German thrash legends DESTRUCTION have checked in with the following update:

"All Spiritual Genocide release dates outside of Europe will be announced asap. USA/Canada release will be after X-mas, in January. North American version will have 5 bonus tracks!

More news soon, sorry about the delay but it s the local markets that Dictate the release policy! Thrash 'til death!"

Spiritual Genocide tracklisting:

'Exordium'

'Cyanide'

'Spiritual Genocide'

'Renegades'

'City Of Doom'

'No Signs Of Repentance'

'To Dust You Will Decay'

'Legacy Of The Past' (featuring Gerre from TANKARD and Tom Angelripper from SODOM)

'Carnivore'

'Riot Squad'

'Under Violent Sledge'

Limited Edition Digipack Bonus Tracks:

'Princess Of The Night'

'Carnivore' (featuring former members: guitarist Harry Wilkens and drummer Oliver 'Olli' Kaiser)

Check out BW&BK;'s new interview with destruction frontman Schmier at this location. An excerpt is available below:

Schmier: “There are a lot of great thrash albums out at the moment, which is fantastic for the scene,” says Schmier. “Of course I listened to the new Kreator and Testament albums because I was very curious to hear them. Those guys are old friends and touring partners, so it’s good motivation factor for any of us if the other bands put out a great album. It inspires us. I guess we push each other in a way.”

“We wanted to write a fast and furious record that still had some diversity and groove. Hopefully we managed to do that. The album starts off at high speed, and with Mr. Vaaver (Wawrzyniec Dramowicz) on drums it’s a pleasure to play fast again. He can pull it off and he loves doing it.”

Vaaver has been with the band since 2010, a new face in a long line of Destruction drummers.

“It was better to work with him now that we’ve played more than 200 shows together,” Schmier admits. “It was much easier to write the record with him. The last album (Day Of Reckoning) was great because we knew he could do it, but he didn’t have much time to prepare. We’re much tighter now, so when we wrote the new record we knew what we could accomplish as a group because we knew what he was capable of as a drummer.”

Schmier and guitarist Mike Sifringer have been a songwriting team since 1982, minus a decade for stewing over and finally getting over personal and/or creative differences. Spiritual Genocide finds the duo in a good place both as collaborators and as friends.

“We always try to make the songwriting process better, easier and more comfortable. For the last two albums we’ve recorded our ideas right away, and that really helped to develop even more ideas along the way. In the past we didn’t record stuff, we just kept stuff in mind and tried to remember what we’d come up with. With all the new technology it’s a lot easier to record songs in a good way so that really helps, especially because we’ve been touring a lot. We’re able to nail the songs down quicker and make the arrangements tighter. The writing process used to be a long bubblegum-ish process, but having all this experience has made it much more comfortable. We enjoyed working together on this record.”