Dubai-based death/thrashers NERVECELL launch their new album, Psychogenocide, with a series of events and competitions to be held before it's official release date, on Thursday, March 31st, in the Middle East. Their new album follows the success of Preaching Venom, released in 2008.

Free showcase events in March:

Two free live performances will take place prior to the album release date on Thursday, March 31st:

- An 'All Ages' fan showcase, where the band will perform all the new tracks live, will be held at The Fridge (AlQuoz, thefridgedubai.com) on Friday, March 25th for their fans (doors open 8 PM). Free Monster Energy Drinks will be distributed throughout the evening.
- The official and exclusive launch party of Nervecell’s new album for VIP and media will be taking place on Sunday, March 20th at Sanctuary club in Atlantis The Palm, Dubai. Four competition winners will attend the event and stay at the five-star resort courtesy of Spellbind Records and band’s management CSM.

Pre-order online competition:

Pre-orders for a copy of Psychogenocide can be made online only, at this location, where each buyer will automatically enter a draw to win one of two B.C. Rich electric guitars: ASM Standard and Jr. V NJ Deluxe models, signed by all Nervecell band members!

All pre-orders must be made before Wednesday, March 30th evening, 11.30 PM, which also marks the end of the online competition. Winners will be announced on nervecell.net the next day.

Album release and new merchandise collection:

The Psychogenocide album will be available in all Virgin Megastores in UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Qatar on Thursday, March 31st as well as Melody House (Gold & Diamond Park, Dubai).

As for the brand new “Psychogenocide” merchandise collection, both men’s and women’s sizes will be available and can be purchased in Dubai, UAE only (Virgin Megastores and Melody House) and on the online store here for the rest of the world.

Nervecell recently checked in with the following update:

"We are extremely proud to announce that Karl Sanders (NILE) will be a part of our new album Psychogenocide as guest vocals on the song entitled 'Shunq (To The Despaired…King Of Darkness)'.

This particular song is special to the band as it will mark the first extreme metal track ever to include both Arabic lyrics mixed in with English lyrics, and who better else to have come on board and collaborate on this theme with us than the legendary Karl Sanders!

The word 'Shunq' in Arabic has two meanings: to choke or to be hung by the neck. The song consists mainly of ideas and knowledge gathered from sources that speak about Lucifer and the demons that serve him. The song 'Shunq (To The Despaired…King Of Darkness)' speaks about the battle of us humans and these demons in reality, in the end Satan himself brought forth to justice."

The Psychogenocide tracklist is as follows:

'Anemic Assurgency'

'Upon An Epidemic Scheme'

'All Eyes On Them'

'Amok Doctrine'

'Psychogenocide'

'Imprint'

'??? – Shunq (To The Despaired…King Of Darkness)'

'The Taste Of Betrayal'

'Driven By Nescience'

'Nation's Plague'

Psychogenocide is scheduled for release on Spellbind Records on March 31st in the Middle East and on Lifeforce Records on April 29th in Germany, Austria, Switzerlad, and on May 2nd in the rest of Europe amd the UK. The CD cover artwork was designed by Björn Goosses of Killustrations (ABORTED, SEVERE TORTURE, ZYKLON) and is a concept, which NERVECELL has been working on for quite a while. The band is said to be "extremely proud of how it has turned out" as it "perfectly matches the aggression and musical direction of the new album."

For more info visit Nervecell.net.