Sabatonin Thobbe Englund kertoo, miksi nyt oli oikea aika palata yhtyeeseen

Kitaristi Thobbe Englund palasi Sabaton-yhtyeeseen aiemmin tänä vuonna, lähdettyään bändistä vuonna 2016. Englund kertoi Brutal Planet Magazinen haastattelussa lähteneensä bändistä perustaakseen perheen.

Englund kertoo:

”I didn’t have to think about it that much, because my son is five now. His favorite band is Sabaton. When I left the band, it looked completely different for me privately. It was, like, we wanted to have a kid. And then, you know how it is with kids when they’re toddlers and all that. You wanna be home, you wanna be there.”

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”And during all these years, for me being home, being together with [my son] and the family, the band has grown immensely for eight years, which means that we won’t be away that much anymore like we used to.”

Paluusta bändiin Englund sanoi, että hänelle selvisi uudenvuodenaattona, että hän todennäköisesti palaisi, jos häntä pyydettäisiin takaisin. Ajoitus oli selvästi täydellinen, sillä Sabatonin basisti ja manageri Pär Sundström pyysi häntä palamaan yhtyeeseen pian sen jälkeen.

”So it was just, everything kind of dawned on me. ’Of course, yes. If the question comes, I’ll say yes.’ And I think it was a week later, we had a birthday party for [my son], and me and Joakim Brodén, Sabaton singer had been writing a song that’s gonna be on this new album. And he just texted me a couple of days before.”

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”And he was, like, ’Are you gonna be at home Sunday? Because, yeah, I’m just coming by.’ I was, ’Yeah, yeah, of course. Just come by. I’ll put on some coffee,’ and like that. We sat there drinking coffee, and we talked about something. And then he was, like, ’By the way, how do you feel about putting those camo pants back on?’ And I was, like, ’All right. So here is the question. It actually came, like one week later.'”