Swedish death metallers DEMONICAL have issued the following official statement:

"It is with great enthusiasm we can now reveal that guitarist Johan Haglund (SPASMODIC) and drummer Ämir Batar (TORMENTION) have officially joined Demonical as full-time members making the lineup solid, determinate and ready to unleash death and decay over several continents during MMXIII and MMXIV. Choose your side!"
"It will be a true pleasure to team up with the guys in Demonical and spread their Swedish Death Metal Darkness." - Johan Haglund "I’m very excited to be the new drummer in Demonical and it will be an honor to bash some Swedish old-school death metal drums." - Ämir Batar

The new lineup is pictured below courtesy of Eva Lammi.

From left to right:

Daniel Gustavsson - guitars

Johan Haglund - guitars

Sverker Widgren - vocals

Ämir Batar - drums

Martin Schulman - bass

Demonical will release their fourth full-length album, Darkness Unbound, on September 20th via Cyclone Empire. Recorded at Necromorbus Studios in Stockholm, Darkness Unbound will be released as a limited slipcase digi-CD, standard jewelcase CD and limited gatefold-LP.

Says the band: "Darkness Unbound is clearly our most sinister, vicious and dark work up to date. We are confident that Darkness Unbound will be an important milestone not only for us as a band but also an album that will have a certain impact on the current death metal scene and especially the Swedish old-school wave."

Darkness Unbound tracklisting:

'Darkness Unbound'

'The Order'

'An Endless Celebration'

'Contempt And Conquest'

'King Of All'

'The Healing Control'

'Hellfire Empire'

'Words Are Death'

'Deathcrown'

'The Great Praise'

'World Beyond' (Kreator cover) *

'Burned Alive' (re-recording) **

* bonus track on the limited digi-CD and LP

** bonus track on the limited digi-CD

Check out studio footage below:

Demonical recently issued the following update: "We are proud to hereby announce the Darkness Unbound Tour 2013 taking place in October. Divided into two parts the crusade will tentatively hit Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic.

Support on part I will come from Swedish deathsters DAEMONICUS and Austrian black reapers GROTESKH while on part II we will be joined by our Swedish comrades SPASMODIC and German melo-masters HAILSTONE.

Full dates and details TBA during the coming months."