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Photo Credit: Jens Koch — Cover Artwork: Eliran Kantor

Following their tradition of covering some of their favourite and most influential tracks featuring original members HEAVEN SHALL BURN are releasing “Numbered Days (feat. Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage)”. Check out the visualizer that is accompanying the celebration of the bands’ friendship, below.

Bonus points for anyone catching the title of one of HEAVEN SHALL BURN’s classics in the lyrics.

The band comments: “Killswitch Engage are THE metalcore band! When we heard ‘Numbered Days’ for the very first time, it totally blew us away. It was clear that something new was brewing up. No other band has influenced this style of music more and interpreted it better. Just because the guys have been very good friends for many years doesn’t mean you can’t pay tribute to this great band. We hope the song means as much to you as it does to us!”

Jesse Leach further adds: “All of us are honored by HEAVEN SHALL BURN covering ‘Numbered Days’. That song truly kicked off an album for us that would change our lives. All these years later to have people still resonate with our music means the world to us. Now to have a band like HEAVEN SHALL BURN cover it 23 years later is really wild! Grateful and very stoked to have been a part of the reshaping of this song and to hear someone else’s take on it!” Make sure to catch Killswitch Engage on their upcoming European tour, because “Numbered Days” isn’t the only song from this legendary band that had a lasting impact on modern extreme music.

Another pending question is finally answered: After HEAVEN SHALL BURN had to cancel some shows due to their singer Marcus Bischoff suffering from a severe infection of his vocal chords the band is happy to announce that Britta Görtz from HIRAES will be filling in. “We have a plan!” says Marcus Bischoff. “Britta from HIRAES will fill in for me at the upcoming shows, so tomorrow in Kufstein as well as next weekend! Give her a warm welcome, show her what HSB fans are made of and make the shows something very special in the band’s history! We are really looking forward to it! Things are already looking better for me, too! Your Molle and the HSB guys!” Get well soon and welcome Britta!

“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. 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.”

HEAVEN SHALL BURN took their time with the follow-up to “Of Truth And Sacrifice”, which reached number 1 in 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. Like 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 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. 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.

“Heimat” will be released on 27 June 2025 by their long-standing label partner Century Media Records.

The track listing of ”Heimat“ reads as follows:

1. Ad Arma
2. War Is The Father Of All
3. My Revocation Of Compliance
4. Confounder
5. Empowerment
6. A Whisper From Above
7. Imminence
8. Those Left Behind
9. Ten Days In May
10. Numbered Days (feat. Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage)
11. Dora
12. A Silent Guard
13. Inter Arma

“Keinen Schritt zurück“-EP:

1. Keinen Schritt zurück (feat. Donots)
2. Schweineherbst (feat. Dÿse)
3. Eisenkopf
4. Destroy Fascism

HEAVEN SHALL BURN have already released three singles and videos taken from “Heimat”:
“My Revocation of Compliance (Official Video)”: https://youtu.be/mvSMQFERzbE
“Confounder (Official Video)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMOrZ2WCOp8
“Empowerment (OfficialVideo)”: https://youtu.be/XsK9hE7NY4I

Consider yourself lucky if you secured a ticket for one of their club shows:
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)

You can catch them on the following festivals:
11.06.25 (AT) Kufstein – Festung (w/ In Flames)
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

HEAVEN SHALL BURN are:
Marcus Bischoff – Vocals
Maik Weichert – Guitar
Alexander Dietz – Guitar
Eric Bischoff – Bass
Christian Bass – Drums

Heaven Shall Burn online:
https://www.heavenshallburn.com/
https://www.instagram.com/heavenshallburnofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/officialheavenshallburn