Deathbringer

Deathbringer is the studio album of Iron Savior's thirtieth year, and the Hamburg band's first set of new songs since Firestar in 2023. Frontiers Music announced the signing and the record together on 7 August 2026, making it their first album for the label. Between the two came Reforged – Machine World (2025), the third and closing instalment of their re-recordings of the Noise Records years, and Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy (2026), an album of 1980s pop covers. It is a concept album again. After two hundred years of peace the Shadows, an insect-like race and humankind's old enemy, return; Deathbringer is the gigantic vessel in which their immortal queen keeps the last of her species in a digital hive, and the Iron Savior and the Alliance have to face it. Piet Sielck, who sings and plays guitar, produced the album at his own Powerhouse Studio and mixed and mastered it himself. The line-up is Sielck, Joachim "Piesel" Küstner on guitar, Patrick Opitz on bass and Patrick Klose on drums; Opitz took over the bass for good in January 2025, when Jan-S. Eckert left at his own request. Four songs came out ahead of the album. "Back From The Fires Of Hell" (7 August) answers Firestar's "Through The Fires Of Hell": Sielck calls the older song poetry for his wife and the new one a reflection of real events. "The Creature's Tale", with a video on 26 August, tells the Frankenstein story, and Sielck says the 2025 Netflix film, above all its closing part narrated by the creature, inspired it. Visualizers followed for "Light In The Dark" (23 September) and "Climbing Higher" (22 October), which Sielck rates the most commercial song on the record. The international CD (FRCD1608) has thirteen tracks, "No Deal" and a cover of Judas Priest's "Fever" among them as bonus tracks. Avalon / Marquee Inc.'s Japanese CD, MICP-12051, shares the release date and adds a fourteenth, "Walking On A Thin Line", that no international format has.