Heaven Shall Burn have set “Of Truth & Sacrifice” as the title to their new double album which will arrive this spring. Below you can check out the artwork for the release done by Eliran Kantor. Regarding the decision to release a double album, the group’s guitarist Maik Weichert commented:
“We decided that one album wasn’t good enough, but we wanted to create a double album as a statement. Our goal was a total work of art that people could dive into, something that leaves a lot of room for surprises and experiments. It was only fair to give our fans twice as much after letting them wait for so long.”
As for the album, it’s conceptual split across the two halves reflected in its title, ‘of truth’ and ‘of sacrifice’. Weichert elaborated:
“The title is exploring the idea of truth and the question what kind of sacrifices you are willing to make for it. Something reflected in the artwork: A warrioress is shielding her child with her own body. While the mother is representing the willingness to sacrifice the child is standing for truth.”
“It’s a title that refers to numerous current developments: people’s blindness in daily life and the unwillingness to make any sacrifices in order to bring about change. Still, there are many people in this world who do exactly this: teachers in Africa risking their lives in order to be able to educate children, journalists and whistleblowers who are putting their own safety at risk in order to flag things going wrong.”
The band hired on Sven Helbig and Wilhelm Keitel to help flesh out the album with a strings component while a 90-minute documentary titled ‘Mein grünes Herz in dunklen Zeiten‘ (‘My Green Heart In Dark Times‘) will be included with limited edition variants of the record.
CD 1:
01 – “March Of Retribution”
02 – “Thoughts And Prayers”
03 – “Eradicate”
04 – “Protector”
05 – “Übermacht”
06 – “My Heart And The Ocean”
07 – “Expatriate”
08 – “What War Means”
09 – “Terminate The Unconcern”
10 – “The Ashes Of My Enemies”
CD 2:
01 – “Children Of A Lesser God”
02 – “La Résistance”
03 – “The Sorrows Of Victory”
04 – “Stateless”
05 – “Tirpitz”
06 – “Truther”
07 – “Critical Mass”
08 – “Eagles Among Vultures”
09 – “Weakness Leaving My Heart”
