Following their tradition of covering some of their favorite and most influential tracks featuring members of the original, HEAVEN SHALL BURN are releasing “Numbered Days” (feat. Jesse Leach of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE). Check out the visualizer that is accompanying the celebration of the friendship between the bands below.
Bonus points for anyone catching the title of one of HEAVEN SHALL BURN’s classics in the lyrics.
The band comments: “KILLSWITCH ENGAGE are THE Metalcore band! When we heard ‘Numbered Days’ for the very first time, it totally blew us away. It was clear that something new was brewing up. No other band has influenced this style of music more and interpreted it better. Just because the guys have been very good friends for many years doesn’t mean you can’t pay tribute to this great band. We hope the song means as much to you as it does to us!”
Leach further adds: “All of us are honored by HEAVEN SHALL BURN covering ‘Numbered Days.’ That song truly kicked off an album for us that would change our lives. All these years later to have people still resonate with our music means the world to us. Now to have a band like HEAVEN SHALL BURN cover it 23 years later is really wild! Grateful and very stoked to have been a part of the reshaping of this song and to hear someone else’s take on it!”
“Heimat” = German for “home / homeland / native land” – a term that merely refers to a relationship between people and spaces but has nevertheless always been highly emotionally charged. Often misused, it sometimes causes discomfort, lively discussions and battles over interpretation.
Maik Weichert (guitar) comments: “ ‘Heimat’ is not meant as the narrow-minded end point in the sense it has been used by agitators and populists, but the starting point for observations and perspectives. The album is about a much wider sense of the term ‘Heimat’: the homelands for many different people and also about the spiritual home, something that shapes and determines our thoughts and actions.”
HEAVEN SHALL BURN took their time with the follow-up to “Of Truth And Sacrifice”, which reached #1 in the Official German Album Charts in 2020. Heimat was produced at the band’s own studio, The Dude Ranch, which is run by guitarist Alexander Dietz. Like in the past, Danish producer Tue Madsen took care of the mixing and mastering.
“Heimat” tracklist:
1. Ad Arma
2. War Is the Father of All
3. My Revocation of Compliance
4. Confounder
5. Empowerment
6. A Whisper from Above
7. Imminence
8. Those Left Behind
9. Ten Days in May
10. Numbered Days (Killswitch Engage cover)
11. Dora
12. A Silent Guard
13. Inter Arma
14. Keinen Schritt zurück
15. Schweineherbst
16. Eisenkopf (Schweisser cover)
17. Destroy Fascism (Endstand cover)
