DEW-SCENTED

Greetings Thrashers!

As you will have already noticed by now, things are rather quiet for DEW-SCENTED in the public eye. However, things are actually turbulent and challenging behind closed doors, so we wanted to give you a brief update with what’s going on…

New studio album:
Earlier this year we had decided to stop playing shows (apart from a handful of pre-scheduled summer festivals) until at least spring 2012 in order to re-group and to prepare a next studio album recording session. In fact, that’s what is mainly keeping us busy right now. We are making good progress and are already up to song idea number 8. Some truly killer stuff coming up and quite some surprises along the way too. If all stays according to our masterplan, we would have a new release available by mid of next year!

Live shows:
We are soon to announce our next live dates, starting out April 2012! The first confirmed gig has already come in: We are playing at the comeback edition of the “Queens Of Metal” open air festival, taking place July 19 – 21, 2012 in Steinbach-Langenbach (nearby Suhl), Germany. Other bands already confirmed to appear are Exodus, Powerwolf, Vader, Milking The Goatmachine, Dark Age, Criminal and many more. Check out further details here.

South American Invocation:
At long last, the “Invocation” album will be officially and domestically released in South America in the coming weeks. More details will be announced soon, but we are happy to have finally found good partners down there, also for future releases.

Wacken live compilation:
We are pleased to mention that DEW-SCENTED are part of the “Live At Wacken Open Air 2010” 2-CD compilation album, recently released via Golden Core / ZYX. We’ve got 100% live-versions of the two (!) songs “Arise From Decay” and “Never To Return” from our powerful 2010 Wacken show featured on there alongside bands like Arch Enemy, Anvil, Fear Factory, Unleashed, Lock Up, Orphaned Land, UDO, Voivod, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Rotting Christ and many more. Check out more details here.

Necrodeath guest appearance:
DEW-SCENTED’s Leif Jensen is happy to announce that he is featured with some guest vocals on the upcoming “Idiosyncrasy” (Could have been a D-S album title, damn…haha!) album by Italian blackened Thrash Metal legends Necrodeath. Needless to say, this appearance is both an honour and a pleasure! Necrodeath were one of the earliest obscure European thrash bands that Leif discovered when he started to listen to extreme metal and their “Into The Macabre” (1987) and “Fragments Of Insanity” (1989) albums are real classics. Leif first connected with Necrodeath’s drummer Peso when his later band Sadist toured with DEW-SCENTED in 1996 and their paths crossed last time by the end of 2010 when Peso’s Ghostrider (pre-Necrodeath outfit, now re-united) played a show with DEW-SCENTED nearby Milano. Necrodeath’s new album will be released October 25th, 2011 via Scarlet records.

Here is a trailer for the release.

Check out more details on the band’s official website.

Photos::
Want to check out some recent live-shots? Here are some good ones taken at Party.San Open Air by Daniel / Live Frenzy.

OK, guess that’s all for now…we will be back with more details about the upcoming album soon! In the meantime let us hint you on some really good new albums recently released by Havok (“Time Is Up”), Fleshgod Apocalypse (“Agony”) and Warbringer (“Worlds Torn Asunder”). Also, Vektor have their second album (“Outer Isolation”) coming up in November too and first online samples are promising it to be yet another fantastic record! Go check those bands out…they all deserve your attention and support!

Guys, thanks for the quick run of feedback to the latest band-news and the merch contest.

Bad news and free stuff always seems to attract people, hahaha.

Anyways, the winners will get some message in the coming days.

Please note that as of now (8 AM CET on September 21st 2011) new entries will no longer count!

Keep it heavy!

After almost 10 years of loyal service to the great Thrash Metal cause, bassist Alexander „Alex“ Pahl (second from left on the photo above) decided to leave DEW-SCENTED.

He comments his move as follows: „People, I am out of here, bye-bye!“.

Rumours about his reasoning are on an absolute high, so we are happy to offer you a chance to win free D-S merchandise if you nail the correct answer from the following bunch:

a) He ran out of coffee

b) He will dedicate to family life and low profile grind projects

c) He chose to wait for a chance to join Kreator, Sodom, Destruction or other even more successful acts

d) He lost his trademark Poison Idea stage-shirt and can no longer perform live without it

e) Personal differences between the bandmembers

f) He might start a new band with ex D-S members Flo, Hendrik and Uwe soon.

The first three correct submissions will receive a free band shirt as well as a special poster signed by Alex with a personal dedication! Write us to:
contact [at] dew-scented [dot] com

DEW-SCENTED would like to thank Alex for the good times and wish him all the best for his future projects and activities!

Furthermore, Ingo Hate from the respected Burn Out! Magazine adds: „This is a truly sad turn of events! An icon and one of the few remaining ‘characters’ leaves the spotlight and will most likely be sorely missed! Alex, in the name of the entire Metal movement: We salute you!“

After having successfully performed the last shows for 2011 at last month’s Party.San and Brutal Assault festivals, DEW-SCENTED will now retire from the public eye until early next year in order to focus on composing a next studio album, tentatively to be released before the summer 2012.

Next year marks the 20th anniversary for DEW-SCENTED (even though most people will find the 10th anniversary of the 2002 album release „Inwards” more remarkable…), so we are determined to make it a very special year for everyone! We will keep you posted about any progress in the coming weeks…

Take care and be good to each other,
DEW-SCENTED
www.dew-scented.net
www.facebook.com/dewscented
www.myspace.com/dewscented

PS: We are about to freeze our MySpace profile (to concentrate only on Facebook…). Any objections?

Hey Thrashers!

The summer season and all its festival madness is getting started over here now, so we thought it would be good timing to check in with some short news…

Things are still rather quiet on the DEW-SCENTED front and that has to do with us working on new song material in the background. The first ideas for the next album are being written as I type this, so hopefully it will be a good flow and entertaining creative process in the coming months?!

Nevertheless, we have recently confirmed two more Summer festival shows, making it a total of 4 live shows coming up for 2011. Make sure to catch/meet us at Ragnarock Open Air / Germany on Friday, July 15th and at Dong Open Air / Germany on Saturday, July 16th. One month later, we will be appearing at Party.San Open Air / Germany on Thursday, August 11th and at Brutal Assault Festival / Czech Republic on Friday, August 12th.

Other than that, we can proudly announce that DEW-SCENTED vocalist Leif appears as special guest doing some vocals for the track “The Legacy Of Hate” on the self-titled second album release by our friends Switchtense from Portugal. Check out this killer band here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKNcQcKHYs (album trailer)
http://www.myspace.com/switchtenseportugal
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SWITCHTENSE/104506356262103

Additionally, we would like to inform you that the new issue of Germany’s leading alternative rock magazine Visions (http://www.visions.de) doesn’t only come with a “Big 4” cover-story, but it also includes a promotional compilation CD dubbed “Metal Massacre 2011”, featuring the new breed of current Thrash Metal bands like Legion Of The Damned, Warbringer, Municipal Waste, Evile or also Suicidal Angels. DEW-SCENTED are featured on there as well with the Slayer cover-version of “War Ensemble”. We originally recorded this about 10 years ago as Japanese bonus track for the “Inwards” album release and are obviously happy to have been selected for such cool tribute release and for a new audience! Go grab your copy of the magazine in stores NOW!

OK guys, guess that’s all for now…but see you on some sunny field of/for Metal sometime soon!

Hey Thrashers!

DEW-SCENTED have returned home from a loooooong but also very successful European tour supporting Nile! 19 countries, thousands of KM’s to travel, many new experiences made along the way and almost a “hometown” show as last date in Hannover / Germany made an ending with style! We would like to thank our bus comrades of Zonaria and Darkrise for the good time as well as Melechesh and the almighty Nile for the intense weeks we managed to spend together on the road! Also, big thanks to the amazing Massive crew, our tour-soundtech Murph as well as the busdrivers (Rudi & Maren) and merchandisers (Darek & Rob) for the good atmosphere during these last weeks! Special thanks to all old friends we met and to all new friends we made on this tour as well as to all the people that came out to enjoy & support all the five bands at the shows!!! Very special thanks to Michi of Holy Moses for the help as second guitarist for this tour – You rule!

Make sure to read the daily tour diary we kept via www.facebook.com/dewscented” and check out some cool shots of the crowd/s there too…

We had looked forward to play Rocktower festival in Lübeck / Germany on the Easter weekend as next show with DEW-SCENTED but unfortunately the festival got completely cancelled all-together so that’s no longer gonna happen! Please take notice and get more details here: www.rocktower.de

Seeing how we are only gonna do a limited amount of very few selected shows for the rest of 2011 in order to concentrate on writing new material for a next album, we are happy to now be able to announce the next dates confirmed for DEW-SCENTED:

DONG OPEN AIR
Sat. July 16th, 2011 – Dong-Open-Air @ Dong Berg in Neukirchen-Vluyn / Niederrhein, Germany
+ Iced Earth, Overkill, Hatesphere, Hackneyed, Contradiction, The Rotted, Orden Ogan, etc.
www.dongopenair.de

PARTY.SAN OPEN AIR
Thu. August 11th, 2011 – Party.San Open Air @ Flugplatz Obermehler in Schlotheim, Germany
+ Absu, Aborted, At The Gates, Decapitated, Ensiferum, Enslaved, Exhumed, Gorguts, Hail Of Bullets, Melechesh, Morbid Angel, Morgoth, Nachtmystium, Negura Bunget, Triptykon, Skeletonwitch, etc.
www.party-san.de

See you there to Thrash things up once again!

Take care and keep it heavy…

Hey everybody!

DEW-SCENTED are currently on tour all over Europe with Nile, Melechesh as well as our bus-buddies Zonaria and Darkrise!

We are in Vevey, Switzerland today…and half the tour has already taken place. DEW-SCENTED’s set is sounding better and better every day.

We just wanted to remind you that we are keeping a sweet daily tour diary on facebook, so please check it out and interact with us here:
www.facebook.com/dewscented

(c) 2011 by Dennis Tesch Photography

Take care and see you on the road!

Hey Thrashers!

We are actually spending the weekend locked up in our rehearsal room for final setlist preparations for the European tour with Nile starting next week, so we thought we could as well check in and bring you a run of assorted news…

“Arise From Decay” video-clip launched online!

While we spent a good amount of time on the European roads in 2010 promoting the release of the newest DEW-SCENTED album “Invocation”, we figured it would be a good idea to collect live footage and have some of it presented to our global supporters. We chose the album’s opening “Arise From Decay” for the clip as this track has become an important and very energetic piece of our current live-set.

The video was shot by our friend and fellow road-warrior Oliver “Bomber” Barth / Visions In Fear (http://www.myspace.com/visionsinfear) at various live-locations in the second half of 2010. But see for yourselves…

The premiere of the clip has taken place via Metal Injection at the following location:
http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/6251/dew-scented-arise-from-decay-video-premiere

In the meantime, the video has also been launched via youtube here for everyone to see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usihCU2cwLY

“Invocation” out on LP format at last!

Lovers of vinyl, we are happy to announce that the good people at Joe Black Records (www.joeblackrecords.de) have put out a limited edition of our current album “Invocation” on LP format. It looks and sounds amazing, so thanks for the great work. Here are the exact details:

- DEW-SCENTED “Invocation” LP
- Catalogue Number: BLACK006
- Includes the two bonus tracks off the European digipak (DRI’s “Thrashhard” and “On The Brink”)
- Full-coloured sleeve
- 180g virgin vinyl
- Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies as follows:
* 200x on black vinyl
* 150x on blue vinyl
* 150x on blue/black haze vinyl

- New merchandise items for the upcoming European tour!

