Italian metallers ELVENKING have announce three exclusive UK shows with country-mates SECRET SPHERE.

The dates include:

January

6 - Manchester, England – Venue TBC
7 - London, England - The Bridghouse2 - Canning Town (The Arctic Festival)
8 - Birmingham, England – Venue TBC

Elvenking previously issued the following update:

“Hello everybody! We want to give you a quick update from the EK camp before all of you is going to leave for the long-awaited holidays, to the seaside or wherever you are going to have some great relax. We have still a couple more live shows to do and then we can have a little rest as well and go on holiday too! So come and visit us for the last shows because it will the last time to see Elvenking on the Tides over Europe set.

But if we will be silent and far from the stages until this fall it does not mean things are standing still for the band. At the moment we are building up a new rehearsal room, where we’ll soon start working on the new album material. A lot of new songs and ideas have been written and we will put something together soon and see what is going to happen. But it is too soon to talk about this. We will try to keep you informed on the progress.

Even if we will keep on working on the new album songs for all the Fall it does not mean we will be far from the stages. And what a great fall we will have! If some of you remember correctly it is exactly 10 years since the release of our debut album Heathenreel (yes, it was 2001, gosh!) so we want to celebrate this birthday in a proper way! So we will be on stage in fall 2011 for a number of gigs with a lot of songs from the famous first album plus another choice of songs from the other albums rarely or never played live! It will be something special you do not have to miss!!! It’s 10 years in Heathenry!

Until then, have a great summer and may the winds blow fair at your backs!”

Elvenking released their latest album Red Silent in Japan on June 22nd.

Tracklisting for the Japanese release is as follows:

‘Dawnmelting’

‘The Last Hour’

‘Silence De Mort’

‘The Cabal’

‘Runereader’

‘Possession’

‘Your Heroes Are Dead’

‘Those days’

‘This Nightmare Will Never End’

‘What’s Left Of Me’

‘The Play Of The Leaves’

‘Jigsaw Puzzle 2010’

‘Another Awful Hobs Tale’

‘From Blood To Stone’

‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’

The video for the track 'Your Heroes Are Dead' can be seen below. The video was directed by Andrea Guarascio and contains animations by Giulio Serafini and his team.