Formed: 1992
From:
Braunschweig,
Germany
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Dew-Scented News
Below is our complete Dew-Scented news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
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Dew Scented Reveals Full "Insurgent" Details
Dew Scented celebrates 20 years of deadly metal with upcoming anniversary release, "Insurgent," due out May 28th via Prosthetic Records in North America.
Listen to the new song "Confronting Entropy" below. Pre-orders are available at this location.
The cover art for "Insurgent," seen below, was completed by Björn Gooßes of Killustrations.net. "Insurgent" features a mix of new originals, live tracks, and rare covers -- 19 songs and 76 minutes in all. The complete track listing is as follows:
1. Confronting Entropy (5:36)
2. Guided By The Dead Light (5:19)
3. Sadistic Sinner (4:54) * Originally by Incubus (Brazil)
4. Sworn To Obey (Live 2012) (4:05)
5. Turn To Ash (Live 2012) (3:02)
6. Soul Poison (Live 2012) (3:58)
7. Storm Within (Live 2012) (4:02)
8. Cities Of The Dead (Live 2012) (4:44)
9. Never To Return (Live 2012) (4:13)
10. Acts Of Rage (Live 2012) (4:21)
11. In Dying Mode (4:20)
12. Steady Decline (4:32) * Originally by Prong
13. No Spiritual Surrender (2:48) * Originally by Inside Out
14. Good Day For A Hanging (4:28) * Originally by Wasted Youth
15. The Storm (3:23) * Originally by Judge
16. Recall The Pain (1:06)
17. The Death Of Common Sense (3:44)
18. Slaughterhouse (4:31) * Originally by Powermad
19. Superstar Destroyer (2:55) * Originally by Genocide Superstars
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1-3: new songs, 2013
4-10: live songs, 2012
11-15: Recorded during the “Icarus” sessions, 2012
16-19: Recorded during the “Invocation” sessions, 2010 More...
Dew-Scented Announces "Insurgent" Release
In the light of Dew-Scented's European tour supporting Testament starting this weekend, Metal Blade Records is now launching first details about the band's upcoming anniversary release. The title is "Insurgent" and it will be released May 24th, 2013 in Europe. The label comments:
"Insurgent is a comprehensive 19-track collection including brand-new and rare material with a total running time of 76 minutes, celebrating more than 20 years of restless, deadly Thrash Metal!
"The tracklisting of Insurgent contains 3 brand new songs, 7 new live songs, a total of 7 cover songs and some more. It will be available as limited Digipak CD, Digital Download and the new songs will even be issued as strictly limited 10” vinyl edition! For a first impression of Insurgent we have now launched a live-clip of the song Sworn To Obey, in the version that appears on this special release. Check it out below." More...
Dew-Scented Recording New Material
German thrashers Dew-Scented have been confirmed as direct support for Testament on their upcoming European tour, which kick off in Italy on March 16th.
Dew-Scented also confirmed the band's participation in the Full Metal Cruise, a week-long voyage also featuring acts such as Kreator, Heaven Shall Burn, Firewind, Sabaton, Gamma Ray and Doro.
The cruise will depart on May 5th from Hamburg and will make stops in Southampton (UK), Le Havre (France) and Amsterdam before returning to Hamburg on May 12th. For further details and ticket information, visit this location.
Dew-Scented has now finished tracking some new studio recordings for a very special anniversary release, due out this spring. More details will be revealed in the coming weeks. More...
Prosthetic Records Offering Sampler For Download
Prosthetic Records has released a 14-track digital sampler exclusively on the label's Facebook page here.
