Sabaton (named for the medieval equivalent of a steel toe-cap boot) explored WW1 in depth on 2019’s ‘The Great War’. The First World War was a conflict like no other, where deadly new technology was deployed, millions died, and the modern world was born. The expression wraps together both the idealism and cynicism that took hold between 19. Wells called ‘The War That Will End War’.
It originally stems from a 1914 book by H.G. The title of this new record is a phrase attributed to President Woodrow Wilson. Sweden’s heavy-metal military obsessives Sabaton are releasing a second album themed around the First World War, ‘The War to End All Wars’. But it can take a turn towards the exploitative, and sometimes the downright sinister. It follows that war is compelling subject matter. Heavy music is (in part) supposed to explore the extreme edges of the human experience. This started metal’s flirtation with the wrong side of that conflict. They went on to appropriate Nazi iconography when they used the Schutzstaffel S’s on the cover of 1973’s ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’. When Black Sabbath founded the genre in the late sixties, they were playing back their parents’ trauma from the Second World War in music that roared, stuttered and screamed. Tickets and VIP packs are available now via Franklin in Culture on February 28, 2022Īhead of their tenth album release, Sabaton details the theatre of conflict depicted in the latest collection of compositions.įor heavy metal, war is an object of fascination that can border on the fetishistic. The band will be joined by symphonic metal group Leaves’ Eyes and heavy power metal onslaught/labelmates Battle Beast. Sabaton will kick off the North American leg of The Last Tour headlining trek in April.
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