SABATON Announces Fall 2019 North American Tour With HAMMERFALL; BLABBERMOUTH.NET Presale Available

Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON will make their triumphant return to North American this fall for "The Great Tour". The headline excursion will feature support from special guest HAMMERFALL, and will begin in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on October 4 and will end in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 3.

Says SABATON: "'The Great Tour' begins! We are excited to tell you all about the first part of 'The Great Tour' along with the templars of steel in HAMMERFALL as special guests! North America, be ready! We are coming to your shores all guns blazing with our new album, 'The Great War', and a brand new show."

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, May 1 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, May 2 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "GREATTOUR" to access tickets before the general public.

Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, May 3 at 10 a.m. local time.

SABATON "The Great Tour" dates with HAMMERFALL:

Oct. 04 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution (buy tickets)
Oct. 05 - Tampa, FL - Janus Landing (buy tickets)
Oct. 06 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage (buy tickets)
Oct. 08 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues (buy tickets)
Oct. 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Van Buren (buy tickets)
Oct. 11 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern (buy tickets)
Oct. 12 - San Francisco, CA - The Regency (buy tickets)
Oct. 14 - Portland, OR - Roseland Ballroom (buy tickets)
Oct. 15 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SODO (buy tickets)
Oct. 16 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theater (buy tickets)
Oct. 18 - Edmonton, AB - Union Hall (buy tickets)
Oct. 19 - Calgary, AB - The Palace Theater (buy tickets)
Oct. 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex (buy tickets)
Oct. 23 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theater (buy tickets)
Oct. 25 - Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater (buy tickets)
Oct. 26 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre (buy tickets)
Oct. 27 - Cleveland, OH - The Agora Ballroom (buy tickets)
Oct. 29 - Toronto, on - The Danforth Music Hall (buy tickets)
Oct. 30 - Montreal, QC - M Telus (buy tickets)
Nov. 01 - Worcester, MA – Palladium (buy tickets)
Nov. 02 - New York, NY - PlayStation Theater (buy tickets)
Nov. 03 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore (buy tickets)

"The Great War" will be released on July 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band's 20th-anniversary record will be a concept effort covering stories from the First World War.

SABATON started recording "The Great War" exactly 100 years after the end of the First World War (November 11, 1918) and took three months of intensive work to complete the album with longtime producer and collaborator Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge studios. The disc was mastered by Maor Appelbaum and the artwork was once again created by Peter Sallaí.

"This is not the first time we sing about stories from this period in time, but now we felt the timing was right to make a full concept album about this war," the band said.

Side by side with the album, the Swedes have worked hard to make their 20th year anniversary a very exciting year, and also started the SABATON History Channel — a unique collaboration between the band and multimedia historians Indy Neidell and Timeghost, capturing the power of social media to tell stories about the wars, battles and heroes behind SABATON's songs.

"This is the biggest album we have taken on so far. There is so much depth and story around the songs that we never had before," bassist Pär Sundström states. "Expect many surprises as we have tried new things and we also went back in time to a concept we know a lot of you love. 'The Great War' has been created side by side with the SABATON History Channel to make 2019 the most exciting year in our 20-year history.”

SABATON's next disc will be the group's first with guitarist Tommy Johansson (GOLDEN RESURRECTION, REINXEED),who replaced Thobbe Englund in 2016.

SABATON's 2012 album, "Carolus Rex", was recently certified quadruple platinum in the band's home country of Sweden. The concept effort — which is the group's biggest success to date — charts the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire, in particular the life of Charles XII ("Carolus Rex") who ruled it for 21 years. In an amazing coincidence, the album's quadruple platinum certification came exactly 300 years after the king's death in 1718.

To celebrate the album's success, and to commemorate the Swedish king who inspired it, SABATON released a special 300th-anniversary edition of "Carolus Rex" on November 30, which is the date Carolus Rex was killed in Norway.