GOD DETHRONED's new album, Passiondale, is currently streaming in its entirety on the band's MySpace page.

Passiondale will be released by Metal Blade Records in Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Italy on April 24th, in the rest of Europe on April 27th and in the rest of the world on April 28th.

As previously reported, Passiondale will be available as a limited double-digipak edition including a bonus CD, featuring a live recording from 2005.

Passiondale tracklisting: 'The Cross Of Sacrifice', 'Under A Darkening Sky', 'No Man’s Land', 'Poison Fog', 'Drowning In Mud', 'Passiondale', 'No Survivors', 'Behind Enemy Lines', 'Fallen Empires', 'Artifacts Of The Great War'.

Bonus disc Live in 2005: 'Nihilism', 'Boiling Blood', 'The Warcult', 'Soul Sweeper', 'The Art Of Immolation', 'Villa Vampiria', 'The Last Zip Of Spit', 'Sigma Enigma', 'The Serpent King'.

Passiondale will also be released on vinyl in a limited amount of 666 copies.

According to God Dethroned vocalist/guitarist Henri Sattler:

"It says Passendale on the street sign. The little village with its huge Tyne Cot cemetery and memorial centre. I passed it many times on the way to Isaac (Delahaye, our former guitar player) for another of our notorious drinking sessions in Ypres not far from the French border.

I got really impressed by how this town breathes World War I. The numerous cemeteries, the Menin Gate with its daily last post ceremony since 1929 with the exception of just one day during a bombardment in World War II, the buildings that have been rebuilt in their original state and definitely all the English, Irish and Scottish people that visit Ypres every weekend, probably because one of their relatives died there during the war.

During the night at the bars and pubs they tended to get really drunk and sang louder than the barman could crank up the stereo set! It’s during these times that I got inspired by the Great War and decided to write a concept album about it. Ypres and Passendale were the center of war activities during the war with around 900,000 casualties compared to 9 million worldwide. I realized how harsh it must have been there during those four years.

Passchendaele was the official name of the little village during the war, but since the English speaking armies couldn’t pronounce that, they nicknamed it to: Passiondale."