Sabaton - Heroes
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Sounds like they haven't lost stride. How the hell they managed to find time to write and record this while touring so much is anyone's guess. They have one of the most grueling schedules I've ever seen.
Woo! Cannot wait to hear more of this album.
I also can't believe for the life of me it took to Jan 2013 for me to find out about these guys. So much time that could have been spent listening to Sabaton just... lost!
I also can't believe for the life of me it took to Jan 2013 for me to find out about these guys. So much time that could have been spent listening to Sabaton just... lost!
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Awesome! This was playing over the second Sabaton studio diary - glad I got to hear the whole thing.
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NorseBlood
franks n steins
This is a new song off their upcoming album "Heroes".
Its called "To Hell and Back".
Right after the band announced a split back in 2012 Sabaton posted a new track which will now appear on "Heroes".
As a refresher here it is again. Its called "Far From The Fame".
Its called "To Hell and Back".
Right after the band announced a split back in 2012 Sabaton posted a new track which will now appear on "Heroes".
As a refresher here it is again. Its called "Far From The Fame".
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Thanks for that! I'd completely forgotten about that song. Apparently they've wanted to do this theme for an album for a while, so it fits that they'd already have a song or two written for it.
One of the bonus songs is 7734. Assuming they did a re-recording, I wonder why they picked that one of all tracks.
NorseBlood
franks n steins
Here are some short reviews for Heroes:
http://www.bravewords.com/news/219431
http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=12542
http://metalasfuck.net/zine/reviews/2014/sabaton-heroes-nuclear-blast
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Somebody posted this information on the Sabaton fan website (http://panzerbattalion.se/) about the individual tracks on Heroes:
1. Night Witches: Typical catchy tune by Sabaton, powerful verses and awesome choruses with epic male choirs. Sounds a little bit like Ghost Division.
2. No Bullets Fly: Significant riff, a bit Van Halen-like, is the intro of the song and because of the ''oh-oh-oh'' choruses it will be great for playing live.
3. Smoking Snakes: What is the outcome if you combine a double-bass with a choir-overkill and a tapping solo on top of it? Probably the small brother of the awesome Opener ''Night Witches''.
4. Inmate 4858: Looming bell rings are the beginning of the gloomiest Sabaton song ever. A sluggish trip through new realms, which gets more intense due to new sounds such as violins and beautiful singing lines.
5. To Hell And Back: ''Our ABBA-tribute'' Joakim says about the first single, which has some seventies-disco-sounds, folk influences and of course the Sabaton trademarks. Literally a surprise-hit.
6. The Ballad Of Bull: Intensifying piano-ballad which somehow reminds of the first Avantasia ballads.
7. Resist And Bite: Modern Song which sounds rather like the more modern metal kinds. Or rather: The next surprise-hit of Heroes.
8. Soldiers Of 3 Armies: The drum intro in ''Painkiller'' style turns into an awesome double-bass-banger which will especially please Primo Victoria fans.
9. Far From The Fame: Gary Moore in chain armour, anyone? Catchy rocker that sounds like the dead master is residing in the heavy metal heaven. Absolutely hit-like.
10. Hearts Of Iron: Epic, heroic, hymnal! Classic-quotes would make this awesome last song improve every metal-opera project.
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Here is some background info about each track on Heroes. Again, I found this on Sabaton's fan site:
1.NIGHT WITCHES
During that time you didn't want to show off that you used female pilots so they where only allowed to fly at night. These soviet pilots where not given any nice planes either but World War one planes made of wood and with sails. Far from the target they turned off their engines and glided in their planes, dropped their bombs,turned on the engines again and went off. When the wind hit their sails it said "shoosch" then they where called Night Witches or Witch Brooms.
