[Cover photo credit to Candy Welz]
Heaven Shall Burn have released another single from their upcoming album, Heimat, titled “Confounder”. It’s accompanied by a video. “Confounder” is their “anthem celebrating self-empowerment, self-reliance and autonomous thinking, but ultimately advocating community, supporting and uplifting each other.”
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” which is German for “home / homeland / native land” is a term that has often been misused.
Maik Weichert (guitar) explains their album title choice:
‘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.
For the cover artwork, the band enlisted artist Eliran Kantor, who previously crafted the artwork for Of Truth And Sacrifice. The centrepiece is a rearing stag which is “a vital allegory of resistance amid an apocalyptic scene.” 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 Mondëna Quartet and The Ukrainian Sophia Chamber Choir.
Live Dates:
29.06. (DE) Bremen – Modernes (SOLD OUT)
30.06. (DE) Bochum – Zeche (SOLD OUT)
01.06. (DE) Memmingen – Kaminwerk (SOLD OUT)
02.06. (DE) Themar – Schützenhaus (SOLD OUT)
Festival Dates:
06.-08.06.25 (DE) Rock Am Ring – Nuerburg
06.-08.06.25 (DE) Rock Im Park – Nuernberg
06.-08.06.25 (CZ) Metalfest Pilsen – Pilsen
10.06.25 (SLO) Ljubljana – Media Center
11.06.25 (AT) Kufstein – Festung
13.06.25 (CH) Greenfield – Interlaken
14.06.25 (AT) Nova Rock – Nickelsdorf
21.06.25 (DK) Copenhell – Copenhagen
22.06.25 (BE) Graspop Metal Meeting – Dessel
26.06.25 (NL) Jera On Air – Ysselsteyn
27.06.25 (DE) Impericon Festival – Leipzig
28.06.25 (DE) Vainstream Rockfest – Muenster
03.07.25 (DE) Rockharz Festival – Ballenstedt
