German death metal militants SCALPTURE let slip their new full-length “Landkrieg” (“Land Warfare”) today, on March 7, 2025. Please see below for album details & biographical information of “Landkrieg“.
On further news, all three of SCALPTURE‘s previous full-lengths, “Panzerdoktrin“, “Eisenzeit“, and “Feldwärts” are also being released today on CD, and as vinyl LPs in a black as well as a marbled version for each album.
Furthermore, in addition to their tour with CARNAL TOMB, SCALPTURE have announced a release show at Rare Guitar in Münster, Germany on March 7. Please see below for all currently confirmed live dates.
“Landkrieg” is now streaming in full and available for immediate publication via this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hCcwC_Tz60
Shop link: http://lnk.spkr.media/scalpture-landkrieg
SCALPTURE comment: “Over the past few years, we have grown very close as a band”, guitarist Felix Marbach writes. “The shows, endless discussions, the long rides, songwriting sessions, texting, practicing, reading, refining, and discarding ideas – along with the days and nights spent at Hellforge Studio, and everyone who contributed – all of this has added up to shape our fourth album, ‘Landkrieg’. Not to brag, but we could hardly be more proud of the result. We are thrilled about this album finally getting released and everything that now lies ahead of us – and of course everyone, too. Straight from my heart to you: don’t just take my words for granted – have a damn listen for yourself!”
Tracklist
1. The Fall …
2. Into Catastrophe
3. Til Jeret Undergang
4. Landsknecht
5. Wallenstein
6. Den Mörka Nattens Lejon
7. Of Siege and Besieged
8. Schwedentrunk
9. Hell’s Choirs Chant
10. Bellum Se Ipsum Alet
Here comes the German death metal tank again, crushing and smashing, bulldozing all resistance into oblivion and breaking through the lines. SCALPTURE deliver their fourth album “Landkrieg”, which means ‘land warfare’ in German, with deadly precision and an ambitious mission statement: to conquer the world.
Well, the band from Westphalia just wants their music to conquer. All members of SCALPTURE personally abhor violence and detest the warmongers of this planet. Still, war has been and is all they want to sing about. This time, it is not just one of the usual war topics but each song on “Landkrieg” revolves around the 30 Years’ War that devastated the German lands from 1618 until 1648 – after the Habsburg emperor pushed his lands ‘Into Catastrophe’ by trying to force all his subjects to become Catholic again in the long wake of the reformation.
Violence soon spiralled out of control as warlords like ‘Wallenstein’ made a profitable business out of this war. Their soldiers, at the time called a ‘Landsknecht’, committed many brutal atrocities including rape and mass murder of civilians. The war soon became international business with both sides of the religious schism supporting their champions. For the besieged Protestants, the Lion of the North, King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden (‘Den Mörka Nattens Lejon’) came to the rescue, but his methods were no less brutal. Until today, animal slurry carries the German moniker ‘Schwedentrunk’ (“Swedish Drink”) after a vile torture method employed by the king’s and other troops.
On “Landkrieg”, SCALPTURE stay true to their deadly roots but their sound has been refined by endless hours on the road, playing more shows, and many days and nights well spent in the rehearsing space and at Hellforge Studio. The new songs are brutal, hard-hitting, and 100% death metal but leave room for variety and cool twists.
When SCALPTURE came into being in the German city of Bielefeld in 2009, founding guitarist Felix Marbach already had a clear vision: The musical direction was to be death metal without any compromise regarding its roots and values, but at the same time the band aimed to evolve into a singular musical entity with a unique style very much their own right from the start.
With the release of their debut album “Panzerdoktrin” (‘Doctrine of Tanks’) in 2016 it became apparent that SCALPTURE had succeeded to reach a first milestone in their quest by adding different facets of heaviness to their death metal foundations that reflect the wide range of the band members’ musical influences. With each new album that followed, “Eisenzeit” (‘Iron Age’, 2020) and “Feldwärts” (“To the Fields”, 2022), SCALPTURE expanded their stylistic horizon, while also defining and focusing a sound of their own.
It is hardly surprising that all of SCALPTURE‘s album titles refer to the topic of ‘war’ that the band has decided to adopt as their prime lyrical theme. Staying away from glorifying stereotypes, their texts are built on detailed historical research and portray the horrors that the abyss of war has caused in some of the darkest hours of humankind. Although the Germans have chosen war as their main subject, SCALPTURE embrace modern values such as tolerance, peace, and reason.
SCALPTURE unleash a new “Landkrieg” and that leaves the world with only two choices: run for cover or bang that death metal head hard!
Band: Scalpture
Title: Landkrieg
Style: Death Metal
Release date: March 7, 2025
Label: Testimony Records
Review impact date: February 3, 2025
Line-up
Thorsten Pieper – vocals
Tobias Aselmann – guitar
Felix Marbach – guitar
Niklas Neuwöhner – bass
Moritz Nixdorf – drums
Recorded & produced by Marco Brinkmann at Hellforge Studio, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Mixed by Marco Brinkmann at Hellforge Studio, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at Rorysound Studios, Uppsala (SE)
Artwork by Eliran Kantor
Layout by Irrwisch Artdesign
Formats
“Landkrieg” will be available on CD, and as a black vinyl LP, a solid red & black vinyl LP, and a crystal clear & solid red & blue vinyl LP.
Shop
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Links
www.scalpture-official.com
www.facebook.com/scalpture
www.instagram.com/scalpture_official