The late Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) arguably stands as the quintessential example of a natural born killer. That is not to say that he was going around murdering innocents or anything like that. Rather...
World War I was of such magnitude that there were wars within wars, and one would have to be a true scholar of the event to be privy to all that went down. For...
As we have noted in the past, Sabaton is a band who often makes songs centered on certain events in the history of war, especially as it pertains to Europe, with the band being...
Readers familiar with Sabaton know that they are a historical band. And what we mean by that is their songs often read like condensed, emotionally-charged history lessons. Also their lyrical content tends to focus on war,...
As we have pointed out in the past, heavy metals bands from certain parts of Europe tend to have more creative leeway than their US counterparts. And one of the best examples of such would...
“The Red Baron” is a heavy-metal song Sabaton released as a tribute to Manfred von Richthofen (1892-1918), aka the “Red Baron”. Richthofen is considered to have been the most-prolific fighter pilot during World War I. During...
As with the rest of the album it is featured on, “Fields of Verdun” is based on an actual historical event which occurred during World War I (1914-1918). In this particular case it is...
In its heyday the subject of this song, the German battleship Bismarck, was the marvel of the Kriegsmarine, Adolf’s Germany’s navy during World War II. Meanwhile Sabaton is a band that specializes in the creation of music...