Sabaton's Back Catalog to Be Reissued in the States. Finally.

This is pretty cool news since I'm a fan of these guys. Nuclear Blast is reissuing the first four albums from Sabaton's catalog on April 14th exclusively in the United States.This will be the first time Sabaton's albums will become available over here and not an import.They will include bonus tracks and cover tracks on each.

This is cool because they have up to this point been primarily a European band and it goes to show that perseverance pays off and they are starting to finally get recognized out here enough to be able to do this. I recall a Facebook status update where they were happy to have cracked the Heatseeker chart and said they needed to get out here. And lo and behold their albums are going to be sold and they will indeed be out here in support of Accept.I must make that show.

The albums being Rereleased are:
Primo Victoria
Attero Dominatus
Metalizer
Coat of Arms

Go their main site for more info. Trailer of this news after the jump.

Sabaton does a video right...with a plot.

Sabaton has ever so slowly built a following in the U.S. having finally showed up on the Billboard chart with their new album "Coat of Arms". If you like anthemic traditional metal( I refuse to acknowledge them as power metal as I think that's a misnomer).

For the first video off the album they pegged the track "Uprising" as the source material. This track is the perfect essence of why I've always liked this band. Catchy,melodic, and riff heavy.

Now anyone familiar with Sabaton's music knows they have a theme and the theme is typically war in the style of World War II.This track is mainly about Nazi's invasion of Poland and the beginning of persecution of the Jews there. And the video is a full on production with actors and a plot. Just like in the old days of videos. If you're movie savvy you will recognize the actor portraying the Nazi officer. It's actor Peter Stormare who played the pyscho blonde guy in Fargo.
Anyways check out the video after the jump. It'll make you pine for the old days of video and maybe the traditional metal bands of yore.

I'm still wondering where the band got the budget to pull this off.