This is our legacy.
One year after the release of Impious follows on 12.05.2023 the fourth album of the black metal project "Non Est Deus" with the title "Legacy". As with Impious, it is an examination of the eternal question: Is there a God.
Pre-Christmas 2022: The entire city is out of control. The first Christmas without Corona. People sing, celebrate and drink. Clouds of mulled wine, spices and vomit waft through the alleys. Nativity scenes, Christmas trees, wooden figurines and all the other beautiful horrors that are supposed to make us think of the birth of our Messiah. Two thousand years ago. In Bethlehem. At a time intangible to us, in a world intangible to us.
2.28 billion Christians celebrate this birth and live according to the same model that was set by people 2,000 years ago. That this is not contemporary, there is nothing to discuss. What is terrible, however, are the atrocities that have been committed in the name of this mission statement.
"Crusades, witch burnings, Inquisition.
We know how to celebrate - your church."
I have studied religion a lot in my past.
I've gone through and read the Bible, parts of the Torah, the Koran, and some Hindu and Buddhist scriptures.
More than commandments, horror stories when disobeying them and cool action figures (Indian gods are pretty damn cool), I have not been able to take away from these writings.
And because of this, people have been slaughtering each other by the thousands since the dawn of time?
So now I sit in front of my Christmas tree. Hung with straw stars and baubles, which soak the entire living room with their penetrating glitter dust.
We praise the tree, we drink to it and I could puke. I could puke because of the put-on festivity. I could puke because of the consumerism and most of all I could puke because of the original reason for Christmas.
It's time for a new Non Est Deus album.
Songwriting for Legacy began in December 2022 and was completed by the end of December 2022. It became a total of 8 songs and an intro consisting of guitar tracks and programmed drums.
I then sent these to Hans, the drummer from Kanonenfieber.
Hans worked his magic and sent back 8 ONE-TAKE recorded drum tracks within two weeks.
Then the bass was added and the lyrics were finished and adjusted.
The finished master I had finished in mid-February.
Next year Non Est Deus will go live on stage. Our first show will be in early March 2023 at a small festival in Upper Franconia.
After that we will try to set up a tour and hope for one or the other slot at festivals.
