I’ll be honest with you, when I saw that Sabaton was returning to the familiar topic of World War One after exploring wars in different eras with their previous effort, “The Last Stand”, I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for more tales from elsewhere through history, but, it’s practically immediately with this album that Sabaton prove me a fool for doubting them. “The Great War” is possibly the greatest album that Sabaton has yet to fire our way, and I mean that without a single shred of doubt.

If you were to take everything stupendous about the last two or three Sabaton albums, roll them up, blend them together, and poured it all into one dish then you would get something very similar to “The Great War” as Sabaton has heightened their sound to an even deadlier edge to a point where every single one of these tracks could have been released as a single and they all would’ve stood strong. So much melody and power are poured into each song as Sabaton effortlessly goes from one harrowing tale to the next whether it be of the storied Red Baron or tragedies on the fields of Verdun or the final attack of a doomed regiment. It’s all incredibly gripping from start to finish with not a single track of “The Great War” being weak in any capacity because each and every one of them has got more than enough personality and strength for several songs, but Sabaton managed to pack so much in each of them. The only true downside that I can find about this massive record after sinking so much time in it is that it’s way too short because I want more of this glory!

Sabaton has long been a name that needs to be known if you’re going to claim to know modern metal legends, and this is a record that only further cements their already confirmed status as modern legends. From top to bottom, “The Great War” embodies everything great about Sabaton and is arguably their best work to date.

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