Ahead of the release of the band's new album, Heroes, I spoke to Pär Sundström, Sabaton's bass player to discuss the album. Your new album, Heroes is due to be released in May. First of all, why "Heroes" as the title? We have to go back to 2010, to the "Coat of arms" album. At that timeAhead of the release of the band's new album, Heroes, I spoke to Pär Sundström, Sabaton's bass player to discuss the album. Your new album, Heroes is due to be released in May. First of all, why "Heroes" as the title? We have to go back to 2010, to the "Coat of arms" album. At that time we were doing an album focussing a lot on major conflicts during world war 2, and we had one song where we zoomed in on one individual person.That was the song "White death" which was about Simo Häyhä. During that recording we also heard the story about Witold Pilecki who on this album became the song "Inmate 4859″. So we thought we had an idea for the future to do an album like this. I guess in our minds, the idea of "Heroes" was already born then. We wanted to write about individuals who gave more than was expected from them. It's noticeable that some of the songs are about people who aren't well known. That's what we like to do, to tell the stories that aren't known to people, it's more interesting that way. This also means we have to do a [...]
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