Italian avant-garde metallers EPHEL DUATH are gearing up for the release of their newest and most bizarre studio album yet. Titled Through My Dog's Eyes, the album is based on a concept conjured up by guitarist and founding member Davide Tiso, in which the entire album is written from the perspective of a dog.

Due to be released by Earache Records on January 26th, Through My Dog's Eyes includes a limited edition bonus DVD. The DVD contains an exclusive art-documentary, featuring an in-depth look at the concepts behind the new album, along with the history and evolution of the band, all told by Tiso.

In a new update Tiso describes the DVD:

"It's a documentary called C'era Una Volta, the Italian translation for the English Once Upon A Time, that has been together with Michele Vaccari and Lucio Basadonne from Enter_Tain(ed)_Ment.

I met Michele during the very first round of interviews I did for the Italian market, he writes for an important Italian magazine, and we immediately get along. He was doing just interesting questions, quite distant from the standard ones that usually a band has to face during an album promotion. When we finished the interview he asked me to keep in mind his film company for a possible collaboration with the band.

In that period our label Earache asked me if I was interested in doing a bonus dvd for TMDE, I accepted and the day after the interview I was already planning the thing with Michele.

The DVD has been shot in a psychiatrical hospital in Genova. The second floor, where we filmed, is abandoned, the first one is still active. The set, as you will see in the dvd, is really suggestive. There were tones of empty rooms full of bad memories and very negative vibes. The light was entering through enormous windows all along the corridors, one of the windows in the rooms were macabrely closed.

They told me that some years ago, after filming a documentary in that second floor, a patient escaped from one of the room downstairs. He was probably excited for all the people coming in and out from the building. He took the stairs, reached the abandoned second floor and he started to wander in those empty rooms. Doctors and nurses searched for him just outside, but not at the second floor. They found him after three days, dead, closed in one of the bathroom where we shot the dvd.

After that episode, and to avoid that something like that could happen again, the hospital crew painted in red most of the wall of the second floor: it seems that red highly disturbs patients with heavy mental problems, so it's a way to keep them distant from there.

Now imagine a normal hospital room, with let's say six beds in and all the medical equipment, various furniture and so on. Empty it. Take everything off. There's a detail that probably you will forget there, as the people that emptied those rooms did. The red lights. The emergency red lights on top of the bed that shows to the nurses which patient of the room called for help. Well those lights where still activated. Red eyes in a sick darkness. Believe me, it was one of the most creepy things I've ever saw in my whole life. It has been really interesting and touching to shoot this piece.

Now let's enter more in details about the dvd: you will find a long speech about Ephel Duath's activity so far. The camera, starting from me talking, will fly around these empty rooms alternating shootings done there together with movies and documentaries extracts of various nature. Dogs and madness is the guiding line.

As additional gift you will find the Through My Dog's Eyes comic/trailer created by Adriano Barone and drawn by Paolo Castaldi. It is entitled The Spider Leaves. Lucio Basadonne edited the comic on Spider Shaped Leaves song."

Check out a trailer for the DVD, below: