Finland's BATTLELORE have checked in with the following update:

"Battlelore is staging a competition for the new album, Doombound. There are three Doombound related questions, and three lucky winners will get some rare prizes. Check out the questions, find the right answers and you may be the lucky winner of these prizes!

First prize: An original Battlelore drum head, Doombound (digipack) album and a poster – all signed by the band.

Second prize: A signed copy of Doombound (digipack).

Third prize: A signed poster.

The competition will start January 21st, 2011 and the time to answer ends February 8th, 2011, when Doombound will be published also in North America. The names of the three lucky winners will be published on Battlelore website and they will be contacted via email personally for the exact contact information."

Go to this location to take part in the competition.

Doombound will be released on the following dates:

January

26 - Spain, Finland, Sweden
28 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, BeNeLux, Italy
31 - rest of Europe

February

8 - Canada, US

The tracklist for Doombound is as follows:

'Bloodstained'

'Iron Of Death'

'Bow And Helm'

'Enchanted'

'Kärmessurma'

'Olden Gods'

'Fate Of The Betrayed'

'Men As Wolves'

'Last of the Lords'

'Doombound'

'Kielo' (instrumental)

Audio samples from Doombound, are now available via Amazon.de. All tracks can be heard here.

Doombound is Battlelore’s first concept album – all the lyrics together tell the story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s tragic hero Túrin Turambar and his kin. One of the songs is sung completely in Finnish in appreciation to Battlelore’s beautiful home country Finland and Kalevala, the national Finnish epic. The songs themselves are more dynamic, atmospheric and epic than ever before – prepare for the ultimate music experience and a life-long journey through the eyes of a fallen hero!

Battlelore are releasing a bonus DVD called 10 Years Of Battlelore in addition to the digipack version of the upcoming album. As a thank you to all Battlelore fans and followers for their enormous support over the past ten years, the band compiled the DVD from their personal materials. The DVD includes material from two live shows, two tour videos, a huge photo gallery and all of Battlelore’s music videos.

The band comments: “This is the kind of material of us that has never been seen before. We wanted our fans to see, how much their support means to us and what being a part of the ‘Battlelore family’ is really like. Enjoy, we sure have!”

The team behind the DVD and Club Nosturi shows:

Toni Salminen (the artist behind Metalscope.net), a friend of the band and a talented band photographer/video shooter and editor/tour driver is the compiler and editor of most of the material found on the DVD. He has also organized the video shootings of the two live shows in Club Nosturi and edited all the video materials. Tommi Vaittinen, a longtime friend and sound engineer of the band, has done the mixing for the two live shows. The crew behind the cameras is: Eetu Keränen, Petri Koivunen, Toni Salminen and Roni Ärling. Drums on the two live shows from Club Nosturi: Enkku, who filled in for Battlelore’s drummer, Henri Vahvanen. Maria Honkanen (Battlelore keyboardist) has been helping out with the editing of the two tour videos. She also compiled the chosen photographs out of the thousands of personal photos and edited the song samples for the photo gallery.

The tracklist for the bonus DVD:

Live at Club Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland January 1st 2008:

'Storm Of The Blades'

'Valier – Queens Of The Valar'

'We Are The Legions'

'Sons Of Riddermark'

'Ghân Of The Woods'

'Raging Goblin'

Live at Club Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland January 1st 2009:

'Green Dragon'

'Swordmaster'

'House of Heroes'

'Moontower'

'The Great Gathering'

Evernight Over Europe Tour 2007

- includes a few live songs filmed during the tour
- cameras: Eetu Keränen, Toni Salminen and Battlelore
- edited by Toni Salminen and Maria Honkanen

The Last Alliance Tour in Finland 2008

- includes a few live clips filmed during the tour
- cameras: Eetu Keränen, Toni Salminen, Enkku and Battlelore
- edited by Toni Salminen and Maria Honkanen

Photo galleries:

- 2000-2004
- 2004-2006
- 2007-2008
- 2009-2010

Photos taken by: Battlelore, Toni Salminen, Tim Tronckoe, Eetu Keränen, Tommi Lintunen, Mikko Hannula (promotional photo shoot for The Last Alliance), Jarmo Katila (promotional photo shoots for Evernight and Doombound), Robert Bretschneider & friends and families of Battlelore. Photos compiled by Maria Honkanen. All songs by Battlelore, recorded between the years 2000-2010.

Music videos:

'Third Immortal'

'House Of Heroes'

'Storm Of The Blades'

'Journey To Undying Lands'