Der Weg Einer Freiheit announce new album ‘Noktvrn’
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT have announced a new album!
Titled Noktvrn, the upcoming album from the German black metal band is the follow-up to 2017’s Finisterre and is scheduled to be released in November this year, via Season of Mist.
Barring a pair of live albums, all previous DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT releases were created almost entirely from the ground up by guitarist/vocalist/mastermind Nikita Kamprad. He would write the songs on his own and do the bass, guitar and vocal tracks himself with Tobias Schuler playing drums while engineering, producing and mixing along the way. Kamprad may still be the songwriter-in-chief who produced and mixed Noktvrn (with assistance from Jan Kerscher), but this album makes a significant developmental step as it not only welcomes song writing contributions from the other members, but has the band ably demonstrating their ability by recording live off the floor.
“The new album is the most natural sounding DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT album,” Kamprad says. “Not only the sound, but the riffing and because we recorded the songs live. Music today, especially metal, can be too difficult and technical for bands to even play and record their own songs from start to finish. For me it was very important during the song writing to focus on playing the songs all the way through without stopping. That created a very natural flow through the songs and throughout the whole album. Also, it was a new thing that the whole band was involved in the whole recording process and the last stages of the song writing. Writing and recording mainly by myself was a very exhausting and streamlined process that I liked at some points, but after Finisterre I couldn’t do that anymore and had to change something. Maybe what is the special thing about us is that we never stopped. Since the beginning, we haven’t taken a break and we’ve always tried to be present with tours and shows and festivals, so there was never a break.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Finisterre II
2. Monument
3. Am Rande der Dunkelheit
4. Immortal
5. Morgen
6. Gegen das Licht
7. Haven
Noktvrn is set for release on November 19th via Season of Mist. Pre-orders will be available soon.
For more information on DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT like their official page on Facebook.
