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0:00 Intro
1:39 Sabaton - Christmas Truce Reaction
11:19 Closing

Link to original video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goXDAFtkJLw

Sabaton was formed in December 1999. After the first songs were recorded in Peter Tägtgren's studio, The Abyss, Sabaton was contacted by a couple of record labels. The band signed with the Italian label Underground Symphony, which then released, internationally, the promo CD Fist for Fight. The disc, distilled from two demo tapes recorded between 1999 and 2000, was intended to promote forthcoming Sabaton releases. In 2002, a new album, Metalizer was recorded and was supposed to be distributed by Underground Symphony as the band's debut album. After two years of waiting, during which the band held various performances across Sweden, the album was abandoned.

Joakim Brodén performing at Global East Rock Festival in Ukraine 2010
Sabaton signed a new deal with Black Lodge, the metal division of the Sound Pollution record label, and released their second album, titled Primo Victoria in 2005. Brodén stated that the album's title track "kicked off" the band's historical theme. Sundström stated that the band decided to focus primarily on historical themes in their lyrics after he and Brodén watched the film Saving Private Ryan. In early 2005, keyboardist Daniel Myhr was recruited in order to relieve Joakim Brodén of his keyboard duties. In early 2006, Sabaton toured in support of Edguy and DragonForce. The band's third album, Attero Dominatus, was released in Europe on 28 July 2006. In March 2007, Sabaton released Metalizer as a double disc together with Fist for Fight, along with the previously unreleased song "Birds of War".

Sabaton performing at Norway Rock Festival in 2010
As a follow-up to Metalizer, in May 2008, Sabaton released its fourth album The Art of War, an album inspired by the influential book by Sun Tzu. The decision to base the album upon Sun Tzu's book came from the idea that in the 2000 years since the book was written, the human race has achieved many things, but, apart from weapon advancements, operational art, and strategy, war itself has remained basically the same. The album contains the singles "Cliffs of Gallipoli" and "Ghost Division". They toured Europe in 2009 as an opening act on the HammerFall Tour. After their Bloodstock performance, the band again went on tour with DragonForce, towards the end of 2009, for eighteen shows in the UK.

In 2012, two-thirds of Sabaton's lineup left the band. On 31 March, vocalist Joakim Brodén confirmed rumors that the band would be going separate ways, with only Brodén himself and bass player Pär Sundström staying on board. Sabaton was joined by new members Chris Rörland and Thobbe Englund on guitar, and Robban Bäck on drums. Former Sabaton guitarists Oskar Montelius and Rikard Sundén, drummer Daniel Mullback and keyboardist Daniel Myhr went on, together with vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson and bassist Stefan Eriksson, to form a new band, Civil War. In November 2012, drummer Robban Bäck decided to take a break from touring due to becoming a father. Snowy Shaw replaced him as touring drummer, who in turn was replaced by Hannes Van Dahl in November 2013. Prior to replacing Shaw, Van Dahl had worked as Shaw's drum technician while drumming for the band Evergrey.

On 8 January 2019, the band announced the creation of a YouTube channel called Sabaton History, a cooperation between Indy Neidell, TimeGhost History and Sabaton. The channel documents the history of the events behind Sabaton songs and the songs themselves. The channel was created on 7 February 2019.

On 22 April 2019, Sabaton released a standalone single, "Bismarck", in a collaboration with Wargaming and their game World of Warships. The song is about the German Battleship Bismarck, one of the biggest ever built in Europe. Commissioned in August 1940, it sank in May 1941 after an intense hunt in the North Atlantic.

On 2 April 2019, the band announced a new concept album about the First World War entitled The Great War. On 5 May 2019, they played in Plzeň on the anniversary of the Prague uprising. The album was released on 19 July 2019. The first single on the album 'Fields of Verdun', was released on 3 May. On 13 June, the lyric video for the song, "Red Baron", was released. On 27 June, the premiere of "The Great War" was released.

On 1 August 2019, the band performed their 20th anniversary show at Wacken Open Air festival 2019; during the gig former guitarist Thobbe Englund joined the band on stage for two songs. In the second half of the show Sabaton invited other former members to the festival's second stage - Rikard Sundén, Daniel Mÿhr, and Daniel Mullback, along with Englund. Sundén, Mÿhr, and Mullback are all members of Civil War, a similar band formed by the three along with Oskar Montelius, another former Sabaton member, as well as Nils Patrik Johansson and Stefan Erikkson, neither of whom are former Sabaton members.

On 30 August 2019, the band was involved in a serious car accident in Tunisia while returning from a music video shoot in the Sahara Desert. Injuries from the wreck forced them to cancel a show in Gdańsk, Poland.

On 23 December 2020, Sabaton posted a short teaser of a new song on YouTube, writing: "We bet you did not see this one coming... Are you ready for some new Sabaton music? Wait no more! Hear now a teaser of one of our upcoming songs..." On the next day, the band announced that they would begin recording their tenth studio album "in a few days".

They released "Livgardet", the Swedish version of a new single, on 26 February 2021, with the English version released on 9 April. The song is a tribute to the Swedish regiment Livgardet, the Royal Guard, released in relation to its 500-year anniversary as a military unit, making it one of the world's longest serving military units. The song was initially done in cooperation with the Swedish Armed Forces and Livgardet regiment, but the cooperation was halted after orders from the Swedish Army Command, citing the fact that Sabaton had played in Crimea in 2015 on a festival hosted by the Russian motorcycle gang Night Wolves.

On 7 May 2021, a single called "Defence of Moscow", an English cover of a song in Russian by Radio Tapok, was released.

On 10 August 2021, Sabaton posted a teaser for 14 August 2021 in morse code translating to 'The war to end all wars.' This then led to the announcement on 14 August 2021 of their new album continuing on the subject of World War I with the title The War to End All Wars. It was released on 4 March 2022. The first single from the album, "Christmas Truce", was released on 29 October 2021. The second single from the album, "Soldier of Heaven", was released on 7 January 2022. The third single from the album, "The Unkillable Soldier", was released on 11 February 2022.

On 25 August 2021, the song "Steel Commanders" was released in support of new Sabaton content in the popular video game World of Tanks. It was later elected by Loudwire as the 33rd best metal song of 2021.

On 30 September 2022, the song "Father" about German scientist Fritz Haber was released as the first single from their EP Weapons of the Modern Age, part of a planned trilogy titled Echoes of the Great War. Another single, titled "The First Soldier", was released on 20 January 2023, with the EP titled "Heroes of the Great War".

On 14 April 2023, Sabaton released a cover of Motörhead's "1916" from the album 1916.

On 20 January 2024, Sabaton announced that guitarist Tommy Johansson would be leaving the band to focus on his other projects, like Majestica, but would stay to perform until the next guitarist is announced.

Lyrical and musical style
The band's main lyrical themes are based on war, historical battles, and acts of heroism, influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden. Their name is a reference to a sabaton, knight's foot armor. The armor and battle theme are heard in most songs in almost every album except Metalizer. In their albums, The Great War and The War To End All Wars, which were released on 19 July 2019 and 4 March 2022, all the songs were based on World War I. Lyrical content drawn from World War I, World War II and other historical conflicts is prevalent, and lyrics often recite stories of heroic deeds by men, women, and armies, such as the song "White Death", which was made in honor of legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä.

Sabaton is often referred to as a power metal band by both music critics and the general public, deemed "a major force in the power metal field since the mid-2000s."[50] However, the band has traditionally rejected the term and they consider themselves a unique form of heavy metal. Bassist Pär Sundström said in an interview: "I don't think Sabaton can only be categorized as power metal, as the two main attributes of power metal are high pitched vocals and fantasy lyrics and Sabaton have neither of those. We simply play our version of heavy metal—what heavy metal is to us. I'm sure that has impacted our reach, in addition to the fact that we don't give up after only a few tries! That, and Sabaton's music appeals to people of all ages."

Controversy
The band performed at a show organized by Putin loyalist motorcycle club Night Wolves in Russian occupied Crimea in 2015, and bassist Sundström stated in an interview with Sweden Rock Magazine in 2016 that Crimea had previously been occupied by Ukraine. In 2022, Sabaton received the Public Educator Award from the Swedish Skeptics Association for the historical information which they publish on their homepage and through one of their YouTube channels. The concert and comments mentioned above caused the Swedish Skeptics Association to review the award after some public debate in Sweden, but the association elected not to withdraw the award after their investigation had been concluded.

Current

Joakim Brodén – lead vocals, additional guitars (1999–present), keyboards (1999–2005, 2012–present)
Pär Sundström – bass (1999–present), backing vocals (2012–present)
Chris Rörland – guitars, backing vocals (2012–present)
Hannes Van Dahl – drums, backing vocals (2014–present)
Former

Richard Larsson – drums (1999–2001)
Oskar Montelius – guitars, backing vocals (1999–2012)
Rikard Sundén – guitars, backing vocals (1999–2012)
Daniel Mullback – drums, backing vocals (2001–2012)
Daniel Mÿhr – keyboards, backing vocals (2005–2012)
Robban Bäck – drums (2012–2013)
Thobbe Englund – guitars, backing vocals (2012–2016)
Tommy Johansson – guitars, backing vocals (2016–2024)

Links
Website: https://www.sabaton.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabaton/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabatonofficial/
X Forerly Known as Twitter: https://twitter.com/sabaton
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sabatonofficial
VK: https://vk.com/sabatonclub
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Sabaton
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o2dn2O0FCVsWDFSh8qxgG
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/sabaton/184065032
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/12022?utm_campaign=clipboard-generic&utm_source=user_sharing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_content=artist-12022&deferredFl=1
Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B0011U46MG/sabaton
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sabatonofficial

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