Dutch doom death metal legends ASPHYX have revealed the tracklisting for their new studio album, Deathhammer, due for release on February 27th, 2012 (Europe) and February 28th, 2012 (North America) via Century Media Records.

The artwork for Deathhammer, crafted by longtime partner in designs, Axel Hermann (MORGOTH, UNLEASHED, SAMAEL, GRAVE), can be seen below:

The tracklisting:

'Into The Timewastes'

'Deathhammer'

'Minefield'

'Of Days When Blades Turned Blunt'

'Der Landser'

'Reign Of The Brute'

'The Flood'

'We Doom You To Death'

'Vespa Crabro'

'As The Magma Mammoth Rises'

The album’s first promotional song, the intense album’s title track, 'Deathhammer', can be heard at this location.

The band check in with the following comment about the merciless song: “To us this song is 100% real death metal! It's heavy, aggressive and it simply can't get more in your face than this. This song is composed by just a few shredding riffs which stick in your brain like a buzz-saw, vocals so angry that it could be a declaration of war, relentlessly pounding drums and a bass that roars like a tank. We are very proud of this song since it shows our view on real death metal: how we've always seen it, how we feel it and how we want it to be! Martin already roared a clear statement in the very beginning of this song: THIS IS TRUE DEATH METAL, YOU BASTARDS! And so it is!”

Recorded at The Mörser Studio as well as at Harrow Studio with their longtime engineer Harry Wijering, Deathhammer was mixed and mastered in Sweden by Dan Swanö, who previously worked with the band on Death…The Brutal Way, as well as on the Live Death Doom release.

Prior to the upcoming album’s release date, Asphyx will still perform a very special “full album setlist” concert at this year’s Eindhoven Metal Meeting on December 16th, at the Effenaar club in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where the band will be playing their complete The Rack album for its 20th anniversary of release.

Additionally, Asphyx have already been confirmed for the 2012 editions of the ExtremeFest, July 5th to 7th in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as the coming edition of the legendary Obscene Extreme festival in Czech Republic on July 14th.

Here are all the band’s upcoming confirmed shows:

December

16 - Eindhoven Metal Meeting - Eindhoven (The Netherlands) * Special 20 years “The Rack” show!

July

5-7 - ExtremeFest Deutschland - Hünxe, Germany

5-7 - ExtremeFest Österreich - Salzburg, Austria

5-7 - ExtremeFest Schweiz - TBA, Switzerland

14 - Obscene Extreme Festival - Trutnov, Czech Republic

A live version of Asphyx' 'Death The Brutal Way', taken from the Live Death Doom DVD release is launched online for you to feel the band’s raw live-power unleashed. Check it out below: