| Metalizer | ||||
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| Released | 16 March 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2002, with minor remastering in January 2007 | |||
| Genre | Power metal[1] | |||
| Length | 43:18 | |||
| Label | Black Lodge Records (original) Nuclear Blast (Re-Armed edition) | |||
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Metalizer is the third full-length release by Swedishpower metal bandSabaton, 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 compilationFist 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 labelNuclear Blast with four bonus tracks, under the nameMetalizer Re-Armed.[4]
| No. | Title | Theme | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hellrider" | About the Ghost Rider | 3:42 |
| 2. | "Thundergods" | 3:47 | |
| 3. | "Metalizer" | 4:06 | |
| 4. | "Shadows" | About theNazgûl fromThe Lord of the Rings | 3:28 |
| 5. | "Burn Your Crosses" | From the perspective of a victim of theSpanish Inquisition | 5:09 |
| 6. | "7734" | 3:41 | |
| 7. | "Endless Nights" | 4:52 | |
| 8. | "Hail to the King" | 3:39 | |
| 9. | "Thunderstorm" | 3:08 | |
| 10. | "Speeder" | 3:45 | |
| 11. | "Masters of the World" | 4:01 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Jawbreaker" (Judas Priest cover, also in the special edition) | 3:23 |
| 13. | "Dream Destroyer" | 3:12 |
| 14. | "Panzer Battalion" (Demo Version) | 5:01 |
| 15. | "Hellrider" (Live in Västerås 2006) | 4:25 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Introduction" | 0:50 |
| 2. | "Hellrider" | 3:48 |
| 3. | "Endless Nights" | 4:49 |
| 4. | "Metalizer" | 4:25 |
| 5. | "Burn Your Crosses" | 5:23 |
| 6. | "The Hammer Has Fallen" | 5:50 |
| 7. | "Hail to the King" | 4:08 |
| 8. | "Shadows" | 3:33 |
| 9. | "Thunderstorm" | 3:10 |
| 10. | "Masters of the World" | 4:00 |
| 11. | "Guten Nacht" | 1:53 |
| 12. | "Birds of War" (Previously unreleased) | 4:52 |
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[8] | 21 |
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