Holland's FaceCulture recently caught up with Kamelot guitarist Thomas Youngblood during the press junket for the band's new album, Haven. During the in depth interview found below, he discusses the band's previous album, Silverthorn, the songwriting process, have a dystopic view, vocalist Tommy Karevik, the origin of the new album's title, band chemistry on tour, and much more.

Kamelot recently released the music video for the track "Insomnia". Guitarist Thomas Youngblood states:

“Kamelot returns with a sci-fi inspired thriller for the song "Insomnia". In a post apocalyptic world, surveillance is everywhere and over population is rampant. Deep in the underground of the Wasteland Monarchy lies the Insomnia Division, the housing for some of the chosen ones, only allowed to live in an Insomniatic state!“

"Insomnia" from Kamelot's new album, ‎Haven, is now available as instant gratification song with any pre-order. Fans can pre-order the record via iTunes here .

Kamelot recently checked in with good news for their North American fanbase:

"We are really pleased to announce that we'll return to the US and Canada this fall in support of new album, Haven, coming out May 4th. This will be our biggest North American headliner tour to date, make sure to catch Kamelot near you! Dates for the second leg will start mid-November and can be found here ."

The Haven World Tour is on, stay tuned for more dates to come!"

Kamelot have posted a teaser for Haven, featuring a snippet of the new song "Under Grey Skies". The song features guest vocalist Charlotte Wessels from Delain. Check it out below:

Haven will be released worldwide (excl. Asia) on Napalm Records/Universal and Napalm Records/ADA/Warner as an exclusive licensing deal through the band's Kamelot Music LLC on May 5th (North America) and May 8th (Europe and rest of the world) and will showcase Kamelot at their finest.

Haven is available to pre-order in multiple exclusive and limited bundle packages at the Napalm Records American and European Webstore now. A new lyric video for the album track “Veil Of Elysium” can be seen below:

Tracklisting:

“Fallen Star”
“Insomnia”
“Citizen Zero”
“Veil Of Elysium”
“Under Grey Skies”
“My Therapy”
“Ecclesia”
“End Of Innocence”
“Beautiful Apocalypse”
“Liar Liar (Wasteland Monarchy)”
“Here's To The Fall”
“Revolution”
“Haven”

Studio preview:

Haven audio teaser: