SpazioRock.it recently conducted a video interview with VIRGIN STEELE's David DeFeis, Edward Pursino and Josh Block prior to their acoustic show at Live Music Club near Milan, Italy. Check it out below.

SPV / Steamhammer will release Virgin Steele's new album, The Black Light Bacchanalia, on the following dates:

Germany / Austria / Switzerland - October 22nd

Europe - October 25th

USA / Canada - November 9th

The album will be available as limited edition digipak, standard CD, double gatefold vinyl and download.

Frontman David DeFeis reveals: “The album is called The Black Light Bacchanalia, and the following tracks will most likely end up on there:

'By The Hammer Of Zeus'

'Pagan Heart'

'The Bread Of Wickedness'

'The Orpheus Taboo'

'In A Dream Of Fire'

'Nepenthe'

'Necropolis (He Answers Them With Death)'

'To Crown Them With Halos (Parts 1 & 2)'

'The Tortures Of The Damned'

'The Black Light Bacchanalia (The Age That Is To Come)'

'Eternal Regret'

It will be a long album... close to 80 minutes. The album (to be really brief), concerns the reversal of all things. Once conquered by invading cultures, older Pagan deities become the demons of the new religion. The Black Light Bacchanalia is a reversal of the sacred sexual customs, and the final desecration of the "Goddess Principle", switching from matrilineal descent to patrilineal descent, with the rise of the idea of the Mountain-Fire God. And it also has to do with ancient fears such as the fear of the sun not rising. Lyrically it is a kind of continuation of the story I told on the last album. Musically it is quite something else...”

Stay tuned for further updates.