With Sabaton’s “The Legendary Tour” taking them to some of the biggest arenas they’ve ever played on these shores, there was one question that needed answering heading into the first night of the UK leg in London – how many tanks would they manage to squeeze onto the O2 Arena stage? The answer, surprisingly, was none, as the Swedish power metal giants have instead brought with them a castle that takes up the entire stage – a theme in keeping with some of the historical warmongers that inspired eleventh studio album, ‘Legends’.
Accompanying them on this tour are The Legendary Orchestra, a collective of musicians put together by Sabaton bassist Pär Sundström as a new way to bring the band’s songs to life through classical arrangements. On paper, it makes sense given the orchestral elements across their discography; in practice, it’s a spellbindingly impressive performance that’s not metal in sound, but most certainly is in spirit. Their hour long set flies by in what feels like no…
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