ProgPower USA video greeting from Sabaton

[miel]

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Par took a moment to greet us from this stage where they shot their recent BluRay/DVD

~Jen

 

[seh750]

For bands who play in places like that overseas, it's truly amazing they even bother to come to the US and play for 150 people a night. But I'm very glad they do.

 

[PureXul]

For bands who play in places like that overseas, it's truly amazing they even bother to come to the US and play for 150 people a night. But I'm very glad they do.

Metal draws better in Europe (or some forms of it do, anyway), but comparing the main stage at a festival to a night of a tour isn't exactly apples to apples, especially since it's not strictly a metal festival in that picture.

That aside, bands don't start off drawing thousands of people, even in Europe. They put the time in over there playing to 150 people/night, they're just further along the curve in Europe than they are in the US. The ceiling for a band like Sabaton may be lower in the US than it is in Europe, but suffice to say that if it wasn't at least mildly profitable for them to tour here (be it short-term or long-term), they wouldn't do it.

 

[Hammerlock]

Metal draws better in Europe (or some forms of it do, anyway), but comparing the main stage at a festival to a night of a tour isn't exactly apples to apples, especially since it's not strictly a metal festival in that picture.

That aside, bands don't start off drawing thousands of people, even in Europe. They put the time in over there playing to 150 people/night, they're just further along the curve in Europe than they are in the US. The ceiling for a band like Sabaton may be lower in the US than it is in Europe, but suffice to say that if it wasn't at least mildly profitable for them to tour here (be it short-term or long-term), they wouldn't do it.

That, and it's pretty clear that they just love doing it. They played a few weeks ago to a couple hundred people in Denver and not one of them was hiding the fact that they were having fun. That's a large part of what makes them such a good live band. Going through the motions they are not.

 

[TheLongshot]

Certainly the last time I saw them at Empire, they made us feel like the worlds greatest crowd. Certainly the crowd that was there gave it their all.

 

[seh750]

That, and it's pretty clear that they just love doing it.

Amen to that. Saw Sabaton for the second time just a couple of weeks ago and they put on an incredible show. The picture that Miel put up just struck me as a huge contrast to the two small local venues where I've seen them perform.

I really dug the "shall we play this song or that song" thing they did this time around. The crowd really got into that.