Scottish pirate metal act ALESTORM have issued the following update from vocalist/keyboardist Christopher Bowes:

"Haw fannyfaces and fannyfacettes!

I forgot to mention that our new album, Black Sails At Midnight, is also currently available as a Picture Disc LP, with the bad-ass album artwork printed on the vinyl.

If you want to get your hands on this piece of ultimate sexualness, head over to the Napalm Records webstore.

Do it now! Limited to 500 copies!

Right, I'm off to the Bang Your Head festival now. See you there, bright and early tomorrow morning!"

A previous update from the band stated, "Yo dudes. Turns out that Black Sails At Midnight managed to hit 87th place in the Billboard Heatseekers Chart in the USA. It's the chart for artists who haven't previously had a Top 100 Album before. So that's rather cool. Cheers to all our American friends who bought it. You're all lovely!

Black Sails At Midnight has now achieved the following chart positions:

German album charts - #60

UK Independent Label charts - #14

UK Rock charts - #17

US Billboard Heatseekers Chart - #87

Alestorm recently posted the video clip of 'Nancy The Tavern Wench' from the bonus DVD which comes with the digipak version of their new album, - check it out below.

Black Sails At Midnight is available in normal jewel case format (top graphic), and also as a limited edition digipak with different artwork and a bonus DVD featuring their gig from Wacken 2008. The tracklist is as follows: 'The Quest', 'Leviathan', 'That Famous Ol' Spiced', 'Keelhauled', 'To The End Of Our Days', 'Black Sails At Midnight', 'No Quarter', 'Pirate Song', 'Chronicles Of Vengeance', 'Wolves Of The Sea'.

Album samples can be found on Alesrorm's MySpace page audio player here.

BraveWords.com's Mark Gromen spoke with Alestorm singer/mobile keyboardist Chris Bowes recently - check out the feature here.