![]() (laughs)Īpocalyptica covered the track and released it before the original version. But once we realized, and we were planning to record in late 2018. Joakim: To be honest, it was a plan to coincidence it but we didn’t know a year and half ago if the next album was gonna be about the Great War. You started recording it on November 11th. ![]() I find it geniully interested and passionate about these stories. Joakim: Yeah I mean, in general, there are so many stories in our past that are been forgotten. With “The Great War” we realized we couldn’t do the heroic part on the music and the subjects. The two previous albums “Heroes” and “The Last Stand”, are about heroic events and heroic decisions to make. Of course, there were some WWI as well but much much less, so it was a bit harder. ![]() Plus, WWII is very well documented with audio, pictures and stuff. Going anywhere from looking to a documentary, there’s going to be 15 WWII documentaries for only 1 WWI. Especially finding the stories we were looking for, emotionals stories that we connected to. Was it more hard to write about this period comparing to the WW II? The end of the war came by on November 11 and we thought: “should we start our recording exactly 100 years after” so we decided to go there. A lot of people have been giving us books about those, we’ve been exposed to it naturally. Then a lot of these events came back to life throught TV, movies, events, memorial. ![]() But I think it’s, in a way, natural now because 2014, it was 100 years ago since the war started. Then we decide on the subject and go into full research, writing music, lyrics. So we always have two or three subjects that we’re thinking of they could be the theme or the idea of the album and then we let the music decide where we’re going. I would say, usually when we do an album, we start with the music and see where the music is taking us. So how did you end up picking World War I as the theme/main theme for this record? Was it an obvious choice? Did the lyrics come after the music already been written? Joakim Brodén (vocals): Very good thank you! Sun is shining, we’re in France, yeah! Sabaton’s ninth record is nearly here! “The Great War” looks epic and we got to chat with Joakim to learn a bit more about it! ![]()
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