{"product_id":"sabaton-the-last-stand-10th-anniversary-2lp-marble","title":"Sabaton - The Last Stand (10th Anniversary) [2LP Marble]","description":"\u003cp\u003eSabaton's The Last Stand turns ten with an anniversary edition on marbled colored vinyl, a gatefold 2LP of the Swedish band's 2016 salute to history's most desperate final battles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Falun band, led by singer Joakim Brodén, had long since made military history their entire reason for being, but this eighth studio album gave the concept a sharp focus. Nearly every song tells the story of soldiers who held their ground against overwhelming odds, from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Japan to the mountains of Afghanistan, and the band treats each tale with a mix of reverence and arena-sized bombast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSparta kicks things off with pounding drums and chanted vocals built for festival crowds, while Shiroyama tells of the last samurai stand in 1877 over a soaring, melodic chorus. Winged Hussars charges in with the cavalry that broke the siege of Vienna, all galloping riffs and fist-raising choruses, and The Lost Battalion recounts a besieged American unit in the First World War with grim, thundering power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe production is huge and polished, with choirs, keyboards and twin guitars stacked into a wall of sound that never forgets the hooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years on, this anniversary pressing is a handsome way to march back through a record the faithful already know word for word.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67762473959714,"sku":"4065629767549","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Sabaton-The_Last_Stand_10th_Anniversary_2LP_Marble.jpg?v=1794315122","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/sabaton-the-last-stand-10th-anniversary-2lp-marble","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}