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Sabaton
Against a backdrop of thrashing riffs and growling bombast, Swedish power metal
band Sabaton base their songs on historical military battles and true war-time
stories. The band initially came together in 1999, but they were frustrated when
their Italian record label Underground Symphony stalled on releasing their
album, Metalizer, and so began creating a new sound. Taking inspiration from the
invasion of Iraq which dominated the news at the time, they came up with the
track “Panzer Battalion,” an explosive, power metal thunderstorm that tells of
armored tanks of mass destruction....
