Italian dark metal outfit GRAVEWORM are back and are set to deliver once again a melodic, mystic and dark masterpiece. The sequel to the Diabolical Figures album from 2009 will be called Fragments Of Death, and will be released on October 21st via Nuclear Blast.

The album was recorded in July 2011 at Dream Sound Studios in Munich, Germany, and mastered by Jan Vacik. The songs are about the death in it's thousand faces, which is also reflected in the album title and cover art. Musically, the album can be seen as a mixture of the best of the last four records, with some old school roots and definitive darker than its predecessors.

Fragments Of Death tracklisting:

'Insomnia'

'Only Death In Our Wake'

'Absence Of Faith'

'Living Nightmare'

'The World Will Die In Flames'

'Anxiety'

'See No Future'

'The Prophecy'

'Remembrance'

'Old Forgotten Song'

'Where Angels Do Not Fly'

Bonus track:

'Awake'

Check out the album artwork below:

Stephano Fiori commended the new album: “For me, the cover artwork reflects exactly the lyrics. The album generally deals with the topic of death. So the fragments are pieces of the puzzle of death. Each one of the songs represents a way to die. For example, song 6 is about the happenings in Japan. Other songs are about war, which sadly still exists in this world these days. We’re all influenced by all of these proceedings. Be it that you’re confronted with them yourself, you know someone who is, or you see it in the media. The angel of death on the cover is made of pieces of the puzzle, the so-called elements of death…”

Cover artist Daniel Hofer states: "When the band presented the new album’s title and the contentual orientation to me, a concrete picture came to my mind quite quickly. An angel of death, rising from one dimension and returning to his former strenght. The ´fragments' of this angel of death are both depicted as shards and pieces of a puzzle – this image can be found throughout the whole booklet. The basic idea for the cover can be transferred to the band’s musical return to their roots and can be compared to the quite well-behaved angel that could be seen on the (N)Utopia cover who returns now as a cornuted messenger of death. After Diabolical Figures, it was a very nice and productive cooperation again and I’m happy that the band agreed on me as the designer once more.”

Graveworm have released the first album trailer for Fragments Of Death. Check it out below: