Sabaton - The Last Stand

Oh Boy ! That album art looks incredible, can't wait for this album. Hopefully they'll do a headlining tour across NA this time

Nice album art. More interested in the lyrical content and the battles they are gonna address rather than the music, because it will probably sound like traditional Sabaton

As always, lots of great keyboard melodies and lacking of heavy riffs. Not as powerful as "The Art Of War" or "The Coat Of Arms". Still I like their traditional war themed lyrics. A typical Sabaton album at all but deserves to be heard a few times

LAST DYING BREATH!!!

So far I like it more than Heroes. Which I liked, by the way.

Here's to hoping that Carolus Rex was just a one time mistake

9,3 ? no way. I like very much Sabaton but this album was the worst thing I heard.

I'm a flag burning anarchist who hates most of Sabaton's themes. And yet, I love anthemic metal, and the theme of defensive battles are much more tolerable than most types of war metal. This album thus becomes their most lyrically toletarble when I already like all of them musically.

It's somewhat catchy but it also feels kind of bland and unoriginal.

Written by Leidulf on 24.08.2016 at 20:37

It's somewhat catchy but it also feels kind of bland and unoriginal.

Like everything they have recorded

The songs I like most are when they try something different, like Blood Of Bannockburn. Though it's hard to sing along to a song where the English are the bad guys

I enjoyed it, songs like "Winged Hussars" "Last Dying Breath" and Blood Of Bannockburn are fantastic. The rest isn't bad either but i expected more from them.

For some reason I couldn't get into this band's music, and I tried so many times, since most of my friends who like metal are almost obsessed with them. Plus, I love power metal, but Sabaton kinda seemed too weak for me. This album however sounds really nice. Lots of great melodies, harmonies, and even if the guitar riffs are generic as hell, they still manage to cover it up with the melodic stuff played over them. All in all, it's an enjoyable album.

Yeah it sounds exactly like you knew it would. Sabaton gives us a slab of extremly cheesy flower metal. Some of these songs are catchy as hell and with some decent written lyrics they would be actually kind of cool. Winged Hussar, Last Dying Breath and Sparta will all probably work great in a live setting. The problem here is (as always) you can't hear the guitar, the drums and synth is way too loud, the lyrics are cheaply written and last but not least we heard all this before, and in better versions. I think I prefer this one to Heroes but to fair, both albums are quite bland.

And oh one last thing. Nice stealing the intro riff from Night of the Demon in The Last Battle. Real fucking classy.

I like the band so much but they are, defently, without ideas. Boring and almost the same than before. Sounds nice but not fresh.

Written by majormalfunction on 30.08.2016 at 21:32

And oh one last thing. Nice stealing the intro riff from Night of the Demon in The Last Battle. Real fucking classy.

Holy crap, you're right! There's only one note different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZ7ntdzs-I
That's pretty slimy of them...

I feel like I should dislike the album for essentially just rehashing their old stuff, or at least feel disappointed, but fuck, I can't stop listening to it over and over again and there isn't a single track that I ever feel like skipping. The title track makes me want to renounce my atheism and convert to catholicism.

Shiroyama bets bands song ever and its 1th this band full length I ever heard, shuld I be embraced? well I like way band writes lyrics, its a history conesct, its awesome, I love history

The rating is correct, the weakest Sabaton album of the last years. Listenable though.
Highlights for me:
01. Sparta
06. Rorke's Drift
07. The Last Stand
08. Hill 3234
09. Shiroyama
10. Winged Hussars

Written by Andreas on 22.08.2016 at 17:37

So far I like it more than Heroes. Which I liked, by the way.

Here's to hoping that Carolus Rex was just a one time mistake

Wow.. I wish they'd make another album as good as Carolus Rex. I like thew two last albums so much less than the first ones. Not that I dislike them, but they like the power and epicness of the first efforts. It feel cheesier at each new album..
On songs like "Last Dying Breath", I feel more of a Rhapsody vibe than the classic Sabaton. Once again, not saying that Rhapsody is bad, I just like previous stuff way more.

Written by Reaper_Redeemer on 08.02.2017 at 17:26

The rating is correct, the weakest Sabaton album of the last years. Listenable though.
Highlights for me:

09. Shiroyama

Best song what band ever written in all ways, even better as Masters Of the World.

It's saturday and I'm horny. Time to blast some Sabaton \m/