So it looks halt when a band has suddenly put biennial plate on the table. There are a total of only 3 songs deserve special attention. The first is "Inmate 4859", a piece in the tradition slowly Sabatonstampfer. The track is mMn the highlight of the album and the only catchy tune of the disc. The second song of mention deserves the following "To Hell and Back", supposedly a song about the super soldier of WW2 par. Since this supertype is from Texas, this song will be accompanied by plenty of Western-typical sounds. Really curious is the piece but. Only by the questionable abuse keyboards, trying to turn the track into a kind of ABBA tribute song whose sounds Honestly, it sounds to you, the sound is so absurd, I see in my mind's eye every time Madonna with cowboy hat hupfen through trenches. The third song, which is stands out from the crowd, "The Ballad of Bull", which probably most embarrassing and boring ballad ever written to a war theme. The piece comes "Final Solution" of the throne of the Worst Songs Ever Sabaton.
The other pieces can be described in two words all together. Very nice. They all sound somewhat similar and hardly have their own unique features to which one would remember. The songs are particularly lacking the usual hardness, or at least the epic, which could for example have the songs from "Carolus Rex" instead. In addition, the pieces are all advised relatively short. Efforts are made runterzusingen the respective targeted for the song theme much detail as possible in the short time between there then standard choruses, as they expect from Sabaton, has on all the other albums of Sweden but heard rousing.
Bottom line, you get a solid metal album without any real highlights. If the word "commission" for only one album would have been invented, it would be "Heroes" of Sabaton. One misses while listening to the enthusiasm that resonated with old records in every piece. We remember the brilliant songs like "Metal Crüe" or the epic "Price of a Mile" or dozens of other Sabaton. Maybe it is also due to the issue that the Swedes have set this time to the destination. Not famous theaters of war to be addressed, but individuals who stood out by several notable achievements of the war usual role of cannon fodder. Maybe this irrelevance difficult access to songs in addition.
Comparing "Heroes" but fair, sometimes not with Sabatons back catalog but with what the range of the Power Metal has made in recent months / years to bounce back, the Swedes are admittedly not quite as bad. Although Sabaton definitely times better could also ailing Sabaton album is still a Sabaton album and yet it creates the unmistakable style of the Nordic Battle bards still to lift even the most boring album effortlessly just above the average and a bit further.
One last Kritipunkt: paper slipcase are anyway rather suboptimal for CDs. Scratches and fingerprints at the edge are inevitable there. But if you bring the CD to the first time out of the slipcase and then first must scrape the glued cardboard scraps from the edge, then the label should be the next time maybe 10 cents more to invest for a decent CD recording.