We have just manufactured some mew merchandise (Beanies, woolly hats, girlie shirts, t-shirts and hooded zippers) for the European tour. You can obviously order from us directly online as well! Contact us at orders(at)dew-scented.com to order or in case you wanna inquire about pricing regarding the vinyl and/or merchandise! We will have all of these items out on the road with us as well, so hopefully you will be able to check out us on one of the following dates:

Nile, Melechesh, Dew-Scented, Zonaria, Darkrise
“Those Whom The Gods Detest – European Tour 2011″

20.01.2011 Katowice (Poland) – Mega Club
21.01.2011 Vienna (Austria) – Szene
22.01.2011 Budapest (Hungary) – a38
23.01.2011 Bucarest (Romania) – The Silver Church Club
24.01.2011 Sofia (Bulgaria) – Blue Box
25.01.2011 Thessaloniki (Greece) – 8ball
26.01.2011 Beograd (Serbia) – SKC
27.01.2011 Zagreb (Croatia) – Mochvara
28.01.2011 Nova Goriza (Italy) – Pieffe Factory
29.01.2011 Dietikon / Zürich (Switzerland) – Sounddock14
30.01.2011 Darmstadt (Germany) – Steinbruch Theater
31.01.2011 Prague (Czech Republic) – Exit Chmelnice
01.02.2011 München (Germany) – Backstage
02.02.2011 Vevey (Switzerland) – Rocking Chair
03.02.2011 Romagnano Sesia / Novara (Italy) – RnR Arena
04.02.2011 Rome (Italy) – Blackout
05.02.2011 Gualtieri / Reggio Emilia (Italy) – Temp Rock
07.02.2011 Nijmegen (The Netherlands) – Doornrosje
08.02.2011 Cardiff (UK) – Millennium Music Hall
09.02.2011 Liverpool (UK) – The Masque
10.02.2011 Derby (UK) – Redemption
11.02.2011 Dublin (Ireland) – Button Factory
12.02.2011 Belfast (UK) – Spring And Airbrake
13.02.2011 London (UK) – 02 Academy
14.02.2011 Rotterdam (The Netherlands) – Baroeg
15.02.2011 Antwerp (Belgium) – Trix
16.02.2011 Hannover (Germany) – Musikzentrum

See you soon on the road!

The brand-new video clip for the track “Arise From Decay” from 2010’s
acclaimed “Invocation” album (out on Prosthetic in North America, Spiritual Beast in Japan and Metal Blade in Europe) is now premiering at Metal Injection:
http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/6251/dew-scented-arise-from-decay-video-premiere

Check it out!

Hey everybody!

Happy and heavy new year 2011 to all of you!

After having announced Martin’s departure from DEW-SCENTED, we are happy to let you know that Michael Hankel (ex Erosion, Holy Moses) will be playing rhythm guitars for us on the European tour with Nile starting later this month!

We have known Michi for several years now and are certain he will compliment the band in a great way for the coming shows! Michi checked in with the following message:

“Hey Metalheads! This is Michael, guitarist of Holy Moses. I am proud to let you know that I am joining DEW-SCENTED for their upcoming European Tour. I have liked these guys and their material since many years and in my opinion DEW-SCENTED are a real challenge for all Thrash Metallers. Their songs are sounding heavy now and will kick you right in the face… I am truly looking forward to meeting you all on this amazing tour!”

On a different note, we wanted to take a moment of your time to bring attention to some killer albums released by other bands in the just finished year 2010. Here is a “Top 5“ list (in no specific order) by some of the DEW-SCENTED members:

Marc-Andree:
FORBIDDEN – Omega Wave
OVERKILL – Ironbound
HEATHEN – The Evolution Of Chaos
SLASH – Slash
HELLYEAH – Stampede

Alex:
JELLO BIAFRA – The Audacity Of Hype
GRAND MAGUS – Hammer Of The North
GHOST BRIGADE – Isolation Songs
KILLING JOKE – Absolute Dissent
GOD DETHRONED – Under The Sign Of The Iron Cross

Leif:
ALTER BRIDGE – III
TRIPTYKON – Eparistera Daimones
OVERKILL – Ironbound
ATHEIST – Jupiter
TRAPT – No Apologies

Not only did we manage to release an own new album, “Invocation”, and play a ton of great shows to support the record, but all in all 2010 definitely marked a pretty good year for all things METAL. Let’s hope 2011 will become even better….

Take care and stay tuned for some more cool DEW-SCENTED news in the coming week!

Cheers

Hey Thrashers!

Hope you have had some sweet and relaxing holidays…we surely did!

Our last show for 2010 at Leer’s Winter Metal Meeting some days ago went down smoothly, so thanks to everyone who came out to see us on that incredibly cold evening!

Sadly, that show also marked the last gig for our rhythm guitarist Martin Walczak with DEW-SCENTED…

Martin Walczak – Photo by Serge Thomas, taken at Trix / Hof Ter Lo in Antwerpen / Belgium on May 9th, 2010

Some while ago, Martin decided to leave the band due to changes in his personal life and lack of availability to move forwards with music at this stage. It’s a shame to see him go but we certainly wish Martin all the very best with his next goals and tasks in life! Thanks for the good times, Mattin!

We already have a friend of the band lined up as session guitarist for the European tour with Nile starting out late January, so no reason to be worried at all…and we will give you more details about this in the coming days! But speaking of the next tour, here are again all the dates for you to pin them down on your calendars:

Nile, Melechesh, Dew-Scented, Zonaria, Darkrise
“Those Whom The Gods Detest – European Tour 2011”

20.01.2011 Katowice (Poland) – Mega Club
21.01.2011 Vienna (Austria) – Szene
22.01.2011 Budapest (Hungary) – a38
23.01.2011 Bucarest (Romania) – The Silver Church Club
24.01.2011 Sofia (Bulgaria) – Blue Box
25.01.2011 Thessaloniki (Greece) – 8ball
26.01.2011 Beograd (Serbia) – SKC
27.01.2011 Zagreb (Croatia) – Mochvara
28.01.2011 Nova Goriza (Italy) – Pieffe Factory
29.01.2011 Dietikon / Zürich (Switzerland) – Sounddock14
30.01.2011 Darmstadt (Germany) – Steinbruch Theater
31.01.2011 Prague (Czech Republic) – Exit Chmelnice
01.02.2011 München (Germany) – Backstage
02.02.2011 Vevey (Switzerland) – Rocking Chair
03.02.2011 Romagnano Sesia / Novara (Italy) – RnR Arena
04.02.2011 Rome (Italy) – Blackout
05.02.2011 Gualtieri / Reggio Emilia (Italy) – Temp Rock
07.02.2011 Nijmegen (The Netherlands) – Doornrosje
08.02.2011 Cardiff (UK) – Millennium Music Hall
09.02.2011 Liverpool (UK) – The Masque
10.02.2011 Derby (UK) – Redemption
11.02.2011 Dublin (Ireland) – Button Factory
12.02.2011 Belfast (UK) – Spring And Airbrake
13.02.2011 London (UK) – 02 Academy
14.02.2011 Rotterdam (The Netherlands) – Baroeg
15.02.2011 Antwerp (Belgium) – Trix
16.02.2011 Hannover (Germany) – Musikzentrum

Booking: www.massive-music.pl

This tour will see DEW-SCENTED actually debut in some of the scheduled cities / countries and since we will not be playing much live afterwards in 2011 (only some selected festivals…), it will be a great opportunity for you to enjoy some deadly dose of „Invocation“! As you will all probably already know, Thrash Metal is best experienced alive, so see you there!!!

Other than that, we would like to wish you all the very best for your new year’s eve celebration and most of all best wishes for the upcoming new year 2011. Let’s hope it will be a cool one!!!

Keep it heavy