자유와 지각있는 직접적 행동을 요구하는 하드코어 정신에 충실한 독일 출신의 5인조 밴드. Heaven Shall Burn 은 90년대 중반 독일에서 결성되었다.그들 스스로가 동독 출신으로 통일을 겪어서 인지, 그들 가사는 초기부터 정치적이고 사회적인 비판을 통해,팬들이 밴드에 대해 어떤것도 소홀히 할수없게 해주었다.현재 유럽의 메틀코어씬은 Caliban 이나 Destiny 같은 팀들이 강세로서 Lifeforce 패밀리에 주도되고 있는데 이들 Heaven Shall Burn 도 역시 이곳 출신이다.전세계로의 도약을 위해 Century Media 사와 계약했으며 기존의 멜로딕 데스메틀팬 들과 메틀코어에 새로운 관심을 쏟는 매니아들이 듣기에 더할나위없이 적합한 밴드이다. 이들의 연주방식은 멜로딕 데쓰메틀적인 요소에 그치는 것이 아니라 파워풀한 연주에 스며든 음악적 감수성이 균형적인 발전을 이루고 있다.
메틀코어는 연주방식에서 헤비메틀에도 깊은 이해를 갖추고있어 자신들의 연주방식을 보다 깊고 명확히 표현하고 있다. 라이프스타일에선 하드코어 노선을 충실히 따르고 있다. 하드코어는 음악을 떠나서 개개인에게 삶의 방식이나 이념까지 제시하는 성격을 갖추고 있기 때문에 메틀코어 밴드들의 라이프 스타일은 하드코어에 충실하다. 바로 하드코어의 이념을 따르고 있는 독일출신의 메틀코어 밴드 헤븐 셸 ! 이들은 일부에선 'Vegan Metal'이라고 불리기도 한다.(실제로 멤버 전원이 채식주의자이며 4명이 스트레이트 엣지 사상에 발을 들여놓고 있다 )
첫 미니앨범은 1998년 Deeds Of Revolution Record를 통해 발매되었다. 곧 새로운 기타리스트 Patrick Schleitzer를 가입시켜 최종 라인업을 이루었고, 1999년 역시 같은 레이블에서 Fall of Serenity 와 함께 스플릿 LP를 발매하였다. 2000년에 드디어 밴드는 첫 데뷔앨범 [Asunder]를 Impression Music을 통해 발매하게 되었고, 유럽 외의 지역에선 라이프포스 레코드(Lifeforce Records)가 배급을 맡게되었다. 또한 그들은 같은 독일밴드 칼리반과 함께 스플릿 CD를 완성하고, 스페인, 포르투갈, 스위스, 이탈리아, 베네룩스를 잇는 투어를 감행하였으며, 2001년 겨울 밴드는 곧 다가올 새로운 CD에 들어갈 곡들을 준비하게되었다. 2002년 발매된 두 번째 앨범 [Whatever It May Take]를 발매하여 긍정적인 평가와 더욱 많은 페스티벌에 참여하면서 이름을 알려나갔다.
깨어있는 현대 음악의 새로운 지평을 열다. 헤븐쉘번 식의 사회적 메세지 전달 Antigone
"우리는 설교하는 것을 원하지 않습니다. 우리는 사람들을 생각하게 하고 행동하게 만드는 것을 원합 니다." 라고 하는 Heaven Shall Burn 은 밴드 이름에서 부터 큰 의미를 두고 있다.실제로 이 이름은 Marduk 의 트랙이름과 일치하기도 하는데 Heaven Shall Burn 은 " 그것이 우리가 사타닉밴드임을 의미하거나 Marduk 팬이라서는 아니구요.우리가 Heaven 을 사용한 것은 사람들이 자신 들의 마음속에 만들어내는 잘못된 낙원을 은유해 본것입니다.우리는 사람들이 생각해 보는 것을 원했고 그것을 통해 무엇이 중요한 진실인지 찾기를 말이죠.그래서 잘못된 낙원은 불타버려야 했 죠 ! 그것이 Heaven Shall Burn 우리만의 의미입니다 "
Words - these words of freedom A bequest - never to be silenced
In this world of lies, the truth, it means resistance To make the masses see and sense their needs
He healed so many aching hearts and wounds And threw back the baseness - back to where it came from
Aspired from the middle of his brothers Charged this suffering and oppression One single voice became a storm His words and melodies - the weapon they fear
Threw back the baseness - back from where it came
Nobody is chosen to suffer Nobody is destined to rule Gagged his mouth but not his songs, the songs we sing Fettered his hands but not the words he wrote These songs we'll sing!
