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Sabaton “The Tour To End All Tours” (Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam) – 03/05/2023

Not just headlining  Graspop , but headlining it as a finishing act. Being the sub headliner for Metallica  at  Hellfest . These are just some recent ‘feat of arms’ Sabaton achieved in the past year. But are they satisfied? Hell no! With this  Tour To End All Tours, they look to surpass all previous acts and launch their biggest shows yet. GRIMM could not miss this party, and we already went ahead of the Antwerp show to see what our Sabaton  friends were up to and what we could expect. And yes, they did it, 15,000 Dutchmen in one arena, singing and jumping all together on all the goodness Sabaton  has to offer. However, I am sure Belgium will rise to the task, even surpassing this heroic performance.

Sabaton  did not undertake this task by themselves, to be sure. The first band to assist them was Lordi. It goes without saying that this band could easily headline themselves, as most people will still remember them winning the Eurovision Song Festival  of 2006 (yes, dear friends, that is already getting close to 2 decades ago, you are all getting old).

Given the performance these guys are still able to bring to the stage, it is strange to reminisce that this heavy rock / heavy metal band was birthed back in 1992. Nonetheless, they do what they do best. Produce a mean heavy metal sound with some great musicianship (see our video) while parodying metal as a whole. And I just love that. Because by comically exaggerating what metal is, they define it and become a sort of ambassadors of our community to the rest of the world.

This sense of self reflection also marks the band itself. They know bloody well – with Mr. Lordi mentioning it several times – that they are there to warm people up for Sabaton  and they do that so wonderfully well. This is just great entertainment, great music and great theatre.

BABYMETAL is a ‘Kawaii metal band’. What is that? Well, in my opinion it is not really a separate subgenre as there is far too little bands that would fall under this title. But you could call it modern Japanese folk metal. Bear with me here! Think about the things that make modern Japanese culture, think Manga, think Anime, think these typical electro melodies that go along with all that. You have that in your mind? Now put a metal riff, drum, and base on that. That is what Kawaii metal is, and that is what BABYMETAL is.

So, if you are new to it, and you are going to look them up. You will get this feeling yet again, “what the f*ck”. Honesty be told, I know this band for quite some years but now seeing them live for the first time I was yet again caught with the same feeling: “what the f*ck”. Do not get me wrong, I do not mean that in any bad way, to the contrary – even though there is a feeling whether 15,000 grown-ups should enjoy the image of ‘school girls’ jumping around on a stage (again something very Japanese).

Let me be clear though, I was really glad to see them live and also to be able to witness some other songs than the famous Road of Resistance  or Gimme Chocolate (see video). The thing with  BABYMETAL is that even though it is through and through modern, just like modern Japanese culture as a whole, it floats on a deep ocean of traditional elements. The dancing with the specific hand movements and tight choreography, the masks of the musicians, even the composition in many ways, all have deep roots in the Japanese identity.

And I am not speaking yet about the amazing musicianship. There is really not just some metal talent there, but also the ability to take traditional elements as well as modern electro melodies and fuse them with good metal riffs. Particularly the leading guitar was really impressive.

I therefore strongly suggest to look beyond the girlish songs and listen to the entire discography of this band and – even better – go see them live. It is worth it!

And then it is time for the big one: Sabaton.  I am going to be honest here, I saw these guys on  Graspop  and a week later on  Hellfest , and that was not too early for me, not even in the least. In fact, the entire reason I went to  Sabaton  and did the interview with Tommy Johansson, was to get my yearly dose of the band. In short, I love Sabaton,  a band I am listening to since 2006 or 2007. So yes, I am one of these early days Belgian fans. But what would you expect? I am a metalhead and a historian! Nonetheless, I will try to retain a critical attitude, and it does give me the advantage of comparing this show in an arena filled with Dutchmen to the festival experiences of last year.

So to answer the most urgent question, how was the show? Well, just amazing! Particularly for die hard fans, as they chose for this ‘extra show’ after the festival season to make some set-list changes and also include some older and less played songs in the first part of the show. I am talking about songs such as Into the Fire and one of my favourites The winged hussars  (I have been driving around Poland for a month with this song constantly playing).

Another important reason for the success of this show was beyond any doubt the audience. Netherlands, you were amazing, no kidding, just amazing. Just look at the video when the band plays  Stormtroopers,  you hear the audience, that is 15,000 women and men, singing along, sometimes even overpowering the sound system. And I am not just talking bout the chorus, they sang the entire f*cking song, and do mind that this is one of the new album. So imagine what they did on a Ghost Division, Carolus Rex  or  Primo Victoria  (and sorry I could not film those as I was jumping and singing with the many friends I made that evening).

Even  Joakim Bröden (lead vocals) confessed he was impressed by the energy of the Dutch crowd. Those responded to the compliment in a way only the Dutch can by shouting: “broek af, op je hoofd” (for our foreign friends, look it up!) and repeating this motto throughout the entire concert. The poor Swedes stood perplexed but not surprised as this was not the first encounter with our Northern neighbours.

The concert certainly had quite some energy, which was fuelled by the interaction of stage and audience. Particularly Tommy Johannson (leading guitar) and  Chris Rörland  (rhythmic guitar) were full of energy from the start. As usual, Sabaton ‘s traditional opening song  Ghost Division  set the crowd on fire, and on fire we were.

And it was not just energy, but also quite some emotion. As the last albums  Great War  and  The War to end all Wars  deal with the First World War, the band produced songs that carried more load. This is most noticeable in Christmas Truce, a song that moved a lot of people to tears, and they have recently continued that line with their  Möterhead  cover 1916 . Both songs were also part of the setlist and I found myself on both occasions standing arm in arm with new friends as we all understood the depth of the human experience they related, whether it is the touching story of men seeing brothers rather than enemies in the mayhem of war or remembering a generation that has fallen in the muds at the Somme.

Notwithstanding this energy and emotion, there are some small points of critique that need to be noted as well. First, the energy did seem to drop in the beginning of the second half of the concert. This is in part due to the sequence of Father, Attack of the Dead Men  and  Christmas Truce.  Those are all good songs, some of them even fan favourites, but they are also slower and heavier (both in musical and emotional terms). This really slowed down the energy level too much. Having a more up-beat and faster song in there, such as the Unkillable Soldier instead of  Attack of the Dead Men  could have remedied this. Furthermore, both these songs have the typical rhythmic and cadenced vocals.

Second, I did notice that Joakim ‘svocals were often not as powerful as they usually are and at moments – though rarely – they were a little off. He also seemed to have apparent less energy at certain moment. Probably, the heavy touring schedule which this band is now carrying on for two years after putting a lot of work in making their last album will start to wear them down.

Let me be clear, though, I am really nit-picking here because this was still an absolute top show. And the little drop around the half of the set-list was washed away completely when the band hit their ending songs, starting with  Primo Victoria . And damned, really daaaaaamnneeeed! There are YouTube videos, so check it out. The 7,000 people standing in the middle section all jumped on the rhythm of the song while everyone was singing the chorus. What a surge of energy!

Next in this finishing list was the classic  Swedish Pagans which  Tommy  and  Chris  led in a contest where both sides of the arena competed to sing the ‘ooohoooohoooh’ part loudest. Yes, I lost my voice due to these boys’ shenanigans. This set the stage for the traditional finisher of Sabaton  To Hell and Back which ended what indeed was a tour to end all tours.

So, in comparison to the festival shows I saw of last year, this show certainly outdid the  Hellfest  performance simply because that was a rather tough crowd. However, Sabaton  and Belgium have their special relationship, and you feel that. Notwithstanding the amazing energy and enthusiasm of my many Dutch friends in Amsterdam, I have fond memories of the Graspop experience last year. But all of this is not going to be overpowered by the Antwerp show  Sabaton  will soon give in the Sportpaleis Antwerpen and which may be their biggest show to date. Belgium, go for it!

Sabaton  was not just amazing in performance, but they will be amazing soon in Belgium as well at the Sportpaleis May 13th.

Tommy Johannson already talked to us, so to warm-up have a look at our interview at Interview Sabaton – “I know the other guys don’t consider Sabaton power metal, but just listen to Stormtroopers, that song is so power metal” • GRIMM Gent

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Sabaton announce The Tour To End All Tours for 2022

Sabaton’s 2022 European tour will visit 26 cities in 17 countries, starting in Norway on March 4

Sabaton will embark upon a 26 city, 17 countries European tour in the spring of 2022, with The Hu and Lordi in tow.

