Primo Victoria
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2005 |
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9 |
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41 min 10 sec |
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Tommy Tägegren and Sabaton |
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Primo Victoria is the first studio album by the Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton , released on March 4, 2005 . Apart from the last piece, all of the songs on it deal with wars of the 20th and early 21st centuries. So it can be seen as a concept album .
Origin and general
The band had recorded the demo CD Fist for Fight in 1999 together with producer Tommy Tägegren, the brother of the later Sabaton producer Peter Tägegren , and re-released it in 2000 on the Italian label Underground Symphony. Then an album entitled "Metalizer" was recorded; after a falling out with the label, the band postponed the album and instead recorded the album Primo Victoria with Tägtgren in the Gothenburg “Abyss” studios . The band signed for the album with the local label Black Lodge, which released the work on CD in March 2005.
Primo Victoria marked the beginning of the war theme that would later shape all of the band's albums. Singer Joakim Brodén explained how the lyrics came about as follows:
"It was an accident that we had the song 'Primo Victoria' and no lyrics for it, and we thought, 'This has a huge sound, and it needs a huge subject.' D-Day fit perfectly. We had had the song 'Panzer Battalion' without lyrics, and the same thing happened. And then we realized, 'Hey, let's make a whole album - only about war!' And that turned into some more albums. [...] But before that, writing lyrics was a necessary evil. All of a sudden, it became fun and interesting, and much easier for me as a singer to give it an emotional delivery. "
The cover of the album was designed by Mattias Norén . It shows a steel helmet hanging in a burning bush over a branch and a fictional flag showing lilies leaning against the French pavilion and two crossed rifles . The CD and back cover show a cross-shaped medal on a gold chain against a background of dried clay soil. An M4 Sherman tank can be seen on the inside cover .
The CD booklet contains brief explanations of the historical events on which the lyrics are based. In addition to photos from touring life, the booklet also features a quote from US American General George S. Patton :
"Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over is to go get the bastards who started it. "
“Sure, we want to go home. We want to be through with this war. The fastest way to deal with it is to catch the bastards who started it. "
After the album was released, the band toured Europe with Edguy, among others .
Track list
All songs were composed by Joakim Brodén.
- Primo Victoria - 4:10 (Text: Brodén / Sundström)
- Reign of Terror - 3:51 (Text: Brodén / Sundström)
- Panzer Battalion - 5:09 (Text: Brodén)
- Wolfpack - 5:55 (Text: Brodén)
- Counterstrike - 3:48 (Text: Brodén / Sundström)
- Stalingrad - 5:18 (Text: Brodén)
- Into the Fire - 3:25 (Text: Brodén / Sundström)
- Purple Heart - 5:07 (Text: Sundström)
- Metal Machine - 4:22 (Text: Brodén)
Additional songs of the "Re-Armed" version:
- The March to War (instrumental) - 1:21
- Shotgun - 3:14 (Text: Brodén)
- Into the Fire (Text: Brodén / Sundström) [live in Falun 2008] - 4:08
- Rise of Evil (Text: Brodén) [live in Falun 2008] - 8:04
- The Beast ( Twisted Sister Cover) - 3:11
- Dead Soldier's Waltz (instrumental) - 1:21
Details about the individual songs
- Primo Victoria is about the landing of Allied troops in Normandy on June 6, 1944 , which went down in history as "D-Day". In the booklet of the album you can see a note on which a member of the band we are friends with DragonForce rewritten the chorus of the piece on their 2006 tour: “Can I wank you off? / Can I put your cock in my mouth? / Can you reach around ... / My hairy ball bag? / Can I lick your ass? / Can I play with your dad's huge cock? / Can I cup your balls ... / Teabag your grandma? "
- Reign of Terror and Panzer Battalion are dedicated to the Second Gulf War , especially the night bombing of Baghdad and the invasion of Kuwait by coalition forces .
- Wolfpack is about the submarine war in the Atlantic, in particular the German attack on the ONS-92 convoy in May 1942. during the Second World War.
- Counterstrike is about the six day war between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
- According to its name, Stalingrad is about the battle that marked the final turn of the war on the Eastern Front in 1942/43 .
- Into the Fire deals with the Vietnam War . The title alludes to the frequent use of napalm .
- Purple Heart , named after the US armed forces' wounded order of the same name , is dedicated to the numerous dead in all modern wars.
- Metal Machine is the only song that falls out of the scheme; here the text consists practically only of a series of well-known song titles from the metal and hard rock genre.
- The March to war was used by the band as an intro at concerts from 2008 to 2018.
reception
The band received good to very good reviews for the album in the trade press and in the corresponding webzines . The report on metal.de was as follows:
“'Panzer Battalion' or 'Metal Machine' [are] so awesome […] that you can easily add them to your repertoire between“ 2 Minutes To Midnight ”and“ Under Jolly Roger ”. "Primo Victoria" is an album that Manowar couldn't have made better. "
The reviewer Falk Kollmansperger also drew a similarly good conclusion in the “Metal Observer” webzine, but called the style of music “simply knitted Melodic Metal”.
The title song Primo Victoria was covered with the participation of Joakim Brodén from the German band Van Canto for the album Break the Silence 2011 in an a cappella version with percussion.
Web links
- Primo Victoria . In: Official website of Sabaton
- Primo Victoria in the Encyclopaedia Metallum
- Primo Victoria at Discogs