Primo Victoria [Import]

Sabaton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Black Lodge Sweden
• ASIN: B00077CYIW
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,840 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

In the year of 1999, the world prepares for the new millenium and the band Sabaton takes it's current form. After the first songs were recorded in the legendary studio Abyss, the public interest of the band increases rapidly and Sabaton was contacted by a couple of record labels. The band decides to sign up for an Italian label who releases the promo-cd "Fist For Fight" internationally with the intentions to promote forthcoming releases. A year after the first recordings were made Sabaton returns to the abyss, again working with Tommy Tagtgren on the bands debut album "Metalizer". While waiting for the album to be released Sabaton performs all over Sweden, and after two years of waiting for the Italians to finish their spaghetti and release "Metalizer" Sabaton decides to record another album --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PREPAIR FOR WAR!!!, April 22, 2005

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Matthew Z. Coombs "Matt The Pirate" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Primo Victoria (Audio CD)

REVIEW #1: SABATON - Primo Victoria

01. Primo Victoria

02. Reign of Terror

03. Panzer Battalion

04. Wolfpack

05. Counterstrike

06. Stalingrad

07. Into the Fire

08. Purple Heart

09. Metal Machine

Time 41:10

All you fans of bands such as Grave Digger, UDO, Running Wild, Manowar and the like should immediately grab your war helmuts and report for duty. Your new heavy metal idols have arrived!!!

Primo Victoria is apparently Sabaton's second release but the first real serious effort enlisting a big time production. This release is a concept album about world war 2. Thankfully a great backdrop for this type of music. What we have here is very polished on the one hand with humungous and extremely great sounding chorus lines but with a lead singer that is coming from the Grave Digger, UDO harsh vocal mold but not quite into the death metal realm. This is honest heavy metal played in your face and with all the freshness you do not get from the typical hords of Hammerfall/Helloween clones.

The album start off with a the stunning title track and rarely misses a beat the whole way through. Panzer Batallion, Wolfpack, Into The Fire, Metal Machine. They all smoke in a huge, heavy metal way. The album playing time is a bit short at only 40 minutes but there is no interludes or wasted space and the production is jam packed and well done.

If I have to be honest, this is an album that simply put cannot me missed by any true metal fan. Anyone claiming to be a fan of Classic Heavy Metal, True Metal or Power Metal that does not own a copy of this release, simply put, is a looser. It may not be the best album in your collection but it is one you will wield with a tremendous sense of pride.

9 of 10 Skulls

Buy Or Die!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found this band by accident., June 12, 2005

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Thomas Anderson "Metal Head" (Harrisburg, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Primo Victoria (Audio CD)

Recently, I found this free mp3 site (which shall remain nameless) that seems to cater to up-and-coming bands or solo musicians, or old bands that may have drifted off into oblivion in all genres. Anyway, I ran across a listing for Sabaton in their Heavy Metal section. They had four songs for download. Two of which are from this album: Primo Victoria and Panzer Battalion. The other two supposedly from their first album that has apparently never been released.

So I downloaded all of them and played "Primo Victoria" first. WOW! What a catchy tune. First as a previous reviewer said, the chorus is very moving and gets you going for the rest of the song..."Through the Gates of Hell/As We Make Our Way to Heaven/Through the Nazi Lines/Primo Victoria!"

One thing that I feel is important on whether or not I like a band is the quality of their vocalist. If the band doesn't have a good vocalist, then no matter how the instrumentals are, the vocalist can kill a band. Sabaton has a great singer. He has a gravely voice, yet it's clean. Not quite death metal growlings, but close.

One thing I find interesting about this band is from what another reviewer said that the ages of the members are in their early 20s. On that mp3 site, they have a pic of the band and they look much older than that. I'm 31 and these guys appear to be at least in their late 20s. But anyway, that's neither here nor there.

So, if you live good heavy metal, and don't mind or even prefer what's known as Scandinavian metal, then you might want to pick up this album from Sabaton.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is pure metal!!!, June 21, 2006

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Johan Svahnstrom (Clearwater, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Primo Victoria (Audio CD)

An absolutely fabulous album by Swedish band Sabaton. This album does not really have any weak points as the guitars are brilliant, the drumming extremely heavy and tight, and the vocals sound excellent. If you should compare Primo Victoria to anything I would say maybe a little like Jag Panzer at their best with a little Manowar (Kings of Metal era) thrown in. A must buy for all metal fans.