[Cover photo credit to Candy Welz]
The German Metal band Heaven Shall Burn have announced new album, Heimat, to arrive via Century Media Records on June 27, 2025. According to the band, the word “heimat” means “homeland”, but they feel it’s often a misunderstood term.
Maik Weichert (guitar) 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.
Following up on 2020’s Of Truth And Sacrifice, Heimat was produced at the band’s own studio, The Dude Ranch, which is run by guitarist Alexander Dietz. Like in the past, Danish producer Tue Madsen took care of the mixing and mastering.
The band enlisted the artist Eliran Kantor for the artwork, who previously crafted the artwork for Of Truth And Sacrifice. According to the band, “The centrepiece 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.”
Heaven Shall Burn again worked with composer, Producer and director Sven Helbig and conductor Wilhelm Keitel, this time supported by the Mondëna Quartet and the Ukrainian Sophia Chamber Choir.
Regarding the recently released track “My Revocation of Compliance” and its video, the band says:
The song reflects our current attitude. It is time to stop being held back by candy coated speeches. The essential challenge for our generation is to consistently live our own attitudes and convictions and to no longer tolerate the omnipresent ignorance of the pressing problems of our time. Sham discussions, divisive tendencies and envy debates, in other words everything that is available in the political toolbox of those in power, must not distract us from the real undesirable developments and must be rigorously smashed. We think the iconoclastic symbolism of the video conveys this attitude in a very special way.
