Danish thrash metal veterans ARTILLERY will release their new album, “Legions”, in Europe on November 22 via Metal Blade Records,” according to Blabbermouth. Confirmed song titles include: “Chill My Bones,” “God Feather,” “Legions,” “Wardrum Heartbeat,” “Global Flatline” and “Anno Requiem.” The digipack version of the album will include two bonus tracks: re-recorded versions of songs that originally appeared on ARTILLERY’s 1985 debut, Fear Of Tomorrow.
In a recent interview with StageReport.ro, ARTILLERY guitarist Michael Stützer stated about the upcoming album: “I personally think it’s the best production we ever had on a ARTILLERY album. It’s very raw and heavy.” He continued: “Our new drummer, Josua [Madsen] and new vocalist, Michael [Bastholm Dahl], really deliver the goods on this album, Josua is an amazing drummer and real nice guy and Michael is the singer in ARTILLERY who is the closest ever to [original ARTLLERY vocalist] Flemming Ronsdorf beside putting a lot of new elements in the band because of his vocal range. He is also writing some great lyrics. So this band is a very complete unit.”
Regarding what qualities they were looking for in a singer following last year’s departure of Søren Adamsen, Michael said: “You will never hear ARTILLERY with a growler or a pop singer, but sung vocals with melody and rawness at the same time. Actually, we headhunted Michael from a cover band who played MERCYFUL FATE / KING DIAMOND covers, so we knew he could sing the old ARTILLERY songs very good.”