Invictus (Heaven Shall Burn album)
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CD, MP3 download |
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Title (number) |
12/13 (Ltd. Ed.) |
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45:04 / 47:32 (Ltd. Ed.) |
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Alexander Dietz, Maik Weichert |
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Studio (s) |
Antfarm, Denmark |
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Invictus (Iconoclast III) is the sixth studio album by the German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn and the last part of the Iconoclast trilogy. The album was produced in the Antfarm Studio in Aarhus , Denmark by Alexander Dietz and Maik Weichert and mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen.
It reached ninth place in the German, 17th place in the Austrian and 38th place in the Swiss charts . This makes Heaven Shall Burn after Pantera ( Far Beyond Driven ), Slayer (since God Hates Us All ), Slipknot (since Iowa ), Dimmu Borgir ( In Sorte Diaboli ) and Amon Amarth (since Twilight of the Thunder God ) one of the few extreme ones Metal bands that have ever placed an album in the German top 10.
Emergence
At the beginning of March 2010 Heaven Shall Burn announced that the new album, then untitled, would be released in May of the same year, one year after the release of the DVD Iconoclast II: Iconoclasm . On April 8, 2010, the online magazine The Pit announced that the name of the new album had been fixed, and eight days later the release of a first song from the new album, The Omen . The album was finally released on May 21, 2010 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and on June 8, 2010 in the USA. A video was also shot for the song Combat .
Track list
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- Intro * - 1:09
- The Omen - 3:37
- Combat - 3:48
- I Was I Am I Shall Be - 3:56
- Buried in Forgotten Grounds - 5:33
- Sevastopol - 4:03
- The Lie You Bleed For - 4:41
- Return to Sanity - 3:20
- Against Bridge Burners - 3:29
- Of Forsaken Poets - 4:32
- Nowhere (Bonus Track) * - 2:28
- Given in Death * - 5:11
- Outro * - 1:45
Both the intro and the outro of the album were composed by Ólafur Arnalds . The song Nowhere is a cover version of the band Therapy? . Sabine Less (vocals) and Sebastian Reichl (guitar) from the band Deadlock contributed to the song Given In Death .
music
The song Combat deals with the subject of child soldiers . In I Was I Am I Shall Be it comes to the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg . Buried In Forgotten Grounds deals with the crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship , and also the role of the CIA in the coup in Chile in 1973 . The song Sevastopol deals with the battle for Sevastopol 1941–1942 . Return To Sanity deals with the battle in the Huertgen Forest in which Ernest Hemingway was present as war correspondent. Against Bridge Burners is dedicated to Lev Kopelev and Of Forsaken Poets Max Herrmann-Neiße .
According to Matthias Voigt, the main differences to the previous albums were the increased use of electronic beats and the duet with the singer Sabine Less in the song Given in Death . This was described by him as a kind of encore to the album, where he attributed the choice of a female duet singer to the very emotional theme.
criticism
| medium | Rating | critic |
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| Allmusic |
 
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Dave Donnelly |
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Boris Kaiser |
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Andreas Schulz |
Invictus was named album of the month in both Metal Hammer and Rock Hard and it landed at number 42 in the 2010 Rock Hard annual poll. While Dave Donnelly from the Allmusicguide finds the album too monotonous and believes that the band has the new influences Not explored in enough detail, Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard Magazine sees the album as an attempt to "perfect one's own musical worldview".
“With slight modifications in the sound, HEAVEN SHALL BURN ensure that even long-term fans have something new to discover on" Invictus ", otherwise everything has stayed the same. With the usual creativity and routine quality you fight for twelve well-deserved points, from which you have to deduct one because of the anything but perfect sound. "
limited edition
In addition to the regular version of the album, a limited box set was also available, which included a digipack, a sweatband, a merchandise voucher and a sticker. The digipack (with alternative artwork) also contained the bonus DVD Live in Vienna in addition to the CD (with bonus track) . The show, which can be seen on the DVD, was recorded on February 21, 2010 at the Szene Wien.
Live In Vienna:
- Intro - 1:16
- Forlorn Skies - 4:58
- Counterweight - 4:28
- Voice of the Voiceless - 4:58
- End time - 5:31
- Buried in Forgotten Grounds - 4:22
- The Disease - 3:00
- Architects of the Apocalypse - 3:37
- The Omen - 4:04
- Unleash Enlightment - 4:45
- Of No Avail - 4:28
- Black Tears - 3:04
- Behind a Wall of Silence - 4:48
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heaven Shall Burn: New album + release date: The-Pit.de the-pit.de, last viewed on January 12, 2011
- ↑ Heaven Shall Burn: The new album is called "Invictus": The-Pit.de the-pit.de, last viewed on January 12, 2011
- ↑ Heaven Shall Burn: First song from "Invictus" online: The-Pit.de the-pit.de, last seen on January 12th, 2011
- ↑ musicline.de: Charts Germany: Heaven Shall Burn ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Charts Austria: Heaven Shall Burn
- ↑ hitparade.ch: Charts Switzerland: Heaven Shall Burn
- ↑ Interview by in-your-face.de with Heaven Shall Burn ( memento from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in-your-face.de, last viewed on January 11, 2011.
- ↑ Rock Hard; March 2011, # 286, p. 28
- ↑ Invictus Review ; Allmusic. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ↑ Invictus Review ; Rock Hard # 277. Retrieved May 1, 2011
- ↑ Invictus by Musikreviews.de last viewed on January 12, 2011
