Sabaton (band)

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Sabaton
Background information
Origin	Sweden
Genre(s)	Power metal
Years active	1999 - present
Label(s)	Black Lodge
Website	sabaton.net
Members
Joakim Brodén Oskar Montelius Daniel Mullback Daniel Mÿhr Rikard Sundén Pär Sundström

Sabaton is a power metal band from Sweden formed in 1999. The band's main lyrical theme is that of war, mainly World War II. This can be seen on the album Primo Victoria and Attero Dominatus where all of the songs, except the final tracks, take inspiration from a historical battle or war.

1 Biography
2 Line-Up
3 Discography
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Sabaton was formed in 1999. After the first songs were recorded in the Abyss studio, Sabaton was contacted by a couple of record labels. The band decided to sign up for an Italian label who released the promo-CD Fist for Fight - including a cover artwork by the legendary Ken Kelly (Manowar)- internationally with the intention to promote forthcoming releases.

A year after the first recordings were made Sabaton returned with a debut album Metalizer, again working with Tommy Tägtgren.

Sabaton performed across Sweden, and after two years of waiting for the label to release Metalizer, Sabaton decided to record another album. But this time they would do it on their own, without the financial support of a record label.

The band returned a third album titled Primo Victoria and found themselves in negotiations with several international record labels. They eventually signed with the metal division of Sound Pollution, called Black Lodge.

Their fourth album is entitled Attero Dominatus, which continues the war theme of Primo Victoria with songs like "Back in Control" (which focuses on the British attack to reclaim the Falklands Islands during the Falklands War), "Attero Dominatus" (the Russian attack on Berlin which brought about the end of WWII in Europe) or "Angels Calling" (which is a generic song about trench warfare during World War I), and was released in Europe on the 28th of July 2006.

Sabaton is re-releasing their first album Metalizer. It will be a double disk, with second disk containing the out of print Fist For Fight. It was released in March 2007.