STRATOVARIUS will issue their new album, Elysium on January 12th via JVC in Asia, worldwide on January 14th via Edel/EarMusic, and in North America on January 18th.

Audio samples from the entire album are available at this location.

The band has just released 'Under Flaming Skies', a track from their forthcoming new album. 'Under Flaming Skies' finds the Finnish metal masters firing on all cylinders with a particularly impassioned performance from vocalist Timo Kotipelto, who wrote the track along with Kupiainen.

Check it out below:

Elysium will be available as a regular CD, two-CD Deluxe Version, Collector's Edition with 7" (pictured below) and LP.

Details of the deluxe digipak edition are as follows:

CD 1:

'Darkest Hours'

'Under Flaming Skies'

'Infernal Maze'

'Fairness Justified'

'The Game Never Ends'

'Lifetime In A Moment'

'Move The Mountain'

'Event Horizon'

'Elysium'

CD 2:

'Darkest Hours' (demo)

'Under Flaming Skies' (demo)

'Infernal Maze' (demo)

'Fairness Justified' (demo)

'The Game Never Ends' (demo)

'Lifetime In A Moment' (demo)

'Move The Mountain' (demo)

'Event Horizon' (demo)

'Elysium' (demo)

7" Single:

'Last Shore'

'Hallowed'

The first single, 'Darkest Hours', was released on November 26th.

The following tracks are part of the single:

'Darkest Hours' (from the upcoming album "Elysium")

'Infernal Maze' (from the upcoming album "Elysium")

'Darkest Hours' (demo version)

'Against The Wind' (live recording, Sofia, Bulgaria)

'Black Diamond' (live recording, Göteborg, Sweden)

Check out BW&BK;'s new interview with Stratovarius frontman Timo Kotipelto here.