DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT announce “Innern” album out on September 12th via Season Of Mist

German Black Metal vanguard DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, return with “Innern”, a deeply introspective and compositionally expansive new album set for release on September 12th via Season Of Mist .

Following 2021’s critically lauded “Noktvrn”, which explored the liminal space between wakefulness and dreams, “Innern” turns the gaze inward—towards personal collapse, silence, and transformation. Anchored in a refined synthesis of atmospheric grandeur and visceral aggression, the album balances Post Metal restraint with the raw immediacy of Black Metal’s core.

“Since writing the very first song in 2007, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT has been a journey defined by passion, intensity, and a deep commitment to exploring the fragile thresholds of the human psyche through music”, says frontman and principal songwriter Nikita Kamprad.

“Over the past years, we’ve grown, evolved, and created something we’re incredibly proud of — and now, we’re excited to share the next step with you. Innern, the new album’s title, means ‘inward’ in German and perfectly captures the essence of this record: a meditation on suffering, transformation, and the intimate process of personal reckoning and renewal.”

Cover Art:
Design & layout by Max Löffler (https://maxloeffler.com/)

Composed and produced entirely by frontman Nikita Kamprad, the record captures a live immediacy while maintaining the band’s characteristic emotional weight. From Kamprad and Nicolas Rausch’s searing guitar interplay to Alan Noruspur’s grounding bass presence and Tobias Schuler’s precision drumming, the album is as much about restraint as it is about release. Traversing isolation, memory, and the fragile thresholds between dissolution and renewal, Innern urges listeners to confront what lies beneath.

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT will bring “Innern” to European audiences on a headline tour beginning September 18th in Dresden and concluding October 4th in Bochum. The 15-date run includes performances in Prague, Vienna, Paris, Zurich, and Tilburg, among others. Notably, the tour will include a special performance in Christuskirche, Bochum, a setting known for its stark acoustics and meditative resonance. This live cycle promises to translate the album’s thematic weight into a space of shared reflection and intensity, extending Innern’s emotional terrain beyond the studio.

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT – INNERN FALL TOUR 2025:

18 September: Dresden, DE @ Chemiefabrik
19 September: Berlin, DE @ Heimathafen
20 September: Prague, CZ @ Rock Café
21 September: Munich, DE @ Backstage
22 September: Leipzig, DE @ Werk 2
23 September: Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse
24 September: Vienna, AT @ Szene
25 September: Zurich, CH @ Dynamo
26 September: Geneva, CH @ PTR/L’Usine
27 September: Grenoble, FR @ Ampérage
28 September: Paris, FR @ Le Petit Bain
29 September: Ludwigsburg, DE @ Scala
30 September: Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
1 October: Hamburg, DE @ Knust
2 October: Tilburg, NL @ 013
3 October: Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
4 October: Bochum, DE @ Christuskirche

Tickets are available at https://derwegeinerfreiheit.de/live/

With “Innern”, their sixth studio album, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT return with their most introspective and compositionally expansive work to date. A meditation on suffering, transformation, and the fragile thresholds of the human psyche, “Innern” refines the band’s signature blend of black metal intensity and post-metal atmosphere. The title, German for “inward”, anchors the album’s conceptual weight: a turning away from the external, into a realm of personal reckoning,silence, and renewal. Across six meticulously crafted tracks, the band explores cycles of disintegration and emergence, inviting listeners to confront the deep and often contradictory nature of existence itself.

Musically, “Innern” leans into contrast and contradiction. Kamprad and Rausch’s guitar interplay oscillates between searing aggression and elegiac restraint. Noruspur’s basslines pulse with warmth and gravity, while Schuler’s drumming remains as meticulous as ever-bridging technicality with emotional nuance. The album’s production captures a sense of immediacy and live energy, yet remains rich in detail and atmosphere. It is not merely a refinement of past styles, but are invention—one that places the listener in direct confrontation with the void.

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT stand now at the peak of a fifteen-year evolution.Their music is as concerned with silence as it is with sound, as shaped by introspection as by fury. As they prepare to bring “Innern” to European stages in autumn 2025, they do so not as provocateurs of extremity, but as artists navigating the fragile space between collapse and clarity. In a genre often defined by spectacle, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT remain committed to vulnerability, transformation, and truth.

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT line-up:
Nikita Kamprad – Vocals, Guitars
Nicolas Rausch – Guitars
Alan Noruspur – Bass
Tobias Schuler – Drums

“Innern” tracklist:

1. Marter
2. Xibalba
3. Eos
4. Fragment
5. Finisterre III
6. Forlorn

DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT online:

Official Website: https://derwegeinerfreiheit.de/

Bandcamp: https://derwegeinerfreiheit.bandcamp.com/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/derwegeinerfreiheit

Instagram: http://instagram.com/derwegeinerfreiheit

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/derwegeinerfreiheit

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7e823b0KQoVtLG86Ui5xGD

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/der-weg-einer-freiheit/363526020

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/1386896