And now some metal… even death metal. But don’t be afraid it has nothing to do with real life death.

Heaven Shall Burn are a contemporary death metal band from Germany. Fro those of you who don’t know, death metal is one of the extreme metal subgenres and deals with the themes of death (not surprising), suffering, torture and all the other groovy stuff invented by normal people. In the mid 90^th death metal spawned melodic death metal, more melodic variation of the cookie monster vocal madness. HSB are a new step, they take melodic death metal (in the vein of acts like At The Gates and In Flames) and mix in with modern metal and hardcore. The mix is pretty nice actually and as all the good bands from this scene they are very energetic live.

I was on their show on Wacken open air 2007 and they literally had total madness on the festival ground. Giant circle pits and walls of death (if you don’t know what it is, check out Youtube) and tons of energy.

In addition to this I can say that Heaven Shall Burn is one of the bands that really care. They are political activists, animal rights protectors and vegetarians. Mixed with good Swedish influenced music it makes them one of the best bands to start with in modern metal scene.