DEVILDRIVER bassist Jon Miller has issued the following update:

"To all of the DevilDriver fans who will be attending the remaining dates of our current fall/winter European run, it is to my dismay that I will not be able to finish the tour due to a family emergency.

I would like to thank our tour manager, Bubble, for filling in for me. This is very disheartening to me but sometimes family must take precedent over anything else in life. I will miss being out with my best buds touring Europe and hope to return as soon as possible."

Stay tuned for further updates.

The Santa Barbara-based metal quintet recently announced the release of their forthcoming fifth album, Beast.

Beast was produced by Mark Lewis (ALL THAT REMAINS, TRIVIUM, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER) and will hit retail via longtime label Roadrunner Records on February 22nd, 2011.

While many bands in the modern era are already withering away by their second album and have shriveled up and died by their third, DevilDriver have proven to mutate, growing stronger, deadlier and more immortal with each successive release. Beast, which follows 2009's Pray For Villains, finds the band refusing to compromise in their mission to deliver music that will make you feel as though you were slapped upside the head with a baseball bat.

The band recorded 14 songs during the Beast sessions, with 11 or 12 tracks expected to make the final cut. Some song titles are as follows: 'Dead To Rights', 'Hardened', 'Bring The Fight (To The Floor)', 'Shitlist', 'Talons Out (Teeth Sharpened)', 'Blur', 'You Make Me Sick (Sacred Secrets)', 'The Blame Game', 'Coldblooded', 'Crowns Of Creation' and 'Lend Myself To The Night'.

Frontman Dez Fafara himself dubbed the record their most "extreme" to date and even compared Beast to "driving a Buick Skylark 200 miles an hour straight to Vegas".

DevilDriver have posted the latest in their ongoing You May Know Us From The Stage 25-Part DVD Series. Check out Chapter 15, entitled The End Of The Beginning, is available below.

Devildriver European tour dates are as follows:

November

18 - Aarhus, Denmark - Train
19 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix
20 - Nancy, France - Metal Ride Festival, L’autre Canal
21 - Vannes, France - L’echonova
23 - Bremen, Germany - Meier Music Hall
24 - Koln, Germany - Essinfabrik
25 - Augsburg, Germany - Kantine
27 - Pinarella di Cervia, Italy - Rock Planet
28 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Substage
29 - Zurich, Switzerland - Dynamo, Jugendkulturhaus
30 - Vienna, Austria - Arena

December

1 - Berlin, Germany - SO36
2 - Leipzig, Germany - Werk 2
3 - Bremen, Germany - Tivoli
4 - Sneek, Netherlands – Bolwerk