Once you "like" the page, you'll be able to download tracks by the likes of Skeletonwitch, Mutilation Rites, Primitive Weapons, and Junius along songs from recent and upcoming releases from Holy Grail, VVisdom, and more. The track listing is as follows:
1. Holy Grail - Dark Passenger (Ride the Void)* out 1/22/13
2. Ancient VVisdom - Deathlike (Deathlike)* out 2/5/13
3. Castle - Corpse Candles (Blacklands)
4. Zodiac - A Bit Of Devil (A Bit Of Devil)
5. Skeletonwitch - This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill) (Forever Abomination)
6. Mutilation Rites - Fogwarning (Empyrean)
7. Ambassador Gun - Wounded Knee (Golden Eagle)
8. Black September - Rabid Hunger (Into The Darkness Into The Void)
9. Hour of Penance - Enlightened Submission (Sedition)
10. Dew-Scented - Sworn to Obey (Icarus)
11. Primitive Weapons - Quitter's Anthem (The Shadow Gallery)
12. Junius - All Shall Float (Reports From the Threshold of Death)
13. Heaven's Cry - Compass (Wheels of Impermanence)
14. Felix Martin - The Triangle Tune (Live in Boston)
Dew Scented To Support Testament
Dew Scented has posted the following announcement online about supporting Testament on upcoming tour dates:
"Hey thrashers, today we bring you the great news that Dew-Scented has been confirmed as 'special guests' for selected shows of the upcoming 'Dark Roots Of Earth' European tour of Thrash Metal icons Testament. Steel Engraved will be opening and the exact shows with our participation are as follows:
Sat 17.11.2012 Pilsen (Czech Republic) – Serikova
Sun 18.11.2012 Wels (Austria) – Alter Schlachthof
Mon 19.11.2012 Prague (Czech Republic) – Retro Music Hall
Tue 20.11.2012 München (Germany) – Backstage
Thu 22.11.2012 Graz (Austria) – Orpheum
Fri 23.11.2012 Bratislava (Slovakia) – Majestic Club
Sun 25.11.2012 Bochum (Germany) – Matrix
"After the dates with Six Feet Under, the summer festivals and the recent hometown show and awesome party in Walsrode, we now look forward to making this another great run of show in support of the 'Icarus' album, especially since Testament has always been an influential band and personal favourite for the Dew-Scented members!"
Dew Scented Streaming Entire New Album
It's only a few more days until the new Dew-Scented album, "Icarus", hits European & North American stores. Since July 27/30 marks the release in Europe via Metal Blade Records and July 31 the release in North America via Prosthetic Records, the band is happy to announce that there is a promotional full album stream available starting today.
Enjoy "Icarus" via the European stream presented by Rock Hard Magazine or the North American stream presented by Invisible Oranges.
Dew-Scented comments: "Here it is, at last! We are stoked to be able to present you the full 'Icarus' album to check out! We are truly satisfied with what we achieved on this record and hope you will enjoy the music as much as we do! This is our take on modern, authentic and relentlessly deadly Thrash Metal…it's certainly not for the faint-hearted, but we suppose you weren't expecting anything else by DEW-SCENTED?!"
Don't miss the band on stage at the following next shows:
11/08/12 – NL – Leeuwarden – Into The Grave Festival
12/08/12 – DE – Berlin – Postbahnhof + Six Feet Under & Deadborn
13/08/12 – DE – München – Backstage + Six Feet Under & Deadborn
14/08/12 – CH – Pratteln – Galery + Six Feet Under & Deadborn
15/08/12 – DE – Essen – Turock + Six Feet Under, Gorguts & Deadborn
16/08/12 – NL – Kerkrade – Rock Temple + Six Feet Under & Deadborn
17/08/12 – DE – Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze Festival
18/08/12 – DE – Hamburg – Grünspan + Six Feet Under & Deadborn
Dew-Scented Releases New Lyric Video
German thrashers Dew-Scented have unveiled a lyric video for "Storm Within," a new track from their upcoming release “Icarus,” exclusively through MetalSucks. You can check it out at this location.
This marks the third new track that has been posted from the group's ninth album, which will be released in North America on July 31st. Pre-Orders for "Icarus" are available through Prosthetic Records. The track listing is as follows:
01. Hubris
02. Sworn to Obey
03. Thrown to the Lions
04. Storm Within
05. Gleaming Like Silver
06. By My Own Hand
07. The Fall of Man
08. Reawakening
09. Destined to Collapse
10. A Final Procession
11. Perpetuated
12. In Dying Mode (bonus track)
13. Steady Decline (PRONG-cover/bonus track)
14. No Spiritual Surrender (INSIDE OUT-cover/bonus track)
Dew-Scented Streaming New Single
Today Dew-Scented has post the second single taken off new album "Icarus." Premiered by Rock Hard magazine Germany, click here to check out "Thrown To The Lions." Dew-Scented vocalist Leif Jensen comments:
“TTTL is among my personal fave-tracks on ‘Icarus’ and one that we all knew right away would become a good addition for our new live-set! This song is viciously straight-forward and comes with some pretty wicked guitar riffing. Lyrically the edge was to portray the truly barbaric bloodlust in ancient times at gladiator fights and the brutality of the so-called ‘damnatio ad bestias’. That’s some of the most extreme punishment in history, especially since it was turned into such a public celebration ritual! It’s definitely a gruesome topic that effortlessly supports the heaviness of the song…and the subliminal tortured screams on the second lead-guitar part are quite intense too!”
"Icarus" will be released as a limited first edition digipak including 3 bonus tracks as well as on vinyl (black and limited coloured versions) on July, 27th/30th via Metal Blade Records in Europe. The track listing is as follows: More...
Dew-Scented Confirmed For Summer Breeze
This year's Summer Breeze festival will be taking place from August 16th - 18th, with full details available at the festival's website here. The organizers of Summer Breeze have now issued the following announcement about confirming new bands:
"Since the release of their amazing breakthrough album 'Inwards', Dew-Scented have been at the forefront of European thrash metal. Since then, the cool bunch led by frontman Leif Jensen have been producing fantastic albums full of unstoppable riff power and overwhelming intensity at nicely regular intervals, cementing the band's excellent reputation time and again. In 2012, Dew-Scented aim at kick-starting their career with an entirely new line-up – with the exception of band boss Leif – and the fantastic new album 'Icarus', and are gearing up to shatter the Summer Breeze Open Air into small pieces. We are stoked to welcome the indestructible machine called Dew-Scented at our festival once more. Get thrashed!
"When Agrypnie played the Summer Breeze festival in 2008 for the first and only time so far, they were booked as consolation for all those who were mourning the recent disbanding of Nocte Obducta. Four years, one studio album and one EP later, the Hessians have made a career for themselves, having now reached the same level as the aforementioned group. Their new studio album is still being recorded as we speak, but their last EP 'Asche' was already an announcement for big things to come in the realm of post black metal. Expressive, multi-faceted, melancholic, dynamic – all these attributes fit Agrypnie like a glove and are underlined by the fact that their songs don't ever become predictable or interchangable. One of the most exciting bands our scene has to offer nowadays."
The Summer Breeze 2012 bill now looks like: More...
Dan Swanö To Guest On New Dew Scented Album
After previously announcing Sacrifice's Rob Urbinati as a guest vocalist to appear on the new album "Icarus," Dew Scented has now issued the following update about another guest appearance:
"Introducing third of three special guest-musician appearances on 'Icarus!' Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity / Bloodbath) – Guest vocals on 'Reawakening.' Dan has been a longterm buddy and true inspiration for Dew-Scented and it’s almost like a closing circle to have him involved with 'Icarus.'
"Dan and Leif first met him on the debut Edge Of Sanity tour with Assorted Heap in 1992 and then Dew-Scented toured with Edge Of Sanity in 1996, where funnily enough Marvin also already appeared as the band’s lead guitarist. Consequently, Dan went on to help Dew-Scented by mixing 1998’s 'Innoscent' album and Leif has ever since always wanted to do vocal or production work with Dan on some level again. Having Dan do his trademark deep grunts as duet vocals with Leif on the song 'Reawakening' is a big honour and personal satisfaction for us."
Dan Swanö comments: "After touring with them, mixing with them, it was about goddamned time that I also sang a nice tune with them. The interplay between mine and Leif’s vocals worked out perfectly. Like a duet between Satan and the Devil ;)" More...
Dew-Scented Announces Guest Musician For New Album
Dew-Scented has issued the following announcement about a guest musician on the band's upcoming "Icarus" album:
"We're introducing the first of three special guest-musician appearances on 'Icarus!' First one is Rob Urbinati (Sacrifice) – Guest vocals on 'Gleaming Like Silver.'
"Sacrifice is one of the best and most underrated Thrash Metal bands ever and a big influence on Leif for his vocal-work with Dew-Scented. From their debut masterpiece 'Torment In Fire' (1985) to their amazing comeback album 'The Ones I Condemn' (2009), these guys have always delivered trendless, classy Thrash Metal with amazing riffing and tasty songwriting.
"Dew-Scented had covered Sacrifice’s 'Apocalypse Inside' song on 1999’s Ill-Natured album and stayed in casual contact with Rob and Sacrifice ever since. It’s awesome to have Rob now do guest vocals for 'Gleaming Like Silver' in a duet with Leif!"
Rob Urbinati comments: "Sacrifice have been honoured by Dew-Scented in the past with a cover song, now I am honoured to be included on the track ‘Gleaming Like Silver.'"
The "Icarus" release dates are as follows:
July 27th, 2012 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (via Metal Blade Records)
July 30th, 2012 in the rest of Europe (via Metal Blade Records)
July 31st, 2012 in North America (via Prosthetic Records) More...
Dew-Scented Posts New Song Online
Today Dew-Scented has posted the first single taken off new album "Icarus." Check out the landing page at this location and stream the album's first song "Sworn To Obey." The track is also available in the player below.
Dew-Scented vocalist Leif Jensen comments about Sworn To Obey as follows: “’Sworn To Obey’ was an obvious candidate to open up the new album and it was actually one of the very last tracks we finished in the songwriting sessions for ‘Icarus’. Already when working on the final arrangements for the song, we knew it would become an extremely heavy and catchy piece! Kicking in after the anthem-like ‘Hubris’ instrumental intro, ‘Sworn To Obey’ is a sweet punch in the gut in true Dew-Scented style and smoothly helps to set the album’s pace in the right fashion! I simply love the lead-guitar part and the crazy bass-lines afterwards. I’m sure this one will be real fun to play live…”
The album's track listing is as follows:
01. Hubris
02. Sworn to Obey
03. Thrown to the Lions
04. Storm Within
05. Gleaming Like Silver
06. By My Own Hand
07. The Fall of Man
08. Reawakening
09. Destined to Collapse
10. A Final Procession
11. Perpetuated
12. In Dying Mode (bonus track)
13. Steady Decline (PRONG-cover/bonus track)
14. No Spiritual Surrender (INSIDE OUT-cover/bonus track)
"Icarus" will be released as a limited first edition Digipak including 3 bonus tracks as well as on vinyl on July 27th/30th via Metal Blade Records. More...
Dew-Scented Announces New Guitarist
Dew-Scented, which recently posted a teaser trailer for the new album "Icarus," has announced the band's new line-up (re-)introduces Marvin Vriesde (Severe Torture, ex-Blo.Torch) as main guitarist and songwriter.
Not a stranger to Dew-Scented’s path of life, Vriesde’s ties with the band go as far as back as 1996, when he played lead guitars for Dew-Scented on the band’s first ever proper tour (With Edge Of Sanity, Lake Of tears and Sadist), as well as for some additional shows supporting Morbid Angel.
He later on returned, among other occasions, as live session guitarist for a European tour with Cannibal Corpse in 2002 and also for runs in Europe (With Nevermore and Mercenary), Japan (With High On Fire and Misery Signals) and North America (With Vader and Decapitated) all throughout 2005, as well as appearing with guitars-leads on the “Issue VI” album and also performing on the “Turn To Ash” video clip. More...
