German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have revealed the second of three special guest musician appearances on the band's new album, Icarus. RETALIATION/FINAL BREATH guitarist Dennis Schneider guests on 'The Fall Of Man' and 'Perpetuated'.

Schneider comments: “I've been hooked on DEW-SCENTED ever since the release of ‘Impact’ back in 2003. When they asked me to do a few guest leads on the new album I didn't hesitate one second. I'm really happy with the way it turned out – Icarus will rip your head off!”

Says the band: "Dennis Schneider is an incredibly talented guitarist that has jammed with Dew-Scented in the rehearsal room before. In the production period for Icarus the idea came up to have him be part of the actual album as well by adding some skillful lead guitar parts. Dennis appears with some furious shred on the songs 'The Fall Of Man' and 'Perpetuated'.

Dew-Scented recently released a stream of the new song, 'Sworn To Obey', from Icarus, which you can hear below:

Vocalist Leif Jensen comments: “’Sworn To Obey’ was an obvious candidate to open up the new album and it was actually one of the very last tracks we finished in the songwriting sessions for Icarus. Already when working on the final arrangements for the song, we knew it would become an extremely heavy and catchy piece! Kicking in after the anthem-like ‘Hubris’ instrumental intro, ‘Sworn To Obey’ is a sweet punch in the gut in true Dew-Scented style and smoothly helps to set the album’s pace in the right fashion! I simply love the lead-guitar part and the crazy bass-lines afterwards. I’m sure this one will be real fun to play live…”

Icarus will feature the following tracklisting:

'Hubris' (Intro)

'Sworn To Obey'

'Thrown To The Lions'

'Storm Within'

'Gleaming Like Silver' (featuring Sacrifice frontman Rob Urbinati)

'By My Own Hand'

'The Fall Of Man' (featuring Retaliation/Final Breath guitarist Dennis Schneider)

'Reawakening'

'Destined To Collapse'

'A Final Procession'

'Perpetuated'

In order to allow a closer look at the studio work for Icarus and also to showcase some of the new bits of music, a second online teaser for the album was now launched. Check it out both teasers below:

Icarus was recorded at Soundlodge Studio with Jörg Uken (NIGHTFALL, SUICIDAL ANGELS, GOD DETHRONED) as producer and will be released on July 27th in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, on July 30th in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records as well as on July 31st in North America via Prosthetic Records.

Dew-Scented recently announced their brand new lineup. As presented in the promotional photo below, by Ester Segarra), the band's brand new 2012 lineup is as follows (pictured from left to right):

Rory Hansen – Guitars

Marvin Vriesde – Guitars

Leif Jensen – Vocals

Joost van der Graaf – Bass

Koen Herfst – Drums

The new Dew-Scented lineup will make their debut shows on July 20th at Metalsplash Festival and July 21st at Queens Of Metal Festival in order to also present the Icarus material live on stage in perfect timing for the album's release.

This summer, the group will play several festivals and support Six Feet Under on a short European tour; dates appear below.

July

19 - Steinbach-Langenbach, Germany - Queens of Metal Festival
20 - Rotenburg/Wümme, Germany - Metalsplash Festival V

August

11 - Leewaurden, Netherlands - Into The Grave Festival
12 - Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
13 - München, Germany – Backstage
14 - Pratteln, Switzerland – Galerie
15 - Essen, Germany – Turock
16 - Kerkrade, Netherlands – Rock Temple
18 - Hamburg, Germany – Grünspan