German thrashers DEW-SCENTED have revealed the third of three special guest musician appearances on the band's new album, Icarus: Dan Swanö (ex-EDGE OF SANITY, BLOODBATH, NIGHTINGALE) on guest vocals on 'Reawakening'.

Swanö comments: "After touring with them, mixing with them, it was about goddamned time that I also sang a nice tune with them. The interplay between mine and Leif’s vocals worked out perfectly. Like a duet between Satan and the Devil"

The band add: "Dan has been a longterm buddy and true inspiration for Dew-Scented and it’s almost like a closing circle to have him involved with “Icarus”. Dan and Leif first met him on the debut Edge Of Sanity tour with Assorted Heap in 1992 and then Dew-Scented toured with Edge Of Sanity in 1996, where funnily enough Marvin also already appeared as the band’s lead guitarist. Consequently, Dan went on to help Dew-Scented by mixing 1998’s Innoscent album and Leif has ever since always wanted to do vocal or production work with Dan on some level again. Having Dan do his trademark deep grunts as duet vocals with Leif on the song 'Reawakening' is a big honour and personal satisfaction for us."

Dew-Scented recently released a stream of the new song, 'Sworn To Obey', from Icarus, which you can hear below:

Vocalist Leif Jensen comments: “’Sworn To Obey’ was an obvious candidate to open up the new album and it was actually one of the very last tracks we finished in the songwriting sessions for Icarus. Already when working on the final arrangements for the song, we knew it would become an extremely heavy and catchy piece! Kicking in after the anthem-like ‘Hubris’ instrumental intro, ‘Sworn To Obey’ is a sweet punch in the gut in true Dew-Scented style and smoothly helps to set the album’s pace in the right fashion! I simply love the lead-guitar part and the crazy bass-lines afterwards. I’m sure this one will be real fun to play live…”

Icarus will feature the following tracklisting:

'Hubris' (Intro)

'Sworn To Obey'

'Thrown To The Lions'

'Storm Within'

'Gleaming Like Silver' (featuring SACRIFICE frontman Rob Urbinati)

'By My Own Hand'

'The Fall Of Man' (featuring RETALIATION/FINAL BREATH guitarist Dennis Schneider)

'Reawakening' (featuring Dan Swanö)

'Destined To Collapse'

'A Final Procession'

'Perpetuated'

In order to allow a closer look at the studio work for Icarus and also to showcase some of the new bits of music, a second online teaser for the album was now launched. Check it out both teasers below:

Icarus was recorded at Soundlodge Studio with Jörg Uken (NIGHTFALL, SUICIDAL ANGELS, GOD DETHRONED) as producer and will be released on July 27th in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, on July 30th in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records as well as on July 31st in North America via Prosthetic Records.

Dew-Scented recently announced their brand new lineup. As presented in the promotional photo below, by Ester Segarra), the band's brand new 2012 lineup is as follows (pictured from left to right):

Rory Hansen – Guitars

Marvin Vriesde – Guitars

Leif Jensen – Vocals

Joost van der Graaf – Bass

Koen Herfst – Drums

The new Dew-Scented lineup will make their debut shows on July 20th at Metalsplash Festival and July 21st at Queens Of Metal Festival in order to also present the Icarus material live on stage in perfect timing for the album's release.

This summer, the group will play several festivals and support Six Feet Under on a short European tour; dates appear below.

July

19 - Steinbach-Langenbach, Germany - Queens of Metal Festival
20 - Rotenburg/Wümme, Germany - Metalsplash Festival V

August

11 - Leewaurden, Netherlands - Into The Grave Festival
12 - Berlin, Germany - Postbahnhof
13 - München, Germany – Backstage
14 - Pratteln, Switzerland – Galerie
15 - Essen, Germany – Turock
16 - Kerkrade, Netherlands – Rock Temple
18 - Hamburg, Germany – Grünspan