Infernal Masquerade reports:

"Days after the release of The Clans Will Rise Again, we managed to have an interview with GRAVE DIGGER’s new guitarist, Axel Ritt. In this interview we talked about his time in the band and his experience while making this formidable new release. We also discussed the band’s 30 year run and how much longer do they want to keep going."

Check out the audio interview at this location.

A recent update from Grave Digger states: "It happened once again... the new Grave Digger album (The Clans Will Rise Again) entered the official German Media Control Charts at #28 and the Top 100 in Switzerland at #86.

Behind Excalibur (1999 - #21) this is the second highest entry in band history at a time, where the Christmas business is already on the run and selling heavyweights pushing down the rates.

More countries will be analyzed soon. Thanks for your support and see you on our tour in 2011."

The Clans Will Rise Again features the following 13 songs:

'Days Of Revenge'

'Paid In Blood'

'Hammer Of The Scots'

'Highland Farewell'

'The Clans Will Rise Again'

'Rebels'

'Valley Of Tears'

'Execution'

'Whom The Gods Love Die Young'

'Spider'

'The Piper Mcleod'

'Coming Home'

'When Rain Turns To Blood'

Grave Digger have announced a string of Russian and Ukrainian dates in support of The Clans Will Rise Again. The itinerary is as follows:

February

18 - St. Petersburg, Russia - Orlandia
19 - Minsk, Belarus - Reactor
20 - Moscow, Russia - tba
22 - Rostov-na-donu, Russia - DK Rostselmash (Maliy zal)
23 - Krasnodar, Russia - Strike

More dates to be announced soon.

Grave Digger frontman Chris Boltendahl recently confirmed to BraveWords.com that the 30th anniversary show at Wacken 2010 will be released as a DVD in March of next year. Entitled Wacken United, it features the Tunes Of War album in its entirety, accompanied by appearances by Hansi Kursch (BLIND GUARDIAN) and DORO PESCH. "A show like we did in Wacken, we MUST record! We will add some cool bonus stuff. It will be history, interviews, a picture gallery with 500 photos from the Wacken show, the video, making of and we’ve got some shots of the highlands and stuff that we did 15 years ago, that we’ll put into the (concert). We’ve got some movie stuff and it will be a little like The Song Remains The Same (film). The cover is really cool, it’s the first time we’ve had three reapers on the same cover. Funny thing is, Hansi wore a kilt, but on the wrong side! We saw some footage from the DVD recordings and you can see his underwear. "

Check out a complete BraveWords.com feature with Chris Boltendahl this location.