Prog Sphere ranked Porcupne Tree albums from worst to best, although that sounds a bit harsh. For some people that’s terrible, and it seems that it’s going to stay like that for a long time, considering that Wilson announced his fifth solo release for 2017. Sabaton's The Great War is a dragging defeat and the band should be buried and rest in peace now.It’s been several years now since Steven Wilson decided to put Porcupine Tree on hiatus and work on his solo material. I think the time has come for the band to split up before completely destroying its own legacy. The band harms its own legacy established throughout the first six studio records of its career and one simply can't take the Swedish quintet seriously anymore. While listening to this output, I felt like the guy on the decent cover artwork. The band doesn't seem to care about the serious topics of war anymore but only seems to be interested in making money and performing in front of drunk festival fans these days. Sabaton has kept repeating itself over the last three records and each album got progressively worse. It's ironic indeed that the only song that doesn't feature any of Sabaton's members is actually the best. The song isn't even a genuine Sabaton song as we hear choirs performing the poem in an emotional, gripping and haunting way to end the album on an atmospheric, creative and memorable note. ''In Flanders Field'' is obviously inspired by the famous John McCrae poem which might be the best poem of the twentieth century. ''The End of the War to End All Wars'' isn't spectacular by any means but at least takes the time to establish a serious atmosphere over a decent running time just below five minutes. The only reasons why this record didn't get the worst possible rating are the final two songs which are at least decent. Metal bands have often been inspired by war and there are numerous outstanding songs and records about such historical events but Sabaton's The Great War is without exaggeration the weakest, silliest and cheapest approach I have ever listened to. It's a lack of respect towards the soldiers and civilians and their families that died and suffered back then. When one sings about the devastating effects of First World War, you simply can't get to the point in just three minutes and deliver vocal and instrumental approaches that would rather fit the soundtrack for a show for toddlers on Disney Channel. The biggest issue is that the songs are short and uplifting. The mid-paced drum play is uninspired and might as well come from a computer. The bass guitar is nearly inaudible and is given no space to shine. The domineering keyboards imitate stereotypical fanfare sounds and feel phoned in and copied and pasted unto every single tune.
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The melodic guitar play in the key of Yngwie Malmsteen sounds so repetitive that it could come from amateur players from a high school band who have just learned how to play a handful of cover songs. They all revolve around supposedly catchy but extremely predictable choruses. The songs are all three and a half minutes long. I don't mind a band developing its very own style but when the exact same patterns are blandly repeated throughout the first nine tunes of the album, the band becomes a sad parody of its former self.
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To be honest, none of the tracks on The Great War can even remotely compete with said single and my advice would be to download said single and ignore this joke of a record entirely. Independent single ''Bismarck'' raised my hopes earlier this year since the song had a more creative structure than usual, sounded epic and bold and was accompanied by a great music video. The last two albums offered repetitive power metal tropes by the numbers regardless of the serious matters treated in the lyrics. Sabaton once started as a serious power metal band that treated historical subjects with care, energy and respect but after the inspired Carolus Rex record and the split with two thirds of the line-up that followed immediately after, the band has gone downhill.
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