Bassist Pär Sundström says, “We have all been waiting for far too long for this... And we are more ready than ever. By the time we start this tour we will have a whole treasure chest of new songs to play along with a lot of other surprises. You do not want to miss The Tour to End All Tours.”

Tickets for the UK shows go on sale Friday July 9 at 10am BST at MyTicket.co.uk & sabaton.net/tour . 

There is also an early bird reward, with everyone who buys a ticket before 4pm BST on July 9 receiving exclusive access to the band's Exitfest livestream that same night for free. 

Sabaton tour dates 2022

Mar 04 Oslo, Spektrum NOR Mar 05 Stockholm, Avicii Arena SWE    Mar 06 Copenhagen, Royal Arena DEN Mar 08 Hamburg, Barclays ArenaMar GET Mar 09 Esch-zur-Alzette, Rockhal LUX Mar 11 Berlin, Mercedes Benz Arena GER Mar 12 Prague, O2 Arena CZE Mar 13 Budapest, Arena HUN Mar 15 Milan, Lorenzini District ITA Mar 16 Geneva, Arena SWI Mar 18 London, The SSE Arena, Wembley ENG Mar 19 Leeds, First Direct Arena ENG Mar 20 Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena WAL Mar 22 Glasgow, The SSE Hydro SCO Mar 24 Antwerp, Sportpaleis BEL Mar 25 Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome NL Mar 26 Leipzig, Quarterback Immo.Arena GER Mar 28 Paris, La Seine Musicale FRA Mar 30 Vienna, Stadthalle AUS Mar 31 Munich, Olympiahalle GER Apr 1 Cologne, Lanxess Arena GER Apr 2 Hannover, ZAG Arena GER Apr 4 Krakow, Tauron Arena POL Apr 6 Tallinn, Saku Arena EST Apr 8 Kuopio, Kuopio Hall FIN Apr 9 Helsinki, Hartwall Arena FIN 

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It's on! Sabaton are heading stateside with their "Tour to End All Tours" run this fall, announcing a 25-date trek that will include a special headline show at Montreal's Place Bell that will serve as their first-ever headline concert in Canada.

The trek gets underway Sept. 15 in Seattle with dates booked through the Oct. 23 finale in New York. You can see all the dates, cities and venues listed toward the bottom of this post. In addition to Sabaton, the band is bringing along symphonic metallers Epica to open the shows. Tickets for the run will go on sale to the general public this Friday (March 18) at 10AM local time. Get your ticketing and pre-sale info here .

"We're all looking forward to this tour," said the band's Pär Sundström. "It will have been three years since we've brought our headline show to America, so we are more ready than ever. And, with the release of our new album, we now have a vault full of new songs to play."

The tour comes in support of the band's The War to End All Wars album, which just debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Current Rock Albums and Current Hard Music Albums charts. Additional, the album grabbed the No. 1 spot in Germany and Sweden and was No. 2 in Norway and on the U.K. Rock & Metal Chart.

“With our last album, The Great War , we found that we had only scratched the surface in terms of the powerful stories of courage and bravery and also the horrors that took place during the first World War," says Broden. "Fans would contact us and tell us these amazing stories from World War One that none of us had ever heard of before. Incredible stories about everyday people who were willing to give their lives for something bigger than themselves. These were stories of a frightening and liberating time in history that had to be told.”

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Following the release of their tenth studio album, The War To End All Wars, Sabaton come up with a huge announcement today: Spring 2023 will see the band touring across Europe on the eagerly awaited re-scheduled tour: The Tour To End All Tours.

Starting in Leeds on April 14th, 2023 the tour will bring Sabaton to 21 cities in 14 countries. They will present their biggest and most spectacular show to date in Europe's largest arenas. Fans can be assured that the band will write history with the ground-breaking live shows on The Tour To End All Tours. Support acts will be announced soon.

