BLIND GUARDIAN have issued the following update:

"A new year brings more new tour dates. Just added are a date on a Swedish cruise, a festival in Belgium and the return of Blind Guardian to Latin America. More dates to be added soon."

Check out the band's complete live schedule at this location.

The band previously issued the following update from Hansi Kürsch:

"Welcome to 2012, the last year we have before the impending doomsday. ;-) As, hopefully, most of you know this year is the band’s 25th anniversary and one way to celebrate this special occasion is the release of Memories Of A Time To Come in January. Leading up to the release we would like to introduce you to Guardian TV. You can see the first episode below where we field questions submitted by our fans on Facebook .

This is just the beginning, in the near future there will be more Guardian TV as well as some treats from super secret Blind Guardian vault."

Memories Of A Time To Come, the ultimate collection of Blind Guardian music from 1987 to 2011, will be released on January 20, 2012 via Virgin/EMI. It will be available as a double CD, 3 CD deluxe limited edition including the legendary Lucifer’s Heritage demos and as download.

Memories Of A Time To Come tracklisting:

CD 1:

'Imaginations from the Other Side' (7:11) *

'Nightfall' (5:34) *

'Ride into Obsession' (4:46) *

'Somewhere Far Beyond' (7:32) *

'Majesty' (7:29) *

'Traveler in Time' (6:01) *

'Follow the Blind' (7:11) *

'The Last Candle' (6:03) *

CD 2:

'Sacred Worlds' (9:17)

'This Will Never End' (5:07) *

'Valhalla' (5:13) **

'Bright Eyes' (5:15) *

'Mirror Mirror' (5:09) *

'The Bard’s Song (In the Forest)' (3:26) *

'The Bard’s Song (The Hobbit)' (3:41) **

'And Then There Was Silence' (14:06) **

CD 3: (only available with the deluxe limited edition)

'Brian' ***

'Halloween (The Wizard’s Crown)' ***

'Lucifer’s Heritage' ***

'Symphonies of Doom' ***

'Dead of the Night' ***

'Majesty'

'Trial by the Archon'

'Battalions of Fear'

'Run for the Night'

'Lost in the Twilight Hall'

'Tommyknockers'

'Ashes to Ashes'

'Time What is Time'

'A Past and Future Secret'

'The Script for My Requiem'

* Remixed 2011

** Re-recorded 2011

*** Re-worked 2011