Norwegian black metal legends 1349 have issued the following update:

"With their deepest apologies to all their fans and supporters, 1349 have to announce that they will not play at the upcoming Copenhagen Metal Festival festival on April 2nd, due to severe financial/organizational problems at the forefront of the event on the part of the responsible organizers.

1349 and Twisted Talent regret the latest proceedings and want to make sure that there will be no iteration of this situation."

1349 will release their new album, Demonoir, on April 26th in Europe (Indie Recordings/Indie Distribution), and April 27th in North America (Prosthetic Records).

A new track from the album, 'Atomic Chapel', is now available for streaming at this location.

Demonoir will be available in three different versions:

- regular CD
- limited digipack version with special artwork including bonus CD with cover versions
- double 180gram vinyl in gatefold sleeve, includes cover versions

Check out the artwork below:

North American edition / European ltd digipack edition which contains bonus disc:

European standard edition:

Demonoir tracklist:

'Tunnel Of Set – I'

'Atomic Chapel'

'Tunnel II'

'When I Was Flesh'

'Tunnel III'

'Psalm 7:77'

'Tunnel IV'

'Pandemonium War Bells'

'Tunnel V'

'The Devil Of The Deserts'

'Tunnel VI'

'Demonoir'

'Tunnel VII'

According to a press release, "Demonoir is without a shadow of a doubt 1349’s darkest, most sinister and brutal work to date, and in this case it comes to mean that the band has gone from the utterly extreme to the genre-expanding and mindboggling. Black metal cannot, and will never be the same.

For the band's fifth full-length release - which will be released by Indie Recordings throughout Europe on April 26th, and by Prosthetic Records in North America the following day - 1349 decided to suck out the fiercest and most potent energies from every single member and surroundings, channeling it into songs that are pulsating with uncanny atmospheres, rawness and nerve shattering intensity. The whole process of getting the material on record was like one long, exhausting black magic summoning that could not be allowed to go wrong."