Sabaton announce new album ‘The Great War’

SABATON have announced a new album!

The upcoming album, titled The Great War, is the band’s ninth studio album and is scheduled to be released in July this year.

The upcoming album is a concept album surrounding The Great War, covering stories from the First World War. The band has started the recordings exactly 100 years after the end of the First World War (11/11/1918) and took three months of work to complete the album together with their long term producer and partner Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge studios. The album was mastered by Maor Appelbaum and the artwork was once again created by Peter Sallaí.

Speaking about the album, the band says, “this is not the first time we sing about stories from this period in time, but now we felt the timing was right to make a full concept album about this war.”

Side by side with the album, the Swedes have worked hard to celebrate their 20th year anniversary, and have also started the SABATON History Channel – a unique collaboration between the band themselves and multimedia historians Indy Neidell and Timeghost, capturing the power of social media to tell stories about the wars, battles and heroes behind their songs. Speaking further about the album and history channel collaboration, bassist Pär Sundström says, “this is the biggest album we have taken on so far, there is so much depth and story around the songs that we never had before. Expect many surprises as we have tried new things and we also went back in time to a concept we know a lot of you love. The Great War has been created side by side with the SABATON History Channel to make 2019 the most exciting year in our 20 year history.”

The Great War is set for release on July 19th via Nuclear Blast Records.

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