Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed it in the ‘Steel Commanders’ video, and it will be manned by a Sabaton crew that includes Brodén, who recorded a custom voiceover that’s full of Easter eggs for fans to discover. The event will see tankers take on challenges to reap the utmost reward: the game’s first-ever Tier IX Premium tank, the Strv K.
“We’re proud to be part of this brand new in-game event that features the first-ever Tier IX Premium tank as the ultimate prize, as well as us as crew members!”Īpart from the music video, also starring the GRAMMY Award-nominated virtuoso cellist Tina Guo, Sabaton are headlining a new in-game event: Spirit of War. Together, we made an epic music video for ‘Steel Commanders’ and it’s the perfect way to kick off our massive collaboration,” states Joakim Brodén, lead vocalist of Sabaton. “It’s been a great experience working with the World of Tanks and Wargaming guys on this huge project. Kicking off in full force with the ‘Steel Commanders’ music video that is an essential addition to every tanker’s battle music playlist, the band will also be staging a massive in-game event that will reward tankers with a little bit of history: the first-ever Tier IX Premium tank! The two facets of heavy metal are about to really put on a show. So we’re really lucky to have each other.Get ready to headbang with the latest collaboration between Swedish metallers, Sabaton, and World of Tanks. Some people have truly lost family members, some people are truly going through depression and are home alone, some people are truly scared to really even just go to the grocery store. And we’re so grateful for that because everybody can’t say that’s their only major change in their life. The only thing that’s changed for us is not being on the road. We’re definitely taking advantage of not being on the road. Tank: With that time alone we have created so many songs. But it was like when we actually had that moment to take a break it was almost like a reset. Because we were working so hard, man, and it was constant, and we were pushing and pushing.
Joshua Johnson: With the quarantine you learned another thing. There’s going to be this amazing blossoming in, like, three or four years since everybody made home studios right now. Because this right here is like, this crazy fertile ground. We all have Logic we all work on that stuff. On How the Pandemic Will Affect Music-MakingĪllenback: I know that we’ve all doubled-down on our individual production capabilities. If you want to go in your texts, or in your notes, or in your journal…you have to remember, you have a phone full of lyrics. I keep thinking I don’t got no lyrics because I’ve been a poet this long and I haven’t been a singer this long.” Tank: I started to realize, “Oh, my goodness, my poems are my lyrics. As far as staying original, stay true to you, stay sincere-I think that’s important.Īlfred Allenback: A lot of our arrangements and stuff comes from Tank’s impulses and the directions her words give. Norman Spence: If you know what vibe you want, and you know what you don’t want to sound like, and you know what somebody else already sounds like, just vibe around that. It’s growing, it’s changing, it’s morphing, it’s all these different minds, and everybody is not always on the same wavelength. We really are trying to figure out-even though we are Tank and the Bangas-what is Tank and the Bangas? Because it’s not no specific sound. On Creating a Style of Music That’s Truly Different Below are edited excerpts from those conversations. Over the course of the clinic, which kicked off with a performance of the song “ Quiet," Tank and the Bangas shared their origin story, talked about how they come up with such original tunes, and discussed how the pandemic has affected them as a band.
On October 16, the group appeared at a virtual Berklee Visiting Artist Series clinic, moderated by Phil Lima, assistant chair of Berklee’s Voice Department. In the years since, the band would go on to win NPR’s 2017 Tiny Desk Concert Contest and to earn a 2020 Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Later, Albert Allenback would join on alto saxophone and flute. There she met future Tank and the Bangas bandmates Joshua Johnson, who is the now band’s drummer and musical director, and Norman Spence, the band’s keyboardist and bassist. But in middle school she discovered slam poetry, and in high school she used that voice to win two National Poetry Slam championships.Īfter high school, Tank started attending an open mic at Black Star Books & Caffe, where she could combine her poetry with music. Tarriona “Tank” Ball grew up in a family of New Orleans pastors and says that because of her big voice, everyone assumed she’d follow in the family tradition.