TELL ME WHENS THE NEW SABATON ALBUM IS OUT HOW TO
The whole pandemic messed everything up on every level for us except how to write and record music. We’d probably have been touring until late 2021.Īs far as the songwriting process and recording, were you able to do it in a normal way, or did you have to do a lot of things separately because of the pandemic? We figured, “You know what? Maybe, we should do another one.” Because if it wasn’t for the pandemic, we wouldn’t have made an album. If we would have done something else for this album, let’s say the Napoleonic era, that would make the songs of The Great War feel irrelevant and then they would never experience them in the right settings in a lot of the world. We hadn’t toured Australia, Latin America, Japan. We still hadn’t toured most of Russia or at least half of Russia. Then we realized this is going to drag on for some time. We figured we could at least get those out there.
Then, after we were sent home in 2020 in March from Russia, because of the coronavirus lockdown, then I figured we’d start with “Christmas Truce” and “Hellfighters” because they were the ones that were closest to our heart. That as we started to tour it was growing. “Do you know about this?” Quite a few were, “How the ‘F’ did we not know about this?” Wow, we missed so much. But we didn’t have the right music so we thought, “Well, maybe another time on another album or as singles in the future.” Basically, as soon as we announced the previous album about the Great War, we got so many friends and fans giving us books, sending us links. We knew we were leaving behind stories that we really wanted to tell, like “Christmas Truce” and “Hellfighters.” Those were really cool stories we really wanted to tell. When we did that, I don’t think we had any idea that we were going to do another one about the First World War. run with Judas Priest and other topics.Ĭhad Bowar: When you did The Great War, was it always planned to do a two-album World War I one set, or did that come about later after the first album was done? We also spoke about returning to touring, their shorter than planned U.S. That wasn’t the original plan, as frontman Joakim Broden reveals when talking about the writing and recording of the album. Swedish power metal veterans Sabaton are following up 2019’s The Great War with The War To End All Wars, which is also about World War I.