Huntress have teamed up with Revolver to announce the release date for the new album, the follow-up to their buzz-worthy 2012 debut full-length, Spell Eater, and unveil its cover art. The record, entitled Starbound Beast, has been confirmed for release on June 28 in Europe and on July 2 in North America via Napalm Records.  The band recorded the album at Hobby Shop Studios in Los Angeles, California, working with famed producer Zeuss (Shadows Fall, Hatebreed, Agnostic Front).

You can see the cover artwork below; like the cover of Spell Eater, it created once again by Vance Kelly (Slayer, Ghost B.C., Mastodon).

In support of Starbound Beast, the band will be touring across North America this summer as part of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival.  Huntress will be featured on the Jagermeister Stage alongside Machine Head, Battlecross, and others.  The tour kicks off June 29 in San Bernardino, California, and runs through August 4 in Dallas, Texas.  A complete list of dates can be found below. The band took part in the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Press Conference and performed live–check out footage below.

Huntress on the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival:

6/29 San Bernardino, CA – San Manuel Amphitheater
6/30 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
7/2 Nampa, ID – Idaho Center Amphitheater
7/3 Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheatre
7/5 Phoenix, AZ – Desert Sky Pavilion
7/6 Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheatre
7/7 Englewood, CO – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
7/10 Toronto, ON – Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
7/12 Burgettstown, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
7/13 Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
7/14 Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
7/16 Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
7/17 Bangor, ME – Bangor Waterfront
7/19 Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
7/20 Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
7/21 Hartford, CT – The Comcast Theatre
7/23 Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
7/24 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
7/26 Noblesville, IN – Klipsch Music Center
7/27 Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre
7/28 Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
7/30 Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
7/31 Tampa, FL – Live Nation Amphitheatre at the FL State
8/2 Austin, TX – Austin 360 Amphitheatre
8/3 The Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
8/4 Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion

Additional Huntress Dates:
7/1 South Lake Tahoe, CA – Whiskey Dick’s Saloon (w/ Battlecross)
7/9 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection (w/Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Job for a Cowboy, Battlecross)
7/22 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus (w/Battlecross)
7/29 Louisville, KY – Expo Five (w/Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Behemoth)
8/7 Sauget, IL – Pop’s Nightclub (w/Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Battlecross)
8/8 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works (w/Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Battlecross)
8/9 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s Downunder (w/Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Battlecross)

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And for the inside story on Mayhem’s most brutal lineup ever, be sure to pick up the July/August issue of Revolver on newsstands now, or in our online store.

And for the inside story on Mayhem’s most brutal lineup ever, be sure to pick up the July/August issue of Revolver on newsstands now, or in our online store.

When the festival kicked off with stops in San Bernadino and Mountain View, Revolver was on-hand to capture all the action. You can relive Anthrax’s sets across both dates in the gallery below, courtesy of photographer Matt Hanrahan.

And for the inside story on Mayhem’s most brutal lineup ever, be sure to pick up the July/August issue of Revolver on newsstands now, or in our online store.

And for more exclusive content on this year’s Mayhem Festival, pick up the July/August issue of Revolver on newsstands now, or in our online store.

But Draiman says his life has been filled with trauma, frustration, and sadness, and that he has vented his emotional instability through Disturbed’s turbulent melodic metal. His bandmates have even joked with him that it’s a good thing Draiman has experienced so much drama in his life, otherwise Disturbed might not have anything to write about. Since the band’s most recent album is called Asylum, and considering that he and his bandmates are planning to hide away from the public eye for a while after this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Revolver recently asked Draiman to reveal the five times in his life that he’s most needed a place to get away.

Birth
“When I popped out of my mother’s womb, right then and there I knew the world was a harsh place.”

Prison
“My father was sent to jail when I was 12 years old, and I felt like they were stealing him away from me. It was some blue collar nonsense . It wasn’t insider trading or anything–my father wasn’t that smart. I wouldn’t give him that much credit.”

Abandonment
“When my ex- fiancée left me, I was completely caught of guard. I felt misled, betrayed, the whole nine yards. She just left. It wasn’t a very easy time. There was no one to come to my aid because I had just moved to Austin, Texas, to an empty house with no girl. It was the darkest time–sort of a self-imposed asylum.”

Miscarriage
“I lost my unborn child four or five years ago with my ex. It happened in the middle of the second trimester so we were totally ready to happen and it didn’t last through the term. That was what ‘My Child’ on the record is about.”

Death
“My faithful companion Lisa, died, and I definitely needed asylum after that. I got her when she was eight weeks old. She died in a little over seven years. She had osteosarcoma, which is a really aggressive form of bone cancer, during the Music is a Weapon run. Within two weeks, it took her. That was pretty terrible. Poor baby.”