Two hundred years of peace in the story and thirty years of the band telling it, and Iron Savior have Deathbringer out now through Frontiers Music Srl, with an official visualizer for the title track.
It is their eighteenth full length album and a return to the concept format. The galaxy is on the brink again: the Shadows, an insectoid species and mankind's old enemy, have come back, aboard the vessel the record is named after. Piet Sielck produced it himself at his own Powerhouse Studio, as he has every Iron Savior record.
Sielck says the title track was one of the first songs he wrote for it, a riff led heavy metal song whose lyric sets up the rest of the story. For the backing vocals he called in Billy King, known for his work on several Blind Guardian albums, and Claas Vogt of the German band Klaus&Klaus: "I wanted the backing vocals to sound as massive as possible," he said, and they did not stop at that one song. The label points to "Climbing Higher", the melodic speed metal of "Light In The Dark" and the slower "Creature's Tale" among the rest.
The album is the first proper studio record since Firestar in 2023. Between them came the third part of the Reforged series, which re-recorded the band's Noise Records era, and a covers album. Iron Savior will tour behind it with Mystic Prophecy.
Sielck has sung and played guitar in the band since 1996, with Joachim Küstner on the second guitar since 2000, Patrick Klose on drums since 2017 and Patrick Opitz on bass since this year.