On 23 December 2009, the band announced the name of their forthcoming album. The band had hoped to begin recording the next album in October but with concerts booked and the DragonForce support tour the following month, it was pushed back. After their Bloodstock performance, the band again went on tour with DragonForce, towards the end of 2009, for eighteen shows in the UK. They toured Europe in 2009 as an opening act on the HammerFall Tour. The album contains the singles "Cliffs of Gallipoli" and "Ghost Division".
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, strategy, and war itself have remained basically the same. Sabaton performing at Norway Rock Festival in 2010Īs 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. After two years of waiting, during which the band held various performances across Sweden, the album was abandoned. In 2002, a new album, Metalizer was recorded and was supposed to be distributed by Underground Symphony as the band's debut album. The disc, distilled from two demo tapes recorded between 19, was intended to promote forthcoming Sabaton releases. The band signed with the Italian label Underground Symphony, which then released, internationally, the promo CD Fist for Fight.
After the first songs were recorded in Peter Tägtgren's studio, The Abyss, Sabaton was contacted by a couple of record labels.
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