Metalizer

Metalizer is the third full-length release by Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton, but was actually recorded as their professional debut album (second overall) in 2002. The band's first record company, Underground Symphony, withheld the recordings for several years before arranging to release the rights to the band's new label Black Lodge Records.[1][2]

Metalizer
Studio album by Sabaton
Released	April 20, 2007 September 24, 2010 (Re-Armed edition)
Recorded	2002, with minor remastering in January 2007
Genre	Heavy metal, power metal[1]
Length	43:18
Label	Black Lodge Records (original) Nuclear Blast (Re-Armed edition)
Sabaton chronology
Attero Dominatus (2006) Metalizer (2007) The Art of War (2008)
Singles from Metalizer
""Masters of the World"" Released: Early 2007

The band's first album, the demo compilation Fist for Fight, is included as a bonus disc with a previously unreleased track. Most of the tracks on the first disc are re-recordings from this release.

Metalizer reached 21st place in the Swedish album charts.[3]

In 2010 the album was re-released on German label Nuclear Blast with four bonus tracks, under the name Metalizer Re-Armed.[4]

Track listing

[5]

Disc 1

1. "Hellrider" – 3:42
2. "Thundergods" (about the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft) – 3:47
3. "Metalizer" – 4:06
4. "Shadows" (about the Nazgûl from The Lord of the Rings) – 3:28
5. "Burn Your Crosses" (about the Catholic Church's opposition to free thought) – 5:09
6. "7734" – 3:41
7. "Endless Nights" – 4:52
8. "Hail to the King" – 3:39
9. "Thunderstorm" – 3:08
10. "Speeder" – 3:45
11. "Masters of the World" – 4:01
12. "Jawbreaker" (Special edition bonus; Judas Priest cover) – 3:22

Re-Armed Edition (2010) bonus tracks:

1. "Jawbreaker" – 3:23
2. "Dream Destroyer" – 3:12
3. "Panzer Battalion (Demo Version)" – 5:01
4. "Hellrider (Live in Västerås 2006)" – 4:25

Disc 2

1. "Introduction" – 0:50
2. "Hellrider" – 3:48
3. "Endless Nights" – 4:49
4. "Metalizer" – 4:25
5. "Burn Your Crosses" – 5:23
6. "The Hammer Has Fallen" – 5:50
7. "Hail to the King" – 4:08
8. "Shadows" – 3:33
9. "Thunderstorm" – 3:10
10. "Masters of the World" – 4:00
11. "Guten Nacht" – 1:53
12. "Birds of War" (Previously unreleased) – 4:52

Album line-up

• Joakim Brodén – Vocals, Keyboards
• Rickard Sundén – Guitars
• Oskar Montelius – Guitars
• Pär Sundström – Bass
• Daniel Mullback – Drums
• Richard Larsson - Drums (Disc 2)

References

1. "Metal Storm – Sabaton – Metalizer". Retrieved February 27, 2007.
2. Sweden, Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm. "Sabaton – med krig som tema". svt.se (in Swedish). Retrieved October 7, 2017.
3. Hung, Steffen. "swedishcharts.com - Sabaton - Metalizer". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
4. "Metalizer - Re-Armed by SABATON - info and shop at Nuclear Blast - Nuclear Blast". www.nuclearblast.de. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
5. "Discography at sabaton.net". Archived from the original on February 23, 2007. Retrieved February 27, 2007.