Guitarist Frank Harthoorn from Dutch metallers GOREFEST has issued the following update:

"Exciting times in Gorefest-land. Tue Madsen's finished mixing some of our finest songs ever, and an excellent job he did. He managed to make everything sound even heavier than we'd imagined. Which is quite a feat, actually, because boy, our imaginations can be all over the place, I'll tell ya!

Anyway, I guess it's pretty obvious we're quite pleased with the whole thing and, indeed, ourselves. Now, for some even more exciting details: the title of this Headbanger's Delight will be Rise To Ruin. Nuclear Blast will be releasing it throughout Europe on August 3rd, with a UK release following 3 days later. I have no idea why, but there you go. Details on the US release date TBA.

As with our previous CD La Muerte, Rise To Ruin will feature some wonderful artwork by british artist Rob 'Mid' Middleton.

Tracklist is as follows: 'Revolt', 'Rise To Ruin', 'The War On Stupidity', 'A Question Of Terror', 'Babylon's Whores', 'Speak When Spoken To', 'A Grim Charade', 'Murder Brigade', 'The End Of It All'.

All this excitement will culminate in an undoubtedly quivering orgasm of aural glory at a listening session which will be held at Plein 79 in Den Bosch on Wednesday, May 9th. Lots of very important press will be invited for this, so to make sure there's actually some people there, I'll put the first ten fans that drop me an email on request@gorefest.nl on the list as well. Drinks are on us!"