A generation raised in darkness Controlled, polluted - fed with the truth A truth that blinds their view Their ways and fates decided - implanted sorrows kill their needs A common way to happiness, but I never learned to sell myself
Poets became silent, While clowns arose and burned the books again No thinkers daring vision grew, Where thieves ran free and crippled human dignity In the noise of unimportance And stupidity the sceptic's whispers went unheard
Be sure, this storm will not drown my voice
Be sure, my hands will sow the seeds of reason I'll never be a minor, I'll never be a happy slave
May this cold sever my face And my the pain weaken my fists No inner strife will touch me The only truth is in my heart
Architects of the apocalypse Architects of the apocalypse
Greed and addiction drowned their pity Washed away their thoughts of compassion and regret A world left wounded, slaved and raped Your paradise-a hell for your descendant your descendant
Cathedrals of justice in a kingdom of hypocrisy Castles of self-righteousness built on graves
Masses kept in forlorn, nations laid to waste The dynamo of another golden age Darkened our future, blind by greed Sold your fate to the highest price
I, I cannot believe! I, I cannot believe-in you! You are the enemy! You are the enemy!
A rush into our doom, as if your God came down And cures all failure A rush into our doom, as if your God came dowm And cures all failure cures all failure
Cathedrals of justice in a kingdom of hipocrisy Castles of self-righteousness built on graves
I, I cannot beleive! I, I cannot beleive! You are the enemy! You are the enemy! the enemy!
A rain of blood should cover our world Stench and decay should be the only thing we sense But hidden in the dark and erased from our heads Barbarity and slaughter are everywhere A contemptible ethic, a relict
For the weakest of the weak For the lowest of the low My voice for the voiceless My fists for the innocent the innocent the innocent
Voice of the voiceless Voice of the voiceless
On the edge of a new age this is still our dogma
For the weakest of the weak For the lowest of the low My voice for the voiceless
My fists for the innocent the innocent
No grave for millions - tortured creatures, But a common grave for our morals This slaughter - an ethic I deny
See them die! They die!
An archaic way of thinking, so monstrous and absurd
For the weakest of the weak For the lowest of the low My voice for the voiceless My fists for the innocent
Dreams torn to pieces, broken like glass Hope faded away, withered like leaves Not knowing is blessing, ignorance the only protection
Nothing is numbing my pain The fragments of my faith Became the blade in my hand Just darkness my eyes see Pushed me to the end of all dead-end-streets
A curse - cannot lie to myself I'm doomed - cannot silence my heart Fear is the tool, conformity our medicine
How can I smile as this age dies, like everybody else Dancing around the fire, that burns this world
Cannot bend down, I would just break I hate myself for playing their game Parents poison their children, never teach them to question If it only wasn't for this certainty in me I am a giant in their tiny world
Risen from the ashes, the ashes of the dreams you burned So many wars these eyes have seen So many agonies my soul went through I died with them so many years ago Just in darkness my eyes see the world There is nothing more to lose
Forlorn in desperation, the fruits of your power A world of slaves and servants - the only aim to rule them all Punishment to nonconformists, death and terror to the upright ones
Coups and interventions, nothing will be uncontrolled My life against your reign A final judgement will be given You come with me, this is the end
A time will come for all of you To harvest the storm
My blood will drown your flame of greed The time has come for you: To harvest the storm
No single tear, no single scream A silent smile - the time is now A moment of redemption The time has come : To harvest the storm
Deceived of all your dreams Betrayed by all your leaders This shall no place to be This, a dead-end future
Take a walk through grey, concrete deserts Apathetic faces, empty eyes - the only thing you will see A whole country bleeding to death One big illusion - bleeding to death
No young hands to built it up Cities fall to ruin Just old men left to mourn Four decades of a life denied Abused good will to exploit us Brothers turned to victors Fooled by ancient propaganda A bottle - your illusion Your home just like a colony
Kept away from daylight Deprived from all the songs I loved These walls may hold my body captive, But my soul is attending every sunset This is the hardest there was to walk, But nothing I regret
Our death would only be the thing they're praing for, Time won't force us to surrender, Their crippled freedom is not the one we're longing for, As all else failed we raised our fists and weapons, Not born as soldiers, but driven to the end
These wounds will be like memories, enhancing my existence And our scars shall be the seals of freedom I know that time heals nothing Never casting dwon my eyes before the tyrant's throne
I know that our screams will sound out to the world, Our blood will be like water for the tree of freedom
These wounds will be like memories, enhancing my existence These wounds will be like memories, cannot banish this idea This idea will overcome all walls and fences A young man's deeds became an old man's wisdom
Champagne glas of blood and wine On chocolate hearts alone I dine Candles weeping waxing tears Ten for roses each one a year - disappear
Arrows fester in my heart Each memory another dart Love and death both colored red Showing my past, the dream is dead
Another lonley Valentine's Day I can't believe that things turned out this way And though I hate to see you go I know it must be so Another lonely Valentine's Day
Nobody will break your fall All for none, yeah, none for all Nothings so cruel as the truth Join the Festival of Fools
Nobody will break your fall All for none, yeah, none for all Nothings so cruel as the truth Join the festival, my fools
Another lonley Valentine's Day I can't believe that things turned out this way And though I hate to see you go I know it must be so Another lonely Valentine's Day