German symphonic metallers Beyond The Black can already look back across a stratospherically successful career, despite their youthful years. Upon release, their 2015 debut album hit like a bomb in their home country. “Songs Of Love And Death” besieged the German Top 15 for weeks, which led to the band being awarded the Metal Hammer Award for “Best Debut” in 2015. Its successor “Lost In Forever” (2016) entered the German charts at #4 and paved the way for a huge tour throughout Germany, and across countries like the UK, Russia and Japan. Since the band’s live debut in 2014, they have played some of the world’s biggest metal festivals like Wacken Open Air and have toured as support to heavy weights such as Aerosmith, Korn, Scorpions, Saxon and Within Temptation. During the campaign for their third record “Heart Of the Hurricane” (2018), Beyond The Black landed their first ever European headline tour, which took them across 10 countries, with most dates selling out.
Before they’d even finished the “Heart Of the Hurricane” touring cycle, Beyond The Black had already gone back to the studio to write and record album number four. The result was “Horizons”, released in June 2020, which entered the German album charts at #3, marking the band’s most successful album release to date.
Now, two years later, Beyond The Black are back to launch a new chapter. Following the release of recently highly acclaimed tracks “Reincarnation” and “Is There Anybody Out There“, the band are proud to announce their new, fifth studio album – the self-titled “Beyond the Black” will drop on January 13, 2023. The pre-order launches now, accompanied by new single “Winter Is Coming“, setting the tone for BTB’s biggest headline tour to date, starting on October 6, in Vienna.
Jennifer Haben comments:
“Many changes happened in the world and behind the scenes during the making of this album. We were confronted by our innermost fears and hopes while trying to do the right thing in turbulent times. This is what you call growth and this album gets to the heart of this process we all share: Here’s “Beyond The Black” and it’s gonna be yours soon!”
You can watch “Winter Is Coming” below:
You can preorder “Beyond The Black” here.
“Beyond The Black” tracklisting:
1. Is There Anybody Out There
2. Reincarnation
3. Free Me
4. Winter Is Coming
5. Into The Light
6. Wide Awake
7. Dancing In The Dark
8. Raise Your Head
9. Not In Our Name
10. I Remember Dying
Bonus Tracks:
1. I Remember Dying (Stranger Reprise)
2. Wide Awake (Piano Version)
3. Raise Your Head (String Version)
Beyond The Black played an extensive list of international festivals this summer and are now preparing for their biggest European tour to-date.
Beyond The Black & Amaranthe–CO-HEADLINE TOUR 2022
06.10.2022 | AT–Vienna, Arena
07.10.2022 | DE–Leipzig, Haus Auensee
08.10.2022 | DE–Ludwigsburg, MHP Arena
09.10.2022 | BE–Antwerp, Trix (SOLD OUT)
11.10.2022 | UK–Manchester, O2 Ritz (SOLD OUT)
12.10.2022 | UK–London, Forum Kentish Town
14.10.2022 | FR–Lyon, Ninkasi Kao
15.10.2022 | ES–Barcelona,Salamandra
16.10.2022 | ES–Madrid, La Riviera (VENUE UPGRADE)
18.10.2022 | FR–Bordeaux, Rock School Barbey
19.10.2022 | FR–Paris, Elysée Montmartre
21.10.2022 | DE–Berlin, Columbiahalle
22.10.2022 | DE–Offenbach, Stadthalle
23.10.2022 | CH–Zürich, X-Tra
25.10.2022 | IT–Milan, Live Club
26.10.2022 | CH–Lausanne, Metropole
28.10.2022 | DE–Geiselwind, Event Hall
29.10.2022 | CZ–Zlin, MOR Cafe (SOLD OUT)
30.10.2022 | HU–Budapest, Barba Negra
31.10.2022 | DE–Munich, Zenith
02.11.2022 | PL–Warsaw, Progresja
04.11.2022 | DE–Oberhausen, Turbinenhalle
05.11.2022 | DE–Hamburg, Zeltphilharmonie
06.11.2022 | NL–Utrecht, Tivoli Ronda
08.11.2022 | DK–Copenhagen, Amager Bio
09.11.2022 | NO–Oslo, Sentrum Scene
11.11.2022 | SE–Gothenburg, Pustervik
12.11.2022 | SE–Stockholm, Klubben Fryshuset (SOLD OUT)