New Album Heimat Out June 27

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After releasing first single, "My Revocation of Compliance", in early April, HEAVEN SHALL BURN are dropping another new song and video taken from their upcoming album Heimat.

"Confounder" is their anthem celebrating self-empowerment, self-reliance, and autonomous thinking, but ultimately advocating community, supporting, and uplifting each other.

Watch the emotional video on KNAC.COM HERE.

The band comments, "Like an invisible force, the current conditions in our societies deform and mistreat every individual. Pressure to consume, fear campaigns, and pseudo-debates scream at us from all media and numb values important for community and democracy, such as tolerance, solidarity, and autonomous thinking. Standing up against this and setting a positive example that deviates from the madness of everyday life within one's own bubble with a clear stance is what we want to promote with this song and the accompanying video. Be the disruptive factor, be the 'Confounder!'"

"Heimat" = German for "home/homeland/native land" - a term that merely refers to a relationship between people and spaces but has nevertheless always been highly emotionally charged. Often misused, it sometimes causes discomfort, lively discussions, and battles over interpretation.

Guitarist Maik Weichert comments: "Heimat is not meant as the narrow-minded end point in the sense it has been used by agitators and populists, but the starting point for observations and perspectives. The album is about a much wider sense of the term 'Heimat': The homelands for many different people and also about the spiritual home, something that shapes and determines our thoughts and actions."

HEAVEN SHALL BURN took their time with the follow-up to Of Truth And Sacrifice, which reached No. 1 on the Official German Album Charts in 2020. Heimat was produced at the band's own studio, The Dude Ranch, which is run by guitarist Alexander Dietz. As in the past, Danish producer Tue Madsen took care of the mixing and mastering.

The Thuringians enlisted the renowned artist Eliran Kantor for the artwork, who previously crafted the artwork for Of Truth And Sacrifice. The centerpiece of the impressive triptych is a rearing stag - in its roaring variant a classic motif of wildlife painting, the epitome of kitsch and trivial art from the 19th and 20th centuries and interpreted by some as a symbol of patriarchy and capitalist competition, but here placed as a vital allegory of resistance amid an apocalyptic scene. He is flanked by a hunting lynx and a watchful owl, which complete the highly symbolic artwork concept as further elements of the triptych. As with Of Truth And Sacrifice, HEAVEN SHALL BURN worked together with composer, producer and director Sven Helbig and conductor Wilhelm Keitel, this time supported by the Mondena Quartet and the Ukrainian Sophia Chamber Choir.

Cover Art: Eliran Kantor
Heimat will be released on June 27 by the band's long-standing label partner Century Media Records.

Heimat will be available in the following formats:

• Ltd. Deluxe Triple-Gatefold transp. red-blue splattered 2LP+CD (album on 45rpm + Keinen Schritt zuruck -EP)
• Ltd. Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Mediabook (+ Live at Summer Breeze 2024 Blu-ray + Keinen Schritt zuruck -EP)
• Ltd. transp. light blue-red splattered LP (500) available from HEAVEN SHALL BURN (SOLD OUT)
• Ltd. Side A/B split (red&black) LP (500) available from HEAVEN SHALL BURN on live shows
• Ltd. deep blood red LP (300) available from HEAVEN SHALL BURN
• Ltd. olive green LP (300) available from HEAVEN SHALL BURN
• Ltd. transp. sun yellow LP (500) available from cmdistro.de and various Indie retailers
• Ltd. orange LP (300) available from Impericon
• Ltd. transp. green LP (300) available from EMP who also carry options with a wooden canvas (30cm x 30cm)
• Black LP
• Standard CD Jewelcase
• Digital album (+ Keinen Schritt zuruck - EP)