Of Truth and Sacrifice

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Of Truth and Sacrifice
Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth and Sacrifice.png
Studio album by
Released20 March 2020 (2020-03-20)
Genre Melodic death metal, metalcore
Length97:33
Language
  • English
  • German
Label Century Media
Producer
  • Alexander Dietz
  • Maik Weichert
Heaven Shall Burn chronology
Wanderer
(2016)
Of Truth and Sacrifice
(2020)
Singles from Of Truth and Sacrifice
  1. "Weakness Leaving My Heart"
    Released: 10 January 2020
  2. "Protector"
    Released: 10 January 2020
  3. "My Heart and the Ocean"
    Released: 7 February 2020
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Kerrang! 2/5 [1]
Metal.de 8/10 [2]
Metal Hammer 6.5/7 [3]
Sputnikmusic 4.0/5 [4]

Of Truth and Sacrifice is the ninth studio album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 20 March 2020 through Century Media Records. The album consists of two parts; volume one titled "Of Truth" with ten tracks and volume two called "Of Sacrifice" with nine tracks. [5] Both parts include all but one original song; on volume two the band covered Nuclear Assault's 1989 song "Critical Mass". At 97 minutes runtime, the band released their longest album to date. [6]

Contents

The album was supported by the singles "Weakness Leaving My Heart", "Protector" and "My Heart and the Ocean" released in January and February 2020, respectively. [7] The music video for "Eradicate" was made by famed Ugandan ultra-low budget studio Wakaliwood.

Commercially, the album debuted at number one in Germany, becoming the band's first album to do so. [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Heaven Shall Burn, except where noted

Of Truth
No.TitleLength
1."March of Retribution"1:21
2."Thoughts and Prayers"4:58
3."Eradicate"4:32
4."Protector"5:26
5."Übermacht"5:25
6."My Heart and the Ocean"5:51
7."Expatriate"8:53
8."What War Means"5:31
9."Terminate the Unconcern"4:42
10."The Ashes of My Enemies"2:02
Total length:48:41
Of Sacrifice
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Children of a Lesser God" 6:35
2."La Résistance" 5:06
3."The Sorrows of Victory (Featuring Chris Harms of Lord of the Lost)" 8:25
4."Stateless" 3:49
5."Tirpitz" 5:54
6."Truther" 2:41
7."Critical Mass"3:35
8."Eagles Among Vultures" 5:06
9."Weakness Leaving My Heart" 7:31
Total length:48:42

Charts

Sales chart performance for Of Truth and Sacrifice
Chart (2020)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 4
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 157
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [8] 1
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [11] 180
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [12] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [13] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (2020)Position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [14] 96

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