DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT Stream Full Album Innern

Posted on September 11, 2025

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Progressive black metal visionaries DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT return with Innern, their sixth studio album, set for release on September 12, 2025 via Season of Mist. Following the critical acclaim of Noktvrn (2021), the German quartet once again pushes boundaries, crafting an intensely focused meditation on suffering, transformation, and existential reckoning.

Formed in 2009 by guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter Nikita Kamprad, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT has risen from underground origins to become one of Europe’s most essential black metal voices. With Innern, the band turns its gaze inward, refining its signature fusion of blistering intensity and melancholic grandeur while embracing moments of atmospheric serenity and live-oriented dynamism.

Across six tracks, the album traverses cycles of collapse and emergence. Opener “Marter” embodies torment and catharsis, surrendering pain into the infinite cosmos. “Eos” offers a meditation on destruction and renewal, envisioning nature reclaiming the devastation of war. “Xibalba” confronts the machinery of fear and propaganda, invoking mythological imagery to urge a return to the core of human essence. “Fragment” reflects on incompleteness and the search for clarity, while “Forlorn”, sung in English, emerges as the band’s most vulnerable plea for emotional refuge.

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Kamprad in his Würzburg studio, Innern captures both immediacy and atmosphere. The interplay of Kamprad and Nicolas Rausch’s guitars oscillates between aggression and restraint, Alan Noruspur’s basslines pulse with gravity, and Tobias Schuler’s intricate drumming bridges technical precision with emotional nuance. The result is an album that confronts listeners with the void, while inviting them to seek clarity within it.

Innern is out September 12th via Season of Mist.

Praise for ‘Innern’:

“With Innern, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT once again deliver an album that combines the harshness of black metal with the atmospheric textures of post-metal, shaping them into highly integrated songs.” – Obliveon DE (9/10)

“It is undeniably a powerful experience […]” – Pavillon 666 FR (8.5/10)

“Words simply do not do it justice. Experience it. Superb.” – Metal-Roos AU (4.5/5)

“Their music is a prime example of how extreme sound can be merged with a more accessible form of expression.” – KVLT PL (10/10)

“With this record, Der Weg Einer Freiheit once again prove that they are at the forefront of modern black metal.” – Greek Rebels GR (9/10)

“If sincerity is the guiding principle of any true work of art, then what Der Weg Einer Freiheit masters best is the marriage of spontaneity and meticulousness.” – Verdammnis FR

“Innern is a top tier album that awaits your exploration.” – Wonderbox Metal UK

“Innern unashamedly takes its place on the shelf of the best releases of the year.” – Acta Infernalis FR (95/100)

“…they’re now fully engaged in a process of sonic and spiritual evolution that just might be the start of a whole new direction for their sound.” – No Clean Singing

“Innern demonstrates Der Weg einer Freiheit’s continued will to experiment, as they take us into the realm of introspection” – Metal Insider

“…Der Weg einer Freiheit has delivered one hell of an album.” – Metal Exposure

“From the very beginning, the band creates a dynamic ebb and flow.” – Metal1.info DE (8/10)

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