Strapping Young Lad To Premiere New Material

Vancouver, Canada’s Strapping Young Lad will premiere material from their forthcoming album Alien at the Century Family’s inaugural Christmas BallS, taking place next Monday, Dec. 20 at Los Angeles’ Key Club. The band will perform alongside Century Family artists Death Angel, Nebula, Impaled, and Eyes Of Fire. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster for the low price of $15. For more information check the Century Media website by clicking here.

Alien, Strapping Young Lad’s fourth Century Media album, has been slated for release on March 22, 2005. The follow-up to the group's critically acclaimed 2002 release, SYL, was recorded at the Armoury and Greenhouse Studios (both in Vancouver) as well as in mainman Devin Townsend's studio in Maple Ridge (suburb of Vancouver).

Alien final track listing:

01. Imperial
02. Skeksis
03. Shitstorm
04. Love?
05. Shine
06. We Ride
07. Possessions
08. Two Weeks
09. Landscape
10. Zen

Strapping’s first DVD For Those Aboot To Rock (Live at the Commodore) was released on Nov. 15. The DVD includes a full set from the band's sold-out hometown show at The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver recorded earlier this year, plus some "riotous" backstage antics and video clips.

Source: Century Media