Wanderer (album)
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| Music album by Heaven Shall Burn | ||||
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19th September 2016 |
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2015-2016 |
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| Label (s) | Century Media Records | |||
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CD, MP3 download, vinyl |
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12 + 1 (Deluxe Edition) |
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58:44 |
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Guest musicians:
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Alexander Dietz, Maik Weichert |
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Chemical Burn Studios, Chameleon Studios, Antfarm Studio |
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Wanderer is the eighth studio album by the German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn . It was released on September 19, 2016 by Century Media Records .
The standard version of the album contains twelve songs, the deluxe version with a bonus track 13 and contains another CD. On the second disk named Too Good To Steal From , there is a compilation of thirteen cover versions that Heaven Shall Burn released over the years. To promote hikers, Bring the War Home , Downshifter and Passage of the Crane were released in advance. Music videos were published on YouTube for all three singles as well as Corium . George Fisher , Frank Blackfire , Nick Hipa , Aðalbjörn Tryggvason and René Liedtke could be won as guest musicians .
The album was perceived exclusively positively in the German-speaking trade press. It reached number three in the German album charts, as well as number 9 in Austria and number 15 in Switzerland. It is the third album of the band that was able to achieve a top ten placement in Germany, as well as the second album that immediately reached the top three. Wanderer was named best album at the Metal Hammer Awards 2017 .
History of origin
production
At the beginning of July 2015, the musicians announced a break during their performance at With Full Force to be able to work on new material. Heaven Shall Burn was able to win several well-known guest musicians for the album, including George Fisher from Cannibal Corpse , Aðalbjörn Tryggvason from the Icelandic metal band Sólstafir and Nick Hipa from Wovenwar . The latter played a guitar solo. The engagement with Hipa came about because the musicians wanted a fast solo like Slayer , which should also be melodic. The idea of asking for a collaboration with George Fisher came from singer Marcus Bischoff, who is himself a big fan of Cannibal Corpse. The musicians met Fisher at a Cannibal Corpse concert near Thuringia and approached him about a collaboration. Fisher worked half a day with the band on the song Prey to God .
The album was produced by guitarist Alexander Dietz, while Maik Weichert worked as a co-producer. All recordings took place in Dietz's own Chemical Burn Studios in Bad Kösen . Only the drum tracks were tracked by Eike Freese in the Chameleon Studios in Hamburg . The mixing and mastering took Tue Madsen .
Wanderer is the first album with drummer Christian Bass, who previously played as a session musician with Heaven Shall Burn. Dan Wilding from Carcass can be heard on the previous album Veto from 2013 .
publication
On July 20, 2016, the cover artwork, the track list, the name and the release date of the album were announced. The album is called Wanderer and was announced for September 19, 2016. One day after the announcement, the song Downshifter was released in advance in the stream. According to the Ostthüringische Zeitung , the album should be released on September 16. With Bring the War Home and Passage of the Crane , two more songs with lyric and music video were released in early and mid-September. The album itself was released on the predicted day.
Cover artwork
The album was designed by Christian Thiele. The artwork should reflect the natural aesthetics of the album. Thiele, the developer of the album cover, is considered to be one of the most up-and-coming landscape photographers in German-speaking countries. In another interview that Weichert conducted with the magazine , he stated that the cover represented the "silence before the storm".
“We wanted to capture the zeitgeist. Nowadays people get an overkill of unreflective opinions. Hardly anyone thinks about it anymore, and that means that people almost exclusively think in black and white. So that I can attack effectively and position myself, I have to be calm about my point of view beforehand. Therefore, the silence in the artwork should show the calm before the storm and before the attack. "
The cover shows Mount Kirkjufell in Iceland .
content
Maik Weichert said in an interview with the Austrian music portal Stormbringer.at that the album had an overarching concept. In contrast to the previous albums, the songs do not mainly contain political themes, but primarily revolve around nature . The album is meant to be thought-provoking. The song A River of Crimson is dedicated to the son of a friend of the musicians who has already had leukemia twice . In Bring the War Home the musicians criticize the meaning of wars directly . Another song, They Shall Not Pass , deals with the battle on Cable Street in London in 1936, in which residents of various origins prevented a protest march by 3,000 supporters of the fascist British Union of Fascists . Another song references Sadako Sasaki , one of the survivors of the atomic bombing on Hiroshima . Extermination Order describes the genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa , in what is now Namibia .
