https://vo.rs/tags/power-metal/Recent content in Power Metal on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/sabaton/Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/sabaton/<p>There is a band from a small Swedish mining town that has probably taught more people about the First World War than most secondary schools manage. That band is Sabaton, and the fact that they did it while wearing camouflage cargo trousers and standing next to a tank should not count against them.</p> <p>Sabaton come from Falun, a modest town in Dalarna better known for its copper mine and its red paint than for heavy metal. They formed in 1999 around bassist Pär Sundström and vocalist Joakim Brodén, and for their first few years they were an unremarkable power-metal outfit trying to work out what they were for. Then they found the theme that would define everything: history, specifically military history, written as anthemic, fist-in-the-air metal. Once they committed to it, they never looked back, and it turned them into one of the biggest live draws in European metal.</p>