Name: INTER ARMA + La Casa Fantom
Start: 2024-10-22T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Schauenburgstraße 5, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany

New Heaven—Inter Arma’s sixth album and their first set of originals in five years—is a
compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom,
death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid
the tumult. And Mike Paparo’s keen and empathetic lyrics about innocent victims of war,
addiction, and social apathy affirm that feeling, as a survivor grimaces at the carnage behind him
and presses ahead best he can. “You stared into the brutish jaws of strife’s heartless device,” he
growls into a chthonic blitz during “The Children the Bombs Overlooked,” a late-album
powerhouse. “And you turned your back to hell.” That forward march out of madness is New
Heaven in an armor-plated nutshell.