Track list
CD1: Wanderer
| # | title | composer | length | Remarks |
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| 1. | The Loss of Fury | 2:21 | ||
| 2. | Bring the War Home | 4:20 | ||
| 3. | Passage of the Crane | 3:57 | ||
| 4th | They Shall Not Pass | 5:33 | ||
| 5. | Downshifter | 5:59 | ||
| 6th | Prey to God | 3:08 | • feat. George Fisher | |
| 7th | Agent Orange | 6:08 | • Sodom cover song • Bonus song of the deluxe version • feat. Frank Blackfire |
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| 8th. | My Heart Is My Compass | 1:08 | ||
| 9. | Save me | 4:57 | • feat. Nick Hipa | |
| 10. | Corium | 5:28 | ||
| 11. | Extermination order | 3:20 | ||
| 12. | A River of Crimson | 4:28 | ||
| 13. | The Cry of Mankind | 7:35 | • My-Dying-Bride cover song • Bonus song on the deluxe version • feat. Adalbjorn Tryggvason |
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| 14th | Battle of Attrition | 3:48 | • Bonus song on the deluxe version |
CD2: Too Good to Steal From
| # | title | composer | length | Remarks |
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| 1. | Whatever That Hurts | 6:02 | • Tiamat cover song | |
| 2. | Valhalla | 5:30 | • Blind Guardian cover song • feat. Hansi Kürsch |
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| 3. | Black Tears | 3:06 | • Edge-of-Sanity -Coverlied • On Iconoclast (Part I The Final Resistance) included |
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| 4th | European Super State | 4:32 | • Killing-Joke cover song • feat. Katharina Radig |
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| 5. | Street fight | 2:02 | • Die-Skeptiker -Coverlied • feat. Patrick Schleitzer |
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| 6th | Nowhere | 2:27 | • Therapy? -Cover song | |
| 7th | True Belief | 4:31 | • Paradise Lost cover song | |
| 8th. | Not my god | 3:55 | • Hate Squad cover song | |
| 9. | Destroy Facism | 1:55 | • Final score cover song | |
| 10. | Dislocation | 3:55 | • Disembodied cover song | |
| 11. | eye to eye | 2:52 | • Third choice cover song • feat. Mille Petrozza |
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| 12. | Downfall of Christ | 3:11 | • Merauder cover song | |
| 13. | River Runs Red | 1:51 | • Life-of-Agony cover song |
promotion
Immediately before the release of the album Wanderer , the band started their club tour on September 16, 2016 in the Kesselhaus in Berlin at the presentation of the Metal Hammer Awards . The ten-concert tour, one in Austria and one in Switzerland , ended on September 25, 2016 with the band performing in Freiburg . The entire club tour was sold out. Already in summer Heaven Shall Burn played a few large music festivals, including the Vainstream Rockfest , Rock im Park and Rock am Ring . In March and April 2017 the band completed a European tour together with Hellyeah in support of Korn on their The Serenity Of Suffering Tour . Heaven Shall Burn also played four concerts with the German post-black metal band Der Weg einer Freiheit . In the summer of 2017 the band played at the Wacken Open Air and the Rockharz Open Air .
In March and April 2018 the band will play another European tour called The Final March Tour , with August Burns Red , Whitechapel and In Hearts Wake as the support act.
reception
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After the Veto released in 2013, Wanderer is the band's second album to reach the top three of the German album charts . While Veto reached number 2 at that time, Wanderer landed in third place and only had to give way to the albums LeuchtFeuer by Schandmaul and The sun shines for everyone from the Kastelruther Spatzen . It is also the third album that was able to achieve a top ten placement in Germany . Wanderer stayed in the German album charts for a total of five weeks. For the first time, the group achieved a top ten position in the Austrian album charts , where it entered ninth. In Switzerland , Wanderer took 15th place. The album stayed for two weeks in Austria and Switzerland .
Furthermore, Wanderer reached listings in the Belgian album charts in Flanders and Wallonia . After Veto, it is the second album with chart listings outside of the German-speaking region. Veto was in 14th place in Greece at the time .
At the Metal Hammer Awards , which took place in September 2017, Wanderer was recognized in the album of the year category.