2. NO BULLETS FLY
The German fighter pilot Franz Stigler got the order to shoot down a B17 Flying Fortress, when he got closer to the target he saw that the plane was damaged. He chose to escort the plane out to the sea so it could return home cause he didn't want to fire on a wounded enemy. He risked to be shot by the pilots in the B17's gun tower and if they where seen both risked to be shot down by german 88's anti aircraft guns. If someone knew about this he probably had been caught and executed
3. SMOKING SNAKES
The Brazilian quote " A cobra vai fumar" -"the snake will smoke" used in the same way as "When pigs could fly". First then the Brazilian Expeditionary Force would go out to war. In 1944 Brazil said "Now the snake smokes" and shipped 25 000 man. The text focuses on three men that choosed to stay while under attack by the Germans, they held them back as much so the rest of the Brazilians could retreat. They where shot but then the Germans stopped their attack long enough to bury the three men and put up a cross with the text "Here lies three Brazilian heroes". The Germans where so impressed by their heroic deeds.
4. INMATE 4859
The story on the album that sticks out the most. When the Polish soldier Witold Pilecki got his eyes on what really was happening in Auschwitz he tried to convince people but no one believed him. He made false papers where he told he was a jew and became caught and sent to Auschwitz. There he organized a resistance and waited help from the outside but nobody came, after two and a half years he stole important papers and evidence on what was going on and escaped. When he gave the material to the Polish exile government and said "This many people is systematically slaughtered" they and the allies didn't believe him. He got tired of it, went to Warsaw and took part in the Uprising,went to a German prison camp and after the war the soviets captured him and executed him for thinking that he was a traitor and a spy. A fantastic story with a huge sad ending.
5. TO HELL AND BACK
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in the entire WW2. When he returned home he suffered from shell shock,he became so dependent of medication that he refused to get treatment but instead went to a hotel for a week. He then wrote the book "To Hell and Back" played himself in the movie and later became a western movie star.
6. THE BALLAD OF BULL
I'm very pleased over my and Pär's text about Leslie "Bull Allen. He was an Australian stretcher carrier in New Guinea at the mountain Tambu. Suddenly people came running down from the mountain because the fighting against the Japanese soldiers where so tough, then he asked: "What is happening?" and they said "It shoots everywhere, it's snipers and people lays there and dying" Then he walked up the mountain and returned with an American soldier (who was not even of his own kind) on his shoulders. His uniform had a couple of holes in it but he wasn't seriously injured. The sick part is that he put the soldier down then went up the mountain again and came back with another soldier, he went through the bullet train which the others escaped from TWELVE times. He was awarded the American silver star but no award from his own country.
7. RESIST AND BITE
Around 40 men in the Belgian battalion Chasseurs Ardennais where given orders to retreat bacause the Germans were in full move against them. Because of a communication problem they never received the order and the order before was to hold the lines. These 40 man kept the Germans so busy that when they where captured they where asked "where is the rest of the men?" then they laughed and said "No it's just us". They only had small cannons but came up with the idea that if they put wet towels,wet grass into the cannon it would make the Germans think " Damn they have big cannons then we take it easy" very fun story on how something can be so wrong but anyways so right.
8, SOLDIER OF 3 ARMIES
The Finnish soldier Lauri Törni wasn't happy with the peace with the Russians when Finland had to give up a huge part of the Karelen. Then he instead joined the Germans to keep fighting the Russians, then he went to prison. In the 1950's he went to America, went to the army and changed his name to Larry Thorne. He joined their special force the "Green Basques" when in 1965 died during the Vietnam war. Pretty fantastic that a Finnish man reaches the rank of officer and get awards from three different armies during his lifetime.
9. FAR FROM THE FAME
Germany occupied Czechoslovakia before the war even started, the Czech soldier Karel Janousek joined the resistance and thought "Here I won't do any good". He fled to France and gathered Czech pilots and fought. When France surrendered he fled again and this time to England and became marshal over the Czech pilots under the Royal Air Force. As many others Karel suffered a sad ending when he got home and was put in jail. A little different story which lies warm to my heart since my mother is Czech and I have Czech Citizenship.
10. HEARTS OF IRON
The final Battle of Berlin 1945. The German general Walther Wenck knew that the war was over and didn't want more to die in vain. Instead of following Hitler's direct order to fight back the Russian army he decided to create a corridor. His 12th army created this corridor through and out from Berlin so they could surrender to the Americans and the civilians become taken care of. The Soviet army weren't so merciful to Berlin and it's people, maybe that was deserved as well because the Germans hadn't been so nice when they where heading east either. Wenck said " This isn't about the Reich, not about Berlin, it's about the people and this is not a fight, this is an rescue operation."
