

Accept did “Für Elise” on the Metal heart song and we thought it was brilliant, and finally when we had the song “Hearts of Iron” we were listening to the chords of it and wow, this actually has the same chords as “Air on a G string”, so we can put that in here. We are inspired by Accept, there’s no need to say anything else. Pär: "Yes it is, it’s “Air on a G string”. "In Hearts of Iron, is that a piece of classical music thats played as a guitar solo? It sounds very familiar but I cant quite place it." It's pretty funny actually today, but a lot of our fans in China discovered Sabaton through the game Hearts of Iron." So it was possible to get the music, our songs, when you play the game. note), there is release now soundtrack of Sabaton. We did other things connected to this, and inside Hearts of Iron (IV - ed. And when we were researching we came across the story about Walter Wenck and it took a while to keep discussing and developing the idea. They asked us "is there any way that you can like write a song that would be like a lead theme for our game that is coming?" and we said "okay". I mean they are doing games about history and we are doing music about it.

Pär: "Many years ago, when we had a concert in Stockholm, we were approached at an after party by people from this Swedish development studio of games called Paradox, and some of the guys came and they said that they were big fans of us and they really appreciate the work that we are doing with a music about history and we started to talk about that we are doing pretty much the same thing. In fact, he pressed "record" during the practice and the take was perfect so it ended up on the album.
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The song title was inspired by a video game series "Hearts of Iron".
