Veto (album)

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veto
Studio album from Heaven Shall Burn

Publication
(s)

April 19, 2013

Label (s) Century Media

Format (s)

CD, MP3 download

Genre (s)

Melodic Death Metal , Metalcore , Modern Metal

Title (number)

11

running time

49:02

occupation

production

Alexander Dietz

Studio (s)

Antfarm, Denmark

chronology
Invictus (Iconoclast III)
(2010)
veto Wanderer
(2016)
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Veto is the seventh studio album by the German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn . It was published on April 19, 2013 in Germany via Century Media . The album reached number two in the German charts.

Origin and style

On January 18, 2013, the band announced that they were going to the studio. The album was recorded in the Antfarm studio in Denmark . In Valhalla , a cover of the German metal band Blind Guardian , had their singer Hansi Kürsch with. With the album, the band moves stylistically between (melodic) death metal , modern metal and metalcore.

Lady Godiva by John Collier , ca.1898

A video for Hunters Will Be Hunted has been released. A lyric video for Godiva was also released . The painting Lady Godiva by John Collier also graces the album cover. Guitarist Maik Weichert described it as “a symbol of the struggle for social justice”. It represents as a problem of the time that the "leading class is isolated from the people and the resulting conflicts". The band went on tour for the album with Hypocrisy and other bands.

reception

The album reached number two in the Metal Hammer soundcheck . The page Musikreviews.de awarded 12 out of 15 points. The band succeeded in creating a “surprisingly good album that is well balanced between melody and heaviness.” Boris Kaiser awarded nine out of ten points in Rock Hard magazine . With the "abundance of highlights" it is "difficult to limit yourself to individual pieces". The album was not "album of the month" like previous albums, but appeared in the category "10 × dynamite".

Track list

  1. Godiva
  2. Land of the Upright Ones
  3. The storms are calling you
  4. Falling
  5. Hunters Will Be Hunted
  6. You will be Godless
  7. Valhalla (cover of Blind Guardian )
  8. Antagonized
  9. Like Gods Among Mortals
  10. 53 Nations
  11. Beyond Redemption
  12. European Super State (Additional Track of the Limited Version)

Individual evidence

  1. a b www.heavenshallburn.de
  2. www.heavenshallburn.com
  3. a b www.musikreviews.de
  4. www.heavenshallburn.com
  5. www.rockhard.de
  6. www.rockhard.de