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Has anyone heard the single available on iTunes called "Resist and Bite"? iTunes is the only place I've seen it, and it will be available on May 6. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/resist-and-bite-single/id853427792?uo=4
The release dates for Heroes are:
Europe: May 16
UK & France: May 19
USA: May 27
http://www.bravewords.com/news/219431
http://www.metalunderground.com/reviews/details.cfm?releaseid=12542
http://metalasfuck.net/zine/reviews/2014/sabaton-heroes-nuclear-blast
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Somebody posted this information on the Sabaton fan website (http://panzerbattalion.se/) about the individual tracks on Heroes:
1. Night Witches: Typical catchy tune by Sabaton, powerful verses and awesome choruses with epic male choirs. Sounds a little bit like Ghost Division.
2. No Bullets Fly: Significant riff, a bit Van Halen-like, is the intro of the song and because of the ''oh-oh-oh'' choruses it will be great for playing live.
3. Smoking Snakes: What is the outcome if you combine a double-bass with a choir-overkill and a tapping solo on top of it? Probably the small brother of the awesome Opener ''Night Witches''.
4. Inmate 4858: Looming bell rings are the beginning of the gloomiest Sabaton song ever. A sluggish trip through new realms, which gets more intense due to new sounds such as violins and beautiful singing lines.
5. To Hell And Back: ''Our ABBA-tribute'' Joakim says about the first single, which has some seventies-disco-sounds, folk influences and of course the Sabaton trademarks. Literally a surprise-hit.
6. The Ballad Of Bull: Intensifying piano-ballad which somehow reminds of the first Avantasia ballads.
7. Resist And Bite: Modern Song which sounds rather like the more modern metal kinds. Or rather: The next surprise-hit of Heroes.
8. Soldiers Of 3 Armies: The drum intro in ''Painkiller'' style turns into an awesome double-bass-banger which will especially please Primo Victoria fans.
9. Far From The Fame: Gary Moore in chain armour, anyone? Catchy rocker that sounds like the dead master is residing in the heavy metal heaven. Absolutely hit-like.
10. Hearts Of Iron: Epic, heroic, hymnal! Classic-quotes would make this awesome last song improve every metal-opera project.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Here is some background info about each track on Heroes. Again, I found this on Sabaton's fan site:
1.NIGHT WITCHES
During that time you didn't want to show off that you used female pilots so they where only allowed to fly at night. These soviet pilots where not given any nice planes either but World War one planes made of wood and with sails. Far from the target they turned off their engines and glided in their planes, dropped their bombs,turned on the engines again and went off. When the wind hit their sails it said "shoosch" then they where called Night Witches or Witch Brooms.
2. NO BULLETS FLY
The German fighter pilot Franz Stigler got the order to shoot down a B17 Flying Fortress, when he got closer to the target he saw that the plane was damaged. He chose to escort the plane out to the sea so it could return home cause he didn't want to fire on a wounded enemy. He risked to be shot by the pilots in the B17's gun tower and if they where seen both risked to be shot down by german 88's anti aircraft guns. If someone knew about this he probably had been caught and executed
3. SMOKING SNAKES
The Brazilian quote " A cobra vai fumar" -"the snake will smoke" used in the same way as "When pigs could fly". First then the Brazilian Expeditionary Force would go out to war. In 1944 Brazil said "Now the snake smokes" and shipped 25 000 man. The text focuses on three men that choosed to stay while under attack by the Germans, they held them back as much so the rest of the Brazilians could retreat. They where shot but then the Germans stopped their attack long enough to bury the three men and put up a cross with the text "Here lies three Brazilian heroes". The Germans where so impressed by their heroic deeds.
4. INMATE 4859
The story on the album that sticks out the most. When the Polish soldier Witold Pilecki got his eyes on what really was happening in Auschwitz he tried to convince people but no one believed him. He made false papers where he told he was a jew and became caught and sent to Auschwitz. There he organized a resistance and waited help from the outside but nobody came, after two and a half years he stole important papers and evidence on what was going on and escaped. When he gave the material to the Polish exile government and said "This many people is systematically slaughtered" they and the allies didn't believe him. He got tired of it, went to Warsaw and took part in the Uprising,went to a German prison camp and after the war the soviets captured him and executed him for thinking that he was a traitor and a spy. A fantastic story with a huge sad ending.
