![]() ![]() Those with an insatiable appetite for the documentary film approach to conveying a narrative that is regularly seen on The History Channel will definitely find a familiar affair here. Coming just under three years since the World War I-centered conceptual endeavor and their 9 th studio LP “The Great War” took the mainline metal consuming public by storm, vocal helmsman, keyboardist and amateur war historian Joakim Broden and his band of merry Swedes have opted to put forth a sequel of sorts in their 10 th studio album to date “The War To End All Wars.” Yet while this band has become known for sticking to a highly stylized approach to songwriting that puts sing-along hooks ahead of technical intrigue, this time around the formula has been tweaked a bit, revealing an album that takes the idea of a book-on-tape approach to power metal to its logical conclusion and also throws in a greater share of virtuosic flourishes for good measure. ![]() Some stories, be they historical or fictional, are just too large to be contained in a single album, or at least that is the logic behind Sweden’s most popular power metal export Sabaton’s latest studio venture. The War is too great for a single episode.
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