Avid war historians and Swedish heavy metallers SABATON have released the first album trailer to their upcoming seventh studio release, Heroes, due out in North America in Spring 2014.  Shot during a listening session in Stockholm and produced & edited by David Havlena of Spark Magazine, the video can be viewed on the Nuclear Blast YouTube Channel: http://youtu.be/q-OKZsaZUNQ

Heroes was recorded at Abyss Studios with Peter Tägtgren (CHILDREN OF BODOM, AMORPHIS, IMMORTAL); album art was created by Péter Sallai.

Track listing for Heroes is:

1. Night Witches
2. No Bullets Fly
3. Smoking Snakes
4. Inmate 4859
5. To Hell And Back
6. The Ballad Of Bull
7. Resist And Bite
8. Soldier Of 3 Armies
9. Far From The Fame
10. Hearts Of Iron

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SABATON are bringing their dynamic live stage performances back to the U.S. and Canada this April & May as direct support to American metallers ICED EARTH on their “Worldwide Plagues” North American tour.  Opening each show of the six-week trek will be Dutch heavy metallers & label mates REVAMP.

Tour dates are:

04/04/14  The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI

04/05/14  The Rave – Milwaukee, WI

04/06/14  House Of Blues – Chicago, IL

04/07/14  First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN

04/09/14  Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA

04/10/14  Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH

04/11/14  Agora Theatre – Cleveland, OH

04/12/14  St. Andrew’s Hall – Detroit, MI

04/14/14  Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, ON – CANADA

04/15/14  Imperial Theater – Quebec City, QC – CANADA

04/16/14  Corona Theatre – Montreal, QC – CANADA

04/17/14  Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA

04/18/14  Best Buy Theater – New York, NY

04/19/14  The Palladium – Worcester, MA

04/21/14  Empire – West Springfield, VA

04/23/14  The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

04/24/14  House Of Blues – Orlando, FL

04/25/14  Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale, FL

04/26/14  State Theatre – St. Petersburg, FL

04/28/14  Scout Bar – Houston, TX

04/29/14  Trees – Dallas, TX

05/01/14  Club Red – Tempe, AZ

05/02/14  House Of Blues – West Hollywood, CA

05/03/14  Slim’s – San Francisco, CA

05/05/14  Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA

05/06/14  El Corazon – Seattle, WA

05/07/14  The Venue – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA

05/09/14  The Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB – CANADA

05/10/14  Republik – Calgary, AB – CANADA

05/11/14  Riddell Centre – Regina, SK – CANADA

05/12/14  Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB – CANADA

05/14/14  The Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO

05/15/14  Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM

05/16/14  Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK

Come out and experience first-hand why SABATON are one of the most popular up-and-coming bands in heavy metal.

ABOUT SABATON: Formed in Falun, Sweden in 1999, the band is best known for singing almost exclusively about historical wars & battles, a direction SABATON members decided to take on after watching the 1999 Academy Award-winning film Saving Private Ryan.  “For us it means a lot more to write about historical events than to make up stories,” says bassist Pär Sundström, one of the main songwriters.  The band thoroughly researches their topics to ensure the songs paint accurate & objective portraits of the historical event they’re singing about, which are narrated from an omniscient point-of-view or in first-person as a soldier caught in the line of fire.  Like their home country, SABATON aims to remain politically neutral in their role as musical war historians.

SABATON is:

Joakim Brodén – Lead Vocals

Thobbe Englund – Lead Guitar

Chris Rörland – Lead Guitar

Pär Sundström - Bass

Hannes Van Dahl - Drums

SABATON Official Headquarters is online at:

www.SABATON.net

www.facebook.com/SABATON

twitter.com/SABATON

www.YouTube.com/SABATON