Just by listening to the first track “Primo Victoria”, you know this is not your normal power metal album. The lyrics are epic and full of battle cries; this is fast, crunchy power metal with a great vocal approach to every song.

This album is historic and different, the sound of Sabaton will stay with you and the lyrics will make you go look at your encyclopedia and wonder “why the hell didn’t they teach me about war this way?”

9 tracks are just too little, this band is great and I was yearning for more when Metal Machine was ending. Primo Victoria deals mainly with WWII and gets you closer with the old believe of honor and pride in war.

Sabaton is a power metal band, but it’s faster and the vocals are tougher than other acts of the genre, something that may lure a more brutal metal fan into their music.

The first five tracks focus on WWII, in some decisive battle grounds, like the title track Primo Victoria, it tells the story of the invasion of Normandy by the allied troops “Through the gates of hell as we make our way to heaven through the Nazi lines” this song has stayed in my head for many, many days now…a great one and definitely the best song of the album. I’m not sure if the second song Reign Of Terror is about WWII or I, because it the lyrics deal in some way to trenches so it may be about WWI but the “genocide” word is involved so that may me think of WWII and the holocaust, anyway this second track is faster and more aggressive than Primo Victoria and states that this is a more…powerful band that the normal power metal act.

Panzer Battalion is just amazing, catchy chorus and fast drums, the bass is really loud through out the entire production and that is good for the sort of sound Sabaton is aiming for “insect of terror don’t run face your fate like a man”, this is also a track about WWII.

The songs Wolfpack and Stalingrad are also about WWII, the first one about the German submarines that lurked the oceans and by that called the Wolfpack, and Stalingrad…well about the battle for Stalingrad (if by now you haven’t reached for the encyclopedia you probably know all about WWII or you just don’t care about the history of your world).

Counterstrike is about the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the six day war that established the Israelis on what they call their country now days. There are two songs about the Vietnam War “Into The Fire” and “Purple Heart”, this two a little more melancholic then the rest of the album, perhaps because the American army lost that war and there were no allies or joust cause for that war.

This is a great album, fast, powerful, with what you can call extreme vocals in a power metal album; Sabaton was showed us that the genre can be though without loosing the great guitars and all the melodies.