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Swedish heavy metallers Sabaton have set ”The Last Stand” as the title to their next album, and announced that it will be released through Nuclear Blast Records on August 19th. Bassist Pär Sundström offered the following comments regarding the effort:

We once work again with Peter Tägtgren in his newly upgraded and top class Abyss studio in Sweden to record, produce and mix the album. The mastering will be done by Jonas Kjellgren who also works in the same building in nice Pärlby on the countryside of Sweden. Both 'Carolus Rex’ and 'Heroes’ were done in the same way and we feel very comfortable to return to the same place and people again. Fans will recognize the sound of the album as SABATON, but we really feel we took it a step forward this time.

Commenting on the Peter Sallaí-created artwork as well as the album’s concept, Sundström continued:

We had the idea to make an image reflecting soldiers of different times representing the different historical battles we sing about on the new album. This only reveals a small part of the album topics though.

We  always have several ideas for albums to work with. Since there are countless different views and angles of war, we will unfortunately never run out of ideas. We kinda felt that the last stand was something perfect for SABATON. Something we really wanted to do. Heroes was a perfect theme and The Last Stand is right down our alley too. It was exciting to do the research.

Vocalist Joacim Broden further added:

The concept of a last stand has always fascinated me, and both me and Pär were "all in excited" about the subject so it was an easy choice to make.

Sabaton will play at this summer's Smukfest in Skanderborg, Denmark.