Hello everybody I’m Francesco and today I will tell
you about one of my favourite albums in the metal music world: “The last stand”
by Swedish band Sabaton.
This album is about famous last stands in history; a
last stand is for definition a battle where a small defensive force holds
apposition against a much more powerful attacking force.
There are ten songs in this album, and I would like to
talk about each one of them.
The first one is “Sparta”; it’s about the battle at
the Hot Gates (“Thermopylae” in English and “Thermopylon” in ancient Greek). In
this last stand there were about 5, 000 Greek hoplites led by king Leonidas of
Sparta and his 300 Spartans against 500,000 Persians of Xerxes I. It took place
in August 480 b.C. and lasted three days. The Greeks fought bravely but a
traitor called Ephialtes showed to the Persians a way back to defenders. A lot
of Greeks retreated covered by Leonidas and his 300 men, who fought until they
were killed by the Persian horde.
