CINEMETAL: HEAVEN SHALL BURN, “ENDZEIT”
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 2:34pm by Axl RosenbergGermany’s Heaven Shall Burn* has been making super heavy metalcore for about as long as any American band, yet they’re not a household name here in the States. Their new video, for the track “Endzeit” off their new album Iconoclast, is, by turns, creepy, incendiary, surreal, and hilarious, but I have a hard time believing any station here in the US will ever play the damn thing; between the shouts of “WE ARE THE VIOLENT ONES! WE ARE THE FINAL RESISTANCE!” and the terrorism plot and the photo of George W. Bush, playing this video is just asking for controversy.
I don’t know who directed this thing but I’ll have to find out… I think it’s really quite good…
-AR
*Or is it HeavenShallBurn? I’ve seen it written both with and without spaces, although I prefer the former, as the latter reminds me far too much of limpbizkit.
I fuckin love this band. Heaven Shall Burn and Embrace the End, April 25 in Pompton Lakes. Probably my 2 most underrated metal bands, playing together. Shit is gonna be siiiick.
Too bad this show wont actually be in the city… I guess Pompton Lakes isn’t too far though. Anyone else making the trip?
Their new album is excellent.
HSB are the kings of metalcore. Their “Antigone” hooked me years ago and I’ve been a diehard fan ever since. I remember watching this video for the first time and sighing over and over again at how cliched and nonsensical it was. I lol’d at the ending and it made me love the band even more.
Also, please don’t ever write the band name as one word. I’m completely on your side with the spaces!
Nothing more metal than singing into a lightbulb, is that a metaphor for how bright your clever little video is? seriously though love the vid, and yes Antigone was the nazz.
Keeping an eye on this HSB i am.
wow great video, its a shame iv never heard of this band b4 there prtty good
[...] wanna spoil the “twist” of their new video, “Black Tears,” but like their last video, “Endzeit,” it hinges on the viewer’s interest in process and, more specifically, the answer to the [...]
I fucking love this band, ever since I’ve heard “The Weapon they fear” from the “Alone in the Dark” soundtrack, I’ve been hooked on these Germans! Love this vid! I like the twists and though the cameras and in the shit was funny.