After a year of deprivation in 2020 and a dry spell for live music, we can now look forward to winter 2021: With Heaven Shall Burn and Trivium, a metal duo is coming on a European tour that will heat up the cold months.
Heaven Shall Burn can hardly wait to finally be back on stage. After a two-year concert hiatus during which the epic double album "Of Truth And Sacrifice" was created, which landed at number 1 on the German album charts, the band wanted to kick off live performances in 2020 – but Corona had other plans. The result: Aside from a special XR show as part of the online festival "Wacken World Wide," the new songs have not yet been played live. We can therefore expect that the Thuringians will pull out all the stops in 2021 to finally present their ninth album to an audience – and at the same time celebrate their 25th band anniversary.
Band leader Maik Weichert is excited: "With Trivium, we share one of our oldest and most enduring friendships in the entire music scene. We have torn apart small clubs together early on and later demolished large arenas, celebrated and raged together in Saalfeld as well as in Sydney. We are overjoyed to finally be on tour with the guys again and to traverse Europe."
One can hardly expect anything less than an epic show from Heaven Shall Burn: From elaborate stage sets to the incredible energy that the five-piece consistently brings, every concert is an experience. And hardly any other German band has so impressively proven that political and social issues such as animal and human rights have just as much place in the metal scene as heavy riffs and circle pits – a demolition with attitude, so to speak. Successful albums like the "Iconoclast" trilogy and "Wanderer" as well as unbeatable anthems like "Endzeit" and "Voice Of The Voiceless" have long made Heaven Shall Burn one of the big names in the scene – even internationally.
Their old friends Trivium, incidentally one of the most important metal bands of the 21st century, are also not unimpressed: "Heaven Shall Burn was one of Trivium's earliest touchpoints with hardcore/metalcore with melodic death and death metal influences, which also had very important lyrics addressing society and the world as a whole. In the early 2000s, we were both on the same label [Lifeforce Records]," the Americans explain their excitement for the joint tour.
This excitement is naturally heightened by the fact that the four-piece from Florida also wants to finally present their new songs. In spring 2020, Trivium released their ninth studio album, "What The Dead Men Say." With the band's characteristic mix of devastating heaviness, technical demands, grand melodies, and irresistible hooks, the new work promises once again to deliver great live moments.
Not that there would be a lack of those: The 2005 album "Ascendency" is already a true classic, while subsequent albums like "In Waves" and "The Sin And The Sentence" not only became international chart successes but also contain true mosh pit and sing-along guarantees with their title tracks. Most recently, Trivium toured Europe in 2019 to celebrate their eighth album and 20th band anniversary – so it’s high time for a return.
Heaven Shall Burn and Trivium will be supported on their tour by none other than the prog metallers TesseracT and the deathcore powerhouse Fit For An Autopsy. "Having an exceptional band like TesseracT on board and Fit For An Autopsy heating things up is the icing on the cake. It makes us proud and emotional that the long shared history of Trivium and HSB will continue with such a bang," says Heaven Shall Burn's Maik Weichert.
Trivium agrees: "Fit For An Autopsy are among our best friends in the world and are one of our favorite bands. And we have long dreamed of touring with TesseracT," they reveal – and make a statement that is bold: "THIS is the tour to bring touring back to Europe." We can hardly wait.
HEAVEN SHALL BURN + TRIVIUM TOUR 2021
+ TesseracT, Fit For An Autopsy
Presented by: Metal Hammer, Visions, Fuze, metal.de, morecore.de, Impericon, EMP
16.11.2021 Saarbrücken, Saarlandhalle
18.11.2021 Leipzig, Haus Auensee
19.11.2021 Düsseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle
20.11.2021 CH-Zürich, Halle 622
03.12.2021 Frankfurt, Jahrhunderthalle
04.12.2021 Erfurt, Messe
10.12.2021 Hamburg, Sporthalle
11.12.2021 Ludwigsburg, MHP Arena
15.12.2021 AT-Wien, Gasometer
17.12.2021 Berlin, Verti Music Hall
18.12.2021 München, Zenith
