Continuing its tradition of covering some of its favorite and most influential tracks featuring members of the original band, Heaven Shall Burn has released “Numbered Days” featuring Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage. Watch the visualizer accompanying the celebration of the friendship between the bands below.
“Killswitch Engage are THE metalcore band!” Heaven Shall Burn said. “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!”
“Numbered Days” originally appeared on Killswitch Engage’s 2002 breakthrough album “Alive or Just Breathing.”
“All of us are honored by Heaven Shall Burn covering ‘Numbered Days,'” Leach said. “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!”
After Heaven Shall Burn had to cancel some shows due to singer Marcus Bischoff suffering from a severe infection of his vocal chords, the band is happy to announce that Britta Görtz from Hiraes will be filling in.
“We have a plan!” Bischoff said. “Britta from Hiraes will fill in for me at the upcoming shows, so tomorrow in Kufstein as well as next weekend! Give her a warm welcome, show her what HSB fans are made of and make the shows something very special in the band’s history! We are really looking forward to it! Things are already looking better for me, too! Your Molle and the HSB guys!”
Heaven Shall Burn will release its new album, “Heimat,” on June 27, 2025, via its long-standing label partner, Century Media Records.
“Heimat” is German for “home/homeland/native land”—a term that refers to a relationship between people and spaces but always has been highly emotionally charged. Often misused, it sometimes causes discomfort, lively discussions and battles over interpretation.
“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,” guitarist Maik Weichert said. “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.”
“Heimat” was produced at the band’s own studio, The Dude Ranch, which is run by guitarist Alexander Dietz. As in the past, Danish producer Tue Madsen took care of the mixing and mastering.
For the album art, the band enlisted Eliran Kantor, who previously crafted the artwork for its 2020 album “Of Truth and Sacrifice”. The centerpiece is a rearing stag—in its roaring variant a classic motif of wildlife painting, the epitome of kitsch and trivial art from the 19th and 20th centuries and interpreted by some as a symbol of patriarchy and capitalist competition, but here placed as an allegory of resistance amid an apocalyptic scene. He is flanked by a hunting lynx and a watchful owl. As with “Of Truth and Sacrifice,” Heaven Shall Burn worked together with composer, producer and director Sven Helbig and conductor Wilhelm Keitel, this time supported by the Mondëna Quartet and the Ukrainian Sophia Chamber Choir.
“Heimat” will be available in the following formats:
- Ltd. Deluxe Triple-Gatefold transp. red-blue splattered 2LP+CD (album on 45rpm + Keinen Schritt zurück -EP)
- Ltd. Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Mediabook (+ Live at Summer Breeze 2024 Blu-ray + Keinen Schritt zurück -EP)
- Ltd. transp. light blue-red splattered LP (500) available from Heaven Shall Burn (SOLD OUT)
- Ltd. Side A/B split (red&black) LP (500) available from Heaven Shall Burn on live shows
- Ltd. deep blood red LP (300) available from Heaven Shall Burn
- Ltd. olive green LP (300) available from Heaven Shall Burn
- Ltd. transp. sun yellow LP (500) available from cmdistro.de and various Indie retailers
- Ltd. orange LP (300) available from Impericon
- Ltd. transp. green LP (300) available from EMP who also carry options with a wooden canvas (30cm x 30cm)
- Black LP
- Standard CD Jewelcase
- Digital album (+ Keinen Schritt zurück -EP)
Preorder the album here.
“Heimat” track listing:
“Ad Arma”
“War Is the Father of All”
“My Revocation of Compliance”
“Confounder”
“Empowerment”
“A Whisper from Above”
“Imminence”
“Those Left Behind”
“Ten Days in May”
“Numbered Days” (Feat. Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage)
“Dora”
“A Silent Guard”
“Inter Arma”
“Keinen Schritt Zurück” EP track listing:
“Keinen Schritt zurück” (Feat. Donots)
“Schweineherbst” (Feat. Dÿse)
“Eisenkopf”
“Destroy Fascism”
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