Swedish metallers STEELWING will release their second full-length album, Zone Of Alienation, in a limited edition digi-pak with bonus track, via Noiseart Records on the following dates:

January

6 - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, France
10 - Sweden
27 - Rest of Europe

The Zone Of Alienation album artwork can be seen below:

Zone Of Alienation tracklisting:

'2097 A.D.'

'Solar Wind Riders'

'Full Speed Ahead!'

'Breathless'

'Tokkotai (Wind of Fury)'

'Zone of Alienation'

'The Running Man'

'They Came From The Skies'

'Lunacy Rising'

Says the band: "The recording sessions at Leon Music with Rikard Löfgren were a blast! Everyone worked really hard to pull it off with a tight deadline but Rikard really understood the Steelwing sound and used his ear for melodies to bring out the best in our songwriting. The results speak for themselves and the progression of the band since our debut is obvious.

Zone Of Alienation is a semi-concept album set in a not-so-distant future where the remnants of mankind have fled into outer space. Following the eradication of the Earth after religious wars have gone nuclear, they set out to find new worlds to colonize. The cover art was done by Dimitar Nikolov and it is an eerie depiction of heavily armed space pioneers setting foot on a hostile planet."

SteelWing will embark on a tour in January with their fellow countrymen GRAND MAGUS and BULLET, more tou rdates and festival appearances 2012 will follow.

The band state: "We are absolutely stoked to hit the road again after the recordings of our second album, and we couldn't ask for a better line-up for this tour - it's gonna be a true heavy metal assault on the senses! We will of course play some of the classics from our first album but we'll also play a couple of new songs for all you metal marauders to raise your fists and scream along to!"

Tour dates:

January (with GRAND MAGUS, BULLET, SKULL FIST, VANDERBUYST)

5 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
6 - Stuttgart, Germany - Universum
7 - Aarau, Switzerland - Kiff
8 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebob
9 - Paris, France - Divan du monde
10 - Darmstadt, Germany - Steinbruch Theater
11 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
12 - Berlin, Germany - K17
13 - Andernach, Germany - Juz
14 - Essen, Germany - Turock
15 - Tilburg, The Netherlands - 013