DRAGONFORCE guitarist Frédéric Leclercq will play with SABATON ' but only for their World War Tour 2011.

SABATON explain the situation as follows:
"Our old friend and companion from the band DRAGONFORCE will take over on guitars from Rikard during the upcoming World War Tour in Europe. This is since Rikard has decided to multiply himself and will have his first kid at this time. Of course its the highest wish of SABATON to tour with all six members but this time Rikard wanted to pass and to ensure that the fans that come to these shows will get a good show we wanted to bring in a person with both great musical talent as well as a great stage act together with a chemistry that we know fits in SABATON. We are sure that Frédéric is that person.

This is of course a temporary situation, Frédéric is still a full member of DRAGONFORCE and Rikard is still the guitar player of SABATON.
For the American tour that starts in April Rikard will be on stage again, ready to rock and hopefully a bit richer in life."

World War Tour 2011:

03.03.2011 LU - Esch-Sur-Alzette, Rockhall
04.03.2011 FR - Eloyes, Centre Culturel
05.03.2011 FR - Paris, Trabendo
06.03.2011 ES - Bilbao, RockStarLive
08.03.2011 PT - Lisbon, Cine Teatro de Corroios
09.03.2011 ES - Madrid, Ritmo y Compas
10.03.2011 ES - Barcelona, Salamandra
11.03.2011 FR - Lyon, Ninkasi Kao
12.03.2011 IT - Bruneck, Ufo
14.03.2011 SI - Ljubljana, Kino Siska
15.03.2011 IT - Treviso, New Age Club
16.03.2011 DE - Lindau, Club Vaudeville
18.03.2011 DE - Bremen, Aladdin
19.03.2011 UK - Prestatyn, Hammerfest

Source: www.NuclearBlast.de