Sabaton - Yamato Genre: Metal (Press 'y' for Yamato' to repeat song) ADDITION: (Press: the spacebar to see wreck diorama pictures)
Released on March 13th, 2026, "Yamato" as the name suggests, talks or rather sings about the lead ship of the Yamato-Class Battleships the "Yamato". The most powerfully armed and heaviest battleship ever built, with her 9, 46 cm (18.1 in) Type 94 main guns would make her a force to be reckoned with. Built at the Kure Naval Arsenal in 1937 and commissioned in 1941, she was designed to be superior to any American battleship. Her last mission was: Operation Ten-Go, on April 7, 1945, the Yamato was sent on a one-way mission to Okinawa to fight US forces. She was attacked by over 300 aircraft from Task Force 58, receiving as many as 11 to 13 torpedo and 5 to 10 as high as 19 bomb hits before she capsized and sunk. Of her 3,000+ crew only around 269 survived, she and her sister ship "Musashi" were symbols of Imperial Japanese Naval power but were seen as waste of resources compared to aircraft carriers, carriers would make the Yamato-Class Battleships (or Battleships in general) eventually obsolete as the Yamato was used too little too late by Operation Ten-Go. Her wreck, in two pieces, today rests at 180 miles (290 kilometers) in the southwest of Kyushu, Japan in the East China Sea, at a depth of 1,120 to 1,410 feet (340–350 meters) and is treated as a war grave.
