Metal Blade Records has issued the following update regarding Detroit, MI's THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER:

Still revelling in the wake of their ravenously received DVD spectacle, Majesty, which is still charting on the Canadian Top Music Videos chart and recently spent five weeks on the Billboard Top Music Videos chart, Michigan's oddball sons of molten melodic death metal, The Black Dahlia Murder, return stronger than ever with their fourth thrashing opus, Deflorate.

Classical-come-apocalyptic; violently energetic yet melodiously beautiful, Deflorate sees the song writing of band leader and rhythm guitarist Brian Eschbach at its most developed and refined, exponentially complimented by contributions from both bass savant Bart Williams and newcomer guitarist/shred lord Ryan Knight (ex-ARSIS), whose leads are destined to dazzle fans and take the band's punishing potency to dramatic new heights.

Combined with the intense performances of uniquely charismatic howler/growler Trevor Strnad and rising extreme drumming star Shannon Lucas, the cannon of talent possessed by The Black Dahlia Murder is more stacked to destroy than ever!

Multiplying the strengths of their past catalogue with a reborn urgency and focus, the BDM crew forge steadily down the blackened path they laid with 2007's stunningly dark Nocturnal. With pedal completely to the metal, Deflorate boasts the band's patented mixture of Swedish influenced thrash and black metal with blasting fury and crushing American muscle

Recorded at the famed Audio Hammer Studios by production wizard Jason Suecof and engineering talent Mark Lewis, Deflorate is multifaceted death trip: beautiful, evil, and morbidly addicting.

The Black Dahlia Murder has not surrendered their knack for writing compact, catchy death metal madness, and Deflorate is by no means an exception to the bands rule of 'all killer and no filler'... no punches are pulled, no gravestone is left unturned!

Deflorate will be released on September 15th.

More on the band here.

The Black Dahlia Murder will also be joining CHILDREN OF BODOM as main support (alongside SKELETONWITCH) for their tour in September/October. Canadian dates below:

September

22 - Quebec City, QC - Capitol Theater
23 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
25 - Kitchener, ON - Elements
26 - Toronto, ON - Sound Academy
30 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick

October

1 - Saskatoon, SK - The Odeon
2 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall
3 - Edmonton, AB - EEC
5 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore