The great war

"With pounding drums and demonic choirs, the Swedish power metal band deliver a dark, fascinating history lesson on the first world war ... With their heavy riffola, pounding drums and the sort of demonic choirs that soundtracked the horror film The Omen, the likes of The Future of Warfare and Seven Pillars of Wisdom could be an operatic metal Iron Maiden, who have also found much mileage in songs about warfare's blood and gore".

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"This, the group's ninth album, and the first to feature new guitarist Tommy Johannson, is another concept album. This time round the theme is the First World War. It arrives 20 years since the band formed. If you're a fan of this stuff - powerful, bruising, operatic, performed with absolutely no sense of irony whatsoever - then there's no question that Sabaton are amongst the best of the best".

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"Første Verdenskrig er ikke et overset emne i heavy metalmusik. Oftest bliver det dog fortolket af dødsmetal- eller black metalbands, da krigens elendighed og umenneskelighed skriger langt væk af ondskab - hvorimod powermetal jo ofte er mere muntert og til tider lallet. Men Sabaton formår alligevel at blande det pompøse med det tragiske, så jeg kipper med min pikkelhue i deres generelle retning. Der er som sådan ikke noget nyt at komme efter. Sabaton gør det, som de altid har gjort, og de gør det på en sådan måde, som kun de kan".

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