Metalizer Explained

Metalizer
Type:	studio
Artist:	Sabaton
Cover:	Metalizer.jpg
Released:	16 March 2007
Recorded:	2002, with minor remastering in January 2007
Genre:	Power metal
Length:	43:18
Label:	Black Lodge Records (original) Nuclear Blast (Re-Armed edition)
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Prev Year:	2006
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Metalizer is the third full-length release by Swedish power 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]}

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

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Note

• Disk 2 is the compilation of the two demos of Sabaton. It was originally released as a test of the market in 2000. 600 copies were pressed and they sold out within weeks.^[6] In 2001, the compilation was re-released in a digipak edition by Underground Symphony. It was limited to 3000 copies.^[7]

Personnel

Sabaton

• Joakim Brodén – vocals, keyboards
• Rickard Sundén – guitars
• Oskar Montelius – guitars
• Pär Sundström – bass
• Daniel Mullback – drums
• Richard Larsson - drums (disc 2)

Production Staff (Disk 1)

• Henke - mastering
• Mats Brännlund - recording, mixing
• Tommy Tägtgren - recording, mixing
• Mattias Norén - cover art

Production Staff (Disk 2)

• Mats Brännlund - recording, mixing
• Tommy Tägtgren - recording, mastering
• Ken Kelly - cover art

Notes and References

1. Web site: Metal Storm – Sabaton – Metalizer. 27 February 2007.
2. News: Sabaton – med krig som tema. Sweden. Sveriges Television AB, Stockholm. svt.se. 7 October 2017. sv.
3. Web site: swedishcharts.com - Sabaton - Metalizer. Hung. Steffen. swedishcharts.com. 6 October 2017.
4. Web site: Metalizer - Re-Armed by SABATON - info and shop at Nuclear Blast - Nuclear Blast. www.nuclearblast.de. en. 6 October 2017.
5. Web site: Discography at sabaton.net . 27 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070223113221/http://www.sabaton.net/discography.htm . 23 February 2007 . dead .
6. Web site: SABATON – Attero Dominatus. Kilvik. Frode. METAL EXPRESS RADIO. 31 July 2006 . 18 March 2024.
7. Web site: Pär from the band Sabaton. Sandvall. Anders. Metal-Rules.com. 13 April 2005 . 18 March 2024.