05.12 The Return of Sabaton!

By Tim Branch

Swedish heavy metal war historians Sabaton are returning to North America for their 2^nd headlining tour of the U.S. & Canada in support of their latest studio album, Carolus Rex, due out in North America on May 22^nd!

Sabaton are best known for singing almost exclusively about historical wars & battles, a direction they decided upon after watching the 1999 Academy Award-winning film Saving Private Ryan. The band thoroughly researches their topics to ensure the songs paint accurate & objective portraits of the historical event they’re singing about, which are narrated from an omniscient point-of-view or in first-person as a soldier caught in the line of fire.

Did you know?

Sabaton performed on the battlefield of Wizna (the place their song “40:1” refers to) in Poland on the 70th anniversary of that battle.

10,000 audience members witnessed the stagedmilitary re-enactment, complete with battlefield explosions and World War II tanks.

Sabaton’s video for “Uprising” (an emotional tribute to the men, women, and children who lost their lives in 1944’s Warsaw Uprising) has reached overone million views on YouTube.

“Uprising” features the “Radoslaw” Reenactment Group, the Wizna 1939 Association, and a special appearance by General Waldemar Skrzypczak of the Polish Army.

Sabaton fans are famous for attending live concerts dressed in authentic war regalia.

Plans are already in the works for Sabaton to play on Normandy Beach on that battle’s 70^th anniversary.
Carrying on with the tradition of their anthemic music & the triumph of the human spirit with Carolus Rex, Sabaton teamed up with well-known Swedish historian Bengt Liljegren for athemed album about the Kingdom of Sweden between the years of 1561 and 1721.