Nightbearer announced their new album ‘Defiance’ and shared a first single/video

Testimony Records proudly announces the new album of NIGHTBEARER, entitled “Defiance“, set for release on June 13th 2025 on CD, LP and in digital versions.

A brutal war is raging between the forces of ancient superstition and scientific enlightenment: NIGHTBEARER are leading the charge with their crushing third full-length “Defiance“. The German death dealers from the City of Paderborn in Eastern Westphalia have hammered out an album that retains their signature HM-2 chainsaw guitar sound and also maintains their unapologetic love for melodic death metal of the Swedish kind.

“Defiance” also marks another step in the careful but steady evolution of their sound by adding a black passage here and a doom-spiced moment there to their old school sound. The result is an overall much more atmospheric album, which perfectly suits its lyrical concept. The album is directly inspired by the renowned “His Dark Materials” trilogy of books by English author Sir Philip Pullman. The lyrics introduce key characters and events in the plot that revolves on a deeper level of meaning around humanity’s emancipation from oppression by religion. NIGHTBEARER defiantly engage with the resistance to bring about Enlightenment 2.0.

A video clip for the first single “His Dark Materials” is available here: https://youtu.be/U5Zh5HcyY1k

Singer Michael Torka explains: 

“‘His Dark Materials’ represents, both lyrically and musically, what NIGHTBEARER will unleash with ‘Defiance’ in 2025. We hurl ourselves into the millennia-old war against the tyranny of a god who never existed, against his corrupted earthly and celestial vassals. A fight against oppression. A fight in the name of liberation from superstition. A final, relentless battle for freedom!”

Pre-order options: http://lnk.spkr.media/nightbearer-defiance

Tracklist:

1. Dust
2. His Dark Materials
3. Defiance
4. One Church over All
5. Dying Knows No Bounds
6. Reign Supreme
7. Under the Sun of War
8. Ascension
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Republic of Heaven

Line-up:
Michael Torka – Vocals
Dominik Hellmuth – Lead Guitar
Tristan Schubert – Rhythm Guitar
Florian Böhmfeld – Bass
Manuel Lüke – Drums