Dates are as follows:

April 14 - Leeds, UK – First Direct Arena 15 - London, UK - OVO Arena Wembley 16 - Cardiff, UK – Motorpoint Arena 18 - Glasgow, UK – The OVO Hydro 21 - Paris, France – Zenith 24 - Hamburg, Germany – Barclays Arena 25 - Esch / Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal 28 - Stockholm, Sweden – Avicii Arena 29 - Oslo, Norway – Spektrum 30 - Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena

May 2 - Hannover, Germany – ZAG Arena 3 - Amsterdam, Netherlands – Ziggo Dome 5 - Berlin, Germany – Mercedes Benz Arena 6 - Leipzig, Germany – Quarterback Immobilien Arena 7 - Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle 12 - Cologne, Germany – Lanxess Arena 13 - Antwerp, Belgium – Sportpaleis 15 - Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle 18 - Tallinn, Estonia – Saku Arena 19 - Helsinki, Finland – Ice Hall 20 - Kuopio, Finland – Kuopio Hall

Tickets are already on sale here .

Sabaton’s tenth album, The War To End All Wars, is now available via Nuclear Blast Records. The new masterpiece from the Swedish metal force is determined to shake the world in its foundations, introducing a new era in the band's remarkable career.

The band states: "With our last album, The Great War, we found that we had only scratched the surface in terms of the powerful stories of courage and bravery and also the horrors that took place during the first World War. Fans would contact us and tell us these amazing stories from World War One that none of us had ever heard of before. Incredible, human tales like the British and German soldiers who put down their weapons on Christmas Eve in 1914 to share a moment of peace and reconciliation, right there on the battlefield; or the brave soldiers who fought in the White War, some 12,000 feet up in the Alps, who froze to death and whose bodies remain under the snow to this day. These are magnificent stories about everyday people who were willing to give their lives for something that was bigger than themselves. Marrying these true tales to loud, bruising, bone tingling heavy metal? Adding a second chapter to one the most frightening and liberating times in history? Why wouldn’t we make this album?"

To celebrate the release, Sabaton releases a video for their fourth single, "Race To The Sea". 'Race To The Sea' is a song about the decision from Albert of Belgium during WW1 to flood the last part of Belgium and with the help of water prevent all of Belgium to fall into German hands.

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The War To End All Wars tracklisting:

"Sarajevo" "Stormtroopers" "Dreadnought" "The Unkillable Soldier" "Soldier Of Heaven" "Hellfighters" "Race To The Sea" "Lady Of The Dark" "The Valley Of Death" "Christmas Truce" "Versailles"

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Setlist + Video – Judas Priest + Sabaton Kick Off North American Tour

I n support of their new album Invincible Shield , Judas Priest kicked off their North American tour last night (April 18) in Wallingford, Ct. with special guest Sabaton .

The Metal Gods took the stage at the Oakdale Theatre and ripped through an 18-song set that heavily focused on the new record, British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance . Honoring a sizable chunk of the back catalog, Judas Priest played one song off six other albums and two from 1978’s Killing Machine (known to some as Hell Bent for Leather ).

The set mostly mirrored what most fans in Europe already saw the last few weeks, with some slight deviations. Priest also switched up the set on occasion during that run, so we’ll see if the band does the same as this next leg continues.

READ MORE: Ian Hill Names His Favorite Judas Priest Song – ‘It’s Just So Raw’

Meanwhile, Swedish power metal heroes Sabaton played a 12-song, 50-minute set to get Connecticut’s metal maniacs primed for Priest. They played material from seven albums, including their latest, 2022’s The War to End All Wars.

See both setlists and fan-filmed video of each band below.

The tour continues through May 22 and all the remaining dates can be viewed here .

Judas Priest Setlist — April 18, 2024

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01. “Panic Attack”

02. “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin'”

03. “Rapid Fire”

04. “Breaking the Law”

05. “Lightning Strike”

06. “Love Bites”

07. “Devil’s Child”

08. “Saints in Hell”

09. “Crown of Horns”

10. “You Don’t Have to Be Old to Be Wise”

11. “Turbo Lover”

12. “Invincible Shield”

13. “Victim of Changes”

14. “The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)” (Fleetwood Mac cover)

15. “Painkiller”

17. “The Hellion/Electric Eye”

18. “Hell Bent for Leather”

19. “Living After Midnight”

Judas Priest Live — April 18, 2024

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Judas Priest Encore — April 18, 2024

Sabaton setlist — april 18, 2024.

01. “Ghost Division”

02. “The Last Stand”

03. “Swedish Pagans”

04. “The Red Baron”

05. “Bismarck”

06. “Stormtroopers”

07. “Carolus Rex” (Swedish)

08. “Shiroyama”

09. “The Attack of the Dead Men”

10. “Primo Victoria”

11. “Soldier of Heaven”

12. “To Hell and Back”

Sabaton Live — April 18, 2024

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Sabaton’s Pär Sundström talks about dedicating two albums to World War I, being back on the road with Judas Priest, and the research process behind their historical lyrics

By: Nicholas Kobe Posted on: Friday, April 26, 2024

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WOUB) – Swedish power metal band Sabaton has become one of metal’s most popular acts, both in Europe and internationally.

For the last 25 years their vision has been to make metal music drawing from historical events for lyrical inspiration. Topics range from ancient Greece, feudal Japan; and the band has two full albums about World War I. Lyrically, Sabaton has no borders.

Their sound is defined by aggressive synthesizers, fast guitar solos, and the melodic growl of vocalist Joakim Brodén. This formula has been a winning one, with the band amassing over 3.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify, headlining tours and festivals around the world, and venturing into film, YouTube, and games.

WOUB’s Nicholas Kobe spoke with Sabaton’s bassist Pär Sundström before the band’s show tomorrow at the Covelli Center (229 East Front Street) in support of Judas Priest. Find a transcript of their conversation, edited for length and clarity, below. 

Pär Sundström: It’s the loudest and heaviest history lesson in the world.

This year marks Sabaton’s 25th anniversary. Considering that milestone and looking back on the band’s career so far, what about Sabaton has allowed the band to persevere this long?

Sundström: There’s plenty of reasons. I mean, first of all, I think all of us in the band really love what we’re doing and we enjoy it. We meet bands who are in it potentially to earn money, but we started the band because we wanted to play because we thought it was fun. That’s still the leading stone, what we are enjoying most. As long as we keep the flame burning and enjoying what we do, I think it’s not going to be so difficult to continue down the road.

I know the band has been going back and re-listening to some of your previous records. Is there anything in particular about any of those albums that has kind of jumped out at you or surprised you, or that you kind of forgot about? 

Sundström: Yeah, there’s a lot of stuff that we sometimes oversee, forget and don’t think about. I mean, we go back and listen to occasionally to this song or that song for a specific purpose, but it’s very rarely that we sit down and listen to the album from start to finish. So of course we notice a bunch of things and listening with, a different kind of ear when we are, analyzing or reacting to our own music. With this in mind, I think that we discovered a lot of things.

[For example] Art of War , I mean how damn good that album is as a whole and the experience listening from start to end. I mean, it’s an album we put out in 2008 and it’s still super valid today. So that’s maybe something that came to my mind. [Making a concept album where each track builds off the next] doesn’t really work in the digital era so well, but it was really cool to do that [back then].

What’s it like to be back on the road with Priest in the States?

Sundström: It’s great. I mean, the last tour didn’t end so well, unfortunately. Luckily it didn’t end as bad as it could, but it was a little bit sad that the tour was stopped and then when it continued we couldn’t be there because we had other obligations. So we felt a little bit like, ‘damn, we wish we could have come back and finished that tour.’ Then when the opportunity arrived, it was a good timing for us to jump back on and go back to finish what we started with Priest. So far we are three shows down and I think we’re doing absolutely great every night. It’s nice to be around the Priest guys, they’re great guys, so we are just enjoying the ride.

Looking at Sabaton’s studio output since about 2019, the band has released two albums and a series of EPs revolving around World War I. What drove the band to really dig into that period and focus on it, lyrically?

Sundström: Initially? I mean, we started to hang out with [historian] Indy Neidell [best known his The Great War YouTube video series] and he was a pretty much a specialist on World War I. […] then we said, ‘okay, […] because of the hundred year anniversary of the outbreak and then eventually the end of First World War, it’s good timing to go to this history and this period in history.’

