Usually when I review albums, I write down which songs are my favorite and which songs I think are the best on the CD. When it comes to Heave Shall Burn latest release "Iconoclast". I looked at my paper and noticed I wrote down almost every track on the album.

Iconoclast opens with a quick piano intro, confusing the listener into thinking they bought a Nine Inch Nails album. They then explode into "Endzeit" (one of the best songs on the album), and you quickly realize what this German band brings to the table. This whole album varies from thrash metal to speed metal to death metal with deep guitar tones and brutal vocals. Every aspect of Iconoclast touches a different part of music.

Tracks like "Endzeit", "A Dying Ember" and "The Bombs of My Saviours" sum up the whole feel and sound of this album, while Like A Thousand Suns, Joel, and A Quest for Resistance display Heaven Shall Burns extremely heavy side. Towards the end of the album, The Disease is a three minute eerie and classical violin track, and they close the album with an epic instrumental which is the best way to end Iconoclast.

With the catchy riffs and amazing breakdowns, this album is up there as one of the best metal releases of the year. Iconoclast is definitely an album that you can listen to over and over again. All in all, every tracks a headbanger, every tracks a journey, and every track includes several sub-genres of rock and metal.