On June 17, LEGION OF THE DAMNED startet their first tour in South America with playing shows in Brasil, Argentina and Chile entitled „South American Werewolves”! It was a major experience and big challengefor the band, but the resonance was amazing. Now, after this succesful South American tour, LEGION OF THE DAMNED are back on european ground, and excited to promote and release their upcoming album „Ravenous Plague„. The band would finally like to reveal the songtitles of their already 6th silvered destroyer, to be released in january 2014, once again produced by no one less than Andy Classen at the Stage One Studio in Germany:
01 Intro: The apocalyptic Surge (By Jo Blankenburg)
02 Howling for armageddon
03 Black Baron
04 Mountain wolves under a crescent moon
05 Ravenous Abominations
06 Doom Priest
07 Summon all hate
08 Morbid Death
09 Bury me in a nameless grave
10 Armalite Assassin
11 Strike of the apocalypse
„Ravenous Plague” will be LEGION OF THE DAMNED‘s first album with proclaimed new guitarplayer Twan van Geel,wich the band succesfully recruited 2 years ago after former guitarplayer Richard Ebisch left the band. „Ravenous Plague” will be released through Napalm Records and will be their most diverse and melodic album to date.
The band is also proud with having Jo Blankenburg exclusively working on their new album´s intro. Jo Blankenburg`s tracks have been used in advertising campaigns of major hollywood feature films such as The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, X-men, Lincoln, Hitchcock, The wolfman and How to Train your dragon. Jo also won the MTV Europe songwriting contest.
The band will only do a handful of selected festivals in 2013, where they will perform with second livesession guitar player Hein Willekens. The band will play 1-2 new songs at Wacken Open Air, Party San Open Air and MetalDays.
After some setbacks faced in 2012, for example Richard leaving the band and ex former bassplayer Twan Fleuren committing suicide, LEGION OF THE DAMNED will be back, stronger than ever!!