Cover von SABATONs „The Last Stand“

SABATON beehren uns heute mit einem neuen Lyric-Video aus dem neuen Album „The Last Stand“, das am 19. August über Nuclear Blast veröffentlicht wird. Produziert hat einmal mehr Peter Tägtgren in seinen Abyss-Studios.?Auf der Band-Homepage werden die Lyrics des neuen Songs „The Lost Batallion“ wie folgt umrissen:

„The Lost Battalion’ is the name given to nine companies of the United States’ 77th Division during the battle of the Argonne in 1918. Even though these 550-575 brave men were completely surrounded by the German Army and subjected to friendly artillery fire, they kept on fighting for a week until they were relieved. Of the over 500-plus soldiers who entered the Argonne Forest, only 194 walked out unscathed. The rest were killed, missing, captured, or wounded“.

Die Tracklist bestätigt, was das Cover vermuten lässt: dass SABATON letzte Gefechte unterschiedlicher Epochen zum Inhalt ihrer Texte machen, wie auch Bassist Sundström verlauten ließ:

„We had the idea to make an image reflecting soldiers of different times representing the different historical battles we sing about on the new album.“

1. Sparta
2. Last Dying Breath
3. Blood Of Bannockburn
4. Diary Of An Unknown Soldier
5. The Lost Battalion
6. Rorke’s Drift
7. The Last Stand
8. Hill 3234
9. Shiroyama
10. Winged Hussars
11. The Last Battle

Bonus:
12. Camouflage
13. All Guns Blazing