DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT Present “Marter,” the Opening Descent Into Innern

Posted on August 21, 2025

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German progressive black metal visionaries DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT reveal “Marter”, the searing opening track from their forthcoming sixth studio album Innern. A harrowing yet cathartic journey into the heart of suffering, “Marter” embodies the album’s core themes of isolation, dissolution, and the fragile possibility of release.

Opening with mournful restraint, the track slowly uncoils into a storm of relentless tremolo-picked guitars, intricate yet punishing blast beats from Tobias Schuler, and the grounding weight of Alan Noruspur’s bass. Nikita Kamprad and Nicolas Rausch’s layered guitars oscillate between ferocity and elegiac stillness, while Kamprad’s vocals shift from anguished cries to whispered resignation. It is a piece of contrasts: unrelenting yet fragile, crushing yet imbued with fleeting moments of calm.

Lyrically, “Marter” contemplates identity, rebirth, and the futility of clinging to words that fall on deaf ears. Its imagery of burning throats, collapsing voices, and the pull of the stars frames suffering as both torment and an avenue toward renewal. The repeated surrender, “Nimm sie alle, meine Schreie…” (“Take them all, my screams…”), becomes an invocation of release, dissolving personal agony into something vast and cosmic. As the opening track of Innern, “Marter” sets the tone for an album that peers inward, confronting pain not as an end, but as a threshold.

The official lyric video for “Marter” was created in close collaboration with Riivata Visuals, whose stark, immersive approach mirrors the track’s emotional depth. Through layered textures, abstract imagery, and restrained motion, the video amplifies the song’s themes of torment and release, placing the viewer directly within the song’s inward gaze.

Experience Marter now on the Season of Mist YouTube channel:

Innern is out September 12th on Season of Mist.

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