

However, it was with their 2002 album, Whatever It May Take, that metal and hardcore fans and critics alike agreed the band was definitely outplaying their peers while further blurring the lines between tough as nails metal and the heavy thud of hardcore. In the summer of 2000 the group released a split EP with Caliban and embarked on their first lengthy European tour ultimately broadening their underground fanbase. The group soon signed to Lifeforce Records and unleashed Asunder, their debut full-length album. This contained a grinding mixture of death and thrash metal with old-school hardcore aggression. It did not take long for labels to start taking notice of the band's unrelenting aggression and talent, which soon led to Deeds of Revolution Records releasing their first EP, In Battle There Is No Law, in the fall of 1998.

HEAVEN SHALL BURN truly began to take form in 1997 and immediately started playing as many shows and festivals as possible. With this effort the dynamic quintet have undoubtedly proved once again that they are taking metal in a new direction that knows no limitations. Now they have triumphantly returned with Deaf To Our Prayers, a stunning portrayal of sheer aggression and musical technicality that will quickly catch the attention of any extreme music fan. The German powerhouse HEAVEN SHALL BURN were one of the first groups to ultimately shatter the boundaries that stood between the death metal and hardcore genres. Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth And Sacrifice (2020)
