Sabaton

Sabaton signed with Black Lodge, the metal division of the Sound Pollution record label. In early 2005, keyboardist Daniel Myhr was recruited in order to relieve Joakim Brodén of his keyboard duties. In early 2006, Sabaton toured in support of Edguy and DragonForce. The band's third album, Attero Dominatus, was released in Europe on 28 July 2006. In March 2007, Sabaton released Metalizer as a double disc together with Fist for Fight, the first compilation album, along with the previously unreleased song "Birds of War".

As a follow-up to Metalizer, in May 2008, Sabaton released its fourth album The Art of War, an album inspired by the influential book by Sun Tzu, from the 5th century BC. The decision to base the album upon Sun Tzu's book came from the idea that in the 2000 years since the book was written, the human race has achieved many things, but, apart from weapon advancements, operational art, and strategy, war itself has remained basically the same.

The album contains the singles "Cliffs of Gallipoli" and "Ghost Division". They toured Europe in 2009 as an opening act on the HammerFall Tour. After their Bloodstock Open Air performance, the band again went on tour with DragonForce, towards the end of 2009, for eighteen shows in the UK.

In January 2014, the band announced the cover of their new album called Heroes, then due to be released on May 16, 2014. The album proved to be a hit and made #1 on the official Swedish album chart. On 27 January the band was announced to play at the Download Festival in June. In October 2015 They performed their first concert in Japan in Loud Park Festival.

Tommy Johansson of Majestica was announced immediately as the new member after Thobbe Englund's final show with the band.

Pär Sundström stated in a 2017 interview that the group would be touring less in 2018 so they could concentrate on writing and recording their next album. Joakim Brodén confirmed a 2019 release date for the still-untitled album in a September 2018 interview on MAD TV's show TV War. On December 31, 2018, it was further confirmed in an official announcement in a YouTube video.

On April 2, 2019, the band announced a new concept album about the First World War entitled The Great War. On 5 May 2019, they played in Plzeň, Czech Republic, on the anniversary of the Prague uprising. The album was released on 19 July 2019. The first single on the album is 'Fields of Verdun', which was released on May 3. On June 13, the lyric video for the song, "Red Baron", was released. On June 27, the premiere of The Great War was released. On August 1, 2019, the band performed their 20th anniversary show at Wacken Open Air festival 2019; during the gig former guitarist Thobbe Englund joined the band on stage for two songs.

In the second half of the show Sabaton invited other former members to the festival's second stage - Rikard Sundén, Daniel Mÿhr, and Daniel Mullback, along with Thobbe Englund. Rikard Sundén, Daniel Mÿhr, and Daniel Mullback are all members of Civil War, a similar band formed by the three along with Oskar Montelius, another former Sabaton member, as well as Nils Patrik Johansson and Stefan Erikkson,

neither of whom are former Sabaton members. On August 30, 2019, the band was involved in a serious car accident in Tunisia while returning from a music video-shoot in the Sahara Desert. Injuries from the wreck forced them to cancel a show in Gdańsk, Poland.

citing the fact that Sabaton had played on Crimea in 2015 on a festival hosted by the Russian motorcycle gang Night Wolves.

On May 7, 2021, a new single called "Defence of Moscow", an English cover of a song in Russian by Radio Tapok, was released.

On August 10, 2021, Sabaton posted a teaser for August 14, 2021 in morse code translating to The war to end all wars. This then lead to the announcement on August 14, 2021 of their new album continuing on the subject of World War I with the title The War to End All Wars. It was released on March 4, 2022. The first single from the album, "Christmas Truce", was released on October 29, 2021. The second single from the album, "Soldier of Heaven", was released on January 7, 2022. The third single from the album, "The Unkillable Soldier", was released on February 11, 2022.

On August 25, 2021, the song "Steel Commanders" was released in support of new Sabaton content in the popular video game World of Tanks. It was later elected by Loudwire as the 33rd best metal song of 2021.

On 30 September 2022, the song "Father" about German scientist Fritz Haber was released as the first single from their EP Weapons of the Modern Age, part of a planned three-part trilogy titled Echoes of the Great War.

Another single, titled "The First Soldier", was released on 20 January 2023, with the EP titled "Heroes of the Great War".

On 14 April 2023, Sabaton released a cover of Motörhead's "1916" from the album 1916.

On January 20, 2024, Sabaton announced that guitarist Tommy Johansson left the band to focus on his other projects, like Majestica. The band stated: "Tommy’s departure from Sabaton will not be effective immediately. He will stay on to ensure that all goes smoothly with the handover to our next guitarist." On February 9, 2024, it was announced that former guitarist Thobbe Englund was returning to the band in Tommy's place. Thobbe returned to the band on Februari 9 2024.

Sabaton released a concert film, The Tour to End All Tours, in cinemas globally on October 11 2024, bringing the film to over 600 cinemas in 24 countries. The film was a live recording of the band's 2023 concert in Amsterdam.

The band released an animated movie based on their album The War to End All Wars in museums across the world in 2023. The movie was a collaboration with the studio, Yarnhub, who have also done animations for some of the band's music videos. On March 11 2025, the movie was released on streaming platforms Apple TV, Amazon Prime, and YouTube Movies.

In May 2025, Sabaton played some shows in South America. In June, they returned to Sweden Rock Festival for the first time in a decade. In September they returned to Australia, with support from  Amaranthe. Then they played their debut shows in New Zealand. In October, Sabaton will return to Istanbul, Turkey. After that, they will play their first shows in Moldova and Kazakhstan.

Sabaton will be heading off on The Legendary Tour in late 2025, playing twenty-two shows in Europe featuring The Legendary Orchestra, wrapping up the tour in their home country of Sweden.

On April 12 2025, Sabaton announced the single "Templars", which was released 25 April 25 2025. This was the first material released under their new contract with Better Noise Music, however the single and their forthcoming album was completed before the band moved to the label. The song is about the Knights Templars. The music video was filmed in Serbia at Belgrade Fortress and Smederevo Fortress. On June 6 2025, the band released their new single titled "Hordes of Khan", about Genghis Khan. The band released two new singles on July 25 2025, called "The Duelist", about legendary Samurai Miyamoto Musashi, and "Lightning at the Gates", about Hannibal and his invasion of Rome. On the same day, the band announced their eleventh studio album, Legends, which was released on October 17 2025.

Sabaton is often referred to as a Power metal band by both music critics and the general public - however, the band has traditionally rejected the term and they consider themselves a unique form of Heavy metal.

Bassist Pär Sundström said in an interview:

"I don't think Sabaton can only be categorized as power metal, as the two main attributes of power metal are high pitched vocals and fantasy lyrics and Sabaton have neither of those.

We simply play our version of heavy metal-what heavy metal is to us. I'm sure that has impacted our reach, in addition to the fact that we don't give up after only a few tries! That, and Sabaton's music appeals to people of all ages."

Joakim Brodèn has also made similar statements regarding the difference between Sabaton's low vocals and the high vocals of traditional power metal.