Sabaton are the manliest thing to happen since testosterone. They’re five blokes saluting the classic heavy metal formula of Manowar and Judas Priest then making it even butcher by singing about tanks. Is it any wonder that they’ve won over so many metalheads that they now regularly decimate arenas?
For this Swedish militia, it’s been a 24-year campaign to conquer their genre’s mainstream, during which time they’ve unloaded 10 albums. Almost all of them are packed with armour-plated anthems about guns, battles and stories of dudes shooting other dudes – but which one is the most bulletproof of the bunch? Here is Metal Hammer’s ranking of every record Sabaton have blasted out.
