Genre: Melodic Death Metal meets Metalcore (a.k.a. Deathcore with a PhD and a pickaxe)
Formed: 1996 – Saalfeld, Germany 🇩🇪
Known For: Militant breakdowns, political fury, throat-shredding vocals, and the most cardio-demanding live shows in Europe.
💣 WHO THE HELL ARE HEAVEN SHALL BURN?
Heaven Shall Burn aren’t just a band – they’re a damn movement.
Named after a Marduk album but raised on Napalm Death, At the Gates, and crust punk, they took melodic death metal and pushed it into protest.
They’re 100% DIY ethos, vegan-friendly, antifascist and heavier than guilt at a climate conference.
Their sound?
🎸 All-out riff warfare.
🥁 Drums like a machine gun nest.
🎤 Screams that could melt glaciers.
💥 Breakdowns that feel like bulldozers.
🩸 LINE-UP – THE GERMAN METALCORE BATTALION
- Marcus Bischoff – Vocals / Your inner revolutionary, shrieking through a megaphone of pain
- Maik Weichert – Guitar / Riff general and lyricist-in-chief
- Eric Bischoff – Bass / Brother in brutality
- Alexander Dietz – Guitar / Rhythm engine of chaos
- Christian Bass – Drums / Blastbeat beast, mosh commander
Together, they’ve spent over two decades stomping out apathy with breakdowns. 🥁🔥
💿 DISCOGRAPHY – THE HSB WAR JOURNAL 📘💀
🔥 Asunder (2000)
🎧 To Inherit the Guilt, Deaf to Our Prayers
Vibe: Raw. Furious. Political as hell.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥
*The sound of a revolution being born.
🕊️ Whatever It May Take (2002)
🎧 Implore the Darken Sky, The Martyr’s Blood
Vibe: Melodic rage with a crust-punk soul.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Step up in emotion and intensity.
💀 Antigone (2004)
🎧 The Weapon They Fear, Voice of the Voiceless
Vibe: Their first real landmark. Vegan fury. Riot fuel.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This one put them on the global map. Absolute beast.
🛑 Deaf to Our Prayers (2006)
🎧 Counterweight, Trespassing the Shores of Your World
Vibe: Straight-up metalcore carnage.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
*Unrelenting sonic uppercut to the jaw.
🔥 Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) (2008)
🎧 Endzeit, Murderers of All Murderers
Vibe: Operatic in scale, apocalyptic in sound.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
*”Endzeit” is the HSB anthem. Live crowd killer.
🔥 Invictus (Iconoclast Part 2) (2010)
🎧 Combat, Of Forsaken Poets
Vibe: Poetic fury. Tightest performances yet.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
*You can feel the conviction in every note.
🧨 Veto (2013)
🎧 Land of the Upright Ones, Valhalla (ft. Hansi Kürsch of Blind Guardian)
Vibe: Stadium-sized chaos with melodic flourishes.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
*More ambitious. More hooks. Still breaks bones.
🔥 Wanderer (2016)
🎧 Downshifter, Bring the War Home
Vibe: Personal and political. Heavy but haunting.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥
*More atmospheric without losing teeth.
🔥🔥 Of Truth and Sacrifice (2020)
🎧 Thoughts and Prayers, Protector, Übermacht
Vibe: Double album. Double destruction.
Riff Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
*A career-defining epic.
From orchestras to deathcore filth.
🎧 RIFF REPORT’S ESSENTIAL HSB TRACKS
🎸 Endzeit – The pit awaits.
🎸 The Weapon They Fear – Melodic deathcore perfection.
🎸 Land of the Upright Ones – Modern HSB mastery.
🎸 Protector – Shredding riffs with a moral compass.
🎸 Thoughts and Prayers – Straight-up protest anthem.
🎸 Bring the War Home – Massive. Groovy. Angry. Perfect.
💥 WHY HEAVEN SHALL BURN MATTER:
Because they:
- **Make metal mean something again
- Refuse to water down their message for trends
- **Fight fascism, capitalism, speciesism and bad riffs
- **Play gigs like it’s the last day of the world
- **Remain DIY and grounded as hell while still selling out festivals
And because they never traded rage for fame – they made their fury their fuel.
🎤 FINAL VERDICT FROM THE RIFF REPORT:
**Heaven Shall Burn are what happens when metalcore grows up, picks up a history book, and starts a revolution.
They’re brutal, brilliant, and built for battle.
Want music that screams with purpose?
Want riffs that spark riots, not just pits?
Want to mosh AND march for a better world?
Heaven Shall Burn await, fists raised and hearts aflame.🔥⚔️✊
