following a quiet period, heaven shall burn announced they had recorded a new album titled "deaf to our prayers", which was released on august 28, 2006. after the release of "counterweight", as the first track of the new album, "deaf to our prayers" entered the german album charts at #65, being the first heaven shall burn album to enter record sales charts. during summer 2006, heaven shall burn played shows at summer breeze open air and other festivals. live footage, recorded at summer breeze was later used in the "counterweight" music video. in september and october they headlined the hell on earth tour 2006 on the european mainland, also part of the tour were cataract, maroon, and god forbid. at the end of the year they embarked co-headlining tour with caliban through germany and belgium.