“The album is more than just 11 songs it’s a concept that we took on fully to adapt to SABATON for the next two or three years.” We have been very busy and The Great War has been, by far, our biggest project.
“We’re making the stage set into a World War I theme, and to make the album available in three versions, you will see there are a lot of other things coming. We didn’t really know how it was going to turn out, and we brought in the creative team, but I ended up being the executive producer of the whole series. “Thinking about how to plan it was huge work. There are so many things connected to it, like The Great War choir at Hellfest this year, and we also launched the Sabaton History Channel. Pär continued: “This album is bigger in all senses than anything we have done before. We thought the songs on the album were so strong that it would fit perfectly into a soundtrack version.” Guitarist Chris Rörland added: “The third version is mainly instrumental, like a Hollywood movie soundtrack, based on the songs we’ve written. The third version of the album is the soundtrack to The Great War, which we created with several other musicians.” “If I’m going to play you just one song from the album, I might as well just take it from the standard version because the narrative doesn’t make sense unless you have the context. The History Version is the idea that if you want the album, the mood, you want to engulf yourself in it if you want to listen to it in its complete form, this is the one to listen to. You can have it without the narrative – so, just the normal version – which is how most people will listen to it.
Bassist Pär Sundström said: “We’ve made the album available in three versions for a reason.
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