Virginia-based melodic tech-death metal act ARSIS recently announced Unwelcome as the title of their upcoming fifth full-length album. The follow-up to their 2010 release, Starve For The Devil, will be released on April 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast. The album artwork has been revealed, and can be seen below:

Unwelcome will include the following tracklisting:

'Unwelcome'

'Carve My Cross'

'Handbook For The Recently Deceased'

'Choking On Sand'

'Let Me Be The One'

'Sunglasses At Night'

'Martyred Or Mourning'

'No One Lies To The Dead'

'I Share In Shame'

'Scornstar'

"So, we've had Unwelcome finished for quite some time now and we are happy to finally be able to share the finished product with everyone,” commented founder and lead guitarist/vocalist James Malone. “As a band/musician, it's sometimes difficult to separate yourself from your work and visualize how others are going to interpret your work. In other words, it's sometimes hard to know whether or not your ideas are relevant to anyone but yourself. With Unwelcome, we certainly put all of our everything into the writing and recording and stopped paying attention to what's trendy or what we think might appeal to a larger audience. In doing so, I feel we have created one of the most sincere Arsis albums and perhaps one of the most relevant."

Unwelcome was tracked at Audiohammer Studios in FL with producer Mark Lewis (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, WHITECHAPEL, DEVILDRIVER, DEICIDE, SIX FEET UNDER).

Fans can hear the debut of new guitarist Brandon Ellis and drummer/longtime session member Shawn Priest on the SCION A/V Leper’s Caress EP, which can be downloaded for free here.

The video clip for the song 'Carve My Cross', taken from the same EP, can be viewed below:

Arsis dates with Hypocrisy, Krisiun and Aborted include:

May

1 - The Gramercy - New York, NY *
2 - Palace - Stafford, CT *
3 - Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC *
4 - WreckRoom - Toronto, ON *
5 - The Foundry - Cleveland, OH *
6 - Reggie’s - Chicago, IL *
7 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN *
8 - The Zoo - Winnipeg, MB *
9 - The Exchange - Regina, SK *
10 - Pawn Shop - Edmonton, AB *
11 - Republik - Calgary, AB *
13 - Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC *
14 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA **
16 - Oakland Metro - Oakland, CA **
17 - The Vex - Los Angeles, CA **
18 - Joe’s Grotto - Tempe, AZ **
20 - Trees - Dallas, TX **
21 - Korova - San Antonio, TX **

* with STARKILL

** with AUTUMN’S END

Arsis is:

James Malone - Guitars/Vocals

Noah Martin - Bass

Shawn Priest - Drums

Brandon Ellis - Guitar

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