We did The Great War and then the Great Tour to support that album. We were traveling around and then Covid-19 came along and it stopped the tour in the middle and kind of kept us at home. After a while, we realized we wouldn’t come back and finish the Great Tour . So we started to work on a sequel because we had time. We knew that we had some stories left that we hadn’t touched yet, and we thought, ‘okay, let’s wrap it up and do another album about the First World War.’ I mean, it’s a huge conflict and there were so many topics in there that we knew we could cover and we couldn’t do it on one album. Two albums made it a little bit easier.

Looking at those two albums and some of the other songs you’ve released as part of Stories from the Western Front , how do you think those all fit together as one big kind of concept?

Sundström: I think we spent a lot of time and effort to make the whole First World War universe in Sabaton style and all these EPs, the two albums and a couple of other songs that we’ve made in the past, they all fit together. I think that when we put it to the tour and we were able to do it, especially in Europe when we had all the actors and the big stage with us and the big production, then it was a whole full complete concept that we brought. I’m really happy and proud of the World War I era we created during the past years.

Are there any other time periods in particular that you are interested in or you think would also work well if you focus a whole album on it?

Sundström: Yeah, many of those, of course. I mean over the years we picked up a bunch of various topics that we can make an entire album about, so there is no shortage of those things. We have various bigger interests in this or that period in time. I would love to go to the Middle Ages for example, and I find that very interesting. Of course there’s a shortage of exact knowledge from that time. There’s only a few statements, but still, it’s a very interesting time. There’s plenty of others, the First World War is a huge conflict that is more in recent times, but we can find others as well.

Over the years, how has the band’s research for songs about history changed?

Sundström: Well, it has evolved in a way where I think we take the research a little bit more carefully these days. We make sure that we have secured our sources. In the beginning, it was more difficult because some of the topics that we were aiming for, there wasn’t enough written material available in languages that we would understand, so we had to go by a couple of less certain sources in some cases. This has changed, I guess for now. We also have a wider network of people around us who assist us if we have questions.

As a band that is big on bringing history into metal and has become very successful over time doing that, what do you think has attracted your fans to wanting to explore history through heavy metal?

Sundström: I mean, we are one branch. You have various branches for people to explore history. I mean, you can go to a museum, you can read a book, you can have a class, or you can listen to a podcast or you can do various things, or you can simply listen to a heavy metal song. So we are one branch, and for some people, our branch is more easily accessible. It doesn’t dig in so deep and lets the listener have a little bit of their own imagination put into it. I mean, after all, if we do a four-minute long song, we can’t put enough words in there to actually tell the story in full, but we can ignite a spark of interest for the listener. Then they’re free to go, and investigate it if they can find it somewhere else.

How has the band changed in terms of your musical sensibilities and your playing over the years?

Sundström: I mean, Sabaton did a big change from Metalizer , the first years of songwriting, which ended up on the Metalizer album, which was basically the demos and stuff like that. But, Primo Victoria was the first time Sabaton was Sabaton. I don’t think that it has evolved so much. From the beginning, we were spot on [with] what we wanted to do, and maybe we have just sharpened the sound and the production around it. But the songwriting and the sound was there from the beginning. This is how we want it to sound and we managed to nail it pretty well already on the Primo Victoria album. We have perfected it over the years a little bit, but we haven’t gone too far from what we were then.

So, the band has been looking back a lot this year, but looking at the future, what would you say the future looks like for Sabaton? 

Sundström: So we’ve been pretty solid at what we do. We have our own formula. I mean, we do not have a management or somebody else to tell us what to do and how to do it. We’ve always done what we felt like in the way and pace that we think we like to do it, and I’m absolutely sure we’re going to continue down that path without changing too much. The formula seemed to have worked so far and I think it’s going to work in the future as well. So I don’t think we’re going to change so much in the formula of the band. We are doing fine and we’re in a good place.

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• Ghost Division Play Video
• Bismarck Play Video
• Stormtroopers Play Video
• The Red Baron Play Video
• Steel Commanders Play Video
• Carolus Rex Play Video
• Soldier of Heaven Play Video
• Gott mit uns Play Video
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• The Last Stand Play Video
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• 1916 ( Motörhead  cover) Play Video
• Shiroyama Play Video
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