Wanderer (Heaven Shall Burn album)

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Wanderer
Heaven Shall Burn Wanderer.jpg
Studio album by
Released16 September 2016 (2016-09-16)
Recorded2015–2016
StudioChemical Burn Studios, Germany (recording), Antfarm Studio, Denmark (mixing)
Genre Melodic metalcore, [1] melodic death metal, thrash metal [2]
Length58:44
LanguageEnglish, German
Label Century Media
Producer Alexander Dietz, Maik Weichert
Heaven Shall Burn chronology
Veto
(2013)
Wanderer
(2016)
Of Truth and Sacrifice
(2020)

Wanderer is the eighth album by German extreme metal band Heaven Shall Burn, released on 16 September 2016 through Century Media Records. The album was released with 12 tracks; a deluxe version was also released with a cover of Sodom's song "Agent Orange" as a bonus track, plus a bonus disc which is a compilation of covers that the band recorded since its inception and also included in previous releases.

Contents

The tracks "Bring the War Home" and "Downshifter" were released as promotional singles, including a lyric video for "Bring the War Home."

Track listing

All tracks are written by Heaven Shall Burn

No.TitleLength
1."The Loss of Fury"2:21
2."Bring the War Home"4:20
3."Passage of the Crane"3:57
4."They Shall Not Pass"5:33
5."Downshifter"5:59
6."Prey to God" ((feat. George Fisher of Cannibal Corpse))3:08
7."Agent Orange" (Sodom cover; bonus track on deluxe edition)6:08
8."My Heart Is My Compass"1:10
9."Save Me"4:57
10."Corium"5:28
11."Extermination Order"3:20
12."A River of Crimson"4:28
13."The Cry of Mankind" (My Dying Bride cover)7:35
14."Battle of Attrition" (bonus track on Ltd. deluxe edition)3:48
Total length:58:44
Too Good to Steal From Edition
No.TitleOriginal artist (date)Length
1."Whatever That Hurts" Tiamat (1994)6:02
2."Valhalla" (feat. Hansi Kürsch from Blind Guardian) Blind Guardian (1989)5:30
3."Black Tears" Edge of Sanity (1994)3:06
4."European Super State" (feat. Katharina Radig) Killing Joke (2010)4:32
5."Straßenkampf" (German for "Street Fight"; feat. Patrick Schleitzer) Die Skeptiker (1991)2:02
6."Nowhere" Therapy? (1994)2:27
7."True Belief" Paradise Lost (1993)4:31
8."Not My God"Hate Squad (1995)3:55
9."Destroy Fascism" Endstand (1998)1:55
10."Dislocation" Disembodied (1998)3:35
11."Auge um Auge" (German for "An eye for an eye"; feat. Mille Petrozza from Kreator) Dritte Wahl (1994)2:52
12."Downfall of Christ" Merauder (1996)3:11
13."River Runs Red" Life of Agony (1993)1:51
Total length:45:30

Personnel

Heaven Shall Burn
Additional musicians

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [3] 9
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [4] 57
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [5] 97
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [6] 3
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [7] 15

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