Santa Barbara-based metal quintet DEVILDRIVER have issued the following update from frontman Dez Fafara:

"Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to put together our last UK and European run. The band saw the largest headline shows of our career overseas! Manager/ agent / crew / drivers - thank you one and all!

We're home for the Pagan holiday now and I'm doing a ton of press for Beast. In January we begin rehersals for our Canadian run and Australia Soundwave where we will debut 'Dead To Rights' live , the first track off the new record!"

DevilDriver will release their fifth album, Beast, via longtime label Roadrunner Records on February 22nd, 2011. The album was produced by Mark Lewis (ALL THAT REMAINS, TRIVIUM, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) and will include the following tracklisting:

'Dead To Rights'

'Bring The Fight (To The Floor)'

'Hardened'

'Shitlist'

'Talons Out (Teeth Sharpened)'

'You Make Me Sick'

'Coldblooded'

'Blur'

'The Blame Game'

'Black Soul Choir'

'Crowns Of Creation'

'Lend Myself To The Night'

Check out the Beast album art below:

Check out a video update from Dez Fafara below on the album he describes as "pissed" and "technical".

While many bands in the modern era are already withering away by their second album and have shriveled up and died by their third, DevilDriver have proven to mutate, growing stronger, deadlier and more immortal with each successive release. Beast, which follows 2009's Pray For Villains, finds the band refusing to compromise in their mission to deliver music that will make you feel as though you were slapped upside the head with a baseball bat.

Frontman Dez Fafara also dubbed the record their most "extreme" to date and even compared Beast to "driving a Buick Skylark 200 miles an hour straight to Vegas".

Further updates to follow.