena 19.03.2022 UK Leeds First Direct Arena 20.03.2022 UK Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 22.03.2022 UK Glasgow Hydro 24.03.2022 Belgium Antwerp Sportpaleis 25.03.2022 Netherlands Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 26.03.2022 Germany Leipzig Quarterback Immo.Arena 28.03.2022 France Paris La Seine Musicale 30.03.2022 Austria Vienna Stadthalle 31.03.2022 Germany Munich Olympiahalle 01.04.2022 Germany Cologne Lanxess Arena 02.04.2022 Germany Hannover ZAG Arena 04.04.2022 Poland Krakow Tauron Arena 06.04.2022 Estonia Tallinn Saku Arena 08.04.2022 Finland Kuopio Kuopio Hall 09.04.2022 Finland Helsinki Hartwall Arena
Recently, Swedish metal titans SABATON announced their new collaboration with World of Tanks and premiered an unrivalled music video for ‘Steel Commanders’. Pioneeringsome hyperrealistic visuals of the band and their Grammy Award-nominated special guest, Tina Guo, in epic war scenes, the video clip was viewed over 3.6 million times within the first three weeks of its release.
After offering fans and gamers the chance to see them as crew members on the new Strv K tank, the first-ever Tier IX premium vehicle in World of Tanks, SABATON have now answered the calls from fans asking for the song to be made available via all music streaming platforms!
Hop into your tank and download or stream ‘Steel Commanders‘ HERE now.
Today, the Swedish metal force also unveils a lyric video, inspired by the sketches that were used for the production of the official music video for the song:
Just recently, the band not only announced their new studio album “The War To End All Wars” but also their “Tour To End All Tours”: In Spring 2022, SABATON will be visiting 26 cities in 17 countries, bringing their ground-breaking modern metal to the people and delivering breathtaking live shows in a setting that will once again set new bars for concerts of this kind. SABATON will be supported by Mongolian rock band THE HU and Finnish heavy metal veterans LORDI. Get your tickets here: https://www.sabaton.net/tour/
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