5. TO HELL AND BACK
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in the entire WW2. When he returned home he suffered from shell shock,he became so dependent of medication that he refused to get treatment but instead went to a hotel for a week. He then wrote the book "To Hell and Back" played himself in the movie and later became a western movie star.
6. THE BALLAD OF BULL
I'm very pleased over my and Pär's text about Leslie "Bull Allen. He was an Australian stretcher carrier in New Guinea at the mountain Tambu. Suddenly people came running down from the mountain because the fighting against the Japanese soldiers where so tough, then he asked: "What is happening?" and they said "It shoots everywhere, it's snipers and people lays there and dying" Then he walked up the mountain and returned with an American soldier (who was not even of his own kind) on his shoulders. His uniform had a couple of holes in it but he wasn't seriously injured. The sick part is that he put the soldier down then went up the mountain again and came back with another soldier, he went through the bullet train which the others escaped from TWELVE times. He was awarded the American silver star but no award from his own country.
7. RESIST AND BITE
Around 40 men in the Belgian battalion Chasseurs Ardennais where given orders to retreat bacause the Germans were in full move against them. Because of a communication problem they never received the order and the order before was to hold the lines. These 40 man kept the Germans so busy that when they where captured they where asked "where is the rest of the men?" then they laughed and said "No it's just us". They only had small cannons but came up with the idea that if they put wet towels,wet grass into the cannon it would make the Germans think " Damn they have big cannons then we take it easy" very fun story on how something can be so wrong but anyways so right.
8, SOLDIER OF 3 ARMIES
The Finnish soldier Lauri Törni wasn't happy with the peace with the Russians when Finland had to give up a huge part of the Karelen. Then he instead joined the Germans to keep fighting the Russians, then he went to prison. In the 1950's he went to America, went to the army and changed his name to Larry Thorne. He joined their special force the "Green Basques" when in 1965 died during the Vietnam war. Pretty fantastic that a Finnish man reaches the rank of officer and get awards from three different armies during his lifetime.
9. FAR FROM THE FAME
Germany occupied Czechoslovakia before the war even started, the Czech soldier Karel Janousek joined the resistance and thought "Here I won't do any good". He fled to France and gathered Czech pilots and fought. When France surrendered he fled again and this time to England and became marshal over the Czech pilots under the Royal Air Force. As many others Karel suffered a sad ending when he got home and was put in jail. A little different story which lies warm to my heart since my mother is Czech and I have Czech Citizenship.
10. HEARTS OF IRON
The final Battle of Berlin 1945. The German general Walther Wenck knew that the war was over and didn't want more to die in vain. Instead of following Hitler's direct order to fight back the Russian army he decided to create a corridor. His 12th army created this corridor through and out from Berlin so they could surrender to the Americans and the civilians become taken care of. The Soviet army weren't so merciful to Berlin and it's people, maybe that was deserved as well because the Germans hadn't been so nice when they where heading east either. Wenck said " This isn't about the Reich, not about Berlin, it's about the people and this is not a fight, this is an rescue operation."
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Has anyone heard the single available on iTunes called "Resist and Bite"? iTunes is the only place I've seen it, and it will be available on May 6. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/resist-and-bite-single/id853427792?uo=4
The release dates for Heroes are:
Europe: May 16
UK & France: May 19
USA: May 27
Harvester
The Promoter
Do you know how good an album has to be to get me headbanging in the car on the way to work at 0630? This ranks right behind "The Art of War" for me in their catalog. I cannot think of another band where I listen to an album and immediately start thinking about how it will translate live.
"Night Witches" for the win!
"Night Witches" for the win!
PromisedLand
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Oy. Amazing album. But then, has Sabaton ever released one that was disappointing?
Chris and Thobbe really add something special to the Sabaton sound.
Chris and Thobbe really add something special to the Sabaton sound.
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