Dew-Scented Posts New Album Teaser
Germany's Dew-Scented has posted a new teaser trailer online for the band's upcoming album "Icarus," which is available below. "Icarus" is set to be released in July via Metal Blade Records in Europe and Prosthetic Records in North America. Release dates are as follows:
July 27th, 2012 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland (via Metal Blade Records)
July 30th, 2012 in the rest of Europe (via Metal Blade Records)
July 31st, 2012 in North America (via Prosthetic Records)
Dew-Scented Reveals "Icarus" Artwork
German thrash metallers Dew-Scented have revealed the artwork for their new album "Icarus," to be released in July through Metal Blade Records in Europe. Once again Björn Goosses / Killustrations handled the artwork duties.
Singer Leif Jensen comments on the album title: "The album's main theme could be described a modern-times, very apocalyptic adaptation of elements of the 'Icarus' myth, using a lot of its symbolism while interlinking with several other personal or observant subjects, in true Dew-Scented fashion. Without being close to a 'concept album', 'Icarus' has a pretty coherent lyrical flow and that helps to enhance and also to intentionally enlarge the atmosphere and vibe created by the music."
Check out the first sneak peak video teaser from the studio at this location. "Icarus" was recorded at Soundlodge Studio with Jörg Uken (God Dethroned, Suicidal Angels, Nightfall, etc.) as producer and will be released by late July 2012 via Metal Blade Records in Europe and Prosthetic Records in North America. More...
Dew-Scented Posts In-Studio Footage
Dew-Scented recently finished recording a new album at Soundlodge Studio with producer Jörg Uken. The band has now posted a studio video update, which can be viewed below. Dew-Scented also commented:
"Here is a first sneak peak video teaser from the studio. 'Icarus' was recorded at Soundlodge Studio with Jörg Uken (God Dethroned, Suicidal Angels, Nightfall, etc.) as producer and will be released by late July 2012 via Metal Blade Records in Europe and Prosthetic Records in North America." More...
Dew-Scented Finishes New Album
German thrash metallers Dew-Scented have just finished recording their new album. They once again recorded at Soundlodge Studio in the deepest heart of Northern Germany with Jörg Uken (God Dethroned, Suicidal Angels, Nightfall, etc.) as producer.
"We have worked with Jörg already on 'Incinerate' for the recordings and then on the previous album 'Invocation' for recordings and mix. It was an absolute pleasure to be able to team up with him again and the time we worked on the new music together in his halls pretty much went flying by! The best part however is: The final mix turned out really, really HEAVY, so much we can tell you already!" comments singer Leif Jensen.
A few song titles off the new album are "Sworn To Obey," "Reawakening," "Storm Within," and "Gleaming Like Silver."
The new album will be released by late July 2012 via Metal Blade Records in Europe and Prosthetic Records in North America. The artwork was once again created by Björn Goosses / Killustrations, with whom Dew-Scented already collaborated since 2003's "Impact."
Leif Jensen adds: "The new album's artwork looks totally stunning and we can't wait to share it with all of you soon! We are right now finishing off the work on the layouts and just did a promo photo session this past weekend, so all things are rolling forwards!" More...
Six Feet Under Announces New Tour Dates
Six Feet Under is set to return with the brand new studio album "Undead" in May of 2012. In conjunction with the album release, Six Feet Under will return to Europe in August to play some exclusive festival gigs as well as selected club shows.
Comments Six Feet Under singer Chris Barnes: "SIX FEET UNDER IS NOT DEAD! WE ARE 'UNDEAD!' With our return to the European festivals this Summer and the addition of new band members to the groups line up, SFU is poised to murder and KILL!! With the release of the new SFU album 'UNDEAD' this spring we will prove that the UNDEAD shall rise from the crypts of GERMANY and EUROPE IN 2012!"
Support comes from SFU label mates Dew-Scented, who will release a new, yet untitled album in the summer of 2012. More details on "Undead" will be revealed in the following weeks. Stay tuned! The band's upcoming tour dates are as follows: More...
Dew Scented Writing New Songs
Dew Scented has issued the following update about writing material for an upcoming album:
"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! More...
Dew Scented Splits With Bassist
After almost 10 years of loyal service to Dew-Scented, bassist Alexander Pahl has decided to leave the band. The band commented on his departure:
"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!"
After 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 also marks the 20th anniversary for Dew-Scented.
