The Great War Album Cover

The Great War Album Cover

Album Cover

Pictured here is the album cover of the most recent album by the Swedish metal band Sabaton that came out last July. The songs within the album are dedicated to stories from the First World War from both the Entente and the Central Powers. This war was an unprecedented war that is unfortunately glossed over by the Second World War. The introduction of new technologies that are today synonymous with war to us are what the First World War so terrible. The album cover can be split into two halves, a side for the Entente and another for the Central Powers. Overlooking the muddy, debris filled battlefield are clouds of smoke from artillery guns and explosions that morph into skulls to show the true cost of war. On both sides, new technologies are showcased. Early tanks are shown, a British Mark I infantry support tank and a German A7V heavy tank. Other new technologies are shown like an Entente Sopwith Camel and a German Tri-Wing Fokker Dr.I. A weeping soldier in the center of the cover shows the natural, human reaction to the horror of artillery, gas, and machine guns. This shell-shocked soldier is the every-man of the First World War.

Sabaton

22 March 2020

English