SABATON PLOTS NORTH AMERICAN INVASION FOR “THE GREAT TOUR” *NEW ALBUM, THE GREAT WAR, ARRIVES JULY 19TH VIA NUCLEAR BLAST*

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SABATON PLOTS NORTH AMERICAN INVASION FOR “THE GREAT TOUR”
*NEW ALBUM, THE GREAT WAR, ARRIVES JULY 19TH VIA NUCLEAR BLAST*

 

 

April 29, 2019 – Los Angeles, CA – Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON will make their triumphant return to North American this fall for “The Great Tour.” The headline excursion will feature support from special guest HAMMERFALL, and will begin in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on October 4th and will end in Silver Spring, MD on November 3rd. Blabermouth.net will host a ticket pre-order beginning Wednesday, May 1st at 10:00AM Local Time and ending Thursday, May 2nd at 10:00PM Local Time (Password: GREATTOUR). General ticket onsale will begin May 3rd at www.sabaton.net/tour.

 

“NORTH AMERICA, prepare for a Swedish invasion! We will reach your shores in early October with our new album “The Great War”, a bigger production than before & the templars of steel in Hammerfall as special guests! Get ready for a damn good dose of Swedish heavy metal!” – SABATON

 

SABATON’s trek to North America coincides with the band’s upcoming 20th Anniversary and their highly-anticipated ninth full-length record, The Great War, which will be released on July 19th with Nuclear Blast Records.  Keeping with their tradition of metallic battle hymns about the feats of man in wartime, the new record will be a concept album dedicated entirely to the World War I.

 

SABATON TOUR DATES (w/HAMMERFALL):
Oct 4 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
Oct 5 – Tampa, FL – Jannus Landing
Oct 6 – Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
Oct 8 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
Oct 10 – Phoenix, AZ – Van Buren
Oct 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Oct 12 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency
Oct 14 – Portland, OR – Roseland Ballroom
Oct 15 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SODO
Oct 16 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theater
Oct 18 – Edmonton, AB – Union Hall
Oct 19 – Calgary, AB – The Palace Theater
Oct 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
Oct 23 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theater
Oct 25 – Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theater
Oct 26 – Chicago, IL – The Vic Theatre
Oct 27 – Cleveland, OH – The Agora Ballroom
Oct 29 – Toronto, on – The Danforth Music Hall
Oct 30 – Montreal, QC – M Telus
Nov 1 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
Nov 2 – New York, NY – PlayStation Theater
Nov 3 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore

 

 

The Great War will be available in these editions and formats:

STANDARD EDITION
The full album, available on CD Jewelcase, colored vinyl and digitally.

HISTORY EDITION
The full album including narrated parts introducing each song.
These narrations are merged, not as separate tracks.
The History edition is available on CD Digipak, vinyl and digitally.

THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREAT WAR EDITION
Instrumental versions of The Great War, available digitally (full album) + exclusively as part of THE GREAT BOX EDITION on CD (full album) and vinyl (10 tracks).

EARBOOK EDITION
Features a 36 pages booklet and includes the STANDARD EDITION & HISTORY EDITION on CD.

THE GREAT BOX EDITION
(Limited to 1000 pieces) Includes:
-Earbook with 36 pages booklet
-STANDARD EDITION – CD
-HISTORY EDITION – CD
-THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREAT WAR EDITION – CD
-STANDARD EDITION – vinyl [180g]
-HISTORY EDITION – vinyl [180g]
-THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREAT WAR EDITION – vinyl [180g] (10 tracks)
-One out of 11 Great War posters (chosen at random)
-Postcards
-Lyric poem
-Limited, numbered and individualized certifications

 

The Great War tracklist:
01. The Future Of Warfare
02. Seven Pillars Of Wisdom
03. 82nd All The Way
04. The Attack Of The Dead Men
05. Devil Dogs
06. The Red Baron
07. Great War
08. A Ghost In The Trenches
09. Fields Of Verdun
10. The End Of The War To End All Wars
11. In Flanders Fields

 

Watch the first trailer for the album, in which bassist Pär Sundström and historian Indy Neidell discuss the new record: https://youtu.be/VqbcvI2BgSk

 

The band started the recordings exactly 100 years after the end of the First World War (11/11/1918) and took 3 months of intensive work to complete the album together with their long term producer and partner Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios. Furthermore, the album has been mastered by Maor Appelbaum and the artwork was once again created by Peter Sallaí.

 

“This is not the first time we have sung about stories from this period in time, but now we felt the timing was right to make a full concept album about this war”, explain the band.

 

In addition, SABATON posted this trailer revealing more details about the amazing artwork – watch it here: https://youtu.be/HCZP1-JsD0M

 

Alongside the album, the Swedes have worked hard to make their 20th year anniversary a very exciting year, and also started the SABATON History Channel – a unique collaboration between the band themselves and multimedia historians Indy Neidell and Timeghost –capturing the power of social media to tell stories about the wars, battles and heroes behind SABATON’s songs. Subscribe to the YouTube channel via this link:

 

“This is the biggest album we have taken on so far.There is more depth and story around the songs that we have ever had before”, Pär Sundström announces. “Expect many surprises as we have tried new things and we also went back in time to a concept we know a lot of you love. The Great War has been created side by side with the Sabaton History Channel to make 2019 the most exciting year in our 20 year history.”

 

Get the band’s previous albums as well as lots of merch and special editions at https://nuclearblast.com

 

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