NIGHTBEARER unleash video single ‘His Dark Materials’ & details of forthcoming new album “Defiance“
NIGHTBEARER launch the crushing performance video ‘His Dark Materials‘ as the first single taken from their new full-length “Defiance“. The third studio album of the Germandeath metal bookworms, which is based on a concept inspired by Sir Philip Pullman’s fantasy book trilogy “His Dark Materials”, has been scheduled for release on June 13, 2025.
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The video clip ‘His Dark Materials‘ is available for immediate publication via this link: https://youtu.be/U5Zh5HcyY1k
NIGHTBEARER comment: “The tell-tale title ‘His Dark Materials’ is both, lyrically and musically, an excellent representation of what we are about to unleash with our third album ‘Defiance’ in 2025”, vocalist Michael Torka declares. “We hurl ourselves into the millennia-old war against the tyranny of a god who never existed, against his corrupted earthly and celestial vassals. It’s a fight against brutal oppression that is carried out in the name of liberation from superstition. This is the final, relentless battle for freedom!”
Credit Video created by Robin Trachternach
Tracklist
1. Dust
2. His Dark Materials
3. Defiance
4. One Church over All
5. Dying Knows No Bounds
6. Reign Supreme
7. Under the Sun of War
8. Ascension
9. Until We Meet Again
10. Republic of Heaven
A brutal war is raging between the forces of ancient superstition and scientific enlightenment: NIGHTBEARER are leading the charge with their crushing third full-length “Defiance”. The German death dealers from the City of Paderborn in Eastern Westphalia have hammered out an album that retains their signature HM-2 chainsaw guitar sound and also maintains their unapologetic love for melodic death metal of the Swedish kind.
“Defiance” also marks another step in the careful but steady evolution of their sound by adding a black passage here and a doom-spiced moment there to their old school sound. The result is an overall much more atmospheric album, which perfectly suits its lyrical concept. The album is directly inspired by the renowned “His Dark Materials” trilogy of books by English author Sir Philip Pullman. The lyrics introduce key characters and events in the plot that revolves on a deeper level of meaning around humanity’s emancipation from oppression by religion. NIGHTBEARER
