ANIMETAL USA / IMPELLITTERI guitarist Chis Impellitteri has issued the following update:

"Hello Friends,

Animetal USA will be playing our first US live concert at the Los Angeles, California Convention center held in late June and early July of 2012! We will be playing a lot of our metal /anime songs like 'Mazinger Medley', 'Gachaman', 'Ai Wo Torimodose' and 'Thesis Of A Cruel Angel', as well as the opening track for the next record titled 'Touch', which is pure addrenalin from start to finish. Mike, myself, Rudy, and Jon look forward to seeing you guys! The information for the show is available here.

Also, according to our Sony team the first Animetal USA album has officially been certified Gold! So thanks for the support friends, we greatly appreciate it! It is crazy to think we can play arena shows and sell this many records when we are doing something as weird and unique as mixing metal with anime. Very strange to me, but musically this music is really challenging and exciting to perform, especially the first song on our upcoming record titled 'Touch'. The song has about 40% of an original song we wrote titled 'The Haunting'. It sounds a bit like an excited up-tempo BLACK SABBATH! The 'Touch' guitar solo is insane to play! It reminds me of the Randy Rhoads classic solo 'Mr. Crowley', which burns in the intro and then becomes very orchestrated on the 2nd half. I definitely was listening to Randy a lot when I recorded this record... ha ha!

Mike, Rudy, and Jon are also killing it on this record. Amazing rhythm section. Tight and powerful! And, as always Mike has got walls of awesome vocals all over this record with great melody and range. The dude belongs with the THREE TENORS.

The next record which will be released towards early summer has a bit more of a commercial sound to it, with the exception of few crazy balls out metal songs like 'Touch'!

Hope you guy enjoy! It should be a lot of fun."

As previously reported, Animetal USA will release their second album, entitled Animetal USA W, on June 6th in Japan.

The tracklisting:

'Touch' (TV anime Touch OP)

'Cat's Eye' (TV anime Cat's Eye OP)

Hero Medley:

- 'Devilman no Uta' (TV anime Devilman OP)

'Let's go Rider Kick' (TV tokusatsu Kamen Rider OP)

'Tatakae! Kamen Rider V3' (TV tokusatsu Kamen Rider V3 OP)

'Himitsu Sentai Goranger' (TV tokusatsu Himitsu Sentai Goranger ED)

- 'Ultra Seven no Uta' (TV tokusatsu Ultra Seven OP)

Dragon Ball Medley:

- 'Cha-la Head-cha-la' (TV anime Dragon Ball Z 1st OP)
- 'We Gotta Power' (TV anime Dragon Ball Z 2nd OP)

'Galaxy Express 999' (movie Galaxy Express 999 theme song)

'We Are!' (TV anime One Piece 1st OP)

'Yuzurenai Negai' (TV anime Magic Knight Rayearth OP)

Girl's Anime Medley:

- 'Moonlight Densetsu' (TV anime Sailor Moon OP)
- 'Cutie Honey' (TV anime Cutie Honey OP)
- 'Attack No. 1 theme' (TV anime Attack No. 1 OP)
- 'Himitsu no Akko-chan' (TV anime Himitsu no Akko-chan OP)
- 'Mahoutsukai Sally' (TV anime Mahoutsukai Sally OP)

'Ai Oboeteimasuka/Do You Remember Love?' (movie Macross: Do You Remember Love? theme song)

JAM Project Medley:

- 'Vanguard~Max On~Skill'

'Give Lee Give Lee Rock Lee' (TV anime Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals OP)