Join the celebration at the edge of the abyss, as HEATHE opens the gates to their pitch-black universe where handcrafted club rhythms and nu-metal collide with soaring gospel and free jazz.
Based on dissonance and endless repetition, the group conjures up massive and overwhelming sonic walls of reverb-heavy and metallic-sounding noise collages, where desperation, high-frequency ecstasy, and aggressive bursts of energy echo through an infinite darkness.
Since 2016, the Aalborg-rooted band has left audiences in ecstatic awe with overwhelming live performances and sonically elusive releases. In 2025, they return with their second full-length album, Control Your Heart’s Desire for Freedom (Empty Tape & Virkelighedsfjern), an unrelenting maelstrom of aggressive polyrhythms, cacophonous noise rock, and chanting mantras heralding the end of the world.
Control Your Heart’s Desire for Freedom opens with a foreboding account of childhood fears of apocalypse – fears that, over the course of the album’s 65 minutes, evolve from abstract anxiety to vividly realized nightmares: collapsing ecosystems, civil war, and barrages of bombs unfolding before the listener in escalating intensity.
The songs traverse sonic terrains where depressive pop, live techno, pitch-black post-hardcore, and trance-like repetition intersect with chanted choirs, auto-tune, and desperate, half-strangled screams.
From the foreboding opener Black Milk Sour Soil, to My Gods Destroy’s syncopated groove and The Truth Hurts’ all-consuming depression, Uproar Taking Shape’s auto-tuned chorus and hip-hop swagger, the slow-burning climax of Valencia’s Next, and finally the grief-stricken void of Black As Oil – Control Your Heart’s Desire for Freedom is a descent into beautiful hopelessness.
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