“Many people have written us, ‘You should make a song about Star Wars,’ but in this case we are talking about German shock troops, or stormtroopers, and these smaller elite groups of soldiers that developed a faster form of warfare. So, we thought, ‘Hmm…maybe we should do another one.” Below, he tells the often incredible stories behind each song. Then, of course, the pandemic hit in the middle of the tour, when we’d only covered half the world. When we started touring the album, so many people got in touch, telling us about even more World War I stories we did not know about. “We wanted to cover them, but we didn’t have the right music at that time. “We felt there were several stories we were leaving behind on the last album, like the Christmas Truce and The Harlem Hellfighters,” vocalist and keyboardist Joakim Brodén tells Apple Music. Their 10th full-length, The War to End All Wars, is a sequel to their 2019 album, The Great War, which focused on World War I. Swedish power-metal champions Sabaton are known for writing many songs-and concept albums-about war.
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