Sabaton - Night Witches

Band:  Sabaton
Song:  Night Witches
Album:  Heroes (2014)
Genre:  Power Metal

This'll be the last post containing any of the bs from my vacation, I promise.

I'm kinda pumped is all since I don't often run into metalheads out and about, and even less frequently do I find ones that we connect immediately on a band.  Well we as a group were walking back to my friends apartment and this dude, Dave, mentions that when he saw Sabaton he stood in a line that went like, down 3 or more blocks.  We happened to walk right past where he had been standing.

This caused me to tell him about when I had seen them in Cleveland and we shot the breeze about Sabaton for a bit.  We both agree they're one of the best live acts we'd ever seen and we traded favorite songs back and forth.  I was gonna post the song he had said was one of his favorites, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.  It was on Carolus Rex though, and was one of the ones that was in Swedish.

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Title Track Tuesdays: Sabaton - The Art Of War

Band:  Sabaton
Genre:  Power Metal

If there's one band that I'm really happy I discovered it'd have to be Sabaton.  There's a really inspiring power behind what their music that just makes you want to go.  The synth strings, the choir, the generally military patriotic theme, it all works together in a way that just works.

This album is a theme album even more so than their other stuff in the sense that it references Sun Tzu's book "The Art Of War".  The theme pervades throughout with little steps away to readings from the book itself and is usually accompanied with marching sounds as can be heard in the beginning of this track.  I'll rate this as a bang up representation of the direction the album is taking.

I hope you enjoy this song and band, they're some of my favorites.

Sabaton - Carolus Rex

Band:  Sabaton
Genre:  Power Metal

This is currently my favorite song.  I'm not really sure why I'm attracted to music that I can't understand the lyrics of, but I am.  There's something about the European and Scandinavian languages that I really like.  I feel it adds to the majesty of the music.  Eh, whatever the reason it's a really good song.

Sabaton - For Whom The Bell Tolls

Band:  Sabaton
Genre:  Power Metal

If you don't recall Sabaton from the other times I've posted them then I don't really know what to say.  They're really good?

This is a Metallica cover though, and I think they did really freaking well with it.

Sabaton - Swedish Pagans

I've posted Sabaton before, but that was like 3 1/2 months ago, so it's totally cool to post them again.

I probably said this before, but Sabaton is one of my favorite bands.  Their show is fantastic, they're funny, and they're a Power Metal band.  It really doesn't get much better than that.

All of their lyrics revolve around war, tanks, and victory, so there's really nothing to object to, ya know?  If memory serves they are clean too, so that's a major bonus if you're concerned about kids and such.

Sabaton - Ghost Division

I feel like it's poor form to talk about a band that's "like evil Sabaton" without actually showing you Sabaton.

This is Sabaton.  They sing about war and tanks.  The singer has actually said in an interview that he "Likes tanks so much that (he) figures if (he) sings about them enough (he'll) tun into one."  It's an interesting strategy, let's see if it plays out.

They're from Sweden if that means anything to you.

Also Power Metal is some of the best music.  It's right up there with Symphonic Metal for making epic situations more epic cause of things and reasons.

Studio:

Live:

I included the live version so you could see something very important.  Nuclear Blast.  Again.