Black metal act Verheerer announces new album ‘Urgewalt’ and unleashes video for first single

German black metal outfit VERHEERER has announced their third full-length album, “Urgewalt“, set for release on April 4th via Vendetta Records. 

Since unleashing their debut EP ‘Archar‘ in 2015, VERHEERER has become a staple name in the German metal underground. Their sound, somewhere between black, heavy, and death metal, resembles the storms of their homeland on the northern german coast: primarily cold and tempestuous, but sometimes also threateningly slow and thus even more destructive.

The four-piece eschews common clichés, instead exploring the depths of the human condition with unflinching honesty. Always somewhat removed from our tangible world, they set to music the doubts, suffering and dark emotions that have accompanied mankind since the beginning of history. And what theme runs as a common thread through all the centuries, if not the absolute will to destroy – to the point of self-destruction? The new album was composed and written with this basic idea in mind and with the First World War, which revealed a new level of cruelty and dehumanization and at the same time shaped our world like no other conflict to this day, the canvas was also found on which VERHEERER paint their very own pictures. Of the loss of humanity in an industrial machine of destruction, seduction and the mechanisms of power that make the incomprehensible possible in the first place.

With the track “Totenvolk,” the band has unveiled the first glimpse into their soon-to-be-released album. The song is accompanied by a music video, which you can watch here: 

“With TOTENVOLK the band decided for the first song that was composed for URGEWALT to be their first single too“, VERHEERER comments. “Written more than 4 years ago under the impressions of the rising popularity of extremist right wing parties all over the globe, the lyrics deliver a message that is today more current than ever before. Musically it combines the strengths of VERHEERERs unique sound: Starting as a straightforward banger, but culminating in an epic, menacing finale, this song takes the listener on a ride through their very own cosmos.” 

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Urgewalt
3. Hail Mary
4. Grabenwurm 
5. Totenvolk
6. Lungs
7. Stahlgrab
8. Arsonist
9. Kriegstreiber

The cover motif, once again realized by Misanthrophic Art, picks up on this theme and impressively shows that every supposed victory in this bloody game must be paid for all the more dearly. 

The sonorous title “Urgewalt” also underlines the musical direction: Whether furiously fast, slow and merciless, or hymnally triumphant – downfall awaits at the end and yet there is only one direction: ONWARDS! 

“Urgewalt” will be out on April 4 via Vendetta Records with pre-orders to follow in the weeks ahead!

VERHEERER are:
MYR – Bass 
KRZ – Drums 
SMN – Guitars 
BST – Vocals