2014-03-21 00:00 - On the 16th of May, Swedish Heavy Metal band SABATON will release their seventh studio-longplayer called »Heroes«.

Today, SABATON are proud to release their second trailer about »Heroes«, which was filmed during the band’s album presentation in Stockholm, on February 22nd. The trailer was produced and edited by David Havlena of Spark Magazine (CZ) at the Pax studio.

»Heroes« was recorded at Abyss Studio, along with producer Peter Tägtgren (AMORPHIS, CHILDREN OF BODOM and more), with whom SABATON already worked on their previous platinum album »Carolus Rex«.

The story of Heroes - Chapter I Video

The story of Heroes - Chapter II Video

The tracklist of »Heroes« will be like this:

01. Night Witches
02. No Bullets Fly
03. Smoking Snakes
04. Inmate 4859
05. To Hell And Back
06. The Ballad Of Bull
07. Resist And Bite
08. Soldier Of 3 Armies
09. Far From The Fame
10. Hearts Of Iron

Besides the stand version Jewelcase CD, there will be vinyl (different colors), a limited edition digipak (two bonus tracks), limited Earbook (incl. five bonus tracks) and the digital download (incl. one bonus track).

Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/SABATON-Heroes-Order

Among the bonus-tracks are three cover versions of METALLICA, BATTLE BEAST and RAUBTIER. The band comments the decisions like this:

METALLICA - ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’
“All of us are old fans of METALLICA. The choice of the song was difficult, but we all could agree on that one. As an addition, ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ was the first heavy metal song ever performed on a stage by Pär.”

BATTLE BEAST - ‘Out Of Control‘
“BATTLE BEAST was our secret guest at our latest Sabatoncruise and we all enjoyed watching them perform their songs live. We thought we wanted to support young and upcoming bands and decided to do a cover of them.”

RAUBTIER - ‘En Hjältes Väg ‘
“RAUBTIER are our brothers from the north of Sweden. We have played together countless times and in the past, and Thobbe used to be in this band. At a special concert in 2012 Joakim performed this song live together with RAUBTIER and it awoke the idea of doing a cover-version. Seeing to the song title it was also a natural choice for our latest album »Heroes«.

Catch SABATON live in 2014 on the following dates; more dates to be added:

04.04. USA Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection
05.04. USA Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
06.04. USA Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
07.04. USA Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
09.04. USA Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
10.04. USA Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
11.04. USA Cleveland, OH - Agora Theatre
12.04. USA Detroit, MI - St. Andrew’s Hall
14.04. CND Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
15.04. CND Quebec City, QC - Imperial Theater
16.04. CND Montreal, QC - Corona Theatre
17.04. USA Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero –
18.04. USA New York, NY - Best Buy Theater
19.04. USA Worcester, MA - The Palladium
21.04. USA West Springfield, VA - Empire
23.04. USA Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
24.04. USA Orlando, FL - House Of Blues
25.04. USA Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
26.04. USA St. Petersburg, FL - State Theatre
28.04. USA Houston, TX - Scout Bar
29.04. USA Dallas, TX - Trees
01.05. USA Tempe, AZ - Club Red
02.05. USA West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues
03.05. USA San Francisco, CA - Slim’s
05.05. USA Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
06.05. USA Seattle, WA - El Corazon
07.05. CND Vancouver, B.C. - The Venue
09.05. CND Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
10.05. CND Calgary, AB - Republik
11.0.5 CND Regina, SK - Riddell Centre
12.05. CND Winnipeg, MB - Park Theatre
14.05. USA Denver, CO - The Summit Music Hall
15.05. USA Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
16.05. USA Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom

31.05. NL Nijmegen - Fortarock
13.06. CH Interlaken - Greenfield Festival
19.06. D Loreley - Metalfest
21.06. NO Halden - Fredrikstens Fästning
26.06. SK Piestany - Topfest
27.06. BE Dessel - Graspop Metal Meeting
10.07. D Ballenstedt - Rock Harz
11.07. CZ Vizovice - Masters Of Rock Tickets
12.07. HU Pecs - Rockmaraton
25.07. SLO Tolmin - Metaldays

31.07. SE Stenungsund - Nösnäsvallen
01.08. AT Graz - Seerock
02.08. SE Varberg - Fästningshörnan
07.08. SE Borgholm - Borgholms Slottsruin
08.08. SE Ronneby - Brunnsparken
09.08. SE Trelleborg - Östervång
16.08. SE Falun - Sabaton Open Air
21.08. SE Uppsala - Vaksala Torg
22.08. SE Norrköping - Folkets Park / Borgen
23.08. SE Karlstad - Mariebergsparken

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