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

Tickets are available here: https://www.sabaton.net/tour/

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”.

Listen/download here: https://music.sabaton.net/ChristmasTruce

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.

Pre-order “The War To End All Wars” now: https://smarturl.it/SabatonTWTEAW

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

Tickets are available here: https://www.sabaton.net/tour

Recently, Swedish metal titans SABATON announced their new collaboration with World of Tanks and premiered an unrivalled music video for ‘Steel Commanders’.  Pioneering some 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/

Watch the band’s latest music videos here:
“Steel Commanders”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTCePu1jMs
“Kingdom Come”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-9A161BCM
“Defence Of Moscow”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TjXanLjpTU
“The Royal Guard”:  https://youtu.be/kZN5bw3wg9g
“Livgardet”: https://youtu.be/Um5R_PH7Jek

Get ready to headbang with the latest collaboration between Swedish metallers, SABATON, and World of Tanks. The two facets of heavy metal are about to really put on a show. Kicking off in full force with the ‘Steel Commanders’ music video that is an essential addition to every tanker’s battle music playlist, the band will also be staging a massive in-game event that will reward tankers with a little bit of history: the first-ever Tier IX Premium tank!

“It’s been a great experience working with the World of Tanks and Wargaming guys on this huge project. Together, we made an epic music video for ‘Steel Commanders’ and it’s the perfect way to kick off our massive collaboration.” states Joakim Brodén, lead vocalist of SABATON. “We’re proud to be part of this brand new in-game event that features the first-ever Tier IX Premium tank as the ultimate prize, as well as us as crew members!”

The music video also features GRAMMY Awarded-nominated and BRIT Female Artist of the Year-nominated Tina Guo. Having established an international career as a virtuoso acoustic/electric cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and entrepreneur, Tina Guo is known for her unique genre-crossing style, she is one of the most recorded Solo Cellists of all time and can be heard on hundreds of Blockbuster Film, Television, and Game Soundtracks.

‘Steel Commanders’ will be out on all digital streaming platforms on September 17th. You can pre-save the song here:
https://spotify.sabaton.net

All pre-savers will be eligible to win prizes including Steel Commanders Merchandise, as well as World Of Tanks bonus codes with exclusive SABATON in-game content! 

Apart from the music video, SABATON are headlining a new in-game event: Spirit of War. The event will see tankers take on challenges to reap the utmost reward: the game’s first-ever Tier IX Premium tank, the Strv K. Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed it in the ‘Steel Commanders’ video, and it will be manned by a SABATON crew that includes Brodén, who recorded a custom voiceover that’s full of Easter eggs for fans to discover. Once tankers earn their Strv K, they will be tasked with getting the exclusive ‘Spirit of War’ 3D style.

“We’ve really enjoyed working with the Sabaton guys and we’re happy to have them onboard this project,” states Max Chuvalov, Publishing Director, World of Tanks. “Our players love their music, and we complement each other as we are both fascinated with military history. Plus, we hope the new tune will inspire tankers to go that extra mile for the victory.”
Even if players ultimately do not finish the marathon, they will earn plenty of goodies along the way and each stage they clear will allow them a set 10% discount on purchasing the Strv K, and the same is true for the 3D style. The Strv K also features its own Sabaton soundtrack and will allow you to earn bonds in Random Battles, so it’s a vehicle no tanker will want to miss out on, if not for owning a piece of World of Tanks history. The Spirit of War event will run from August 27 through September 6. For more information about the Spirit of War event, visit worldoftanks.com.