Press reviews
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| Metal hammer |
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| Stormbringer.at |
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In the German-language media, Wanderer received consistently positive reviews from the specialist press. The music portal Stormbringer.at awarded the highest rating and describes that the album is unusual for “Heaven-Shall-Burn conditions”. However, according to the reviewer, he worked hard and fine-tuned the instrumental area very intensively. The German Metal Hammer also gave the album full marks. Sebastian Kessler wrote in his review that the changes take place in the background, which nevertheless show clear audible and perceptible effects on the material in the album. In his résumé, Kessler compares Wanderer with an all-consuming, crushing earthquake, while he describes Veto as a direct attack . According to Tobias Kreutzer from Metal.de , the song Bring the War Home also picks up on influences from industrial, which the group has already done in older songs like Combat and Murderers Of All Murderers . The intro The Loss of Fury is described as a minimalist cylinder with an apocalyptic mood and light Black Metal structures, while the final My Dying Bride cover The Cry of Mankind is the most progressive track on the album.
Oliver Passgang from Powermetal.de indicated that Wanderer is not characterized by the high number of hits, but has to be viewed as a whole. The experience of the plate consists in its completeness. The top rating was just missed. Markus Bellmann from Plattentests.de described the first half of the album as fulminant, while the second half of the album slackened off a bit. The band have the necessary experience to focus on their own strengths. He described the wonderful cover version of My Dying Brides' The Cry of Mankind from 1995 as a highlight , where guest singer Aðalbjörn Tryggvason from Sólstafir added the appropriate lamentation. The German language edition of the Huffington Post writes that the band is raising the musical bar again, which, according to critics, has not always been the case in recent years. He praised the entire production of Alexander Dietz, as well as Eike Freese and Tue Madsen, who again did a great job on Wanderer . Laut.de reviewer Alexander Austel describes the effect of the songs as well thought out. The aggression, melody and the gas pedal alternate harmoniously. The critic is also of the opinion that each song on the album merges rather than standing on its own. There are no major innovations, but smaller attention to detail. Auster gave the album a rating of 4 out of five possible points.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Metal Hammer: Heaven Shall Burn: WANDERER details published. July 19, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
- ↑ BZ : METAL HAMMER Awards in matt black. September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017 .
- ^ Ells: Impericon Magazine : Heaven Shall Burn announce break and with good reason
- ↑ a b c d e Lora: Stormbringer.at : HEAVEN SHALL BURN - Maik Weichert
- ↑ a b c Abendzeitung : Interview with guitarist Maik Weichert: Heaven Shall Burn: "We don't give way!"
- ↑ a b Rock Hard : Heaven Shall Burn: "Wanderer" will be released in September, cover artwork and tracklist revealed
- ↑ Rock Hard : Heaven Shall Burn: 'Downshifter' in the stream
- ^ Ostthüringische Zeitung : Saalfeld rock band "Heaven Shall Burn" presents a new album
- ↑ Rock Hard : Heaven Shall Burn: Bring The War Home lyric video released Heaven Shall Burn: Bring The War Home lyric video released
- ↑ Rock Hard : Heaven Shall Burn: 'Passage Of The Crane' video released
- ↑ a b c Tobias Tißen: Interview: Heaven Shall Burn about opinion in metal. Intro , September 26, 2016, accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ^ A b Martin Moll: Thüringer Allgemeine : Thuringian metal band "Heaven Shall Burn" release album with tour start in Jena
- ^ A b Tobias Kreutzer: Metal.de : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer Critique
- ↑ Rock Hard : Heaven Shall Burn announce "Wanderer" club tour for September
- ^ Martin Kielty: Metal Hammer (UK): Korn to tour Europe with Heaven Shall Burn, Hellyeah
- ↑ Andrea: Vampster : Heaven Shall Burn, Der Weg einer Freiheit Tour 2017
- ↑ Dark Lord: Stormbringer.at : HEAVEN SHALL BURN: coming on a European tour in March 2018!
- ↑ a b Chart tracking: DE - AT - CH
- ↑ Officialcharts.de : Schandmaul ignite "beacon" at the top
- ↑ Chart tracking: GR - BE (Fl) - BE (Wa)
- ↑ Metal Hammer : METAL HAMMER AWARDS: The 2017 winners + live gallery
- ↑ BZ : METAL HAMMER Awards in matt black
- ↑ Lora: Stormbringer.at : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer criticism
- ↑ Sebastian Kessler: Metal Hammer (DE): Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer criticism
- ↑ Oliver Paßgang: Powermetal.de : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer criticism
- ↑ Markus Bellmann: Plattentests.de : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer Critique
- ↑ Huffington Post : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer Review
- ↑ Alexander Austel: Laut.de : Heaven Shall Burn - Wanderer criticism