For Italy, Austria And Switzerland In Late October

German thrashers DEW-SCENTED will embark on an Italian tour in late October, adding shows in Austria and Switzerland to it.

"We are finally able to announce a mini tour through Italy, Switzerland, Austria and a final show in Germany to happen by the end of October! The Italian gigs took long in the making and will see us hook up with bands like HYADES, METHEDRAS, SLAUGHTER DENIAL, GHOST RIDER and SNP."

The Invocation Tour 2010 dates include:

October

22 - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - Bikini Test (+ Hyades)
23 - Lu Monferrato / Alessandria, Italy - Mephisto Rock Cafè (+ Hyades, Methedras)
24 - Legnano / Milano, Italy - Land Of Live (+ Hyades, Ghostrider, Methedras)
25 - Vicenza, Italy - Jack Hole Club (+ Slaughter Denial)
26 - Genzano / Roma, Italy - Palarockness (+ Slaughter Denial)
27 - Lucera / Foggia, Italy - Masseria Sant'Agapito (+ Slaughter Denial)
28 - Sondrio, Italy - Auditorium Policampus (+ Slaughter Denial, SNP)
29 - Wien, Austria - Escape Metalcorner (+ Demolition, Harmanic
31 - Hückelhoven-Hilfarth / Aachen, Germany - Halloween Smash Fest

"We are seriously looking forward to these shows, as they mark the first time in long years for us to properly spend some time in thrashin' Italy as well as Austria. Please spread the word and help us promote the gigs! Thanks and see you all soon!"

As previously reported, Dew-Scented recently announced the following dates with AS I LAY DYING, HEAVEN SHALL BURN and SUICIDE SILENCE:

November

7 - Nürnberg, Germany - Löwensaal
11 - München, Germany - Tonhalle
12 - Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
13 - Stuttgart, Germany - Longhorn LKA
14 - Münster, Germany - Skaters Palace
15 - Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
22 - Hamburg, Germany - Grosse Freiheit
23 - Leipzig, Germany - Werk 2

Dew-Scented previously issued the following update:

"We are please to be able to announce that Invocation will be receiving a domestic release in Japan on September 15th, at last! The album will be coming out via the good people at Spiritual Beast and you can find more details about the release and the label here: Spiritual-Beast.com , Myspace.com/SpiritualBeast .

We are super happy to have found a new partner for our album/s in Japan and will certainly try to return for a third touring visit of the country at some point sooner or later, after we haven’t played there since 2005!

The Japanese release of Invocation will come with an alternate colouring of the cover artwork (sort of the ‘post-apocalypse version’…) and include four (!) additional bonus tracks.

The complete tracklisting of the release is as follows:

'Downfall'

'Arise From Decay'

'The Invocation'

'Have No Mercy On Us'

'Artificial Life'

'Condemnation'

'Totem'

'Torn To Shreds'

'Revel In Contempt'

'A Critical Mass'

'Global Hysteria'

'Slaves Of Consent'

Bonus Tracks:

'Recall The Pain'

'The Death Of Common Sense'

'Slaughterhouse'

'Superstar Destroyer'

The bonus tracks are the own songs 'Recall The Pain' (Instrumental) and 'The Death Of Common Sense' as well as 2 cover versions that we also recorded during the main album session. 'Slaughterhouse' by US-power-thrashers POWERMAD and then the track 'Superstar Destroyer' by GENOCIDE SUPERSTARS from Sweden.

In other news, we have just finalized all extra work (liner notes, layouts, etc.) for the back-catalogue album re-releases that will be available in the coming weeks (more news and exact details soon!) and have finally also received the last details about the Italian tour for the end of October. Look out for an announcement of the dates next week!

Keep it heavy!"

Metal Mind Productions recently reported:

Perseverance and dedication are the two qualities that have made German thrash metal band Dew-Scented one of the pre-eminent names on the thrash metal scene. After the release of one demo tape, Steamhammer/SPV released in 1996 their debut album Immortelle. The band were still in a primitive form at this time, but quickly progressed and showed enough drive to earn the attention of Grind Syndicate Media/Nuclear Blast, who released the two follow-up albums Innoscent (1998) and Ill-Natured (1999).

Although heavy music had a resurgence at the end of the ‘90s, it was generally other forms of music that quickly dominated, such as melodic death metal, black metal and power metal. Despite that, Dew-Scented never wavered in their unrelenting march forward. The band kept a purity to their music that earned them enthusiastic fans around the world, allowing Dew-Scented to visit Japan for the first time, in addition to numerous live-shows and tours of Europe with the likes of MORBID ANGEL, EDGE OF SANITY, OVERKILL, SIX FEET UNDER, DEICIDE, ARCH ENEMY, AMON AMARTH, IMMORTAL and DEATH. By this time, Nuclear Blast had noticed the bands’ upward momentum and brought the quintet to their mother label, releasing Inwards in 2002.

