Mainz, Germany-based black/death metallers AGATHODAIMON will release their follow-up to their Serpent's Embrace album, entitled Phoenix, on March 20th.

The band check in with the following update:

"Time for some news again!

We uploaded a new song snippet, this time you’ll get to hear the first minutes of 'Alone In The Dark (Death Angel’s Shadow)' on myspace.com/agathodaimon.

This song is one of the bonus tracks of the limited digipack edition of Phoenix, so preorder now before they’re gone!

Did we mention already that it’s a 6 page-digipack, features 14 tracks with a playing time of more than 72 minutes, and a booklet of 20 pages?

Here are some reliable metal mailorders where you may preorder: Metal Merchant, Nuclear Blast.

We also promised to reveal the tracklist, so here we go: 'Heliopolis', 'Devil’s Deal', 'Decline', 'Ground Zero', 'Ghost Of A Soul', 'Winterchild', 'Time Is The Fire', 'To Our Ashes', 'Amongst The Vultures', 'Oncoming Storm', 'Throughout The Fields Of Unshaded Grace', 'Grey Whisper'.

The limited edition also features 'Alone In The Dark' in 2 versions (a new version with Ashtrael and Sathonys on vocals, you may check this song on our MySpace page now) and the original soundtrack version (Ruth “Ophelia” Knepel on vocals, who also sung 'Solitude' on our last album Serpent's Embrace).

Check it out and let us know about your opinion concerning the new track on our MySpace page! Here’s our new song: myspace.com/agathodaimon

Next week, we’ll present a video, taken during the recording of the album at the Kohlekeller studio, plus a new song snippet.

By the way, we’re still building a street and e-team; thanks for the replies so far (we’ll get back to you soon!), so should you be interested in supporting the band, drop a mail to team@agathodaimon.de and let us know how you’d like to spread the word! The most active people will receive signed CD’s, rare/exclusive merchandise, meet&greet; with the band etc."