Both concerts will filmed during the band's 2019-2020 touring with special guest performers coming on board to make for memorable sets. And fans will be able to get their hands on this special collection Nov. 19 through Nuclear Blast.

 

The 20th Anniversary Show had the band playing a special two-hour headline concert in front of 75,000 fans at Germany's Wacken Open Air Festival. The show, taking place Aug. 1, 2019, actually marked the 20th anniversary date of the band's formation.

 

For the greater part of the Wacken concert, SABATON commandeered the festival’s two main stages, the side-by-side-and-connected Faster and Harder Stages, becoming the first artist in Wacken's 30-year history to utilize both stages simultaneously in this way. Vocalist Joakim Brodén, guitarists Chris Rörland and Tommy Johansson, drummer Hannes Van Dahl, and the 20-voice Great War Choir, fitted out in a variety of military uniforms, performed on the Faster Stage.

 

At the same time on the Harder Stage, bassist Pär Sundström welcomed back previous SABATON members Thobbe Englund and Rikard Sundén/guitars, Daniel Mÿhr/keyboards and Daniel Mulback/drums - all nine musicians, plus the choir, giving an intense and impassioned en masse performance. Sabaton was also joined by the internationally acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated virtuoso cellist Tina Guo for the encore.

 

Meanwhile, The Great Show was recorded during a sold-out performance on Jan. 26, 2020 at the O2 Arena in Prague, with a different setlist than the one captured at Wacken, providing viewers with an even broader spectrum of material to take in. The Great Show reunited SABATON with APOCALYPTICA, who provided a fiery orchestral backing to several of SABATON’s songs.