SABATON – The Great War

9.1/10

SABATON - The Great War - 9.1/10

9.1/10

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Nuclear Blast Records
Release date: July 26, 2019

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Sabaton’s new release, and arguably masterpiece of an album, The Great War is chock full of Heavy Metal ear candy. Although it’s not as heavy as some of their previous material, the irresistibly catchiness of songs like “Seven Pillars Of Wisdom”, “The Attack Of The Dead Men”, “Devil Dogs”, and “Fields Of Verdun”, among others, is enough to drive even the most elitist metal heads to reach for the volume knob and turn it all the way up.

One of the highlights of this excellent album is lead guitarist Tommy Johansson’s contribution. His career is already riding high on the new Majestica release, but now with having his chops so clearly featured on The Great War, his status as a masterful musician will be propelled to even greater heights. Johansson’s lead parts capture the perfect combination of technical fire-power and melodic memorability. All that being said, the entire band is really firing on all cylinders on The Great War. Joakim Brodén sounds as mighty as ever on the mic and his voice combined with the album’s World War I theme makes for the combination of bombast and heartfelt bravado that Sabaton fans have come to know and love.

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Maxxxwell Carlisle

Maxxxwell was a reviewer and the host of The Maxed Out Metal Hour here on Metal Express Radio. He is the current lead guitarist for LA based metal veterans Hellion. In addition to his ongoing role in Hellion, he has also released 5 albums as a solo artist and appeared as a guest writer and soloist on Michael Angelo Batio's Intermezzo album, named one of the Top 5 shred albums of 2014 by Guitar World Magazine. He continues to collaborate with various Metal musicians and teaches guitar technique and Metal composition via Skype. Additionally, he is a former competitive bodybuilder and enjoys a lifestyle based around health, fitness and Metal.
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