The band toured Europe several times with bands like CANNIBAL CORPSE and NO RETURN and also went to North America for the first time. Barely stopping to catch a breath, 2003 saw the release of Impact. In 2005 they released Issue VI.

Armed with a well-honed line-up, the group hit the world again, first touring Japan, then Europe supporting NEVERMORE, and finally a 4-week tour across the States with VADER and DECAPITATED.

Summer 2006 saw the band spending time on songwriting for what would be the band’s next record, Incinerate, released in early 2007. Three separate European tours followed in close succession, and after much consideration, the band decided to make some significant line-up changes. Vocalist Leif Jensen and bassist Alexander Pahl brought in new drummer Marc-Andree Dieken, and a new guitar team in Michael Borchers and Martin Walczak. The new line-up kept in closed-door rehearsals for some time until they felt ready to tackle the stage. Shows throughout Europe followed, with a response that suggested that the band were in top shape. Once that was completed, the band took time to write songs for their new album – Invocation – which was finally released in 2010.

Metal Mind Productions is proud to present the exclusive reissues of the band's seven previous studio albums, originally released between 1996 and 2007.

Leif Jensen says: “We have been happy to co-operate and fully participate in this re-releases project by assembling several bonus tracks (all corresponding songs for each recording session!) as well as finalizing upgraded layouts and lengthy liner-notes for the following releases:

Immortelle + 6 bonus tracks

Ill-Natured and Innoscent (both albums on one CD)

Inwards + 1 bonus track

Impact + 4 bonus tracks

Issue VI + 2 bonus tracks and 1 bonus video clip enhancement

Incinerate + 3 bonus tracks and 1 bonus video clip enhancement

All albums will come out as 6-panel digipak and in a special 2,000 numbered copies. And yeah, you read it right....even Immortelle will be reissued! That's the very first Dew-Scented album that originally came out on SteamHammer/SPV in 1996 and that has been out of print for several years already... and since the band got the rights back some while ago, we thought why not add it to these re-issues!? The debut's re-release will include the full Symbolization demo tape as bonus and some alternate artwork design. Pretty cool stuff....”

The release date has been set for October 11th in Europe and December 7th in North America (via MVD).

Immortelle tracklist:

'In Flames'

'Silenced'

'Black Is The Day'

'Thirst For Sun'

'Unending'

'Afterlife / Afterlove'

'...Yonder'

'Beloved Elysium'

'For You And Forever'

'Poets Of Dirt'

'Native Soil Venus'

'Theory Of Harmony'

Bonus Tracks:

'Poets Of Dirt' (Demo)

'Black Is The Day' (Demo)

'Immortelle' (Demo)

'Unending' (Demo)

'Native Soil Venus' (Demo)

'Beloved Elysium' (Demo)

ll-Natured and Innoscent tracklists:

'Embraced By Sin'

'This Grace'

'Simplicity In Chaos'

'Apocalypse Inside'

'Defiance'

'Wounds Of Eternity'

'Idolized'

'Skybound'

'The Endless'

'ShatteredInsanity'

'Bereaved'

'Burn With Me'

'Starspangled'

'The Sicker Things'

'Everred'

'The Grapes Of Wrath'

'Aentity'

'Underneath'

'Fatal If Swallowed'

Inwards tracklist:

'Bitter Conflict'

'Unconditional'

'Life Ending Path'

'Inwards'

'Blueprints Of Hate'

'Locked In Motion'

'Degeneration'

'Terminal Mindstrip'

'Feeling Not'

'Reprisal'

Bonus track:

'War Ensemble'

Impact tracklist:

'Acts Of Rage'

'New Found Pain'

'Destination Hell'

'Soul Poison'

'Cities Of The Dead'

'Down My Neck'

'One By One'

'Agony Designed'

'Slaughtervain'

'Flesh Reborn'

'18 Hours'

Bonus tracks:

'Force-Fed [The Bleeding Scheme]'

'Skybound'

'Metal Militia'

'Hobbit Motherfuckers'

Issue VI tracklist:

'Processing Life'

'Rituals Of Time'

'Turn To Ash'

'Ruins Of Hope'

'Out Of The Self'

'The Prison Of Reason'

'Bled Dry'

'In Defeat'

'Never To Return'

'Vortex'

'Conceptual End'

'Evil Dead'

Bonus tracks:

'Full-Blown Revenge'

'The Torrent'

'Turn To Ash' (Video Clip)

Incinerate tracklist:

'Exordium' [Intro]

'Vanish Away'

'Final Warning'

'That’s Why I Despise You'

'The Fraud'

'Into The Arms Of Misery'

'Perdition For All'

'Now Or Never'

'Aftermath'

'Everything Undone'

'Contraddictions'

'Retain The Scars'

'Exitus' [Outro]

Bonus tracks:

'Let It Die'

'In Flames'

'Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell'

'That's Why I Despise You' (Video Clip)