Veto (Album)
Occupation
- Marcus Bischoff (vocals )
- Maik Weichert (guitars)
- Alexander Dietz (guitar)
- Eric Bischoff ( bass)
- Matthias Voigt (drums)
Veto is the seventh studio album by the German metalcore band Heaven Shall Burn. It was released on April 19, 2013 via Century Media Germany. The album reached number two in the German charts.
Formation and style
On 18 January 2013, the band announced that she is going into the studio. The album was recorded at Antfarm Studio in Denmark. In Valhalla, a cover of the German metal band Blind Guardian, worked with the singer Hansi Kürsch. The band moves with the album stylistically between ( melodic ) death metal, modern metal and metalcore.
A video about Hunters Will Be Hunted has been published. A lyric video appeared to Godiva. The painting Lady Godiva by John Collier also adorns the album cover. Guitarist Maik Weichert described it as " a symbol of the struggle for social justice." It represents a problem of time that the " leading class is isolated from the people and the resulting conflicts ." On tour, the band for the album was, inter alia, with Hypocrisy.
Reception
The album reached number two in sound check of Metal Hammer. The page Musikreviews.de awarded 12 out of 15 points. The band was a " surprisingly good album that is well balanced between melody and heaviness. " Boris Kaiser awarded in the magazine Rock Hard nine out of ten. It should be in the "fullness of highlights" " difficult to be limited to individual pieces ." The album was not " album of the month " as previous albums, but appeared in the " 10 x Dynamite " on.