Sabaton Re-Signs With Nuclear Blast And Announce New Single Coming Soon

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Swedish heavy metallers Sabaton have re-signed with their longtime label home Nuclear Blast for a new single with more to come.

‘Livgardet’ which is set to come out later this month, will be the band’s first new music since 2019’s “The Great War”. The new Swedish-language song will honour the Swedish Royal Guards first established in the year 1521.

“It feels good to continue our collaboration with the world’s biggest heavy metal label, Nuclear Blast,” Sabatons bassist, and manager Pär Sundström said. “We have been working with Nuclear Blast for more than a decade, and at the end of last year, we signed the contract for the upcoming releases, and we will continue to write metal history together.”

“The excitement level at Nuclear Blast is of the highest proportion due to the fact that today, we announce and celebrate the extension of our relationship with one of the most successful metal bands in history, the mighty SABATON!” proclaimed the global Nuclear Blast Team collectively. “Here’s to many more years of success and domination together!”

The band have been working with the label since 2010’s “Coat of Arms”. 2012’s “Carolus Rex” was released in both English and Swedish editions, however, the new track ‘Livgardet’ will mark the return to the band’s native language. Or as Sabaton’s frontman, and principal songwriter Joakim Brodén put it “Damn, it feels good to be singing in Swedish again!”

“Since 2012 and Carolus Rex, we have been looking forward to writing more songs in Swedish, and we felt that we were not done with the history of our fatherland,” Sundström explained. “Over the past years, we have been discussing around topics until something obvious came up. One of the oldest military regiments in the world, the Swedish Royal Guard (Livgardet), was formed in the Sabaton home region in Sweden, Dalecarlia, in 1521 by the legendary Swedish king Gustav Vasa.”

“For the past 500 years, they have evolved with the times and served under various kings and queens around the world and are still active today. We felt that such an anniversary would be worth a song, and we aimed at writing a respectful tribute, an anthem for this Swedish regiment and its legacy. The rich 500 years of history is, needless to say, extremely hard to fit into one song, and that is why we mainly focused on the parts and battles that happened during the age of the Swedish Empire. We aimed to write a respectful tribute, a powerful anthem, for this Swedish regiment and its remarkable legacy.”

‘Livgardet’ will release on Febuary 26th, and can be pre-saved now here.

Can’t wait until the 26th? Have a listen to ‘Fields Of Verdun’ here while you wait: