German Progressive Black Metal visionaries DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT reveal “Marter”, the searing opening track from their forthcoming sixth studio album “Innern”. A harrowing yet cathartic journey into the heart of suffering, “Marter” embodies the album’s core themes of isolation, dissolution, and the fragile possibility of release.
Opening with mournful restraint, the track slowly uncoils into a storm of relentless tremolo-picked guitars, intricate yet punishing blast beats from Tobias Schuler, and the grounding weight of Alan Noruspur’s bass. Nikita Kamprad and Nicolas Rausch’s layered guitars oscillate between ferocity and elegiac stillness, while Kamprad’s vocals shift from anguished cries to whispered resignation. It is a piece of contrasts: unrelenting yet fragile, crushing yet imbued with fleeting moments of calm.
Lyrically, “Marter” contemplates identity, rebirth, and the futility of clinging to words that fall on deaf ears. Its imagery of burning throats, collapsing voices, and the pull of the stars frames suffering as both torment and an avenue toward renewal. The repeated surrender, “Nimm sie alle, meine Schreie…” (“Take them all, my screams…”), becomes an invocation of release, dissolving personal agony into something vast and cosmic. As the opening track of Innern, “Marter” sets the tone for an album that peers inward, confronting pain not as an end, but as a threshold.
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The official lyric video for “Marter” was created in close collaboration with Riivata Visuals, whose stark, immersive approach mirrors the track’s emotional depth. Through layered textures, abstract imagery, and restrained motion, the video amplifies the song’s themes of torment and release, placing the viewer directly within the song’s inward gaze.
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT will bring Innern to European audiences on a headline tour beginning 18th September in Dresden and concluding 4th October 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
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.
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/
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