SABATON Announces Deluxe Edition Of 'Legends' Album, Shares Lyric Video For 'Berserker'

Swedish metallers SABATON have expanded their acclaimed eleventh full-length album, "Legends", with a brand new recharged deluxe edition, due out March 5, 2027 via Better Noise Music. To crank up anticipation for its arrival, the group just dropped a new single and lyric video for "Berserker". Watch it below.

"Berserker" nods to the group's deep Scandinavian roots, lineage, and history. It channels the spirit of classic lore re-ignited with thunderous heavy metal. The single started to take shape a few years back, yet SABATON opted to carefully perfect it and unleash it at the right moment — now. Powered up by cloud-shaking guitars and soaring vocals, it spins a myth all its own that's as raw, riveting, and rapturous as the band's best material. It hits with the force of a Viking fleet and leaves an undeniable mark straight out of the gate.

The official video for "Berserker", featuring actor Eric Roberts, will make its online debut on Monday, November 9 at 3 p.m. CET / 9 a.m. EST / 6 a.m. PST.

The animated visual serves as the perfect accompaniment for "Berserker". It revisits the legend of the Berserker at Stamford Bridge, co-mingling two realities of the present and the memory. Continuing what has become a tradition of blockbuster-worthy visuals, you need to see it to believe it.

SABATON bassist Pär Sundström comments: "'Berserker' breathes Scandinavian influences, so the Viking theme came naturally. It's close to our own roots and our own history, and that gave the song a special meaning for us."

The news of the deluxe edition arrives as the band embarks on its first U.S. tour in four years.

"Legends (Deluxe)" will be available on streaming, download and various physical formats: deluxe CD, 3CD deluxe digibook, Amazon-exclusive deluxe CD, 2LP deluxe vinyl, 2LP Amazon-exclusive deluxe Vinyl, 2LP Berserker edition deluxe vinyl (indie exclusive),2LP Stephen The Great edition deluxe vinyl (indie exclusive) and a very special box set, which includes a variety of exclusive formats and content.

Track listing for deluxe edition of "Legends":

01. Templars
02. Hordes Of Khan
03. A Tiger Among Dragons
04. Crossing The Rubicon
05. I, Emperor
06. Maid Of Steel
07. Impaler
08. Lightning At The Gates
09. The Duelist
10. The Cycle Of Songs
11. Till Seger
12. Berserker
13. Champion Of Christ
14. To Glory
15. Templars (feat. POP EVIL)
16. Crossing The Rubicon (feat. NOTHING MORE)

SABATON will embark on the "Legends On Tour" trek across North America this month. POP EVIL and WINGS OF STEEL will serve as support.

In a September 2026 interview with Jason Saulnier, SABATON vocalist Joakim Brodén spoke about a possible follow-up to "Legends", which came out in October 2025. He said: "We're always working on music, but it's not until we hit songwriting mode where we go all in. Everybody in the band writes music. I'm the main songwriter, and it never really stops, so I'm always playing around with music because it's fun. I usually take a break for six months or so after we've recorded an album because being part of the pre-production and songwriting and then all of the recording and the mixing, I'm pretty blown out by music at that point. So I usually don't write or do anything for six months. But after that, I start getting ideas, but I might not... I'm not finishing a song, if you know what I mean. I'll write half of a song, and if I hit a wall, I'll just [say], 'Okay, leave that for later.' It's fun to gather all ideas and inspiration, and then I start working with whatever I got when it's time to make a new album.

"We're still touring on ['Legends'], but, yeah, I have some fun ideas. But I don't know what... We don't actually know what we're gonna do with the next album, theme-wise, because we usually have a theme with our albums. We're still trying to figure that out. We have a bunch of ideas, obviously, but which one we're going with, I have no idea [as of] now."

Brodén also talked about SABATON's musical progression, particularly since the band's debut album, "Primo Victoria", came out more than two decades ago. He said: "When we make the album, I'm okay with it, [with] every song, [and] I know that I tried my best at least. And if I listen back to some of the first stuff from the first album, yeah, I wouldn't do it that way today. [Laughs] I think any songwriter would have the same problem. In the beginning, you might have the ideas but not the experience to make it into a song. These days it's... The trouble is more getting that unique cool idea. If you have that great idea, it's really easy, with 20 years-plus of experience to make that into a SABATON song. So, [there are] advantages [and there are] disadvantages, but I guess… I think both from a songwriting and production-wise, it is a slight upgrade, but I also realize, depending on... Since we're not a revolutionary band, but we're an evolutionary band, so there might be not too much difference between album four and five, but if you listen to album two and eight, there's been some evolution going on. So I guess it depends on what era of our songwriting or the sound we had do people prefer, and it goes with any band as well. If you discover a band, let's say you're in your late teens, whichever era that was where you discovered that band and whatever blew you away, that's always gonna be your era of that band. Whatever came before, you might discover that or after, but there's always gonna be whatever you discovered that artist with. And that's hard to compete with. But I guess as long as we try and do our best and actually enjoy what we're doing, we can live with it and hopefully enough people are gonna enjoy it so we can keep doing it."

Photo credit: Ben Alexis