Sabaton

Wogmidget said:
Coming soon . . . Diesel's top 10 album streaks
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If we’re describing a streak as 3 or more albums back to back, then off the top of my head and in no order...

— Iron Maiden: TXF / VXI / BNW / DOD / AMOLAD
— Sabaton: TAOW / COA / CR
— ABBA: The Album / Voulez-Vous / Super Trouper / The Visitors
— Bruce Dickinson: entire discography
— Alestorm: entire discography
— Ahab: entire discography
— Blaze Bayley: Infinite Entanglement Trilogy
— The Beatles: entire discography
— Death: entire discography
— King Diamond: Abigail / Them / Conspiracy
 
Diesel 11 said:
If we’re describing a streak as 3 or more albums back to back, then off the top of my head and in no order...

— Iron Maiden: TXF / VXI / BNW / DOD / AMOLAD
— Sabaton: TAOW / COA / CR
— ABBA: The Album / Voulez-Vous / Super Trouper / The Visitors
— Bruce Dickinson: entire discography
— Alestorm: entire discography
— Ahab: entire discography
— Blaze Bayley: Infinite Entanglement Trilogy
— The Beatles: entire discography
— Death: entire discography
— King Diamond: Abigail / Them / Conspiracy
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Btw I reckon you could add Virgin Steele's run of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell I/II/Invictus/The House of Atreus I/II to that list
 
I don't really think it matters.

The Art of War is my favourite Sabaton album, very closely followed by Carolus Rex. Rex is also possibly the most difficult of the albums to get, insomuch as any Sabaton album has accessibility difficulties, though that is primarily due to the subject matter being obscure for most listeners. I'd recommend The Art of War, followed by Coat of Arms and then Heroes. Although the accusations of being "formulaic" are fairly accurate for the most recent 2 Sabaton albums, that doesn't make them not fun or good. Sabaton's sound is excellent, and it is quite accessible. Quite frankly, this band has fun, and the people listening to them have fun as a result.
 
I don't get when people complain about an artist's new album not re-inventing the wheel. Especially on an Iron Maiden board. If you took every song from Brave New World to Book Of Souls and shuffled them and then played them to a total Maiden noob I guarantee you they wouldn't know what they weren't all recorded for the same album.
 
I think that would depend on what type of music the person was into. An experienced metalhead would be able to hear the difference in things like production and progressiveness. Someone new to metal would definitely hear few differences; there's no big sound changes like between Powerslave and Somewhere in Time, for example. I think the Sabaton sound is a little more homogeneous than the latter Maiden run; I happen to think the albums Piece of Mind and Powerslave are the two most interchangable albums Maiden's put out, fyi.
 
Sabaton has the potential to reinvent their sound and progress musically, but they don't. Every album has started to sound the same. Art of War through Heroes was certainly a great run, but that last album they did was pretty bad. I can't get into it at all. I want them to try something else and create longer and more complex songs, but I'm worried they will keep the same formula.

I think all the Iron Maiden albums have a different song and different feel to each of them. Maybe not AMOLAD, though it is a good album.
 
Perun said:
:confused: I beg to differ! I'd even go so far as to say that the break between Powerslave and Somewhere in Time is the biggest between two 80's Maiden albums.
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Yes, that's what I was saying. "Between BNW and TBOS there's no big sound changes like the big sound change between Powerslave and SIT".
 
It is but the untrained ear wouldn’t notice those things. At least not on the level that we hear those things.
 
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