[Cover photo credit to The Lens of Akasha]

Changeling is a Progressive Death Metal band led by guitarist Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger (ex-Obscura) and they have released a blindfolded guitar playthrough of the track “World? What World?”. It was shot in studio and taken from the band’s debut album, Changeling, out now.

This playthrough turns the song into a single uninterrupted performance, with Fountainhead navigating entirely by feel.

“World? What World?” is one of the most exacting songs on the album Changeling, built on 260 bpm blast beats and a brass arrangement scored for an ensemble of tubas. The band feels using a blindfold on this track is “a fitting angle for a song built around the collapse of perceptual certainty.”

Changeling moves through four distinct chapters. The album opens with Technical Death Metal, rooted in Fountainhead’s work on Obscura’s album Akroasis. It closes with “Anathema”, the 16-minute successor to his own “Weltseele.”

You can catch Changeling on the band’s first European headline tour this November with Obsidian Tide.  

CHANGELING 2026 European Headline TOUR? WHAT TOUR?

with Obsidian Tide

November 12 – Hamburg, Germany @ Bambi Galore (+ Soulsplitter)

November 13 – Cologne, Germany @ MTC (+ 46 Forty Six Band)

November 14 – Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen (+ Demichron)

November 15 – Den Haag, Netherlands @ Musicon (+ Hyla)

November 17 – Charleroi, Belgium @ MCP Apache (+ Laucean)

November 19 – Kaiserslautern, Germany @ Irish House ( + Magefa)

November 20 – Stuttgart, Germany @ Club Zentral

November 21 – Innsbruck, Austria @ Livestage (+ Virial)

November 22 – Vienna, Austria @ Escape Metalcorner (+ Pater Tenebrarum)

November 24 – Landshut, Germany @ Rocketclub

November 25 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Black Pes (+ Poppy Seed Grinder)

November 26 – Ostrava, Czech Republic @ Rock Hill (+ TBA)

November 27 – Warsaw, Poland @ Potok (+ TBA)

November 29 – Berlin, Germany @ Kulturhaus Insel