SABATON RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “THE RED BARON”
Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON are set to release their new album ‘The Great War’ on July 19th, 2019. Today the band reveals their second single, called “The Red Baron” Watch the lyric video here: https://youtu.be/3PXzgXBRM_k
”To not include the story of Manfred von Richthofen, AKA ”The Red Baron” on a concept album of The Great War felt really strange. And since we are aiming higher than before in every way, we are proud to present this single from our upcoming album today”,commented Pär Sundstöm.
Bassist Pär Sundström comments: “We choose ‘Fields of Verdun’ to be the first single since we felt it represent the album perfect, a classic SABATON metal song which we cannot wait to include in the future setlists. The story of the battle of Verdun is also very representative for the album since it has all elements that identifies with ‘The Great War’. Verdun is so much WW1 that we decided to hold the first album presentation in this city, inviting journalists from around the world to not just hear the album, but also understand the story behind it. It is the first single from the upcoming album even if we just released ‘Bismarck’, but that song is not from the upcoming album. We decided to write ‘Bismarck’ outside the album since the story does not connect to WW1 and also that it was recorded at a different time. The meaning of this song was a tribute to all fans who have contributed over the years by sending us ideas for future songs, please continue with that!”
The release of SABATON’s ninth full-length record perfectly coincides with the band’s 20th anniversary and the concept album is based on events during the First World War.
This ninth full-length record, that will see the light of day right in time for the band’s 20th anniversary, will be a concept album based on events during the First World Warand will be available in different formats:
CD-Digi (History Edition) incl. narrated parts in addition to the album tracks
CD (Album Edition)
2CD Earbook (Album + History Edition)
180g LP in various colors (History Edition)
180g LP in various colours (Album Edition)
3CD/3LP Box (The Great Box Edition) includes: Earbook incl. “The Soundtrack To The Great War” CD, regular, History & Soundtrack LPs [180g, green], one out of 11 Great War propaganda posters [chosen at random], postcards, emblem, poem on sheet) – limited to 1000
“The Great War” tracklist:
01. The Future Of Warfare
02. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom
03. 82nd All The Way
04. The Attack Of The Dead Men
05. Devil Dogs
06. The Red Baron
07. Great War
08. A Ghost In The Trenches
09. Fields Of Verdun
10. The End Of The War To End All Wars
11. In Flanders Fields
“The Great War” will be available worldwide through Nuclear Blast Records on July 19th.
The band started the recordings exactly 100 years after the end of the First World War (11/11/1918) and took 3 months of intensive work to complete the album together with their long term producer and partner Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge studios. Furthermore, the album has been mastered by Maor Appelbaum and the artwork was once again created by Peter Sallaí.
“This is not the first time we have sung about stories from this period in time, but now we felt the timing was right to make a full concept album about this war”, explain the band.
Alongside the album, the Swedes have worked hard to make their 20th year anniversary a very exciting year, and also started the SABATON HistoryChannel – 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 SABATON’s songs. Subscribe to the YouTube channel via this link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaG4CBbZih6nLzD08bTBGfw
“This is the biggest album we have taken on so far.There is more depth and story around the songs that we have ever had before”,Pär Sundström announces. “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.”
Many more live shows will be announced shortly, but don’t missthe chance to see SABATON perform their new battle hymns during their summer festival run at one of these dates (including the band’s very own annual SABATON OPEN AIR in their hometown Falun):
15.06. CH Interlaken – Greenfield Festival
20.06. F Clisson – Knotfest meets Hellfest
23.06. B Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting *SOLD OUT*
26.06. PL Krakow – Mystic Festival
28.06. E Madrid – Download Festival
25.07. FIN Kuopio – Kuopiorock
01.08. D Wacken – Wacken Open Air *SOLD OUT*
09.08. UK Derby – Bloodstock Open Air
17.08. S Falun – Sabaton Open Air
23.08. D Sulingen – Reload Festival
»The Great Tour« – North America 2019 w/ HAMMERFALL
04.10. USA Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
05.10. USA St. Petersburg, FL – Janus Landing
06.10. USA Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
08.10. USA Dallas, TX – House of Blues
10.10. USA Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
11.10. USA Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
12.10. USA San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom
14.10. USA Portland, OR – The Roseland Ballroom
15.10. USA Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
16.10. CDN Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
18.10. CDN Edmonton, AB – Union Hall
19.10. CDN Calgary, AB – The Palace Theatre
21.10. USA Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
23.10. USA Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
25.10. USA Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre
26.10. USA Chicago, IL – The Vic Theatre
27.10. USA Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
29.10. CDN Toronto, ON – The Danforth Music Hall
30.10. CDN Montréal, QC – Mtelus
01.11. USA Worcester, MA – Palladium
02.11. USA New York, NY – PlayStation Theater
03.11. USA Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
01.12. S Stockholm – Sabaton Cruise *SOLD OUT*
2020:
»The Great Tour« – Russia 2020
06.03. RUS Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk – Stolitsa
07.03. RUS Vladivostok – Craft
08.03. RUS Khabarovsk – Velicano Club
10.03. RUS Irkutsk – Wild Horse
11.03. RUS Novosibirsk – Dkzh
13.03. RUS Moscow – Stadium Live
14.03. RUS St. Petersburg – A2 Green Concert
16.03. RUS Omsk – Angar
17.03. RUS Tyumen – Baikonur
19.03. RUS Yekaterinburg – Tele-Club
21.03. RUS Ufa – Ogni Ufy
22.03. RUS Samara – Zvezda
24.03. RUS Volgograd – DKT
26.03. RUS Nizhny Novgorod – Milo Concert Hall
28.03. RUS Voronezh – Palazzo
29.03. RUS Rostov-on-Don – Arena Don
31.03. RUS Krasnodar – Arena Hall
02.04. BY Minsk – Prime Hall
