


So will this be Sabaton’s album about war to end all albums about war? You certainly wouldn’t bet on it. Their formula is still highly effective and you can see some of these individual tracks raising roofs like Storm Eunice at The O2, but the album as a whole feels like something of a sequel. Dreadnought is suitably vast and chugging, and Race To The Sea tells the tale of Belgian king Albert I fighting alongside his soldiers at the Battle of Ypres in a suitably anthemic fashion.Ĭhristmas Truce is distinctive in its piano-led power balladry, but really there isn’t too much to differentiate this from their last outing The Great War, which also centred around World War I. power metal band Helloween taken from the album Straight Out of Hell. What if Sabaton made a complete concept album like 'Carolus Rex' but about The Reich This is essentially a compilation of songs about Germany from the enti. The first half of the album has some of the best songs Sabaton has released in years, but out of all of them Dreadnought takes the cake. So you have songs like the speedy Stormtroopers, detailing the German special troops of trench warfare, and the jagged Hellfighters, relating the courage of the largely African-American 369th Infantry Regiment Of New York. This new album contained many tracks that had been written prior to the release. The song has one of if not the best solo on the album and the song feels incredibly unique: this is exactly what the album needed.
