SCALPTURE drop the lyric visualiser ‚Landsknecht‚ (German name for mercenaries of the Thirty Years‘ War) as the next single taken from their new full-length „Landkrieg“ („Land Warfare“) in the shape of a video clip. The fourth album of the German death metal dogs of war has been slated for release on March 7, 2025.
Scalpture – Landsknecht [Official Lyric Video]
SCALPTURE comment: „Mercenaries from across Europe were enlisted by the highest bidding nobles to fight in what we now call the Thirty Years‘ War“, vocalist and history buff Thorsten Pieper explains. „These were called ‚Landsknechte‘ in German, which means literally ’servants of the land‘. They were typically battle-hardened veterans, known for their colourful and flamboyant apparel as well as the horrors, which they brought to the towns and regions that they ravaged on behalf of their masters. ‚Landsknecht‘ is a straight forward death metal gut punch that portrays the brutality, chaos, and hopelessness that marked their often short lives during these seemingly endless decades of destruction“.
