CHANGELING, the progressive death metal project led by Berlin guitarist Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger, have released a blindfolded studio playthrough of “World? What World?,” taken from the band’s 2025 debut album Changeling. Shot in studio, the video strips the track back to a single uninterrupted performance, with Fountainhead navigating the song’s shifting time signatures and tremolo-picked runs entirely by feel.
Watch the “World? What World?” playthrough: https://youtu.be/6GmEhVv9dAQ
“World? What World?” is one of the album’s most punishing tracks, built on 260 bpm blast beats and a brass arrangement scored for an ensemble of Wagnerian tubas, and its lyrics stage a confrontation with fear and the unconscious mind, the fourth chapter in the album’s stage-by-stage psychedelic narrative. Losing the visual reference point of the fretboard turns the playthrough into a demonstration of muscle memory as much as musicianship, a fitting angle for a song built around the collapse of perceptual certainty.
Changeling was released April 25th, 2025 on Season of Mist. The ten-track, roughly hour-long album moves through four chapters, opening in tech-death vocabulary rooted in Fountainhead’s work on Obscura’s Akroasis and closing on “Anathema,” the near-seventeen-minute successor to his own “Weltseele.”
Order & Stream Changeling: https://orcd.co/changelingchangeling
The band’s first European headline run, “Tour? What Tour? 2026”, is set for this November with support from Obsidian Tide and local openers.
CHANGELING — TOUR? WHAT TOUR? 2026
12/11 – Hamburg, Germany @ Bambi Galore (+ Soulsplitter)
13/11 – Cologne, Germany @ MTC (+ 46 Forty Six Band)
14/11 – Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen (+ Demichron)
15/11 – Den Haag, Netherlands @ Musicon (+ Hyla)
17/11 – Charleroi, Belgium @ MCP Apache (+ Laucean)
19/11 – Kaiserslautern, Germany @ Irish House ( + Magefa)
20/11 – Stuttgart, Germany @ Club Zentral
21/11 – Innsbruck, Austria @ Livestage (+ Virial)
22/11 – Vienna, Austria @ Escape Metalcorner (+ Pater Tenebrarum)
24/11 – Landshut, Germany @ Rocketclub
25/11 – Prague, Czech Republic @ Black Pes (+ Poppy Seed Grinder)
26/11 – Ostrava, Czech Republic @ Rock Hill (+ TBA)
27/11 – Warsaw, Poland @ Potok (+ TBA)
29/11 – Berlin, Germany @ Kulturhaus Insel
Tickets available here: linktr.ee/changeling_tour
