Norwegian extreme metallers PANTHEON I are due to embark on their 23-date European tour supporting ABSU on Friday (October 16th), in Darmstadt, Germany.

To celebrate the tour, the band - whose line up includes LIve Julianne on cello, Kvebek (DEN SAAKALDTE, ex-1349) on vocals and guitars, Sagstad (SARKOM, TROLLFEST) on guitars, TRS (1349, TYRANN, Den Saakaldte) on bass, and Mads G (THE ALLSEEING I) on drums - have released a new series of promo photos, which, whilst being tongue-in-cheek, are somewhat controversial so a couple of them are only available on the band’s website at www.pantheon-i.com.

Commenting on the photos, cellist Live said: “The last set of photos we did created a bit of fuss, and even some of the censored ones were deleted from a social networking site. I would have thought that from the expression on the faces of the male members of the band, it would have been fairly obvious that everyone was not taking the whole thing seriously, but you know how these things go! Anyway, we did some new ones for the tour, so let’s see how these go down.”

The band’s third full-length album, Worlds I Create, was released on Candlelight Records in July of this year. The band also wrote and recorded a song titled 'I’ll Come Back As Fire' especially for the soundtrack of the horror film Someone’s Knocking At The Door.

A blog has been set up by the band especially for the tour at www.pantheoni.blogg.no, where a tour diary and photos will be added throughout the three weeks, and fans are also invited to send in videos and photographs. Dates for the tour can also be found there.

Below you can see the official video for the track 'Serpent Christ', from the album Worlds I Create.