SABATON

Release Year: 2010
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: epic thunderous power heavy metal

bombastically entitled as the first victory, initial studio longplay [2005] by nowadays worldwide familiar Swedish entity is also the first history lesson discussing hot military conflicts of modern times like Vietnam war and Gulf crisis, enriched by martial keyboards and choir-driven refrains, converted into pure, undiluted and powerful heavy metal language, relentlessly marching on from the first riff ever written: characterized by soaring raspy vocals, dominating guitar work, and diverse repertoire, nine expressive, catchy and quite dynamic cuts convey the scale of strategic battles as well as dramatic weight of the soldiers’ experience, smoothly getting under the skin and staying there even in your sweetest sleep; recent German edition in Re-Armed series comes with six extra songs as bonus, including demo versions, Twisted Sister cover and live entries from 2008